

'Dungeons and Dragons' Returns! 142
dane23 writes: "Saw this over at AICN. Looks like my favorite Saturday morning cartoon from childhood is returning to TV. 'Dungeons and Dragons' is going to be run on the Fox Kids channel this summer. Times are 11:00 Eastern and 10:00 Central and Pacific." I saw this when I was watching cartoons yesterday, and I immediately called all my friends that remembered the original. I can't wait. Now only if they would bring back "Pole Position" and "Lazer Tag Academy."
Mom!! How did you find me!! (Score:1)
AD&D (Score:2)
Sergio
Script of the final (never aired) episode (Score:3)
http://www.mindspring.com/~michaelreaves/D&Dpre
And btw, If I was a moderator I would moderate you down to (Score:-5 Spoiler...)
Mages and Monsters (Score:1)
Re:Mages and Monsters (Score:1)
There was another movie that was almost the same thing: Kids get way into roleplaying and go overboard, parents freak out. Blah Blah.
I guess I would rather have my kids getting obsessed with roleplaying/muds then discovering some syringes and a dead hooker stuffed somewhere in their room.
What does it matter? (Score:1)
Below the belt. (Score:1)
Re:Dangerous DnD (Score:1)
Being geekly gamers, on the first gaming day of each year we used to roll 6 d10s to determine whether that year we would become mass-murderers, devil-worshippers, etc. Not sure of the exact rolls for most stuff, although I think getting 3 sixes made one a devil worshipper.
D&D! (Score:1)
I remember "back in the day" when the media/parents tried blaming D&D for their kid's behavior. Pretty interesting. As such, it should be interesting to see the sping they put on this show in light of that. Will it be watered down? Will it be Pokemon'ed?
Melee? (Score:1)
does anyone remember a show called something like: (Score:1)
"Deep Space High" or something like that? It was on during the 80's. It was a cartoon about a high school in space with all of these aliens, and their was this dog that looked all cute and cuddly, but when you walked up to it it was ferocious and huge. You walked away and it was fuzzy and cute again. I know that isn't much detail, but that's about all i can remember...
/ k.d / earth trickle / Monkeys vs. Robots Films [homepage.com] /
Re:Why is D&D coming back? Answer obvi (Score:2)
Of course, there is no real comparison in American TV. *Maybe* Gargoyles, but I'm pretty sure Disney put out the toon before the toys. *Maybe* the earlier GI Joe and Transformers seasons, but this is somewhat a stretch.
Re:Where have all the other cartoons gone? (Score:2)
However, the other half of the problem is that the people at CN are HB worshippers, including the flagship of the HB universe: Scooby Doo. Right now, CN airs 33 hrs a week of Scooby Doo. Yes, 33 hrs. It's understandable that right now in the teenage group, Scooby Doo is nice and retro but it's getting old way too fast; I suspect that the slow speed that the live action Scooby Doo movie is being put out (the one that Mike Myers is involved) will be on the edge of the lapse of interest in Scooby Doo, and it will run into trouble because of that. But in any case, a network that shows 33 hrs of Doo means that they have to sacrifice a lot for other shows. Many cartoon enthusiasts are upset at how CN is being run today. Sure, in a matter of time things will flatten out, but it's the waiting that's killing everyone.
Why is D&D coming back? Answer obvious... (Score:4)
There is a D&D movie scheduled to come out this November. No real details on this.
TSR has released on CD ROM most of the stuff for 2nd edition (If I remember what I read in GAMES magazine right). Also, unrelated, 25 years of Dragon magazine is also out on CD rom similar to the MAD collection a while back.
Finally, the 3rd edition of AD&D is soon to be released.
Now, while I do like the cartoon, to push the blatent commercialism makes me sick, especially since at the beginning of the 90s, we were moving away from so-called "toyetic" cartoons ("toyetic" meaning to be centered around the commercialism for a toy; He-Man was a prime example of this). But now, toyetic cartoons are back, Pokemon leading the way, but followed by Max Steel on Kids WB and other such shows. This type of entertainment is not enjoyable, and doesn't have the same corniness and fun that those mid-to-late 80s cartoons had.
If FOX kids was just bringing it for no good reason I would praise them, but this is blatent commercialism.
Re:I have to interject with a bit of reality (Score:1)
>Digimon and any other cartoon are for fags!!
So sayth the the lover of teletubbies...
Re:Where have all the other cartoons gone? (Score:1)
It's bad enough that MTV hardly plays videos except for maybe during ``120 minutes'' (from what I hear). We don't need MTV playing music videos only during what radio industry critics refer to as ``ghetto'' hours.
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Re:Good reception? (Score:1)
Re:Good reception? (Score:1)
I'm not sure if I have the Dungeoneer's and Wilderness Survival Guides though. They sound familliar but they've been put away for a long time now. :-)
My dad was the same way. He never saw use in all this fantasy playing. I'm not really sure if there was use in it, but it did do wonders for my creative writing and visualization skills!
I think the hardest part of being a DM was creating original scenarios that actually were challenging and about as realistic as you could do in a fantasy world. I didn't worry too much about weight restrictions and the like (I just used common sense) but often enough the players would get seriously injured or died because the players didn't really follow my original thinking.
It's tough work bringing together a half dozen people and trying to create a world big and detailled enough to keep them occupied for a weekend. :-) They'd left on more than one occassion complaining of nightmares a few days later. Demonic puppets (the wooden dummy kind) haunt me to this day. :-)
Re:Good reception? (Score:2)
Demon on the DM's Manual? Must be very first release of the 1st edition.
I have, in mint condition, the reprint of all of the 1st series of manuals. These are not the shitty 2nd edition ruleset, with rewritten rules for THAC0 and the like, but a reprint of the 1st edition.
What's all there... Player's Handbook, DM's guide (the one with the warlock in the green robe), Monster Manuals I, II and III, Unearthed Arcana and three or four others which were a little more specialized (one of them was for orient-centric adventures and characters, can't remember the name of this one). I believe there was also a Diety manual. God I miss AD&D.
My friend's brother was a fanatic about it and, being 8 years older than the rest of us, got us hooked. Of course, all my friends hated being DM, so I did it. If I look around hard enough, I'm sure I'll find maps of my cities, forests, character and NPC sheets, plot outlines... And my dice. I gotta find my dice. :-)
Aw! (Score:2)
:-D
Re:does anyone remember a show called something li (Score:1)
I think I can still remember most of the chars and the theme song...
Oh man... not on a monday morning
Re:Where have all the other cartoons gone? (Score:1)
There are rumors of a follow-up series to the lost cities of gold (they still had 6 to find
I'm not a particularily nostalgic person, but my friends and I keep talking about the fact that there were *really* good cartoons in our childhood such as the ones above, with well thought-out plots and characters; I'm 24 now, but I surprise myself remembering the title songs
Re:Wow, you remember Cities of Gold? (Score:1)
Btw, the whole series is available on VHS (no DVD yet, stupid people!). In Europe anyway
Re:Wow, you remember Cities of Gold? (Score:1)
I'm surprised of the popularity of those cartoons (ulysses 31, lost cities of gold, inspector gadget, jayce..) btw. Before going to the US a few years ago I never thought they had left the French ground
G-force was great (Score:1)
Speaking of Jayce and the wheeled warriors, I had the biggest crush on Flora.
Of course all of the Saturday morning americanized anime gets blown away by NGE, Lain, Slayers, etc.
-P
Re:Why is D&D coming back? Answer (Score:1)
As for good American shows, Gargoyles (well, for a year or two), Batman and while it's Canadian, ReBoot (particularly seasons 2 and 3).
Re:Did they ever get home? (Score:1)
It's kind of similar to their later series, "Neon Genesis Evangelion" but not so exceptionally strange.
Now, does anyone remember a French cartoon that was on Nickelodeon years ago, called "Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea"?
Re:Cartoons like THESE? (Score:1)
I have no idea, but I suspect that a fair number of the writers went on to do Gargoyles.
Re:I'm 33 years old and I still watch Cartoons Dam (Score:1)
Re:Did they ever get home? (Score:1)
And they _really_ need to not go around calling commercial tapes Fansubs, when they're NOT. It's confusing as hell. Call 'em Subs for Fans, if they really have to be distinguished at all.
Re:Where have all the other cartoons gone? (Score:1)
At the very least, bring back Remote Control [imdb.com]! This was 70's nostalgia before it was cool (even back then, I loathed it. Freakin' Brady Channel...). You figure MTV would try this again in the wake of Millionare (why not? Everyone else is doing it). I guess it's because it doesn't appeal to 15 year old girls...
Maybe Comedy Central could revive this next to Win Ben Stein's Money. =)
Re:Good reception? (Score:1)
Players Handbook
Dungeon Masters Guide (green robe one, not the even more ancient efreet/City of Brass one)
Monster Manual (original cover)
Monster Manual II
Fiend Folio
Dieties & Demigods (original cover)
Unearthed Arcana
Oriental Adventures
Wilderness Survival Guide
Dungeoneers Survival Guide
Greyhawk Legends
Dragonlance (forget the exact title of this one)
Manual of the Planes (not 100% sure if this is the right title)
My dad kept telling me to throw them away! Never I say.
Please!!! (Score:1)
*This* is news? (Score:2)
D&D Movie (Score:2)
Last episode of D&D (Score:1)
You can also take a look at one of the best D&D (the cartoon) web sites here. She has some original "choose your own adventures" under the books link along with a bunch of other cool stuff.
Last episode (with links) (Score:1)
You can also take a look at one of the best D&D (the cartoon) web sites here. She has some original "choose your own adventures" under the books link along with a bunch of other cool stuff.
(sorry about the double post with broken links)
Just the links to the last episode (Score:1)
show related website [geocities.com].
"choose your own adventures" [geocities.com]
(still sorry about the tripple post with broken links)
Re:Mages and Monsters (Score:2)
The funny thing is, I really don't think she ever put two and two together...she actually used to make my friends and I lunch when we had our weekend-long "DND" games
Re:Script of the final (never aired) episode (Score:2)
Mazes & Monsters? (Score:3)
URL: http://mypage.direct.ca/c/crm114/dallas.html [direct.ca]
I believe this to be a tolerably accurate summary of the issues in that case.
I'm 33 years old and I still watch Cartoons Damnit (Score:1)
Yoda allways reminded me a little of the Dungeon Master.
That was one cool show, another stand out I remember and wouldn't mind seeing again is Thundar the Barbarian.
or how about Darkstar, or even The groovie Ghoulies, or How about those live shows like Jason of Star Command or even Space Academy?
There's too many good shows just sitting in a vault somewhere just collecting dust.
Re:Once again, I must state (Score:1)
Actually since no one in human history has ever actually talked to a cartoon and asked it's opinion about things like homosexuality, politics, religion ect...
it's really hard to say just what cartoons are really for or in favor of
Re:Wow, you remember Cities of Gold? (Score:1)
See your time has just begun,
Searching for your ways
Through adventures every day.
Every day and night
With the condor in flight
With all your friends in tow,
You search for the Cities of Gold.
aaah-ah-ah-ah-aah
Wishing for the Cities of Gold
aaah-ah-ah-ah-aah
Someday we will find
The Cities of Gold.
do-do-do-de-do
aaah-aah-aah
do-do-do-de-do
Cities of Gold
do-do-do-de-do
Cities of Gold
aaah-ah-ah-ah-aah
Someday we will find
The Cities of Gold...
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I will never get this damn
tune out of my head....
The Pirates Theme Song! (Score:1)
We're the pirates upon the high seas
and we do such incredible deeds
blah blah blahblah blah blaahhh blablahhh
yo ho ho
yo ho ho
I'm trippin'!
Where have all the other cartoons gone? (Score:3)
You had great writing (a rarity among 80's 'toons or any for that matter) that really made you think that these people were real and that were multi-dimentional.
The main story and even the episode plots were brilliant. I remember after each episode wishing that I was there with the kids and run arround the backyard of my grandparents house pretending.
And another great thing about the series was the fact that it was a very beautifuly animated. It was in that Anime style of the 80's that we all love (or hate). The action scenes from what I remember were very vivid in colors and style.
But what really bothers me is that i've only met a hand full of people that remember the show. But all of them loved it and would give their right testicle to see the series again.
I kinda wish Cartoon Network would shell out some dough for the series and all of the other cool 80s cartoons we grew up on (so far they have a nice spectrum of the 70s so I wont go into that) and have "80's Weekends" or even late nights. They could pull in so much money from the advertisers from all of us geeks that would actually watch it faithfully (look at Toonami and how big and profitable is became).
But internal politics at CN (as always with all Tunner owned channels) and many other reasons will make sure this dream never come to fruition.
The same thing will also never come true for my other wish, that of mtv bring back all of it's 80's content to be shown late nights when they dont have anything on and could actually score some ad cash from all of us 'kids' remebering our "big hair" phase.
Anyways thats it for my bi-annual posting to
Anyways comments would be nice, but money and/or food would be better. Thanks.
Re:Dangerous DnD (Score:1)
Just a guess, but I bet that you would find the same percentage of crazies that you would find in the general populace... but nobody ever does any metrics like that, since you get more attention just saying "D&D is from the devil!"
For me and thousands of others, role playing games have been (and sometimes still are) a constructive and enjoyable form of entertainment.
I hear you.
Cool story about your relatives.
Re:Dangerous DnD (Score:1)
d6s increase the odds.
Heh (Score:1)
new TV series == offtopic? (Score:1)
[mild rant] /. run this story (which, let's face it is about a cartoon series on TV), yet only a couple of weeks ago /. kicked up such a fuss about NOT wanting to run a story on the falling prices of tech stocks.
I find it crazy that
I don't even own a TV (and ain't done so for some years now) - which (I know) makes me have a slightly different world-view and value-set to most geeks - but this is not the D&D Role-Playing Game that we used to play, it is just a cartoon......
And whilst not many of us own tech stocks, when the whole tech industry looses so much (perceived) market value in such a short space of time it could affect our lives....
[/mild rant]
(Maybe I'm just getting old...?)
fRoGG
Again I say: Who fucking cares? (Score:1)
Slashdot TV guide.
Bringing you the latest crap programmes that are being broadcast on television stations on the other side of the planet.
Re:Again I say: Who fucking cares? (Score:1)
So if I posted something about "Spaced" (possibly one of the best surreal comedies with a Sci fi link) being repeated on UK Play on Sundays at 11pm, would it get posted?
Nooooo. It's not a US station.
Yes
Re:Mages and Monsters (Score:1)
http://www.broadcast.com/video/ ListenPages/ma/3471/ [broadcast.com] for an online version of the movie (RealPlayer G2 and Windows Media Player only).
Being a roleplayer I find the movie (and the book it was based on) lousy from a factual point of view, but it's amusing none the less.
Adam
Re:does anyone remember a show called something li (Score:1)
Everybody said that he'd go far
But he wasn't very good in the classes he took
No, he just wasn't interested in his books
Aimee was the smartest girl in school
Not very popular, not very cool
Two kids will be chosen from Earth
To go to school at Galaxy High
Travelling millions of miles in space
To go to school in a far-off place
Aimee is the sweetheart, Doyle's got a lot to learn
Here at Galaxy High
(Galaxy High! Galaxy High! Galaxy High!)
Thank you for the spark of recognition here so I could relieve my brain of that useless bit of theme song. Now if you'll please tell me when my important appointment is today (I believe the theme song memory blocked out anything reasonably short-term), I'd be grateful.
Where is Katz? (Score:2)
I was shocked to open the story and not find a 15 page phycho-geek-analasis on why geeks like D&D.
On the light note, I must admit that between Dungeons & Dragons cartoon and the Dukes of Hazard, they must of been my favorite childhood shows. I also remember how excited I was to see the first PacMan Cartoon! (Geez, waking up at 6:30am to watch cartoons!!)
OOOOOLD (Score:1)
Re:Why is D&D coming back? Answer obvious. (Score:2)
Try here [netscape.com]
Of course this only makes sense if you know that TSR was bought by WOTC a while back.
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Links people, this is the Net after all (Score:2)
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Re:Why is D&D coming back? Answer (Score:2)
I'll disagree with DBZ being any sort of "deep" though, the action is fun, but the characters are pretty shallow.
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OFFTOPIC: Hello?! Mountains?! (Score:4)
Dangit, I live in the "Mountain" time zone. Nobody ever tells us when stuff is on. It's discrimination and it needs to stop now. (Either that or do the obvious thing and just post it on the Net and I'll watch it when I dang well please)
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Re:So what? (Score:1)
What a drekhead.
Re:Wow, you remember Cities of Gold? (Score:1)
Inspector gadget was french?
Ahrrrg... I always knew something was worng with it back in what.. 83 or so when I watched... I figured itwas Canadian.... Maybe Austrailian.. or something similar.. But French!!!! No!... That simply cannot be.. Arg.. my Whole view of reality was shattered... I mean... It tooks me a few years to figure out that Danger Mouse Was British... (Yes I was a slow child..)
Re:Where have all the other cartoons gone? (Score:1)
Count me as one of those.. None of my friends seem to remember this show, but I do.. Fondly enough that I wondered to myself, "Hey I wonder if that Disney movie is based on the show.. maybe I should go see it.."
Dangerous DnD (Score:2)
Thankfully, my parents also showed enough concern to take a look at the games I was playing. Although they weren't wholey thrilled at them (being a bit more "mature" in subject then they liked), they did note that it didn't do any harm. Eventually, they were more concerned that I would upset my grandparents than DnD ruining my life.
Its actually rather interesting how the anti-DnD crowd could manipulate fears. I met my future inlaws and wife on a local MUD. My inlaws were big puzzle and adventure game fans. Yet a couple of years later, my mother-in-law had attended one of these "education seminars" at the local school and began voicing concern over role playing games. I was shocked. Here was a paper-and-pen version of what she herself had enjoyed for as long as I knew her. And yet she was concerned for the safety of her own daughter (not the one I married). I had a long discussion with her and eventually her own experience kicked in and the paranoia droped down a few notches.
The trouble is, there IS a bit of truth to be found in this fear. The film Mazes and Monsters was supposedly (loosely) based off of a real-life event (students ran live-action roleplaying games in the university's steam tunnels, one snapped). I've met a rare handfull of people who might be candidates for more such movies. For a very, very small few there might be some kind of danger. But then, I would question whether it is DnD or something else that has put them in that state of mind.
For me and thousands of others, role playing games have been (and sometimes still are) a constructive and enjoyable form of entertainment.
For hundreds of "professionals" and morally charged do-gooders activities like role playing (and Quake as a different example) is an unknown - best get it all with the same brush.
Homogenized Formula Cartoon (Score:2)
Oh. I was plenty excited about it when I had first heard that they were creating it. I awaited eagerly for a Sat. morning rendition of a cherished hobby. Warriors, magic users, elves, and dwarves... battling horrific creatures found crawling the dank passages of a dungeon or perhaps narrowly escaping an ambush of Orcs in a dark forest. Adventure. Puzzles. Fantastic tales and amazing, treasured artifacts. All the stuff of good Fantasy.
That's not what the DnD cartoon delivered.
What we got was a popular commercial property shoe-horned in to the typical American cartoon formula: regular kids get dumped in to a strange world, are each given a unique power, and fight a bad guy for whom all the events in this strange world seem to revolve around.
Homogenized action-figure selling fun. As much story line and complexity as He-Man.
Oh. Boy. How. Exciting. And. New.
And what a waste of the "Dungeons and Dragons" name.
One can only hope that the DnD movie due out won't fall in to Yet Another Formula.
Re:Homogenized Formula Cartoon (Score:2)
Highly recommended.
Re:I'm 33 years old and I still watch Cartoons Dam (Score:1)
Crikee![sp?]
Ender
Jayce! (Score:1)
Oh, and nobody could lay the smack down like Thundarr! I'm still trying to remember his sidekick's names. There was the wizard and Umlok (?). Dang, what WERE they?!
Re:I'm 33 years old and I still watch Cartoons Dam (Score:1)
Deities and Demigawds (Score:1)
You betcha, when it first came out. And I remember vividly a copy of it being shown on a Televangelist show (Paul & Jan Crouch, I think) while they railed that all these pagan evil gawds were listed, but not JESUS!
And I remember thinking "well just how many hit points do ya recon Jesus has, anyhow?"
(Must not be many... only took a few 1st level Romans to nail'em up on that cross... talk about a gyp, being the Son 'O Jehova and only getting 1d6 HP!)
Re:Did they ever get home? (Score:1)
Secret of blue water (I think that's the title) was also a really good anime in the historic/sci-fi but with a J. Vernes theme.
Re:Did they ever get home? (Score:1)
Well in France it was called "Les mondes engloutis" (the sunken worlds) - was pretty good too !
Fiend Folio (Score:1)
Now only if they would rebroadcast OrBots.
Re:Why is D&D coming back? Answer (Score:1)
Ok, I know what people will say, Gargoyles (except for a few notable episodes) took place mostly in modern times. However, please note that all the characters in Dungeons and Dragons the cartoon series, there were a bunch of modern kids who got all their powers handed to them on a silver platter. I mean, if you watch Gargoyles you see how MacBeth became such a powerful fighter and how Demona became such a powerful mage.
Besides which, I loved the episode of Gargoyles where the Arch-Mage returns to take revenge on Goliath. Of course it's directly stolen from Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps," but then that's what I like about it ^_^
This is not intended to slam the D&D cartoon, but when it first came out it always drove me nuts how _unlike_ actual D&D it was. It was more like Captain N.
One Two Three Four... will this start a flame war?
Re:Good reception? (Score:1)
It Ain't Dungeons And Dragons.... (Score:2)
Where are the exploding hit points?
Bah...that's what you get when you cheapen and commercialize a national treasure like D&D...
telnet://bbs.ufies.org
Trade Wars Lives
Duh... (Score:1)
Re:I'm 33 years old and I still watch Cartoons Dam (Score:1)
Whew, I'm glad thats over. Now on to finding the Ultimate Question.
Later...
OrBots!!! (Score:1)
That was easily my favorite cartoon of that period, inching just ahead of Dungeons and Dragons.
I'm geek: my computer starts to the sound of the OrBots theme.
--Ruhk
Re:Why is D&D coming back? Ans (Score:1)
newer cartoons (Score:1)
Cartoons like THESE? (Score:2)
What's even more sad is that I watched all three of those...
Re: .us domain (Score:1)
Only with the current rules for .us domains. Businesses could be allowed to use companyname.com.us. Japan and the UK do this and it works fine. Non-profits and other entities could still be required to classify under the most local subdomain they can, if that's the way the US wants its domain run.
Re:Where have all the other cartoons gone? (Score:1)
There are rumors of a follow-up series to the lost cities of gold (they still had 6 to find :), and a movie being made out of Ulysses 31..
Excellent - those cartoons haven't been bettered from what I see of kid's cartoons in the last few years. I remember Ulysses 31 fondly - it had an eerie feel to it (apart from Nono the robot - ugh) that was only equalled by the original Moomins. And the lost cities were great as well - interesting story and nice ideas.
I am actually pondering buying rights of one of them, in a couple years if what I'm doing right now works out as expected.
Now that would be a great idea - if you ever do then post it here on /. - I'm sure you'll get loads of takers for them. And I do remember the title songs as well, but I won't even try and post them here :)
And as for Pokemon, hey, it's not as bad as people make out IMHO. It's not art, but neither was Inspector Gadget really :)
Re:Mages and Monsters (Score:1)
Re: Sport Billy (Score:1)
Mark
Ack! (Score:1)
Ye gods, do I even want to know?
Man...know I remember why I watch almost no commercial television...
Re:Did they ever get home? (Score:1)
Re:Wow, you remember Cities of Gold? (Score:1)
Re:Mazes & Monsters? (Score:1)
Despite the bad rap that Dear recieved from D&D fans, he actually, as I recall, proved that D&D was not a factor in Dallas' disapearance.
Supposedly the kid's disapearance had to do mainly with isolation from his peers, a lack of love from his family and drug use.
Re:Why is D&D coming back? Answer obvious. (Score:1)
But pokemon still sucks
The last episode (Score:1)
Anyway, the author said they didn't know if the last episode would really be the last one, or if the series would continue in the next year.
In this "last episode" (that never went to the air, BTW), the heroes split in two teams, one with the evil guy (I don't know his name in english) and the other with the little good guy (you know who I am talking about).
Yes, the bad guy convinces some of them that he is really good, and that the little one is the bad one. Got it?
Well, I'll skip to the end. In the end the help the bad guy to become good, and they discover that the little guy is his father (like a inverse Star Wars) . In fact, the first name thought for the episode was "redemption", but the author thought it would spoil the history, giving away the end.
Do they go back to Earth? Yes and no. Together the little guy with the ex-bad-guy open a portal, and say that they can go back if they want (no strings attached). *But* they also say that there's still a lot to do there, and they can stay and help them fight evil. Their choice?
Who knows.
The end.
Re:Script of the final (never aired) episode (Score:1)
And btw, If I was a moderator I would moderate you down to (Score:-5 Spoiler...) :)
In fact, I used some <spoiler> tags, but I didn't preview my post, and /. ate them.
cool it with the RPG nerd shit.. (Score:1)
QUESTION: How can AD&D be considered 'Advanced' when there doesn't really seem to be a 'non-advanced' anymore.
This is not flamebait, so don't moderate it down like the last time I complained about Emmitt posting the Final Fantisy XIXV stuff.
Seth
thank Darwin for natural selection.. (Score:1)
Seth
Generation gap exposed! (Score:2)
My fiancee (wife in five days!) and I were talking about cartoons last week. We grew up with the tail end of the 'classics' from Warner et. al. Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner (all before they got polite, I might add), and so forth.
Then came the really awful awful awful trash cartoons which were nothing but cheap rip-offs to promote games. The stories...weren't, the drama...wasn't, and the animation averaged about 2 frames/sec. They were SUCKY! Awful, in fact!
Now, with the aid of computers, animation quality has gotten much better again, and best of all--the cartoons out there now are being done by people my age, and half of the stuff out there is a great big tongue-in-cheek parody/tribute to those classics!
Now today I see that the cartoons I expect will be recognised as the worst in history are being reshown, and even more surprisingly, to appreciative audiences!
Ah well. Que sera, sera. Makes me feel old, though.
Good 80s cartoon site (Score:3)
Did they ever get home? (Score:3)
Anyway, I much preferred Cities of Gold and Ulysses 31. I even caught an episode of Mr Benn on tv yesterday... ah, happy, carefree days!
Scorchio, suddenly feeling much older.
stupid cavalier (Score:2)
I know, I know it's just a TV show.
But don't you think that at least Cavalier could at least get a friggin' sword or something? Sure give the coward the best AC and no weapons!
--// Hartsock
Re:Did they ever get home? (Score:2)