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Reply To: Hobby Weekender 15/03/2019 – The 2000's

March 16, 2019 at 11:39 pm #1362479

limburger

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@mage lol … I had totally missed the score at the start of the article and only saw a mention of 13-0 somewhere.

I’ve seen Guyver. Not sure about what version (wiki says ’86) and how many episodes though. Definitely remember those monsters.
Definitely not a kidfriendly cartoon LOL, but then there was this misconception in the west that animated series were for kids. I’m glad that has changed in part due to anime and the likes of Shrek (2001 … ).

Enterprise … I think whoever managed that series deserves a special place in hell. We start with a cool concept (pre-Federation, limited tech, a bit of racism/xenophobia) and then they manage to flock it up by doing the following :

introducing the ‘time war’ (silly concept)
making tech too normal too fast (transporters went from dangerous to standard in a single episode, but medical tech remained primitive because they needed an excuse for nudity … )
trying to explain a ton of Trek history like the human looking Klingons from the Original series

The only ‘good’ thing about the storyline in which they went after the suliban (sp?) after they had attacked Earth was that we got to see the Archer stop being so bleedin’ nice …

And don’t get me started on the theme song. It was fit for a soap opera or ‘little house on the prairie’ or something similar sacharine.