Summer Talking Meme #3
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thisbluespiritI had such nice questions for this, but then it turned out I couldn't write the answers once summer really got going. However, it's now Not Summer, so...
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a_phoenixdragon What show did you watch obsessively as a kid?
My first reaction was Dungeons & Dragons and while that would be true, I probably got far more obsessed with that when it was repeated when I was a teenager. However, one childhood obsession was with the serialised French-Japanese cartoon The Mysterious Cities of Gold. Basically, Cities of Gold was a year out of my life - I think I was around 9 or 10? I think everybody in my class was obsessed with it, too. When my best friend had to go into hospital, she made me promise faithfully to write to her what happened in the next episode* (and then she watched it in hospital anyway, the ungrateful thing). Even my Mum registered the fact that we watched a TV series about someone called Esteban.
While there were other serialised cartoons at that time, there weren't many, not like this (and for some reason they were almost all adaptations of literary classics with animals instead of people) so this was something special.
It had an Exciting Intro along with the best sing-a-long theme song!
I had terrible trouble with some show I was watching more recently because it started off in a way that reminded me of this - I think it was the intro to B5 S1? I kept winding up singing the theme song of this instead as a result.
(You can also sing along with the outro, too.)
It also had an adult character called Mendoza (who was Interestingly Ambiguous) and a flying Golden Condor! It had shipwrecks and mysteries and people searching for their lost families! It had secret treasure to be found! An incomprehensibly indestructible baddy!** And aliens! (Um, yes. Really. I'm not sure what that was about.) Anyway, it was awesome and one of those things I wouldn't risk watching as an adult just in case I found flaws and spoiled the memories. But, yeah, Esteban, Zia and Tao - and Philip Schofield in the Broom Cupboard, of course. *nods*
Anyway, someone made this beautiful vid for it which I recommend to anyone curious; it's perfect and all the things I remember it being.
(password: esteban; vidpost here.
And then in unexpected developments, they finally made S2 in 2012, so a new generation can have their own Cities of Gold. ♥
* Yes, once upon a time there was no internet, or at least not available to use and not for watching TV on, and relying on your parents to bother to waste precious VHS tape space on children's shows (or trusting them to set the timer) was impossible. Amazing, isn't it?
** I mean, to the point where even at 9/10, I noticed that he really didn't stay dead, despite being perfectly human. (As far as we knew.)
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a_phoenixdragon What show did you watch obsessively as a kid? My first reaction was Dungeons & Dragons and while that would be true, I probably got far more obsessed with that when it was repeated when I was a teenager. However, one childhood obsession was with the serialised French-Japanese cartoon The Mysterious Cities of Gold. Basically, Cities of Gold was a year out of my life - I think I was around 9 or 10? I think everybody in my class was obsessed with it, too. When my best friend had to go into hospital, she made me promise faithfully to write to her what happened in the next episode* (and then she watched it in hospital anyway, the ungrateful thing). Even my Mum registered the fact that we watched a TV series about someone called Esteban.
While there were other serialised cartoons at that time, there weren't many, not like this (and for some reason they were almost all adaptations of literary classics with animals instead of people) so this was something special.
It had an Exciting Intro along with the best sing-a-long theme song!
I had terrible trouble with some show I was watching more recently because it started off in a way that reminded me of this - I think it was the intro to B5 S1? I kept winding up singing the theme song of this instead as a result.
(You can also sing along with the outro, too.)
It also had an adult character called Mendoza (who was Interestingly Ambiguous) and a flying Golden Condor! It had shipwrecks and mysteries and people searching for their lost families! It had secret treasure to be found! An incomprehensibly indestructible baddy!** And aliens! (Um, yes. Really. I'm not sure what that was about.) Anyway, it was awesome and one of those things I wouldn't risk watching as an adult just in case I found flaws and spoiled the memories. But, yeah, Esteban, Zia and Tao - and Philip Schofield in the Broom Cupboard, of course. *nods*
Anyway, someone made this beautiful vid for it which I recommend to anyone curious; it's perfect and all the things I remember it being.
Mackerel Skies from Andraste on Vimeo.
(password: esteban; vidpost here.
And then in unexpected developments, they finally made S2 in 2012, so a new generation can have their own Cities of Gold. ♥
* Yes, once upon a time there was no internet, or at least not available to use and not for watching TV on, and relying on your parents to bother to waste precious VHS tape space on children's shows (or trusting them to set the timer) was impossible. Amazing, isn't it?
** I mean, to the point where even at 9/10, I noticed that he really didn't stay dead, despite being perfectly human. (As far as we knew.)
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Date: 2015-09-12 09:04 pm (UTC)Mendoza was definitely great. Not that I've watched it since 1987, but I'm sure he was.
Okay, it's not the theme music, it's the two intros. I kept expecting it to go "It is the Sixteenth Century..." The other series intros don't have the same similarity. LIsten to one and then the other here. It's not the same, but... :-D
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Date: 2015-09-12 10:50 pm (UTC)Okay, B5/MC crossover! Sheridan flying a golden condor, accompanied by Ivanova and Garibaldi. "Help" given by Kosh, with the Shadows out to sabotage their quest. Dare you. ;)
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Date: 2015-09-14 09:08 pm (UTC)You may just have set something off; your post made me wonder how the concept of Storytime might be applied to Bab5. Sheridan and Ulkesh in Jack and the Beanstalk?
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Date: 2015-09-15 08:04 pm (UTC)And I see your "Jack & The Beanstalk", and raise you one Londo and G'Kar in a remake of "The Odd Couple". ;)
I wrote some of it.
Date: 2015-09-15 10:05 pm (UTC)Ivanova: In came the ogre, as he did before, and said:
Ulkesh: [Breathing noises] Fum.
Ivanova: Fum? Is that all you're going to give us? I suppose it's better than nothing. Or 'Zog'. Anyway, when Jack heard the terrible rhyme...
At an incoherent protest from one of the watching toddlers, Ivanova set the storybook down and looked up. A plump cherub was hovering above Kosh's encounter romper suit.
"Not terrible," Baby Kosh said. "Efficient."
"Terrible as in frightening, not as in bad." Not waiting to see if the baby Vorlon had an answer, Ivanova turned back to her book.
Lyta: Nonsense, my dear. It must be the smell of that lurker you ate yesterday.
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Date: 2015-09-15 04:02 pm (UTC)Hmm, given that both B5 and Cities of Gold are kind of cross-cultural, I think you should have three different races represented there, rather than all humans. :-)
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Date: 2015-09-12 10:19 pm (UTC)(My brother, on the other hand, bought the DVDs the moment they were available. I don't know if he's watched them, though, or if he's saving them to introduce to his kids when they're old enough.)
That's a really nice vid.
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Date: 2015-09-14 07:13 pm (UTC)So, for next time, you should definitely find out whether or not your brother has watched it.
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Date: 2015-09-13 02:20 pm (UTC)Heh, I didn't mind that cartoons had the humans replaced by animals. I preferred it!
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Date: 2015-09-14 07:16 pm (UTC)I don't know about cartoons at the moment - I think this one was pretty much an anime, really, and there are loads of those still around, but mainstream cartoons - I don't know, I think the 80s and 90s were the glory era for them.
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Date: 2015-09-14 07:17 pm (UTC)I think everybody had a crush on Philip Schofield back then? Even my granny did. :lol:
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Date: 2015-09-15 07:58 pm (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2015-09-16 07:45 pm (UTC)(I used to have a D&D icon but I don't any more, so I can't use it, but imagine me using it here.)
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