Ten years old, eh? More generation gap time... in 79-80 I was in my senior year of high school. I had gotten a little B&W TV for 5 bucks at a church bazaar, and was watching stuff in the morning (circa 6 AM) while I got ready to go to school.
And I came across the first episode of Starblazers.
(Yes, I lucked out horribly.)
And I was like, whoa. No resolution in half an hour? What's this "Hurry, you only have 365 days left!" stuff? You mean it's a continuing story? Wow.
You have to understand (for those of you who don't) -- in 1979, the only continuing stories on TV were soap operas. The daytime ones. No primetime series with story arcs, no nighttime soaps. The idea of an epic science fiction cartoon threw me for a loop bigtime. It hooked me, and I watched every episode of the first two seasons, which is all they had, I guess, and lasted almost the entire school year. (Or so it seems to me now; it can't have been that long, can it? Five episodes a week, two seasons should have been only, what, about ten or eleven weeks, right?)
Now mind you, I haven't seen it since. I'm sure that after twenty-four years and a decade of my exposure to other anime, it'll seem pale and faded and even stupid, but I've still been seriously considering buying the DVDs. If only so I can show Peggy where the Dessler family in EPU's Symphony of the Sword comes from.
Maybe I can talk her into it after we get the new Utena DVD.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
And I came across the first episode of Starblazers.
(Yes, I lucked out horribly.)
And I was like, whoa. No resolution in half an hour? What's this "Hurry, you only have 365 days left!" stuff? You mean it's a continuing story? Wow.
You have to understand (for those of you who don't) -- in 1979, the only continuing stories on TV were soap operas. The daytime ones. No primetime series with story arcs, no nighttime soaps. The idea of an epic science fiction cartoon threw me for a loop bigtime. It hooked me, and I watched every episode of the first two seasons, which is all they had, I guess, and lasted almost the entire school year. (Or so it seems to me now; it can't have been that long, can it? Five episodes a week, two seasons should have been only, what, about ten or eleven weeks, right?)
Now mind you, I haven't seen it since. I'm sure that after twenty-four years and a decade of my exposure to other anime, it'll seem pale and faded and even stupid, but I've still been seriously considering buying the DVDs. If only so I can show Peggy where the Dessler family in EPU's Symphony of the Sword comes from.
Maybe I can talk her into it after we get the new Utena DVD.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.