Episode 37 – Conclusion
- Venger shows up for game night with Acererak
- A brief history of the show
- A warning again nostalgia
- While the premise is good, the rest of the show has not aged well over the last 30 years.
- Conclusion about the heroes
- Conclusion about the villains
- The Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon gets a 10 on a d20 roll.
- Episodes worth watching are Dragons Graveyard, The Box, City on the Edge of Midnight, the Lost Children, Child of the Stargazer and Valley of the Unicorns. You can skip everything else.
Final Thoughts;
- The show’s set up really is quite good – it carries shades of the Odyssey, a strange adventure to return home – and that at least would be good as a hook for an entire campaign.
- Maybe it is just me, but the entity “None Dare Speak Its Name” in Dungeon at the Heart of Dawn resembles Horde Prime from the She-Ra/He-Man Christmas Special. Which creature came first in terms of design and airing?
- Compare the finale of the Avatar series, Sozin’s Comet Part 4, series to Dragons Graveyard. In both episodes the Big Bad of the show is helpless, they are even held in a similar position. However, all the Avatar characters struggle and sacrifice until the end, unlike Graveyard were five of the kids just watch the conclusion unfold. Further, the Avatar heroes have eliminated the threat of the villain, while in Graveyard the villain goes free after some useless scolding.
- I dropped a number of jokes to keep the installments to reasonable lengths. One for Vegner commented on his sex appeal. It would have gone something like “Be careful in searching for images of Shelia and Venger as some of the fan art for the two is explicit.* There is of course, Internet Rule No. 34 – there is porn of everything on the internet. (Insert images of the crew of Star Trek the Next Generation). Everything (insert images of sports stars) Everything. (insert image of office furniture). But Venger? Really? The dude has skin the color of yogurt that’s gone bad, doesn’t have a nose, may not have lips, announces what he’s gonna do more than a TV chef and last but not least can’t out fight, out think or generally out do a group of adolescents. So, really, where is the appeal?”
*(This is true, by the way.)
1 comments:
I agree that it is too bad that Marvel's (and ultimately CBS's) failure to OK the creation of and broadcast of the final episode would cause some diehard fan like me to try to make a fan episode based on the script Michael Reaves penned.
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