Any fans of the Pirates of Dark Water out there? My buddy and I just launched the first 3 episodes of our new podcast, aptly titled The Podcast of Dark Water, dedicated to this forgotten Saturday morning cartoon. Join us every Monday as we discuss the show episode by episode and discover just what a treasure this show was. It’s high adventure on the Podcast of Dark Water! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-podcast-of-dark-water/id1458917031
How DID the world forget about a cartoon with production values this high and a detailed, all-original fantasy setting this ambitious? @revretch and I just watched it all beginning to end this week, and it was one of my favorites when I was a kid, but I didn’t appreciate back then just how unique it really was. People barely even talk about it in review videos, just endless videos about the boring Sega Genesis game.
The plot, characters and setting were actually original ideas by Hannah Barbera’s CEO at the time, who also created The Pagemaster, an American Tail, and…produced the “Child’s Play” movies as well as helped design Chucky’s look, apparently? Chucky’s dad made this??
The last few episodes start to get darker and the stakes higher, but then the series just sort of “stops,” and not even on any noteworthy cliffhanger. It just ends halfway through the main quest and was never continued in any official form, anywhere. There were comics that only re-told the TV episodes, and the video game just has some quick tacked on ending of its own.
I’m working on a review of its creature designs, there’s a LOT.
How DID the world forget about a cartoon with production values this high and a detailed, all-original fantasy setting this ambitious? @revretch and I just watched it all beginning to end this week, and it was one of my favorites when I was a kid, but I didn’t appreciate back then just how unique it really was. People barely even talk about it in review videos, just endless videos about the boring Sega Genesis game.
The plot, characters and setting were actually original ideas by Hannah Barbera’s CEO at the time, who also created The Pagemaster, an American Tail, and…produced the “Child’s Play” movies as well as helped design Chucky’s look, apparently? Chucky’s dad made this??
The last few episodes start to get darker and the stakes higher, but then the series just sort of “stops,” and not even on any noteworthy cliffhanger. It just ends halfway through the main quest and was never continued in any official form, anywhere. There were comics that only re-told the TV episodes, and the video game just has some quick tacked on ending of its own.
I’m working on a review of its creature designs, there’s a LOT.
