Hi today's video is based on the blog I did of the TV show Thundarr the Barbarian!
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Showing posts with label sword and sorcery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sword and sorcery. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Friday, 30 September 2011
Thundarr the Barbarian Part Two!
Here is the conclusion of the Thundarr the Barbarian review! And here is a picture that sums up the show for those of you who didn't read the first half.
So having defeated the rat men they continue on to Manhattan-er I mean Manhat! Making their way into the city they head into the subway and the woman of the group tells them about things she had read about the city. Going as far as telling Thundarr about a movie poster!
(remember when places kept hanging up Jaws posters in the nineties?)
Continuing on Ookla the Mok (the big hairy guy) falls on the subway track. Cause since they're in a place they don't understand he must obviously not understand the concept of not walking off ledges.
As they wander through the train tunnel the woman is captured by an evil wizard who threatens to kill her if the others don't give him the black ball. They refuse and the wizard freezes them, but Thundarr is immune to it and not frozen, realizing the black ball makes him immune he turns down the Wizards demand and the wizard leaves. So he's okay with her being killed? Or does he know the wizards full of it? and why'd the wizard blast Thundarr if he new he would be immune? All it did was make him aware of the power he had? They're both idiots!
So now with the girl gone they give up there search of the tunnels and go back to the streets. Why? She was taken down a tunnel when kidnapped! Go down that tunnel! Why are you going back up topside?
Oh I know why! So you can go onto the street and be attacked by the wizards knights in a helicopter! (no seriously that's the only reason they have for leaving the tunnels and yes they're attacked by knights in helicopters!)
They too have lasers!
Which seems like a good idea! Give knights lasers! But as you see in the battle its not a good idea!
They just don't understand how to use projectile weapons favoring getting close to there opponents!
If you're gonna shoot at someone don't run up to point blank range and then fire!
Especially if your still gonna miss!
Thundarr then realizes that the knights are machines! Good cause if they were people I'd have been ashamed!
Hey this knight looks like hes gonna throw his laser at the hairy guy! (Stupid robot, fighting is for humans!)
They then defeat the knights and take their helicopter and head into the sky!
And as they leave we see that they were watched by the inhabitants of the city who did not know if they were friend or foe. The leader of the people is a man with a large brown beard and a lamp shade on his head.
Thundarr makes his way to the wizards base and leaves Ookla the Mok (who can't talk) to fly the helicopter as he jumps on to the wizards penthouse tower and sneaks in to save his friend! Why'd he leave him to fly it alone? This can't be good!
Thundarr fights off the villain! Well actually the girl uses magic to blind the evil wizard as Thundarr cuts the bars on the cage and they make there escape as the wizard stands around complaining of being blinded.
They make their way to a window to get to the helicopter but Ookla the Mok can't fly it over to them and instead he just smashes the control panels and screams then kicks the control panel out the nose of the helicopter causing it to crash.
I knew it was a bad idea to let him fly the helicopter!
So with no helicopter to get on to they jump out the window and land on there horses.
How'd their horses get there? Magic!
They make it back to Manhat and meet up with the inhabitants of the city and the old guy from the beginning. The wizard then makes his appearance and makes the Statue of Liberty come to life and attack our heroes!
The Statue of Liberty uses her torch as a flamethrower and blasts at the heroes! I never thought I'd say that!
The wizard asks one more time for the black ball and Thundarr gets an idea and throws it at the Statue of Liberty and in so doing destroys the black ball and the life of the statue! And with that the wizard leaves in anger.... and what if that hadn't worked? Then the wizard would have had the black ball and the statue would still be a threat! But being a kids show things always work out in the end.
And that concludes my write up on this show. My thoughts on it? Weird. Yup, that's it just: Weird.
So having defeated the rat men they continue on to Manhattan-er I mean Manhat! Making their way into the city they head into the subway and the woman of the group tells them about things she had read about the city. Going as far as telling Thundarr about a movie poster!
Continuing on Ookla the Mok (the big hairy guy) falls on the subway track. Cause since they're in a place they don't understand he must obviously not understand the concept of not walking off ledges.
As they wander through the train tunnel the woman is captured by an evil wizard who threatens to kill her if the others don't give him the black ball. They refuse and the wizard freezes them, but Thundarr is immune to it and not frozen, realizing the black ball makes him immune he turns down the Wizards demand and the wizard leaves. So he's okay with her being killed? Or does he know the wizards full of it? and why'd the wizard blast Thundarr if he new he would be immune? All it did was make him aware of the power he had? They're both idiots!
So now with the girl gone they give up there search of the tunnels and go back to the streets. Why? She was taken down a tunnel when kidnapped! Go down that tunnel! Why are you going back up topside?
Oh I know why! So you can go onto the street and be attacked by the wizards knights in a helicopter! (no seriously that's the only reason they have for leaving the tunnels and yes they're attacked by knights in helicopters!)
They too have lasers!
Which seems like a good idea! Give knights lasers! But as you see in the battle its not a good idea!
They just don't understand how to use projectile weapons favoring getting close to there opponents!
If you're gonna shoot at someone don't run up to point blank range and then fire!
Especially if your still gonna miss!
Thundarr then realizes that the knights are machines! Good cause if they were people I'd have been ashamed!
Hey this knight looks like hes gonna throw his laser at the hairy guy! (Stupid robot, fighting is for humans!)
They then defeat the knights and take their helicopter and head into the sky!
And as they leave we see that they were watched by the inhabitants of the city who did not know if they were friend or foe. The leader of the people is a man with a large brown beard and a lamp shade on his head.
Thundarr makes his way to the wizards base and leaves Ookla the Mok (who can't talk) to fly the helicopter as he jumps on to the wizards penthouse tower and sneaks in to save his friend! Why'd he leave him to fly it alone? This can't be good!
Thundarr fights off the villain! Well actually the girl uses magic to blind the evil wizard as Thundarr cuts the bars on the cage and they make there escape as the wizard stands around complaining of being blinded.
They make their way to a window to get to the helicopter but Ookla the Mok can't fly it over to them and instead he just smashes the control panels and screams then kicks the control panel out the nose of the helicopter causing it to crash.
I knew it was a bad idea to let him fly the helicopter!
So with no helicopter to get on to they jump out the window and land on there horses.
How'd their horses get there? Magic!
They make it back to Manhat and meet up with the inhabitants of the city and the old guy from the beginning. The wizard then makes his appearance and makes the Statue of Liberty come to life and attack our heroes!
The Statue of Liberty uses her torch as a flamethrower and blasts at the heroes! I never thought I'd say that!
The wizard asks one more time for the black ball and Thundarr gets an idea and throws it at the Statue of Liberty and in so doing destroys the black ball and the life of the statue! And with that the wizard leaves in anger.... and what if that hadn't worked? Then the wizard would have had the black ball and the statue would still be a threat! But being a kids show things always work out in the end.
And that concludes my write up on this show. My thoughts on it? Weird. Yup, that's it just: Weird.
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Thunder the Barba- oops I mean ThunDARR the Barbarian
The show is about Thundarr the Barbarian who is a Conan-esk warrior who fights monsters and wizards in a world of swords and sorcery! That takes place in the year 3994.
You see back in 1994 a run away planet flew between the earth and the moon causing cosmic destruction! And our civilization is cast into ruin! (Remember when that happened? It was just after Kurt Cobain's death! We've been living in a post apocalyptic society ever since!)
And now two thousand years later the world is a savage place with sorcery! (How'd magic show up? We loose technology and magic appears? That's odd!)
So Thundarr with his magical "Sun" sword and his companions a giant beast called Ookla the Mok (who can't talk and communicates only in grunts) and a sexy woman named Ariel take it upon themselves to fight evil wizards and help people.
The first episode starts as the trio are riding there horses through a forest, riding around crashed airplanes and jumping over abandoned cars.
So for 2000 years those things have just sat their? No one dismantled them for parts or made them into homes? Seriously?
So as they travel though the forest/garbage dump they hear the cries of a man in danger and go to help him and in so doing they save the old man from some rat people. Yeah apparently there are rat people in the future, apparently rats only need 2000 years of Earth in destruction to evolve into humanoids!
So having fought of the rat people the trio is told of the old mans mission to bring a black ball that has magical properties to some wizards who live in the city of Manhat...(tan). The trio then decides to do his quest for him and head off the the city of Manhat (tan)!
They end up at a cliff looking out over some swampland leading to the city and to get off the cliff the one lady uses her magic to make a bridge across the swamp appear- and how do we as a people loose are technological advancements and then gain magic?
Seriously? That's pretty odd!
I wonder if we throw out our computers and never used the phone or drive a car if we'd become magical? Someone out there please try this and tell me telepathically if it works!
So as they start to cross the magical plot convenient bridge they are attacked by rat people on motorcycles. No seriously, here's a picture of it.
They're also shooting lasers.
Lasers that blast out of there wooden sticks..... weird.
So humans devolved into using swords and magic and rats evolved into using science? Huh!
So a human with a magical sword and in his underwear fights the rat men on motor bikes who shoot lasers out of their wooden sticks... now I've seen everything. Heck I've seen more than everything! I've seen the future!
To be continued! The episode is not done yet (infact this is just the beginning!) I'll post the rest tommorrow! And remember if you enjoyed reading this post there's always my old posts on Superhuman Samuria Syber-Squad, Battletoads and Dino Riders to read! (they are in the August posts to the right of this post)
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