I saw this when it was originally broadcast, and until recent weeks, I hadn't seen it again. I loved it as a child, but I almost HATE it now. Why?
I recently bought the whole series on dvd, and watch one show every Saturday, to sort of recreate the environment of long ago. Back then, as I said, I loved this series, but I have come about face on a number of things. First of all, I hated the mindless dolts otherwise known as the NEA types who got this show cancelled, along with the likes of The Fantastic Four, because, everybody, sing along with me now, it was "too violent". Well, the puny bloodless violence that there was, I loved it, but I had no idea back then the absolute monstrosity that beat within this beast.
I started off thinking how terrible it must had been doing the voices to those animal characters, particularly Iggo, and then, rare inspiration that it was, I tried to copy it vocally myself, and did the perfect job, so ridiculous doing that voice must had been. If only that noise wouldn't damage my throat over time, I would walk around grocery stores all the time like that, just to see if anybody would recognize it. But as annoying as hearing mindless screaming from the animals might had been, as we're used to such things from animals after all, there is a ton of it nonetheless. If all those constant different animal calls aren't enough to drive you insane, what else you hear most certainly will.
What really drives you insane is the institution of Mr. Obvious and it comes not surprisingly from the humans. Yes, our little family engages in the art of ridiculously over-stating the obvious at virtually every turn. When Xandro isn't issuing a command, there's a very high percentage of this occurring. For example, a ship will start coming at them, and they will say "It's coming at us", or when the ship disappears, it's soon followed by "it disappeared". Seriously folks, I thought this show was wrote for ten-year-olds, but it's wrote for two-year-olds instead.
As much as I hate the NEA for what they did (I would presume The Fantastic Four wasn't this mind-numbingly stupid) they unintentionally saved America from yet more stupidity by having this show cancelled. I still have like three more shows to go, and I don't know if I can take it. It's obvious, while the show has some good fights, and about zero plot, you will be brought down about triple digits in intelligence watching it; it's just that bad. Your only hope for enjoying this show, is to turn the sound off as you watch it, even though you will miss out on some pretty cool music at times.
And what's with that stupid "house" the human Herculoids always seem to live in? No walls and nothing but a roof and floor (at least it's height offers some protection). Incidentally, it gets destroyed in one episode, but of course it doesn't affect any other episodes. BTW, about five years back, I bought the Jony Quest original series, and wasn't disappointed in the least, as it was everything I remembered it being, and, amazingly, it didn't harbor Mr Obvious very much. It just seemed like ordinary cartoon chatter. So yes, this bad; it's real bad.
I recently bought the whole series on dvd, and watch one show every Saturday, to sort of recreate the environment of long ago. Back then, as I said, I loved this series, but I have come about face on a number of things. First of all, I hated the mindless dolts otherwise known as the NEA types who got this show cancelled, along with the likes of The Fantastic Four, because, everybody, sing along with me now, it was "too violent". Well, the puny bloodless violence that there was, I loved it, but I had no idea back then the absolute monstrosity that beat within this beast.
I started off thinking how terrible it must had been doing the voices to those animal characters, particularly Iggo, and then, rare inspiration that it was, I tried to copy it vocally myself, and did the perfect job, so ridiculous doing that voice must had been. If only that noise wouldn't damage my throat over time, I would walk around grocery stores all the time like that, just to see if anybody would recognize it. But as annoying as hearing mindless screaming from the animals might had been, as we're used to such things from animals after all, there is a ton of it nonetheless. If all those constant different animal calls aren't enough to drive you insane, what else you hear most certainly will.
What really drives you insane is the institution of Mr. Obvious and it comes not surprisingly from the humans. Yes, our little family engages in the art of ridiculously over-stating the obvious at virtually every turn. When Xandro isn't issuing a command, there's a very high percentage of this occurring. For example, a ship will start coming at them, and they will say "It's coming at us", or when the ship disappears, it's soon followed by "it disappeared". Seriously folks, I thought this show was wrote for ten-year-olds, but it's wrote for two-year-olds instead.
As much as I hate the NEA for what they did (I would presume The Fantastic Four wasn't this mind-numbingly stupid) they unintentionally saved America from yet more stupidity by having this show cancelled. I still have like three more shows to go, and I don't know if I can take it. It's obvious, while the show has some good fights, and about zero plot, you will be brought down about triple digits in intelligence watching it; it's just that bad. Your only hope for enjoying this show, is to turn the sound off as you watch it, even though you will miss out on some pretty cool music at times.
And what's with that stupid "house" the human Herculoids always seem to live in? No walls and nothing but a roof and floor (at least it's height offers some protection). Incidentally, it gets destroyed in one episode, but of course it doesn't affect any other episodes. BTW, about five years back, I bought the Jony Quest original series, and wasn't disappointed in the least, as it was everything I remembered it being, and, amazingly, it didn't harbor Mr Obvious very much. It just seemed like ordinary cartoon chatter. So yes, this bad; it's real bad.