I watched this as a kid! I remember being captivated by the visuals, but I think the general consensus between me and my brothers was that the good guys were painfully dull and the villains were the only part of the show worth watching :)
2:52 - 3:03 Funny that you should mention this, because Mike Jupp who made The Dreamstone originally wanted it to be more darker. There was a pilot made for this in 1985 where the title was originally going to be called The Dream Thief, the characters were of different design from the final result we got, and Zordrak was originally going to be called Nasta Shelfim, which is a twist of words for "Satan Himself", but was changed because it would upset the religious crowd, even though the theme is about a battle between Good and Evil. This link will take you to the 1985 The Dream Thief Pilot, and what The Dreamstone was originally going to be like. ua-cam.com/video/EmjtSBIY8sg/v-deo.html Also a side Note from Mike Jupp's own words... "Incidentally, I was asked to storyboard the first 30 seconds of the now infamous, ‘Howard the Duck’. I’m not credited on the film…but I still have the Lucas Film ‘Paid’ receipt! Here’s the opening clip that I boarded. Unfortunately, some rabid politically correct feminist with a sense of humour failure, has blanked my (Oscar winning?) ‘Duck in the bath’ scene! Pffff!…"
I'm honestly surprised you had anything positive to say about this. Most of the stuff I've seen written about this show talks about the show having a "protagonist centered morality" where the nightmare side is hardly doing anything bad while the "designated heroes" just visit extreme punishment on the mooks for nothing, practically painting the mooks as Posey while the heroes are more like Gen 5's main five at their worst. I'm also kinda surprised the show looks the way it does, given that those descriptions make it sound more like a 2000s cartoon than a 1980s one.
I watched this as a kid! I remember being captivated by the visuals, but I think the general consensus between me and my brothers was that the good guys were painfully dull and the villains were the only part of the show worth watching :)
2:52 - 3:03 Funny that you should mention this, because Mike Jupp who made The Dreamstone originally wanted it to be more darker. There was a pilot made for this in 1985 where the title was originally going to be called The Dream Thief, the characters were of different design from the final result we got, and Zordrak was originally going to be called Nasta Shelfim, which is a twist of words for "Satan Himself", but was changed because it would upset the religious crowd, even though the theme is about a battle between Good and Evil.
This link will take you to the 1985 The Dream Thief Pilot, and what The Dreamstone was originally going to be like.
ua-cam.com/video/EmjtSBIY8sg/v-deo.html
Also a side Note from Mike Jupp's own words...
"Incidentally, I was asked to storyboard the first 30 seconds of the now infamous, ‘Howard the Duck’. I’m not credited on the film…but I still have the Lucas Film ‘Paid’ receipt!
Here’s the opening clip that I boarded. Unfortunately, some rabid politically correct feminist with a sense of humour failure, has blanked my (Oscar winning?) ‘Duck in the bath’ scene! Pffff!…"
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I'm honestly surprised you had anything positive to say about this. Most of the stuff I've seen written about this show talks about the show having a "protagonist centered morality" where the nightmare side is hardly doing anything bad while the "designated heroes" just visit extreme punishment on the mooks for nothing, practically painting the mooks as Posey while the heroes are more like Gen 5's main five at their worst.
I'm also kinda surprised the show looks the way it does, given that those descriptions make it sound more like a 2000s cartoon than a 1980s one.