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Thread: Pirates!
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2020-08-30, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Pirates!
i may be showing my age, but did they ever officially end Pirates of Dark Water? Would a reboot of it work today?
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2020-08-30, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pirates!
I don't think they officially ended it, I think it just got cancelled.
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2020-08-30, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pirates!
Here's a fairly comprehensive history of the series.
As to a reboot, it doesn't seem very likely. As the early cancellation indicates the whole cross-media marketing push didn't really catch on. Sure, the animated series received some critical acclaim - especially in retrospect - but it's pretty questionable as to whether there's a groundswell of bankable nostalgia for it in the first place and the ambitious nature of the series itself as a D&D-esque epic adventure requires a degree of commitment to fulfilling a story-line that not even the original production was ultimately willing to pay for.
I mean, there are a lot more well-known and successful Hanna-Barbera properties that WB are currently interested in using.
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2020-08-30, 05:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-30, 07:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Eh, "people" in this case would be adults in their late 30's, and a pretty niche group thereof. Convincing WB to remake a series for today's children who've never heard of it based on a record of being a short-lived and expensive market failure I think would be somewhat difficult.
There are some pretty big names from Hanna-Barbera studios, Dark Water isn't really one of them.
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2020-09-01, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pirates!
This show had a great theme song that I still remember to this day.
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2020-09-01, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pirates!
This falls right between when I was watching children's tv and when I was aiding in raising people who watched children's tv, so I am a perfect miss on brand awareness for this timeframe, yet I know about Animaniacs, Ducktales, Reboot, and all sorts of other 90s animated properties. This one, not so much.
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2020-09-01, 02:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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I watched and liked it as a kid, but I don't remember anything about it. I remember the plot of Reboot, like every Batman AS/X Men AS/Spiderman AS episode and Muppets/Fraggle Rock/Power Rangers. So either is was too complicated for kids or it was pretty generic.
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2020-09-01, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-09-16, 10:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-09-16, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pirates!
All I really remember is that the main character looked like someone tried to pull his skull apart when he was a kid. The cross between pirate themes and staving off ecological disaster should be an easy sell these days, though.