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In 1987, the Victorian era American Mid-west came to space with Bravestarr, the story of a Galactic Marshal keeping peace on the planet of New Texas after the rare mineral Kerium was found in great supply (a parody of the gold rushes). The show was a mix of space opera, Victorian north American Mid-west cowboy action and some magic thrown in.
for.. some odd reason, the feature film which was, instead of a prequel, the set up of the whole series, did not reach cinemas until AFTER the series had finished it's original 65 episode run. Which does create alot of unanswered questions in the show, some of which are okay as just missing backstory (like how Bravestarr got his abilities, arrived on the planet, met Thirty-thirty, relationships of natives etc.. but some are kinda major.. Like Tex Hex, the main villain, was kinda created by the main villain Stampede, who doesn't appear much in the series at all. In fact, he is only in a hand full of episodes and commented on in a few more. In the original feature film, It is Stampede who takes the dying Tex and transforms him and gives up alot of power. Of course, the Film does also create it's own problem.. At the end, Stampede and Tex appear defeated and gone.. the first episode of the series which flashes back to PART of the film and kinda directly follows on, Tex is said to be around and stuff.. Kinda like the film was meant to have a bit about how they were only defeated 'For now' but that's not the impression given..
anyway, I wanna talk about something which I think is a HUGE mistake in the intro theme and most peoples understanding. In the Film, it is shown that Bravestarr and Shaman's people, who are like some 'native American' tribes, live on a planet where they invented a huge power source. The evil and magical Stampede launched and attack against them to get it. After a long battle, Shaman's tribe had to leave the planet but as Stampede gained the power he wanted, It wiped out all of Stampede's own race's, the Broncosaurs, turning them into bones, and wiped out all the tribe (which were never named) apart from the one ship, which was carrying the Shaman and the child Bravestarr. After traveling through space for some time, they came across New Texas where Stampede was. Shaman knew Stampede's evil must be kept in line and defeated in the end, and that Bravestarr was the Hero to do it, As he went to crash his ship on the planet, covering it in stone to hopefully protect it (which became Starr Mountain), he sent Bravestarr off in a ship to be found by the Galatic marshals, where they trained him. He was given powers but until he found the Shaman again, he was unable to control or fully use them..
Now, on New Texas, alot of the badlands are covered with Broncosaurs bones, which Stampede is able to bring to life a couple of times (mostly only in the film, but with minor times in the series).. even the planet itself appears to look just like the tribes planet.. I don't quite see how it works but.. I think they tribe is FROM New Texas (which was originally meant to be called New Cheyenne, but the producers felt New Texas would be a more known name.. the name of New Cheyenne does later appear in the show).
In fact, alot of the damage on New Texas's badlands where Stampede's base is, looks like the damage created when Stampede gained all the power (which he appeared to have alot of power before but gained more).
However, this doesn't quite make sense with the native prairie people, how Shaman travelled from his home planet TO new Texas (though Bravestarr was in some form of suspended animation) and how the Shaman didn't seam to know the planet or that Stampede was there until he 'sensed the evil'..
In the episode 'Legend of a Pretty Lady', Judge J.B goes back in time about 1 million years, which she worked out by the fact of Living Brontosaurs, and the Shaman believes that date as well and sends him back in time. Though it's probebly longer as the Judge says there haven't been Living brontosaurs on New Texas for that long. However, this might in fact work to explain the shaman's traveling.. Were they traveling for over a million years? Bravestarr was in suspended animation and the Shaman's age is very unknown due to his 'magic powers' (He was shown as having black hair with the odd bits of grey in Bravestarr's childhood and the same at the start of the movie, which turned Grey fully after crashing onto New Texas. The water and some more plants also hint make it look even more like the planet Shaman and Bravestarr came from (though it's worth pointing out, in a couple of episodes it was shown the two had travelled to other planets at some point. (interesting side note is that the episode Legend of a Pretty Lady also is a nice call back to the Movie. In it, When J.B. meets the paerie people and is the first human nice to them, they give her her Hammer, and a outfit she then wears which is more designed for the Desert, making a comment about the Hammer being used in a legend of their people of a great lady of Justice. As she goes back in time to help the more primitive while wearing her outfit and using her hammer, it appear this person WAS her all along. Though you could argue that she didn't really do enough to make for the legend, but that's how Legends work and a million years is a very long time, also they couldn't really have the same hammer cause she didn't leave it behind.. but oh well)
So I think there is alot of pros and cons for the idea.. I think there are MORE Pros then cons though and in the end of the day, It was a kids cartoon designed to be entertaining so the kids would buy the toys.. well, not quite.. it was MOSTLY that.. and of course, can't always use what you see as 100% proof.. the movie has the odd animation mistake as most things do as well as other mistakes like when Hex's gang is being hired, they point out each of the special skills of the people, but many of these don't appear at all later on (probebly too powerful), the intro reuses alot of footage created for the movie (and some of the episodes too), a couple of bits are used twice, including the bit of Fuzz being caught by Tex.. problem is, Fuzz has his star.. he doesn't gain that till right at the END of the movie so when it appears it's a huge mistake,
End of the day, doesn't really matter but I think people should think more about Bravestarr's planet of origin really being New Texas, if they think about it at all.
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for.. some odd reason, the feature film which was, instead of a prequel, the set up of the whole series, did not reach cinemas until AFTER the series had finished it's original 65 episode run. Which does create alot of unanswered questions in the show, some of which are okay as just missing backstory (like how Bravestarr got his abilities, arrived on the planet, met Thirty-thirty, relationships of natives etc.. but some are kinda major.. Like Tex Hex, the main villain, was kinda created by the main villain Stampede, who doesn't appear much in the series at all. In fact, he is only in a hand full of episodes and commented on in a few more. In the original feature film, It is Stampede who takes the dying Tex and transforms him and gives up alot of power. Of course, the Film does also create it's own problem.. At the end, Stampede and Tex appear defeated and gone.. the first episode of the series which flashes back to PART of the film and kinda directly follows on, Tex is said to be around and stuff.. Kinda like the film was meant to have a bit about how they were only defeated 'For now' but that's not the impression given..
anyway, I wanna talk about something which I think is a HUGE mistake in the intro theme and most peoples understanding. In the Film, it is shown that Bravestarr and Shaman's people, who are like some 'native American' tribes, live on a planet where they invented a huge power source. The evil and magical Stampede launched and attack against them to get it. After a long battle, Shaman's tribe had to leave the planet but as Stampede gained the power he wanted, It wiped out all of Stampede's own race's, the Broncosaurs, turning them into bones, and wiped out all the tribe (which were never named) apart from the one ship, which was carrying the Shaman and the child Bravestarr. After traveling through space for some time, they came across New Texas where Stampede was. Shaman knew Stampede's evil must be kept in line and defeated in the end, and that Bravestarr was the Hero to do it, As he went to crash his ship on the planet, covering it in stone to hopefully protect it (which became Starr Mountain), he sent Bravestarr off in a ship to be found by the Galatic marshals, where they trained him. He was given powers but until he found the Shaman again, he was unable to control or fully use them..
Now, on New Texas, alot of the badlands are covered with Broncosaurs bones, which Stampede is able to bring to life a couple of times (mostly only in the film, but with minor times in the series).. even the planet itself appears to look just like the tribes planet.. I don't quite see how it works but.. I think they tribe is FROM New Texas (which was originally meant to be called New Cheyenne, but the producers felt New Texas would be a more known name.. the name of New Cheyenne does later appear in the show).
In fact, alot of the damage on New Texas's badlands where Stampede's base is, looks like the damage created when Stampede gained all the power (which he appeared to have alot of power before but gained more).
However, this doesn't quite make sense with the native prairie people, how Shaman travelled from his home planet TO new Texas (though Bravestarr was in some form of suspended animation) and how the Shaman didn't seam to know the planet or that Stampede was there until he 'sensed the evil'..
In the episode 'Legend of a Pretty Lady', Judge J.B goes back in time about 1 million years, which she worked out by the fact of Living Brontosaurs, and the Shaman believes that date as well and sends him back in time. Though it's probebly longer as the Judge says there haven't been Living brontosaurs on New Texas for that long. However, this might in fact work to explain the shaman's traveling.. Were they traveling for over a million years? Bravestarr was in suspended animation and the Shaman's age is very unknown due to his 'magic powers' (He was shown as having black hair with the odd bits of grey in Bravestarr's childhood and the same at the start of the movie, which turned Grey fully after crashing onto New Texas. The water and some more plants also hint make it look even more like the planet Shaman and Bravestarr came from (though it's worth pointing out, in a couple of episodes it was shown the two had travelled to other planets at some point. (interesting side note is that the episode Legend of a Pretty Lady also is a nice call back to the Movie. In it, When J.B. meets the paerie people and is the first human nice to them, they give her her Hammer, and a outfit she then wears which is more designed for the Desert, making a comment about the Hammer being used in a legend of their people of a great lady of Justice. As she goes back in time to help the more primitive while wearing her outfit and using her hammer, it appear this person WAS her all along. Though you could argue that she didn't really do enough to make for the legend, but that's how Legends work and a million years is a very long time, also they couldn't really have the same hammer cause she didn't leave it behind.. but oh well)
So I think there is alot of pros and cons for the idea.. I think there are MORE Pros then cons though and in the end of the day, It was a kids cartoon designed to be entertaining so the kids would buy the toys.. well, not quite.. it was MOSTLY that.. and of course, can't always use what you see as 100% proof.. the movie has the odd animation mistake as most things do as well as other mistakes like when Hex's gang is being hired, they point out each of the special skills of the people, but many of these don't appear at all later on (probebly too powerful), the intro reuses alot of footage created for the movie (and some of the episodes too), a couple of bits are used twice, including the bit of Fuzz being caught by Tex.. problem is, Fuzz has his star.. he doesn't gain that till right at the END of the movie so when it appears it's a huge mistake,
End of the day, doesn't really matter but I think people should think more about Bravestarr's planet of origin really being New Texas, if they think about it at all.
Posted using PostyBirb
