Captain Future is boring???
That's pretty wrong IMHO and I have to contradict emphatically!!!
It rocked big time and still does!
For being a children-series it isn't that childish, although they indeed ripped violent scenes out for the german screen (and nonviolent ones too
).
But the whole story(!)telling with it's (pseudo-)scientific background differs much from other SF-series of those days, like "Masters of the universe" or "Bravestarr", where always the good guys meet the bad guys and beat them in a final lasergun fight. That's boring!
In contrast to those, the CF-series, which is based on the CF pulp-magazin-series by Edmond Hamilton (definitively not intended for children), has really nice stories.
For the TV-series, every story was divided into 4 episodes à25 min. So one story has 100 minutes. That's movie-format! (in germany they cut it to 75 min (3 episodes)
)
Some episodes don't even have a real happy-end, which in today's children-series is quite unimaginable, because it could confuse the little kid's mind...
OK, without Christian Bruhn's soundtrack, something really important would be missing, but it's there and as a whole the series works quite well.
Btw, they are showing it again these days in germany, starting off at 9.2.2003 (0:10 h - not really the best time for children
), but you can only watch it if you own german pay-tv.
Cheers,
Captain Monty
