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Bolar wars not as good as other 2 series!!

posted 20 years ago by roadrunner2566
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I have the Bolar wars series and although I am only on tape 2 of the series, I am quite dissapointed with it. First and foremost, they have changed all of the main characters voices and it seems to have taken the heart out of the characters. Its very hard to watch it when you have to look past the voices. I personally don't think the story flows nearly as well as the two previous series and the characters just don't react as well as the first two series, the soundtrack is rather different(they've kept some of the original soundtrack)and the character dialog doesn't seem right. Even the voiceover that explains whats happening at the beginning, end and during each episode has been changed and it just doesn't seem right. Its as bad as taking a great movie and making a crappy sequel by replacing the original characters....IT JUST DOESN'T WORK!!. I got through the first 2 tapes and determined that it wasn't worth wasting any more time on this practically unrecognizable third series. If you can stomach watching this series(after what they've replaced in it), the more power to you.

[–] EvadRepus 20 years ago

I first saw series 1 & 2 when I was 9-10 years old. They were awesome! I couldn't wait to see them every day. When they stopped showing them in the middle of that summer I was crushed. I didn't see them again until they started airing them on another channel a few years later, and they were everything I remembered them to be. They got thru series 1 & 2, and then they started showing a third series! I was so excited that there were new eps, until I saw a couple of them. They were nothing like the first two series; new voices, new "personalities" (I know they were the same characters, but they just weren't the same), it just didn't feel right. What really pi$$ed me off the most was the wave-motion gun; it wasn't called that anymore! I think they might have refered to it as the "wave gun" a couple times, but the phrase "wave-motion" was never used. In the mid-90's I bought all of the first 2 series on VHS (and now I'm kicking myself, because I can't justify buying them on DVD after I spent all that money on VHS), but I never considered buying any of series 3. They SUCKED!

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[–] mysticals 19 years ago

I have to agree with your about the "Bolar Wars Series" - the so-called Third Season of Star Blazers. I remember as a kid watching Season 1 and 2 of Star Blazers over the Summer and after school, I was eager for new episodes after awhile but they never showed them during the 1980s just 1 and 2. When I read about this so called "Third Season", I saw them on VHS but couldn't justify the price then I was able to rent a few of the DVDs of the Bolar Wars Series. I didn't think it was up to par of the other seasons and thus didn't rent the rest of the DVDs from online since I felt I would be forcing myself to watch them.

[–] goofusgoofusgoofus 19 years ago

For me, Star Blazers was breakfast - usually accompanied by some totinos pizza when i was a kid. the fierst two series were perfect in everyway - blatantly cheesy yet very engrossing. bolar wars hasn't really held my attention though, a big part is due to the fact that the original voiceover people did none of it as far as i can tell... at least desslok's still drinkin it up!

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[–] doctorcrimedog 14 years ago

the "Bolar Wars Series" - the so-called Third Season of Star Blazers

What do you mean, "so-called?" It IS the third season of Star Blazers. The fact that you didn't like it doesn't mean it isn't really the third season.

The third season director did attempt to recruit the same voice cast as the first two seasons, but had no way of finding them because they were all non-union and never had their names in the series' credits. This was long before the Internet made such searches easier, though even today the voice cast listing is incomplete. But unfortunately, it's true that the show suffered from the recast. I've only ever been able to watch season three in its Japanese incarnation.

-There is no such word as "alot."

[–] mysticals 14 years ago

What do you mean, "so-called?" It IS the third season of Star Blazers. The fact that you didn't like it doesn't mean it isn't really the third season.

I do consider it the actual third season of Star Blazers but I'm just going back to when I watched it way back on WPIX from NY when I made that post. They only showed the first and second seasons over and over without the third one back in the 1980s. Once I got online and found there was a third season and rented a few of the DVDs, it just didn't feel the same as the first two.

[–] profh-1 14 years ago

It seems to me, that if any of the original voice-cast are still around, someone should recruit them to RE-DUB the 3rd season.

Another MAJOR problem trying to watch the 3rd season is, there were TWO MOVIES, both sequels to season 2, made in between seasons 2 & 3. In effect, Season 3 is not the 3rd story, it's the 5TH!!! There are a lot of references to the missing stories, and a lot of character development which is missing if all you have are the 3 seasons, which make it difficult to understand or enjoy Season 3.

But yeah, different voices... BLEH.

After all these years, and multiple versions of them, I still think of the voices used in the 1967 FANTASTIC FOUR and SPIDER-MAN cartoons as the "real" voices. All the later versions, regardless of quality (or lack thereof) just don't seem watchable to me with different actors doing the voices. With STAR BLAZERS it's even more bizarre, because the art is IDENTICAL, so somehow, it makes the different voices seem even more jarring.

[–] JesuslovesU 16 years ago

My brother had all three, and that was the first time I had heard of it, and I was eager to watch it........ And I agree with everyone else: I'm sorry but it stunk. I had to force myself to watch it (like star trek 5 to name another one).

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