Traumatized by the robot villain

The "flying robot" you mention was there from the beginning and was named Sauron. The larger robot, Blastarr, was "birthed" later. He was the only one of his kind to make it out of the "birthing" chamber because Team Power messed with Dread's plans to create an army of Blastarrs.

And there never was a second season, by the way. It ended after just one season, so you must be having conflicting memories or saw episodes quite out of order as a kid.

But to answer the question at hand: I was never able to see this show as a youngster, so I was not at an impressionable stage where being digitized by Blastarr would have freaked me out. I only caught a handful of re-runs in the early '90s as a teen, forgot about it for a little while, but remembered it later and looked it up on the 'Net to see whatever happened to the show. Much later, I got my hands on the DVD set.

Now, had I been seven or eight when I first watched, I do think I might have been greatly disturbed by it, since it was quite clear that being digitized was not a pleasant experience at all, whether one was hit by Sauron's digitizing beam from his eyes, or by Blastarr's chest beam.



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