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Needed an origin episode

posted 13 years ago by trendelle
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Perhaps the most interesting story in the Blackstar universe is the one that the series never told -- i.e., the background.

1. Who is the Overlord, how did he come to rule this planet?

2. What exactly is the PowerStar? Where did it come from? How did the Overlord get it? And most of all, HOW was it originally broken? And how did Blackstar get the StarSword half?

3. How did Blackstar feel, discovering that he was trapped in this world?

A pilot episode that addressed these things would have been incredibly interesting. It's a shame that the show never filmed such a thing. It would have been an excellent bookend with "Shipwrecked," which would be the finale.

By the way, as an aside, in the DVD, Lou Scheimer repeatedly laments that the show didn't give Blackstar super-powers, and calls this a flaw of the series. I strongly disagree. I think it was the strength of the series, that he was human, but with a powerful sword (which doubled as a de facto magic wand).

[–] profh-1 13 years ago

I felt the same way about Filmation's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. The beginning is described in the opening credits, but that's it-- and you never get to the end of the story. Perhaps more fruerating there, as the series seemed designed to be a complete story, except without a beginning or end. With BLACKSTAR, you could figure he was just gonna go on having adventures, though, anytime you have one main recurring villain (as with many Japanese cartoons), you really need to have him defeated eventually.