Sinister: Ulysses, Cities of Gold, SPARTICUS!

[Mick McMick]

Mark Iles wrote:
> No, I always thought that Ulysses was quite different to Thundercats.
> Thundercats were definitely in the He-Man style, although very good. While
> Ulysses seemed to pay a lot more attention to detail with the
> aforementioned backgrounds and music - very atmospheric. Shame about Nono,
> that stupid jokey robot. For smart plotting you can't beat The Mysterious
> Cities of Gold (one of my all-time fave cartoons).

	I always associated the Lost Cities of Gold with another show that was
on around the same time in the US, Sparticus. Sparticus was probably my
favorite from the time period. It was just plain STRANGE! Weirder than
anything anyone's mentioned so far. The plot of the show was that there
was this entire world beneath the crust of the earth. One of the
countries inside, Arcadia, was adjacent to the core of the Earth itself,
which was in fact a small sun. The inner sun was dying, so one of the
Arcadians ventured out to try to find a way to cure it, with some
friends. They ended up bringing along some kids from the crust, too. It
was amazing and truly bizarre at times.
	Stranger yet, as a child I used to watch a program on USA called Night
Flight. They showed lots of Avant Garde stuff. The strangest thing I
ever saw on it was this odd French animation entitled Fantastic Planet.
I still haven't seen it a second time. It's very similar-looking to
Light Years, which I saw back then as well. Another interesting thing I
saw on it was my first ever Anime, and probably the best animated movie
ever done (it puts everything Disney has done to shame), Nausicaa. At
the time I saw it, it was in the form of the American translation, which
was changed a lot, and called Warrior of the Wind or Princess of the
Wind or something like that. I was lucky enough to see a fan-translated
version a while back. Amazing. The same director also did a wonderful
piece called Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and the better known (and
actually translated into English) Totoro. Well...hm, I could go on for
hours about cartoons. One of my hobbies, in addition to music =)

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