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#23 Enchanted Adventures
Season 1, Episode 7c
Back to John Eng & Bill Burnett this time together, the team up you know you wanted. This one is interesting the biggest thing to notice is the animation, it kind of harkens back to like late 80's early 90's action cartoons with a budget. This one looks like they spent more money than a few others.
This cartoon takes place in a fantasy kingdom that has been infected with a plague (uhhh) a woman Brangwen comes in and says her father had found away to cure it, the king has to send his inexperienced teenage son, Galen with her to get the final ingredient from a dragon.
He has a magic transforming sword. Here comes a dragon and Galen has a hard time fighting it; the dragon talks to him and apparently speaks like Jeff Goldblum so that's something . (Good work Jess Harnell) the dragon is named Kaltor. Kaltor asks why does Galen want to kill him and Galen explains the plague and the dragon says there's no plague (pulls collar) and that the people have been poisoned. Also Brangwen has disappeared. (she must be evil then?)
Her father's name is Zim (oh my) and is actually an evil troll. Katlor says it must have been an distraction to steal the Ebro Crystal, which is stolen now. The evil trolls real name is Brok and yes he has the crystal to evil things with.
When a Galen vs Bork battle ! He's able to get the crystal back after using the boomerang trick from before.
This one feels way different to the other ones that we've looked it. It just kind of stands out in both design and storytelling. If anything, I can tell that this cartoon probably wasn't picked up, because it doesn't seem to fit what Nickelodeon was airing at the time at all. It seems like it would have been a fun story, it could have worked either as story driven or episodic with character development. Kind of shame that it didn't. I like how it also does its own little things like, the dragon isn't evil and can talk , and just little things like that to make it work.
The idea is pretty interesting, the story of the short is epic (the original meaning ) and packs a lot in the 7 minutes, give it a view
That's it for now, tune in next time when we venture to the parallel world again to see what different Nickelodeons picked from this series.
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