Hi Tom.
Well as I have said before, philosophically I think there are quite severe
problems with arguements that our current scientific thinking is! the be all
and end all, or indeed is anything more than a highly structured set of
human opinions, which is why the hard sf writers like Clarke and Asimov are
people I have trouble with because of their insistance that human science
can solve any problem.
Heman however is indeed a good example of where characters and strangeness
of setting took pressidence over realism, and worked dam well for it, indeed
I'm amazed when I watch one of those original heman cartoons now, just how
well the plot/action ratio was balanced (several recent hollywood films
could I think learn from that).
Admittedly, the plots aren't complex or engaging, and tend to be simple
morality tales of one sort of another, but even in a 20 minute story have
surprising amounts of developement and detail about whatever bit of eternia
they are set in.
I disagree on consistancy of setting though as far as heman went, sinse I
must admit I never was!exactly sure about some of it's major principles, for
instance who skeletor was, what exactly the secrets of castle greyskull were
that skeletor was after etc. These were actually questions answered really
well in the 2002 revival series, skeletor for instance had been a rival lord
who fought against adamm's father when he was taking the thrown, and during
the battle had chucked a flask of acid at him which the king had deflected,
thus burning skeletors face down to the skull and causing him to change his
name from keldor to skeletor.
It's actually a dam shame that series didn't do better, sinse it was
heman, ---- but with ongoing plot!
Getting back on track though, as I said, consistancy is for me more of a key
in plot than actual realism.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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