[Randallw]

On the topic of Starblazers. I saw the first 2 series when I was really young, maybe 10 or so, and liked it. Years later they brought it back and I started watching it, but for some reason they had the first epiosde and then stopped again. Last year I found the DVD sets and watched it again but as I had grown up I could see it didn't fit my childlike fascination with it. The animation was much worse than I had idealistically thought, and it had been dumbed down somewhat for the western market, a facet I hadn't realised the first time. Characters get killed but the dubbing merely says "oh he was hurt but he'll make a full recovery" and then you never see him again. The Gamellon soldiers get reduced to Robots just so no "real" people are being killed.