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[kingandy]

How evil are you?

Just had to tear myself away from Fox Kids in order to check email and take stupid quizzes before I go to bed. This was not as easy as it sounds - apparently they have taken to showing THE BEST SHOWS IN THE WORLD after 10pm. Mask, Ulysses 31, Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors. SO COOL.

Also I find myself interested in trying to catch the newest incarnation of the Power Rangers - Ninja Storm. Not only are they colour-coded ninjas, being trained by a diminutive hampster, but the fight scenes look to be of reasonably high quality (bullet time!) and the dialogue looks to be hamfisted sub-Buffy nonsense. (Power Ranger: "Uh - hello? One of you, lots of us." Evil: "Oh, please!")Should be good for a giggle, if nothing else.

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[kingandy]

You probably wouldn't be impressed, the dialogue is trite (upon hearing that the Cyclops kidnaps children and devours their energy, Telemachus brilliantly comes to the conclusion "I don't like it!") and the animation is weak. Except when there are energy blasts involved. Then they pull out all the stops with traditional Eastern flair. I always liked that about anime.

Fun fact: I spotted from the credits that the English translation of the program (it was apparently a French programme, animated by a Japanese or possibly Korean animation house) was courtesy of Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, who later brought us the Power Rangers.

As I recall, JMS wrote about 14 episodes of Jayce (and the series bible for The Real Ghostbusters, as well as a substantial run on Murder, She Wrote). It had an opening episode, but I think you're right that it never wound its way to a conclusion. It wasn't so much a story arc as an ongoing quest; they would occasionally appear to get a step closer to finding Jayce's father but it would inevitably turn out to be a false lead, or a clone, or something. I'm not sure how much continuity there was between episodes, either - I don't recall them using elements from or referring to past episodes very much. As toy tie-ins go, Jayce was something of a triumph - the original toy line ("Wheeled Warriors" - never really released over here) was just the vehicles, all the characters and plot were developed purely for the series.

Ah, the IMDB doesn't list any individual episodes for his work on Jayce, so maybe he did write it all...