Although technically not a comic book or animated series I did watch this show as a kid Saturday mornings and they did have some of the first CGI characters on television. Back in 1987, I was 7 and I remember watching a new series called 'Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future'. It was a series set in the future following an apocalyptic war between man and machines and the machines won. Now humans are hunted down and 'digitized' into a the computer ruler of the future: Overmind. Captain Power leads an elite human strike force fighting 'Lord Dredd' and the Bio-Dred Empire in the hopes of defeating the machines and taking back the Earth for mankind.
This show only lasted 1 season and I loved every minute of it. By to days standards this show does not hold up, even with it's 'cutting edge' 80's special effects it is very dated. Still I am excited to have bought this series on DVD back in December. It was a series filmed in Canada with several Canadian actors taking lead roles. Also J.Micheal Stracynski (creator of 'Babylon 5' and writer of the recent 'Thor' movie) was a main writer for this series. The special effects of the 'Bio-Dreads' were some of the first computer-generated-beside-live-actors I think ever done for television. They looked cool in 1987 because that had never been done like that, but now they look very bad. I actually caught most of the series on the 'Space Channel' up her in Canada back in 1999, and 13 years ago I thought it looked dated. Plus the target audience was toy buying kids so JMS & crew were limited on what they could do. Although the 'suicide bombing' death of a beloved character on the season 1 (and ultimately series) finale was both shocking and made me shed a tear. I bought this series for nostalgia purposes as this was one of my favourite series of my childhood. Also in some ways Captain Power could be seen as the grandparent of the much worse 'Power Rangers' franchise. Also some great Canadian actors were featured on the series, as it was filmed in Canada, such as Graham Greene and Peter MacNeill .
This show only lasted 1 season and I loved every minute of it. By to days standards this show does not hold up, even with it's 'cutting edge' 80's special effects it is very dated. Still I am excited to have bought this series on DVD back in December. It was a series filmed in Canada with several Canadian actors taking lead roles. Also J.Micheal Stracynski (creator of 'Babylon 5' and writer of the recent 'Thor' movie) was a main writer for this series. The special effects of the 'Bio-Dreads' were some of the first computer-generated-beside-live-actors I think ever done for television. They looked cool in 1987 because that had never been done like that, but now they look very bad. I actually caught most of the series on the 'Space Channel' up her in Canada back in 1999, and 13 years ago I thought it looked dated. Plus the target audience was toy buying kids so JMS & crew were limited on what they could do. Although the 'suicide bombing' death of a beloved character on the season 1 (and ultimately series) finale was both shocking and made me shed a tear. I bought this series for nostalgia purposes as this was one of my favourite series of my childhood. Also in some ways Captain Power could be seen as the grandparent of the much worse 'Power Rangers' franchise. Also some great Canadian actors were featured on the series, as it was filmed in Canada, such as Graham Greene and Peter MacNeill .
The Captain Power 'Extras' DVD Disc: Very awesome hour and a half documentary about the making of the series, with interviews with some of the cast and creators of the series. They gave some info on what they had planned for season 2 and it would have been cool to see. If you watched this series as a kid it is well worth picking up this DVD set.
See you in the future! POWER ON!
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