{"id":777,"date":"2006-12-08T17:54:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2006-12-08T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:54:33","slug":"thundaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/08\/thundaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Thundaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking: &#8220;My god, <i>another<\/i> entry? What is this, five or six today? Doesn&#8217;t this guy have anything better to do?&#8221; Well, actually, I probably do, but I don&#8217;t feel like doing it. It&#8217;s a pretty dull afternoon here in the Comma Mines. Much more fun to post silly blog entries about silly things&#8230; like, say, one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid, a bizarre and violent mash-up of <i>Star Wars<\/i>, post-apocalyptic scenarios, and Alex Raymond-style background art called <i>Thundaar the Barbarian<\/i>. Author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisroberson.net\/\">Chris Roberson<\/a> (who credits this show as the [subconscious] inspiration for his excellent novel <i>Paragaea: A Planetary Romance<\/i>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisroberson.net\/2006\/12\/thundarr-barbarian.html\">reminded me<\/a> of <i>Thundaar<\/i> this afternoon by posting a video clip of the opening credits. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LhAobPugvsk\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LhAobPugvsk\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A shattered moon hanging in the sky over the ruins of our world? A hot babe with magical powers? A giant cat-man sidekick? A hero who wields a lightsaber rip-off? Tell me how a ten- or twelve-year-old boy could <i>not<\/i> be enthralled with this stuff. I understand the show is on DVD now. I might have to throw it into my ever-lengthening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/\">Netflix<\/a> queue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking: &#8220;My god, another entry? What is this, five or six today? Doesn&#8217;t this guy have anything better to do?&#8221; Well, actually, I probably do, but I don&#8217;t feel like doing it. It&#8217;s a pretty dull afternoon here in the Comma Mines. Much more fun to post silly blog entries about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}