"Captain Power" is that rare TV series that can be faulted for being too ambitious. It wanted to appeal to adults, and also to kids, and also be an interactive TV show, and also to sell lots of toys. It didn't quite pull any of that off, although it did manage to run an entire season in syndication and actually had some really good writing.
Now, apparently, it's back. For those who need a plot recap: it's basically a more family-friendly and less teeth-grindingly retarded "Terminator: Salvation". Currently, there's little information about the reboot: all we could get out of the Facebook page was that more Captain Power was coming in 2012 and that there's likely a documentary they're working on called "Out of the Ashes: The Making of Captain Power".
Their comparison was "Battlestar Galactica". OK, we'll catch the first episode. A short doc about the series is on the next slide.
[ via the Bio-Dread Youth at Topless Robot ]
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I used to watch this. I remember the toys, at least. You could shoot the screen, or something? Those red boxes on the bad guys were the targets. Although the ‘documentary’ seems like an extended marketing pitch, I’d check this out if it came around again.
Oh man, I had Captain Power bedsheets, and I had completely forgotten about the existence of this until I read the post. The memories came flooding back like a tsunami (too soon?). Did they do an ice skating spectacular or is that my brain mashing things up again?
Wow, this just reminded me Bravestarr, the lazer cowboy. I’m pretty sure it was out at the same time.
I don’t care how well it’s reimagined, it will fail so long as it’s named “Captain Power”.
This whole revival thing is a joke. Let’s not forget that the show was created to sell toys. Someone didn’t come up with this idea for a great dystopian adventure, and then market it to Mattel. Mattel had some toys it wanted to sell, and created a show to do it with. That they were lucky enough to have some decent writers work on it was a fluke.