Re: Nostalga
I'm ridiculously nostalgic about the shows they showed in
Iceland when I was a kid, which is almost invariably stuff nobody else has ever heard of.
What I know some people
have heard of is Animals of Farthing Wood, whose influence still taints my preferences in fiction. My other favorite show was some Australian cartoon about horses that Googling now tells me was called
The Silver Brumby! There were also a couple of emus in it, I think, but at the time I was like HORSES :D. There were a bunch of other cartoons I have never ever heard anybody on the internet mention, probably largely thanks to their not being from the US, like
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils which was apparently an anime holy crap that makes no sense my brain is broken now.
Then there was
The New Adventures of Ocean Girl! It's this Australian fantasy thing set in outer space with all these awesome creatures fighting this nightmare fuel-ish guy who was after some crystals protected by a blue whale. It was so, so epic and I was too young to understand properly what was going on or I hadn't seen all the episodes or something because I never properly got it, but it was great. Also I could have sworn there were something like a hundred episodes at the very least but apparently there were only twenty-six. Huh.
I also watched a bunch of Austalian/New Zealand live-action kids'/teens' shows that I think the state TV must have bought in some cheap package because they kept on showing them. One of them was The Tribe, which has actually had a fandomsecret about it and I was all OMG HAHA YES I WATCHED THAT !!!! It was about when this disease had killed off all adults in the world and everyone was basically a bunch of teenagers living in these tribes trying to survive in the general chaos the world had become. Another was Thunderstone, which was this post-apocalyptic sci-fi thing about this guy called Noah inventing time travel and using it to try to restore animal life on earth after a comet had basically wiped out everything. And there was this guy called Tao mining a substance called "thunderstone" who seemed to be the main villain, and the main moment I remember from the show was in something like the final episode of the first season where it was revealed that
TAO WAS A HOLOGRAM. Epic.
I ALSO REMEMBER that every single birthday party when I was little involved watching this movie called "Prinsessan og durtarnir", which I'm pretty sure
must have been
this thing. I have absolutely no idea what happened in that movie; all I remember is the title and a scene of the princess running through some woods and another scene where the goblins were coming into the castle and I think some old woman was explaining something and it kept cutting to the goblins' feet. Or something. Usually it was just on in the background while we played silly games or something, okay.
Oh, and when we borrowed a VHS player (we didn't actually own one) we went and rented
videos and I'd usually rent
The Little Flying Bears. They were pretty much my heroes. I remember this scene where the bad guy (a weasel according to the Wikipedia page, though for some reason I thought he was a wolf) had gotten his hands on a barrel of some toxic chemical and then called together a meeting with all the little flying bears telling them this schedule of when they were supposed to bring him food and so on... OR ELSE [he demonstratively drips toxic chemical on plant so that it instantly withers, dun dun duuun]
I watched a lot of environmentalist stuff as a kid, but the only environmentalist cartoon the Internet seems to know about is Captain Planet and the Planeteers, which I'm quite sure they never showed over here. I wish I had any idea what the rest of the stuff was.
