Keeping with the whole "it's a mad mad mad mad Silver Surfer week", I went to the library and what did I find but the complete Fantastic Four Animated Seires, the one from the early 90s. I could hardly hold in my jubilation as I ran to the front desk to check it out.
Okay, it wasn't quite that dramatic, but it was pretty exciting to find it. I got it home and after a little fiddling around with my DVD player, watched a few episodes.
It's pretty nice to see the Fantastic Four's long history and sagas explained in 22 minute clippets. I watched episode after episode, and you know what? It wasn't terrible. Sure, there were a lot of weird, boring, oddball moments, and some cheap endings, and a lot of weird, boring comedy, and the music was pretty overbearing, but I couldn't stop watching it. And it wasn't like it was a train wreck or anything, where you want to look away, but can't. I was having a genuinely good time watching all of these episodes.
The origin episode was pretty rushed. I couldn't tell if Ben liked his powers, or not. But still, it wasn't without it's charm. Each episode goes like this; The Fantastic Four are doing something weird (playing a game, doing yoga, getting sued, going to a telethon), when suddenly, an attack comes! They investigate, and either Sue gets kidnapped, they're faced with some extraordinary goal, or they find out that they were tricked. They then save Sue/the world/New York, and get home just in time to get an eviction notice from their landlady.
Bottom line: I love this series, and it loves me. Accept it.
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