Posted by Tannhaeuser on 6/30/2008, 3:52 pm, in reply to "Re: D and D 25th anniversery!-Vid now posted"
Message modified by user Tannhaeuser 7/1/2008, 7:20 pm
Geez, guys, you make me feel absolutely mummified. I was of the generation that was raised on Jonny Quest and The Herculoids, and which could never quite get past considering Hong Kong Phooey and Josie and the Pussycats as “new cartoons.”
I was nineteen when Dungeons & Dragons came out, and I watched it for the first time in the dorm at UGA. I had been quivering with excitement for weeks; as an animation fan and a D&D geek I was thrilled at the combination of the two. I have to admit, the first couple of weeks were rather disappointing; I might well have given up on the show if my friend Bo (a jock and the last person one would have expected to become a D&D fan)* hadn't gotten hooked (Bobby was his favorite character), and kept me watching long enough for ME to get hooked. I THINK it was “Quest for the Skeleton Warrior” that finally got me.
It was all too short a time before frickin’ CBS started pre-empting D&D with boring football games. I don't think I ever saw some of the last season's episodes (“The Winds of Darkness”?) until Fox started re-showing the series.
So, here's to D&D, and to its fans, particularly to Zakiyah, creator of what is almost certainly the most comprehensive D&D site on the web, and of Helix, the premiere site for fan communication. Prosit!
* My roommate Butch was less sympathetic; he always referred to the show as “He-Man Meets the She-Hulk in the Dungeons of the Dragons” — invariably at that full length.
