Escaflowne

Rini210 · Post by **Rini210** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 9:25 pm

I heard that it's on fox/coming on fox. I don't really know anything about it. Has it premiered yet, or not? I'd really appreciate knowing.

I don't feel like downloaded the episodes and I definately have the patience to sit through a dubbed anime.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 9:26 pm

It's been on Fox already, last time I checked.

It was a bad fiasco, apparently.

priuscomet · Post by **priuscomet** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 9:33 pm

yeah its been on fox...but didn't they stop showing it.

and i miss those afternoon cartoons they used to show... >_<x why dont' they show those anymore?!?! WHY?!?!??!

Anime Jedi · Post by **Anime Jedi** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:08 am

priuscomet wrote:and i miss those afternoon cartoons they used to show... >_<x why dont' they show those anymore?!?! WHY?!?!??!

Yup, I miss those old days too. Now it`s stuff like People`s Court and Jerry Springer. No thanks!

Anyways, I haven`t heard of Escaflowne coming back. And if it does, who knows what will happen. They`ll get bombareded with question like: why bring it back, if you didn`t even finish the series the first time around. And besides, are they going to show the moderately cut dubbed version (I saw it on YTV

) or the horribly cut FOX version

.

If they have the better version, it should be good. I don`t know if I could wait for every saturday, just to watch one episode, but who knows, I might learn patience.

So, anyways, Vision of Escaflowne is a really great anime. Definitely, one of my top favourite! If it is on, and you haven`t seen it, you`re in for a treat.

UncleMilo · Post by **UncleMilo** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:56 am

Yeah... Escaflowne on TV was mangled and mauled in all ways I can think of. While I have a few issues with Escaflowne, I think it's a good series and that what was done to it on US TV was a crime.

Check it out on DVD or VHS where you can see it as it should be seen.

-Uncle Milo

aaronlye · Post by **aaronlye** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 9:45 am

I heard they cut it up severely - tried to make it more action-based and male-oriented by taking out the romance bits... also heard they completely scrapped the whole first episode?

Petro · Post by **Petro** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 10:42 am

UncleMilo wrote:Yeah... Escaflowne on TV was mangled and mauled in all ways I can think of. While I have a few issues with Escaflowne, I think it's a good series and that what was done to it on US TV was a crime.

Check it out on DVD or VHS where you can see it as it should be seen.

-Uncle Milo

Exactly. They didn't even SHOW the first episode of it on FOX.

They slaughtered it even more than they did CCS when they released "Card Captors" on WB, if that gives you a reference point - which is also why they never finished airing it - slaughtering anime + showing it on TV = bad ratings (as opposed to just editing it a little like they usually do on CN - that's how you get new fans

)