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If you are aware of many of the tales of Ancient Greek myth you will be pleased to see the variety that have been chosen. Hooray this show has a solid openner and a satisfying closing episode! …No loose ends here… Take Ulysses 31 in any order you like, kind of like the old Choose Your Own Adventure book series. So begins the ‘Odyssey!’ Homer would be so proud.Ī strength of this show is the fact that you can casually watch any episode in any order, except episodes one and 26 as these are the bookends for the series. This leaves Ulysses to work with his son Telemachus, Yumi, Nono and the Odyssey’s onboard computer, Shirka. That and all his companions, plus Numinor, fall into a sleep state and will awaken once he gets beyond the Kingdom of Hades. This act angers the gods and now Ulysses has to find his own way back to Earth, via the Kingdom of Hades. Far fetched, but amazing and those priests are scary too! Ulysses soon find the children and destroys the Cyclops and in typical fashion, Ulysses has to deal with that time old issue, Karma.
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Telemachus awakes to meet two Zatrians, Yumi and her older brother Numinor, to learn that they are to be sacrificed to the Cyclops to keep the priests vision intact. And like an awesome dad, Ulysses sets course to save his son. Soon Ulysses and his companions set off when all of a sudden Telemachus becomes kidnapped. Reminds me of Oon from Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. You have to have that lovable, but kind of annoying robot character. But first, we need to celebrate the birthday of his son Telemachus as the young boy is given a robot companion, Nono. He is readying his crew to return to Earth aboard the spaceship (that looks like a giant eye?), the Odyssey (well named). Yet alas, this is Ulysses my friends, the guy just has really awesome hair and that beard. Hey look, it’s Space Jesus! I have heard that before in regards to our hero who does have an uncanny resemblance to the Christian icon. But!… there is yet another example, a collaboration between the French company DiC and an old favorite here, TMS (Tokyo Movie Shinsa), that actually adapts the old myths into a 31st century universe instead of borrowing elements like the other two mentioned before. Japan has animated many examples as well with Saint Seiya and Arion coming to mind. Film and animation have had many adaptations from Jason and the Argonauts to Clash of the Titans. We can take these myths on the exoteric level as historic documentation to the richness of Hellenic culture and esoterically as metaphors for you, the world we live in and greater spiritual envelope of our whole universe. The piece repeats afterwards, so they are repeated too.Ancient Greek mythology is awesome! Don’t you agree? Such a wonderful storehouse of great storytelling and wisdom from a bygone era. Oh, i found the passages in question in the cartoon too: The part in question isn't again in the original recordings, but in the re-arranged soundtrack the track exists and you can listen to it here:ġ) at 0.32'' resembling 5.03'' of the following video (not so significant if you ask me although it is also in the same tonality!)Ģ) at 1.22'' and on, almost identical and same tonality again to 10.37'' and on of following video!īut this 2nd passage isn't in the original "Battle in the Snow" track in the OST of ESB as that quote suggests, or is it?īy the way, i was always wondering, why that passage in ESB sounded so familiar, and now I found out!!Īlso, i wonder if they're paying royalties to Lucas now, or if it's something that slipped their mind! One with the original recordings found, and one with the soundtrack revisited (meaning rearranging the music with modern synths). Now, I have a 2001 ost release, that doesn't have this part. Subsequent soundtrack releases would later omit that theme as royalties would have to go to their respective owners of that music. Under the hearing, it was deemed that existing prints of the show could use this piece of music after damages were paid. The cue "Battle Theme"/"Ulysse Terrasse le Cyclope" was the case as the piece blatantly used John Williams cue from George Lucas' Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back (heard in the movie and on the Williams soundtrack album as "The Battle In The Snow"). During the mid 80's, there was a court ruling against the international producers of Ulysses 31 (Haim Saban) due to copyright infringement via Lucasfilm Ltd.