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[rhodanum]

Inspired by a lovely post by shirebound, here is the English-language main theme for Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (also known as Les Mondes Engloutis, in the original French), a French animated series (I seem to have a deep and abiding love for these) that aired between 1985 and 1987. We ended up watching it in the 90s and 2000s, due to much cheaper licensing costs.

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From what I recall, it's a colorful, zany and quite unique production, while still remaining grounded in very human values and with some highly emotionally-charged moments. Something that's very specific to French animation and bandes-dessinees.

This is the opening for the show, with part of the theme in use:

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What are some of the main musical themes for the shows from your childhoods? Feel free to share them with me in the comments.

Comments

[stardust_rifle]

I reiterate. Does. Disney. Want. People. To. Pirate. Their. Shit.

It's going to be GOT all over again. I can hope that this whole thing will show people that individualized streaming services are just going to end up as a net loss for everyone, but it's fucking Disney, they're gonna get enough people to pay for everything and other companies will follow suit.

[rhodanum]

The hilarious irony is that GoT was actually decent, when it comes to distribution (HBO is available in a metric ton of countries, the only thing that slowed down the process was that the episodes had to be subtitled into the local language, so they couldn't be broadcast at the exact same time as the US, but relatively close enough). Most of the people who pirated GoT were those who didn't want to wait out for that small delay or who didn't have HBO in their cable-package.

And yup, Disney will have just enough good exclusive content that a ton of people are going to jump on it and this will make other large-scale content-producers end up with dollar-signs for eyes.