The Silver Surfer And The Coming Of Galactus, Part
1
Review and Media by Stu
Episode 05 - The Silver Surfer And The Coming Of Galactus, Part 1
Original Airdate 22nd October 1994
A strange being known only as The Watcher warns The Fantastic Four of an
oncoming threat, a giant named Galactus, who wishes to feed upon their world,
and his herald, The Silver Surfer. Can The Fantastic Four save earth from the
devourer of worlds?
Credits
Written By: Ron Friedman
Music By: Giorgio Moroder
Guest Voices: Tony Jay as Galactus, Alan Oppenhemier as The Watcher, Robin Sachs
as The Silver Surfer
Review: These episodes sucked. But, you
probably knew that before you read this. Out of all the Marvel cartoons, these
episodes truly are among the top 5 worst ever, which is incredibly
disappointing, because Galactus is a very cool villain, as shown by his season
two appearances.
Not only did the story suck (let�s stand on a building for 40 minutes, and hope
Galactus will kindly piss off back into space!) but the main villain�s design
was painfully inconsistent. Add that to the fact that all the FF designs sucked,
and you have an episode which is neither visually interesting, nor telling a
compelling story.
The Silver Surfer was also especially bad, with a design that baffled me. It was
so over detailed and crude. It was cringe worthy watching him fight The Thing.
He moved soooo slowly. The dude is silver, with white eyes. That�s it. Yet
somehow, they even messed that up.
This was an absolutely shocking translation of a good villain, and a piss poor
attempt at the guest star.
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