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eastofthemoon100 Things Blogging Challenge #2 The Legend of Calamity Jane
At some point I want to do a review on The Legend Of Korra. It's so great that we got an animated action series with a female lead. However, there was another animated female lead action series which I feel does not get the recognition it greatly deserves. That series is The Legend of Calamity Jane.
The series follows the adventures of the famous wild west legend Calamity Jane. Now, first off this is not a historically accurate show of her life, but it more or less follows the myth and tall tales of her. Never heard of it? Don't be surprise. This show only had one season of 13 episodes, but they were glorious.
Funny enough, the WB network went to a lot of trouble advertising the series (I remember seeing an ad for it in the old Disney Adventures magazine), but they ended up only airing three episodes before they cancelled. They never gave a clear reason why, but a lot of people think it was due to the violence, guns and other issues in the show.
However, since I lived in Canada where the censorship apparently doesn't as much about that in children's cartoons (seriously just look at Reboot season three), I got to watch the whole series on teletoon. (For those wondering teletoon is the Canadian equivalent to Cartoon Network.)
This cartoon was certainly gritty and it did explore a lot of adult themes (racism, sexism, violence, etc) but the stories never felt it went over the heads of the kids who watched it. There was no big overall plot in the show, but it didn't really need it.
Then we have the characters which what made the show really great especially Calamity Jane. I remember reading on a website that describe her personal rule of "Using her fists first, her whip second and her gun as her last option" which pretty much describes her personality.
Calamity Jane was a great female character. She can easily hold herself in a fight, but most of the time wouldn't just rush into a situation without knowing all the facts. She was a follower justice but didn't believe in killing a person for it. She felt like a super hero that you read about in comics. Seriously, I think this would be a hero Korra would be idolizing if they ever met.
The other interesting fact about this show was that she did not have your normal sidekick either. Most shows like this would often give a young perky side kick like Gabrielle in Xena, but instead we got Joe. An old man who complains how Jane always drag him everywhere. He provides a lot of comic relief in the show, but he's a good character himself and you can tell he and Jane have a close friendship.
The other characters in the show such as Wild Bill Hickock, Captain O'Rourke, and Chena Jane's blood/adoptive brother and the others were also entertaining to watch. Each character was vastly different from the others and half the fun was seeing all of the different relationships Jane had with them.
Overall, it was a really good show and it had gained a fanbase, however, it sadly never got a second season which is a real shame because they could have easily gained a whole franchise with this series.
No DVD set that I know of has been released. However, it has been uploaded to youtube and here is the first episode to help show how awesome this series was.
At some point I want to do a review on The Legend Of Korra. It's so great that we got an animated action series with a female lead. However, there was another animated female lead action series which I feel does not get the recognition it greatly deserves. That series is The Legend of Calamity Jane.
The series follows the adventures of the famous wild west legend Calamity Jane. Now, first off this is not a historically accurate show of her life, but it more or less follows the myth and tall tales of her. Never heard of it? Don't be surprise. This show only had one season of 13 episodes, but they were glorious.
Funny enough, the WB network went to a lot of trouble advertising the series (I remember seeing an ad for it in the old Disney Adventures magazine), but they ended up only airing three episodes before they cancelled. They never gave a clear reason why, but a lot of people think it was due to the violence, guns and other issues in the show.
However, since I lived in Canada where the censorship apparently doesn't as much about that in children's cartoons (seriously just look at Reboot season three), I got to watch the whole series on teletoon. (For those wondering teletoon is the Canadian equivalent to Cartoon Network.)
This cartoon was certainly gritty and it did explore a lot of adult themes (racism, sexism, violence, etc) but the stories never felt it went over the heads of the kids who watched it. There was no big overall plot in the show, but it didn't really need it.
Then we have the characters which what made the show really great especially Calamity Jane. I remember reading on a website that describe her personal rule of "Using her fists first, her whip second and her gun as her last option" which pretty much describes her personality.
Calamity Jane was a great female character. She can easily hold herself in a fight, but most of the time wouldn't just rush into a situation without knowing all the facts. She was a follower justice but didn't believe in killing a person for it. She felt like a super hero that you read about in comics. Seriously, I think this would be a hero Korra would be idolizing if they ever met.
The other interesting fact about this show was that she did not have your normal sidekick either. Most shows like this would often give a young perky side kick like Gabrielle in Xena, but instead we got Joe. An old man who complains how Jane always drag him everywhere. He provides a lot of comic relief in the show, but he's a good character himself and you can tell he and Jane have a close friendship.
The other characters in the show such as Wild Bill Hickock, Captain O'Rourke, and Chena Jane's blood/adoptive brother and the others were also entertaining to watch. Each character was vastly different from the others and half the fun was seeing all of the different relationships Jane had with them.
Overall, it was a really good show and it had gained a fanbase, however, it sadly never got a second season which is a real shame because they could have easily gained a whole franchise with this series.
No DVD set that I know of has been released. However, it has been uploaded to youtube and here is the first episode to help show how awesome this series was.
