Happy 40th Anniversary BLACKSTAR!!!! 1981-2021
[CENTER][QUOTE=Nate Grey;4013562]"I...am John Blackstar!"
[video=youtube;KD4V2RHw6YA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD4V2RHw6YA[/video][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Güicho;4013884]Loved this show, Blackstar & Warlock looked epic, Warlock still stands as one of the greatest looking dragon designs, liked the premise, the broken sword, split with the Overlord, allies Enchantress Mara & shape-shifting Klone, everything,
...[B]except the freakin Trobits made it near unwatchable. [/B][/QUOTE]
DISagree. They were great supporting characters. Just like Orko.
[QUOTE=Nate Grey;4014729]One thing about Blackstar, that I and perhaps many others have always heard for years, I didn't want to mention until I had something close to a source. Well Lou Scheimer's words will have to do. Taken from [URL="https://books.google.com/books?id=UROrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq="John+Blackstar"+"african+american"&source=bl&ots=-gsW_sNYnU&sig=oFBbdK-EBpcTu7PTOmDEmdzcGd0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidwPCk28reAhXwlOAKHbwWCYcQ6AEwBHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q="John%20Blackstar"%20"african%20american"&f=false"]Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation:[/URL]
"In our original model sheets, Blackstar was an African-American, but by the time we shopped it to the network with presentation art, we had decided to make him Caucasian-but-vaguely-Native-American instead. It wasn't motivated by racial prejudice; we had led the way in utilizing ethnic diversity in the industry since the 1960s. He wasn't the only one who went through skin color changes; the Trobbits went from blue to green to purple to bright orange before I picked the dark pink color that they were on the show."
So, after all these years...[I][B]it is true[/I][/B], the only thing that was false was the belief the network made him change Blackstar from black to kinda-sorta-Native American.[/QUOTE]
IMO it is to be established that John Blackstar and Marlena Glenn aka [SIZE=3][COLOR="#008000"]Queen Marlena[/COLOR][/SIZE] are astronauts from the same Earth.[/CENTER]