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Wally Burr (no relation to Raymond) was one of the greatest voice directors in the history of animation.
He started at Hanna-Barbera in the early-mid 70s with the first season of Super-Friends, a show he would voice-direct off and on until the third-to-last season. In between, he also voice-directed above-average Hanna-Barbera series like Dynomutt, Captain Caveman, and Drak Pack.
In the early 80s, he started freelancing. The 1981 syndicated Spider-Man series was his first work outside of Hanna-Barbera. After 1982, he wouldn't work for Hanna-Barbera again because he had a falling-out with Joe Barbera. I don't know the specifics, but knowing Burr's perfectionism, I think it's likely that he tested the more expedient Barbera's patience one too many time.
The mid-80s was the Golden Age of Wally Burr voice-directed series: Transformers, G.I. Joe, Jem, Visionaries, among others. But once again his perfectionism did little to endear him to a lot of producers and voice actors. Maurice LaMarche (later The Brain) accused him of trying to get voice actors to parrot him. The Voice Actors Guild went so far as to limit the schedules for recording sessions so there wouldn't be overruns of the kind that Burr was responsible for.
I would argue that it was all worth it, and that the series Burr oversaw the voices for had some of the best voice acting of all time.
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My favorite Burr was Aaron.
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While waiting for our bus, we watched I, Frankenstein starring Aaron Eckhart.
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Meister Eckhart was an important medieval mystic and theologian, whose work was perhaps the highest development of negative theology during the Middle Ages.
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The Mystic River is just north of Boston. Local lore states that Boston is where the Mystic and Charles Rivers converge to form the Atlantic Ocean.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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The best place for white water rafting in the Philippines is undoubtedly near Cagayan de Oro in the south.
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In one of my attempts to speak Spanish, I referred to a gold-colored car as "oro". The people looked puzzled and then one man, realizing what I meant said "dorado".
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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I never watched any episodes featuring El Dorado. I did watch several featuring Samurai, Black Vulcan and Apache Chief.
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El Dorado had a sizable role in my favorite Super Friends episode, "Darkseid's Golden Trap".
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Potted Potter made an interesting comment on the use Of the golden snitch in Quidditch. The snitch gives so many points that it does make the rest of the game relatively pointless.
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El Dorado had a sizable role in my favorite Super Friends episode, "Darkseid's Golden Trap". As I've said before, this is one of my favorite episodes as well. I always want to quote the "One bleen." line, but always figure no one will get what I'm talking about.
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El Dorado had a sizable role in my favorite Super Friends episode, "Darkseid's Golden Trap". As I've said before, this is one of my favorite episodes as well. I always want to quote the "One bleen." line, but always figure no one will get what I'm talking about. LOL Thank God for places like Legion World, where we can share all this stuff, right? Another one I really like is "The Royal Ruse", with the alien princess who's not quite what she seems. That's one of the few Super Friends episodes where the plot twist caught me completely off-guard.
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That's a sign of some pretty pod writing. Most Saturday morning cartoons are just too predictable.
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Yeah, unfortunately, the grown-ups in charge of programming Saturday mornings have always seemed to think that kids want what's safe, predictable, and repetitive. Nothing could be further from the truth!
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Super Friends had a slow start with the Wendy and Marvin season. It really didn't come into its own till Hanna-Barbera produced a second season four years later. Zan and Jayna may not have been the greatest super-heroes ever, but after Wendy and Marvin, our expectations were already low. Seriously, the Wonder Twins, along with better stories, more convincing villains, and "guest" heroes made the second season the one that set the tone for the rest of the series. It may not have been the best season, but without it, the other seasons would never have happened.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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Zan and Jayna were definitely an improvement. At least they actually had powers!
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According to Wikipedia, Zan and Jayna were created by Super Friends writer Norman Maurer, who was Moe Howard's son-in-law, a good friend of Joe Kubert, and the father of Challenge of the Super Friends writer Jeffrey Scott (born Jeffrey Scott Maurer.)
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I do like the backgrounds that Bridwell established for Marvin and Wendy, with Marvin being the son of the real Diana Prince and Wendy being the daughter of one of Batman's mentors.
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That was very clever. He also proposed that Wendy was the Earth-One version of Wendi Harris Tyler, wife of Rex (Hourman I) and, as we learn later, mother of Rick (Hourman II).
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I wish DC would hurry up and reprint the rest of the Bridwell/Fradon Super Friends stories so I can finally read the debut and origin of the Pre-Crisis Beatriz in its entirety.
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Beatriz as in Fire? I read a post from Set which talked about how unique the powers of pre-crisis Fire were.
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Yeah, the same Beatriz. I think it was the Global Guardians thread in Gym'll's. Also I think EDE posted some pages of her Pre-Crisis origin. I'll go do a search and bump it up if I find it.
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I remember she worked for/ran a Brazilian subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises. And in the SF comic, as I recall, Bats acted quite out-of-character and revealed his ID to her pretty early on.
The childhood friend Exnihil never had.
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As I recall, they worked together without suspecting the other and revealed their identities to the other in the final issue.
The SF comic was the first title I read regularly. I think Legion was the second.
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