I liked this as a kid and the toys were great but there comes a point where you have to say it's not as good as it was.
When you're a kid you tend to watch things uncritically. You're looking for action, excitement and really wild things. And this cartoon delivered. The problem in seeing it now with a more mature outlook shows all the faults.
Let's get it out of the way first, this show was made to sell toys and I'm perfectly fine with that. So let's take that off the table and talk about the show itself.
It had a good concept. Three men, later on increased to five, were experts in their given field. Jake Rockwell was the land expert, Max Ray was the water expert. And Ace McCloud was the air expert. All of them wore these "exo frames" into which items could be plugged into . This meant that they could customize their weapons for whatever was needed. There's a bad guy and his not-too-bright henchman who are always trying to take over the world but the Centurions stop his plans in the end. Rinse and repeat for just about every episode.
The characters are stock and rather one dimensional but this is more or less what you'd expect from a series like this. The dialogue feels rushed and often times falls into the trap of having catch phrases like Ace always calling a woman "beautiful" when talking to them.
But the worst part of it is that it suffered from "Night Boat syndrome". To those who are unaware, Night Boat was a spoof of Night Rider, a show where Michael Knight rode around in a souped up Trans Am. Lisa and Bart have a problem with this premise because, as they put it, "there's always a canal". It's a boat so they can't take it on land. But if there's a convenient canal / river / estuary etc the action will always take place near it allowing Night Boat to do his thing. I bring this up because no matter the episode, whether it made sense or not, Max Ray would ALWAYS run into something that allowed him to continue the investigation or chase the bad guys.
The animation was done on the cheap. The voice acting is fine and while the premise is great the execution wasn't.
When you're a kid you tend to watch things uncritically. You're looking for action, excitement and really wild things. And this cartoon delivered. The problem in seeing it now with a more mature outlook shows all the faults.
Let's get it out of the way first, this show was made to sell toys and I'm perfectly fine with that. So let's take that off the table and talk about the show itself.
It had a good concept. Three men, later on increased to five, were experts in their given field. Jake Rockwell was the land expert, Max Ray was the water expert. And Ace McCloud was the air expert. All of them wore these "exo frames" into which items could be plugged into . This meant that they could customize their weapons for whatever was needed. There's a bad guy and his not-too-bright henchman who are always trying to take over the world but the Centurions stop his plans in the end. Rinse and repeat for just about every episode.
The characters are stock and rather one dimensional but this is more or less what you'd expect from a series like this. The dialogue feels rushed and often times falls into the trap of having catch phrases like Ace always calling a woman "beautiful" when talking to them.
But the worst part of it is that it suffered from "Night Boat syndrome". To those who are unaware, Night Boat was a spoof of Night Rider, a show where Michael Knight rode around in a souped up Trans Am. Lisa and Bart have a problem with this premise because, as they put it, "there's always a canal". It's a boat so they can't take it on land. But if there's a convenient canal / river / estuary etc the action will always take place near it allowing Night Boat to do his thing. I bring this up because no matter the episode, whether it made sense or not, Max Ray would ALWAYS run into something that allowed him to continue the investigation or chase the bad guys.
The animation was done on the cheap. The voice acting is fine and while the premise is great the execution wasn't.