Your Time Has Just Begun

Due to the glories of the internet, I have now been able to watch Episodes Two, Three and Four of The Mysterious Cities of Gold Season Two on YouTube! (Episodes Three and Four are mislabelled, but that's what they are.) The first episode, alas, has been blocked by the copyright holders. Naturally I've *ahem*ed the videos as insurance against further deletions. I understand that networks don't want people posting their things hither and yon all over YouTube, but since I can't watch it on their website because of IP blocking, I don't have much alternative.

Despite missing the first episode and not speaking French, I am not having any trouble following the basic plot, although I look forward to picking up the finer details. As far as I can tell without being able to understand more than one word in twenty, it has all the stuff I love. The kids having adventures! Ancient technology! Mendoza sword-fighting! Only now they have better animation and a baby panda. My only wish is for more female characters.

(Well, Mendoza hasn't fought any dangerous animals yet, but it's early days. Given the cliffhanger of Episode Four, I have high hopes that he may do so soon.)

( Spoilers below the cut. )

YOU GUYS, MY SHOW IS BACK AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF HIATUS. After more than an hour of it, I can still hardly believe it.

ETA: I think I found a source for Episode One and subtitles! Bless you, 4chan! (Uh, not a sentence I use often. But credit where it's due.)

ETA2: And now I see Episode Five is available too. OMG YOU GUYS. I am going to be up all night. And I am just fine with that.

EEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

In less than twenty-four hours, I have watched seven new episodes of The Mysterious Cities of Gold. And I watched two of them twice since I found subbed versions after watching the raws. It may be a while before I get to see more, since I'm now apparently caught up with the Swiss TV broadcast and they're ahead of everyone else, but it was so worth it. IT IS MAGICAL AND GLORIOUS AND I WANT TO MAKE ANOTHER VID RIGHT NOW. More than one, actually.

Mendoza has yet to fight any dangerous animals, but he did ( spoiler )

. This is a more than adequate substitute, really. Thank you, show, for pandering specifically to me.

I think I'm going to keep watching the raws, as I'm not having as much trouble following it as I feared I would. My non-existent French is improving already.

I am LOLing at Mendoza introducing himself as 'Captain Mendoza.' Captain of what, exactly? He doesn't own a ship! Being the boss of Sancho and Pedro doesn't really count as being captain. Especially funny since one of the monks from Barcelona addresses him by that title, so apparently he's been going around telling people he's captain of ... something .... for more than a decade.