The Pirates of Dark Water

[ProphetofGanja]

Anybody remember this show? I used to love watching it as a kid and I just saw it mentioned on some listicle somewhere online recently.



From http://piratesofdarkwater.net/information/show.html

It details the quest of a small band of allies from the alien world of Mer, who have set out to recover the lost and mystical Thirteen Treasures of Rule, in order to stop the Dark Water, a tarlike, semi-sentient substance poisoning Mer's seas that swallows anything it touches. The Treasures are the only things that have the power to push the Dark Water back into the core of Mer, where it's coming from.

This group of heroes consists of Ren, the prince of the once marvelous but now dying kingdom of Octopon; Niddler, a monkey-bird; Ioz, an ex-pirate who'll never turn down a chance to get his hands on gold or treasure; and Tula, an independent girl and an ecomancer from the island of Andorus.

However, Ren and his friends aren't the only ones after the Treasure; the feared pirate lord Bloth, whose hate of Ren's father, the late king Primus of Octopon, has spread to Ren as well, tries to obtain the Treasures for his own personal gain and to let him control the Dark Water.

I read up on what happened with the show and it was never finished properly due to rising costs, declining ratings and Hanna-Barbera being bought out by Turner Broadcasting.

With all the shows getting reboots nowadays, I hope this one gets a shot.