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Can you please do a video on Disney's Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja. It's a show beloved by fans. If you do a video on it, more people will watch it and it might get a new season.
After checking that they weren't already on the list, I have a couple suggestions. 1.So weird. 2. Dragon booster 3 Reboot I can't really recall of any of them were particularly good, but they were entertaining to my young self
If it were to have the rights stay with Nerd Corps Entertainment, given their work on Slugterra and The Deep, they likely have the expirence in house for an even better Storm Hawks. I mean when Storm Hawks was made, they were still a relatively company and production group, hell it was technically their first production as Dragon Booster (Their Prior work) was more involved in the other companies that worked on it. With the expirence they have gained a reboot of the property would definitely be more able to flesh out the world they made, but its up to DHX ultimately as they are the company that owns Nerd Corp. Hell Nerd Corp being bought by DHX seemed to have filled out their worry of catching an audience as Slugterra after 2014 began to explore its world more, with the series not being regreenlit causing them to make several movies. At this point it may just be a matter of devotion of time, once The Deep wraps production its possible they may revive the series, I mean its target audience are now adults and a darker revival where they delve into the world more could possibly do well, putting all the new Avatar content coming into actually having a competition if Storm Hawks were to come back swinging.
So many of the good shows from the early to mid 2000s were hampered by the fact that they didn't have an applicable streaming service. I personally didnt even finish avatar until it was on netflix. (The first time. Not the most recent time) CN should seriously consider rebooting the series. It's not like it's too soon to try to reboot it. Thunder cats, Scooby too, tmnt, and others havr been rebooted 2 or 3 times since Storm Hawks came and went.
Storm Hawks is still my favourite cartoon to this day!! It deserved way more but it fell victim to corporate and network issues. What I am glad about is that the fanfiction community is still alive for this show, and it allows us who still love it to continue the love!
I loved this show, and I have the dvds that were actually physically released of it. I agree with your points that if they fixed it up, and took away much of the gag music, it would have been even greater. And I give you the biggest props, Stork is my favorite character.
I'm always pleasantly surprised when others remember this series. I barely remember it once a year, but a fight between piper and the villain and their friendship making the villain rethink her position always stuck with me, probably since seeing that complexity between female characters was so rare at the time
storm hawks, out of all of the similar animated styles, such as dragon riders, slug terra, Battle force 5, even Tron Uprising, was by far the one world in which I always dreamed of exploring. There was an essence of wonder and mystery throughout the show that worked in its favour as the perfect setting for adventure. ADVENTURE, one of the most underrated pure story tropes of all of these shows. I mean this in the sense were by adventure takes centre stage, and it works. however, after watching this video, you kinda broke my heart, but for good reason. You finally answered the question for me as to why this show was discontinued. It was a show with by far the most potential for possible spinoff series, small animated shorts, etc. if anything, I see slug terra as by far the closest n terms of a successor to both style, characterisation, villains etc. I only wish this could have been true for Storm Hawks. I am still waiting for storm hawks to be revamped. To be reimagined in the storytelling (realistically the only thing that needs improvement for the show) the slapstick is ok, cause it helps with widening the audience, increasing viewership. to balance that they could have had some more adult humor or more realistic romantic drama (haha) In any sense. I want to thank you. You cleared up so much for me in all the questions left unanswered. You really summarised all of the best and worst parts of the show PERFECTLY. great review. Hope to see more of storm hawks tho haha. All the best!
I would love a reboot of this! The characters, story, theme, and awesome world are all there. It just needs an exection under better circumstances. As a kid I was all over it, it was so epic to me.
This show was awesome. I saw a couple episodes of it when it was still airing but never really finished. It was engraved in the back of my mind as a show that I loved but continue to forget the name of until I found it a couple of years ago and watched it. I agree that some tweaks and modernization would make a much better show and reach the potential it clearly wanted to fulfill. On a side note, I wanted to offer another show to possibly review for Nostalgia Trip. I think that "Kaijudo" would be a cool show you might like and a show I wish got a lot more attention because its characters, settings, world-building, and plot are really good for the time it came out in.
I loved this show, and wait there was a second season!?!?! Why did it take me years to find out? I didn't even know about the rest of the backstory (besides Ace's) until watching this episode. Thanks for making this cause now I gotta watch it again. Also such a shame there wasn't a third season, it was so good. Storm Hawks definitely deserves a reboot
I wish people would stop calling Aerrow Lightning Strike's "descendant." Just in my opinion, it would be a lot more compelling if they were father and son. That would give Aerrow a real, tangible reason to want to take down Dark Ace. It seems so vague and ambiguous when it really doesn't need to be.
I agreed with you a hundred porcent. Fan fact: I did relember the show, but it was just one scene and nothing more, even the name, and It took years tô finally find the name and start to rewatch again, and boy, I love it, this is a great cartoon and deserves be loved by the new generation(also an end tô the story too).
Dude I have a whole Au fanfiction set up for this since it last aired in 2008. I've got a whole timeline spanning 10 years after the final battle with Cyclonia with my OCS and what happens afterwards. I think it's a very good story. Im just very bad At writing but very good at creative ideas. I hope I can make this a reality very very soon❤
Does anyone remember Dragon Booster? That was a favourite of mine growing up. Think Slugterra meets Stormhawks all set around racing with a world ending global war looming in the near future. Tones of world building, lore, great characters, progressive storyline with ACTUAL character development and growth. WHY was it cancelled?
Dragon Booster was great by bringing the "sidekick" characters up as potential equals to the main hero. It was leading to this big future battle, but NOPE.
Is quarantine making everyone nostalgic? I just had someone make a comment about fighting foodons. Now stormhawks and cubix? This is somewhat pleasing.
@@zerofang009 I guess so kind of I remember this one cartoon from the mid 2000s called "Jakers!" I'm not sure if you've heard of it I don't really hear alot of people talk about it but I wanna check it out again after 10+ years
@@ProfessorUniverse95 I had no idea what you were talking about. Typed it into youtube, saw a video, and went OH!!! Dont remember what age or what tv channel but I definitely watched that.
i definitely agree that stormhawks had potential but you're right, the 'comedy' was often too goofy that never seemed to really know what they wanted for their audience, little kids, young adults, it was all over the place. The filler episodes were also a problem, often going with the problems in comedy where the episodes were built around pointless jokes instead of expanding the world. If they used their filler eps to show off their incredible world instead of boring over used tropey storylines that were boring and predictable without much payoff for the overall plot. Which you did mentioned, the second season I think did a better job at this if only because a lot of the episodes were interconnected. The lack of any real background until the second season was also incredibly detrimental to the show, akin to another show with so much potential sym-bionic titan, they showed the origins episode far to late when the first episode felt like the second. In the premier the kid mentions the main characters being the storm hawks then his dad tells him that they're not the real stormhawks. That doesn't matter unless we knew what the storm hawks were but since it's the first episode we don't, it didn't feel hard to follow, it just felt disjointed with the viewers supposed to know things the show didn't tell us. The characters were great, I didn't really care for Finn, the narrcisistic slacker, wannabe Casanova, was played out, he had some good moments but they were few and farbetween. Piper was my favorite character, it just felt really cool to see a girl be allowed to be smart and strong as well as a dork. Most of the time during that time it was one or the other and the girl character never really got the magical destiny that the main male character did outside of magical girl shows. Piper was amzing and strong and smart and one of my first girl crushes that I wouldn't understand until much later in life
Yesss!!! I love this show!! The Raptors are my favorite! I kinda wish the series showed more of how the fight with the Cyclonians put other species in danger of poverty. The Raptors are actually a good example of this as the first episode did show that they did mainly side with Cyclonia to protect their home from being destroyed.
This is one show that I loved watching growing up! For me, it was even better than Avatar, it just drew me in as a kid and I watched it every day after school
I loved Storm Hawks so much. I remember having a crush on Piper 😂 The magic system was so interesting so kid me that I started to research gems. (And for some reason I shipped Cylonis and Piper......)
It is really unfortunate the Cartoon Network decided to cancel this show, and I definitely agree that it deserves to be revisited in some way. The characters were interesting and the world was intriguing, so it definitely deserves a second go. It annoys me that Cartoon Network has always treated some of its best action shows like this. Take the Thundercats 2012 remake and Symbionic Titan. Those were both great shows, but the network callously threw them away without even giving them a proper ending. It’s no surprise that their contents fallen so far to the wayside in recent years when they takes shows that could be really amazing, and don’t even give them a proper conclusion.
I discovered this show years afterwards - how? Someone posted a compilation vid of Cyclonis' scenes (sadly now deleted) in a forum thread about best villain quotes. Did some digging, then found the episodes... man, I can't believe I missed it in its heyday. I definitely share all the criticisms though - as noted, they had so many cool plot threads, but they never really got developed properly. You essentially had to infer a bunch of things to get it to fit together better. For example, the first ten episodes beneath the filler essentially have a subplot of the Storm Hawks struggling to gain acceptance that is completed in Velocity where Aerrow and Piper prove that, despite Finn kicking off an arms race that saw everyone cannibalizing parts, they could lead and be the Sky Knights they claim to be. After proving that, they get a lot warmer reception. Starling - she's been working alone for a long time and clearly has issues from her squadron being killed (and going by Repton's comments, probably eaten by the Raptors!) but also was probably Aerrow's age when Lightning Strike was killed (possibly even at that battle as a trainee) and then was forced to mature quickly for the war because Terra Mesa needed their Sky Knight and Starling was next in line, contrasting her with the seemingly carefree Storm Hawks. Or the Dark Ace - going by ages, Lightning Strike was almost certainly Aerrow's father... and thinking about it, the Dark Ace and Lightning Strike look like they could've been brothers. Could have had a whole subplot for that throughout the series of Aerrow coming to terms with what was left him and dealing with that - plus whatever happened to his family. To say nothing of the ongoing war which honestly was just a framing device for the various skirmishes. If they'd tightened that up, got more willing to delve into some dark stuff rather than sticking to dubiously funny filler with episodes involving the Colonel the way that ATLA at the time was doing, and focused more overtly on a plot earlier, there was a lot they could have done. As it is, the show was essentially listless after the first few episodes of establishing themselves and then until the end when Cyclonis finally enacts a master plan. All in all, Storm Hawks definitely is a setting with a ton of potential. You just needed to early on if not establish a master plot for the whole series then establish smaller plots that you can thread together - for ATLA, this was "Get to the North Pole" in Book 1, in Book 2 it was Aang seeking a teacher and then to Ba Sing Se to plan the Day of Black Sun, then said Day of Black Sun, until finally everything resolves with Sozin's Comet. You can absolutely get your filler in there too as a way to take a load off or subtly set things up for later, but filler needs to feel like it's meant as that or as a way to explore other things that can really stand on their own. (Also, for what it's worth, apparently the clip show was originally a DVD extra that got retooled into a full on episode later)
Storm Hawks was a fantastic TV show plus the other feature attached to it that made it so incredibly special to the audiences behind the TV screen is that it had a red button game called crystal crisis will you get to play as Aerrow and take on different bosses by going through long waves of flying enemies, what I loved about that red button game was you reach the bosses Aerrow flips off of his sky ride and spins into his battle glider and uses his lightning claw attack on the boss by pressing the select button on the remote. And boy!! What I wouldn’t give to play that game again
I remember seeing part of an episode of this series, but I didn't think anything of it at the time because I didn't know what it was. Also, I was a junior in high school when it came out and besides anime, adult swim, and avatar, I didn't watch many cartoons at the time. But after watching this video, I think this show looks pretty good for what it is. I'll put it on my watch list. And it's always a shame when they cancel an unfinished show, they should at least be given a chance to wrap up their story in a final season
I totally forgot this was a thing. I didn't watch it much but I remember it being on and watching a few episodes. In other old cartoons people may have forgotten, anyone else remember Spider Riders? Such a strange and good show. But maybe thats my nostalgia talking...
Oh my god these memories hit me like a truck!!! I used to watch this on some cartoon block and so many of those one shot shows i thought had been lost to the ether yall at nerdwire are such good researchers!! If i could make a suggestion of a show that deserves a second look it is spider riders i last heard of that show like 10 years ago
I would love to see a reboot with more in-depth storytelling and filling in some plotholes. I would love to see a backstory for each of the characters, I want to know how Aerrow, Piper, and Finn grew up before meeting each other and attempting to survive together, I want to see Junko's aunt (even if we just see her in a flashback!) I want a whole episode of Stork's life on Terra Merbia (actually seeing the Terra) and the downfall and his own attempt to survive in the wasteland. Just imagine the possibilities!
I have a suggestion for you. if you enjoyed this you might like Slugterra, it has a similar animation style, similar story line, and it has Sam Vincent the voice Aarow. a great show that was take off the air too soon and a fun watch
Yeah, so many shows feel through the cracks back in the 2010's. Dragon Rider; Storm Hawks; Slugterra; the reboot of Thundercats. It would be great to see some of these shows get a dusting off and second chance to shine.
I want the Storm Hawks back. I loved this show i remember watching this show as a young boy in kindergarden. And I agree that they did make it a bit show with their story and put some episodes in the wrong way. But I still love this show but I am really sad that the show was Cancelled and haveint been mention in many years.
Man, memories of this show hit me like a truck this morning. I remember watching this show as a kid, and I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did AtLA then. It's unfortunate this show got so overshadowed at the time. Looking back into it now, I see how amazing this setting would be for a ttrpg. How amazing would it be to band together a crew of your own with your friends to explore the various worlds of Atmos? Cause I can see it as being an awesome adventure
This was such a great show (if it weren‘t for the overwxaggerated emphasis on slapstick humor). Sometimes it’s fitting, but most times it’s not. It diminishes the threat the enemies pose, a fault many shows even ones aimed at adults commit regularly to this day. Also, „it was heavily implied that the Dark Ace murdered Aerrow‘s relative“?! Dude, he literally did so on screen! The only reason they did the „falling down screaming“ way of ending Lightning Strike is that showing his eviscerated corpse was too much for a show an CN.
I loved this show! It was one of my favorites! I'll admit, now that I'm older and rewatched it recently, I could do without some of the slapstick and the filler was immense. A few tweaks would have definitely helped, but unfortunately I think the competition at the time was just way too much. I will say Stork was obviously there for the slightly older audience and is such a product of the time. He's a sterotypical emo kid. All the characters were so fun and vibrant, the designs were unique and stylistic, and the overall premise was one of the coolest things ever to a young teenage me at the time. Really want to see this make a comeback, but the team moved on to other things. Oh well :(
late to the party but i just thought if they were to bring it back would people want a continuation (revamped) season 3 or a complete reboot where some things would be different or a reboot in which it focuses on a new team of storm hawks set in the future with something like Aerrow mentoring a new team
I love Storm Hawks,in Brazil the serie was relesed first on CN in Jun/08 after going to TDT in July,i started to watch for a accident,coming from the school and turns on the TV in a exactly moment hes aired,after this a few scenes including Master Cyclonis face was in my mind for 10 years and finally in 2018 i found the episodes here HAIL CYCLONIA
Duuuude I loved this show back when it was on I remember getting really excited when I found episodes on RUclips back in 2009 I also remember having a crush on arrow
Ah, the days when Cartoon Network had awesome shows debuting. Of all the things that it could've been... - Storm Hawk -Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 - And my favorite: League of Super Evil
I literally remembered it a few months ago and tried to re-watch the first 2-3 episodes. It was rough but I think I might try again. I really want to re-watch all the shows I liked when I was a kid and figure out why I liked them.
I love the storm hawks I feel like if given more of a chance it could been such a great show especially if they continue making a season 3 rather the show being cancelled after two seasons.
I wish they continued with the series it was great surprising since at first thought it might be awful from the art style like how I felt about pokemon when I first saw adds for it but like pokemon it grew on me and I like the show. If they bring it back that would be awsome.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the final episode of Storm Hawks, but here’s an idea I have for an alternate version of it that might have made the studio HAVE to keep the show going (Because “Bolt” was right. People probably weren’t happy with “happy”): Cyclonia Rising Part 2/Piper Falling; The first three fourths of it remain mostly unchanged. Cyclonis takes over Atmos, the Storm Hawks play pranks on her in retaliation, Piper is getting deathly sick from the Binding, the Storm Hawks come up with a plan to save Atmosia and the other Sky Knights in one fell swoop, etc. Now, I say mostly unchanged, because there is going to be one small change: At least one more scene between Aerrow and Piper, mostly from Aerrow’s perspective. I’m thinking Aerrow worrying about Piper and feeling guilty about making her use the Binding in the first place and ignoring her initial warnings about it. Now, we get to where Aerrow and Piper are hanging from the giant tower on Cyclonia with Cyclonis and Dark Ace about to finish them off. Piper says “Aerrow, … I’m so sorry,” before getting dizzy and passing out. Aerrow calls out her name fearfully and moves to catch her like in the show, definitely intent on saving her and giving a speech about how they’re going down together. Only… … it’s too late. She is just out of his reach and Cyclonis or the Dark Ace catch her instead and fly away. Aerrow reaches for them feebly and attempts to go after them, but needs to get saved by Junko. They reach the portal just as Cyclonis and the Dark Ace are going in with Piper slumped over one of their shoulders. Cyclonis destroys the portal, so that the Storm Hawks can’t follow them. Thanks to all the Sky Knights, Terra Cyclonia is finally destroyed and the people defeated. Most everyone celebrates their newfound, well earned, freedom and safety. Key word: “Most” Aerrow… is… devastated. Sure, Atmos is safe and free, but Piper isn’t. She is not only still sick and dying, but now in the clutches of the most dangerous villains Atmos has ever known, setting up the Third Season’s conflict. The Storm Hawks will have to go to the Far Side to stop them, taking the long way around Atmos, since the portal is destroyed. To everyone else in Atmos, the mission is only to make sure that Cyclonis and the Dark Ace can never return to harm anyone again. To Aerrow, though, this is a mission to at least see if he can save his specialist, his navigator, his crystal mage, his friend, his partner, and his one true love. (Yes. I ship them and the Third Season would have had them almost kiss and get interrupted by Finn.) And the third season after this would focus on Aerrow facing the Far Side’s challenges, the fear of losing his other teammates, and the struggles inside and out caused by Piper’s fate. The feelings of the other Storm Hawks would range from being annoyed by his overprotectiveness to missing Piper and hoping that the people telling Aerrow that it’s too late to not give up on her are wrong.
I really do wish they explained the story more, and gave more details on the characters and their motivations. Like why did the dark ace join the cyclonians. The backstory implies that they were on the verge of defeat, that the storm hawks were winning the war, so why join the losing side?
I remember catching a few episodes and wanting to love it. The world looks so fascinating, I love the whole “sky jockey” and steampunk aesthetic. But it just never grabbed me. Shame...
Ultimately I think Storm Hawks has so much potential, although this story could be rebooted, I say keep some of what it had in but also focus more on the story. The aspect of the reoccuring villains like Repton is something in shows I love, Transformers does it on occassion, like the human villains from TFA, or Silas and Mech in TFP. I think a revival could either be a continuation or just a reboot. A reboot would give time to revisit characters, keeping similar beats but changing things so the story is fully shown. I mean DHX did give Slugterra the room for its world building after they aquired Nerd Corps so I assume the management at the time before 2014 was afraid of their studio going bankrupt, so they lended themselves more into the productions we seen up until 2015/16 where they tried to appeal to a younger audience than they seemed to have wanted, partly because of networks and partly because even back then the signs of Cable dying was starting to show. Storm Hawks in the modern day could be done in a way to where its similar in story and plot, keeping the more character furthering episodes, but also fleshing out characters a lot more. Stork is one I want to give a hug personally given aspects like the one you mentioned where he was left with the ship as his only home, I could see Stork have a lot more changes in a revival, maybe even getting to be a focus character in an early episode to explore his life before meeting Aerrow, maybe showing a bit more of what he was able to know and find out. Maybe Stork learned of the Stormhawks by reading old logs left on the ship, maybe while he was living in the wastelands, he managed to survive by using a sort of scrapped up version of an old Storm Hawk bike, maybe scrapping other old ships in order to keep the one he called home safe and maybe end said episode with his perspective of the arrival of the new Storm Hawks, perhaps knowing of Aerrow due to a log from his father so that is why he trusts them to come aboard and helping them. Hell I could see it being compared to the recent He-man reboot if it was done in the darker tone sort of way. Ngl though, no matter what I would love to see it be expanded in scope outside of animation as well (And I do not mean Live Action).
I believe its a French thing that the backstory or origin doesn't happen till midway through the series run. Like code lyoko origin episode happens season 2 and miraculous ladybug origins happens near the end of season 1.
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Am I curious if you think Nerd Corp fixed the mistakes they made in Storm Hawks in their other Action-adventure series, Slugterra?
Can you please do a video on Disney's Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja. It's a show beloved by fans. If you do a video on it, more people will watch it and it might get a new season.
How about Disney's The Weekenders in a future video?
After checking that they weren't already on the list, I have a couple suggestions.
1.So weird.
2. Dragon booster
3 Reboot
I can't really recall of any of them were particularly good, but they were entertaining to my young self
This show, with proper care and writing, would be really cool to see as a modern reboot.
I agree
If it were to have the rights stay with Nerd Corps Entertainment, given their work on Slugterra and The Deep, they likely have the expirence in house for an even better Storm Hawks. I mean when Storm Hawks was made, they were still a relatively company and production group, hell it was technically their first production as Dragon Booster (Their Prior work) was more involved in the other companies that worked on it. With the expirence they have gained a reboot of the property would definitely be more able to flesh out the world they made, but its up to DHX ultimately as they are the company that owns Nerd Corp. Hell Nerd Corp being bought by DHX seemed to have filled out their worry of catching an audience as Slugterra after 2014 began to explore its world more, with the series not being regreenlit causing them to make several movies. At this point it may just be a matter of devotion of time, once The Deep wraps production its possible they may revive the series, I mean its target audience are now adults and a darker revival where they delve into the world more could possibly do well, putting all the new Avatar content coming into actually having a competition if Storm Hawks were to come back swinging.
storm hawks, hot wheels battle force 5, and slugterra have the same animation style and i love it
There from the same animation group if I remember correctly.
@@thejestor9378 Nerd Corp. Makes of those series and things like League of Super Evil.
Slugterra 😍😍😍
Same
Loved both of these shows so much
So many of the good shows from the early to mid 2000s were hampered by the fact that they didn't have an applicable streaming service. I personally didnt even finish avatar until it was on netflix. (The first time. Not the most recent time)
CN should seriously consider rebooting the series. It's not like it's too soon to try to reboot it. Thunder cats, Scooby too, tmnt, and others havr been rebooted 2 or 3 times since Storm Hawks came and went.
No one remembers a Disney show called super robot monkey team hyper force go?
I don't want a reboot, I just want a sequel series that continues the story from the previous series.
@@skootergirl22 hell yeah
I think part of it would be the fact that the studio that produced Storm Hawks is now defunct
The toys were so cool
Storm Hawks is still my favourite cartoon to this day!! It deserved way more but it fell victim to corporate and network issues. What I am glad about is that the fanfiction community is still alive for this show, and it allows us who still love it to continue the love!
I remember this show but I kept forgetting the title. I would sit at my computer staring at the google search page trying to remember for hours!
I wasn't able to remember too! Just how the name of the show were sounding.
Happy to have finally found this old gem!
I always typed "stormhouse" instead of storm hawks and was do frustrated when I never got results
Storm Hawks and Dragon Riders
Do you mean Dragon Booster
VulpinFare Still love the Dragon Booster font for use in making some rpg text.
you mean dragon booster
Also skysurfer
@@vulpinfare621 oh man I remember dragon booster back when it was on cbc.
I loved this show, and I have the dvds that were actually physically released of it. I agree with your points that if they fixed it up, and took away much of the gag music, it would have been even greater. And I give you the biggest props, Stork is my favorite character.
Stork is the best!
Long live the blizzarians!
Storm Hawks is a really good show and I would love to watch it again.😀😀😀😀
@@swordpegasus4032 it's free with ads on tubi and RUclips
I always forgot the name of the show, despite the fact it was one of my favorites as a kid! 😍 I especially loved Stork, Finn and Piper 💚💙🧡
I'm always pleasantly surprised when others remember this series. I barely remember it once a year, but a fight between piper and the villain and their friendship making the villain rethink her position always stuck with me, probably since seeing that complexity between female characters was so rare at the time
Does anyone remember slugterra
Yasss
DUDE I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT THAT I NEVER WATCHED THIS BUT IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE SLUGTERRA.
That and like that hot wheels show. Battle Force something or other.
yes
ME
storm hawks, out of all of the similar animated styles, such as dragon riders, slug terra, Battle force 5, even Tron Uprising, was by far the one world in which I always dreamed of exploring.
There was an essence of wonder and mystery throughout the show that worked in its favour as the perfect setting for adventure. ADVENTURE, one of the most underrated pure story tropes of all of these shows. I mean this in the sense were by adventure takes centre stage, and it works.
however, after watching this video, you kinda broke my heart, but for good reason. You finally answered the question for me as to why this show was discontinued. It was a show with by far the most potential for possible spinoff series, small animated shorts, etc.
if anything, I see slug terra as by far the closest n terms of a successor to both style, characterisation, villains etc. I only wish this could have been true for Storm Hawks.
I am still waiting for storm hawks to be revamped. To be reimagined in the storytelling (realistically the only thing that needs improvement for the show) the slapstick is ok, cause it helps with widening the audience, increasing viewership. to balance that they could have had some more adult humor or more realistic romantic drama (haha)
In any sense. I want to thank you. You cleared up so much for me in all the questions left unanswered. You really summarised all of the best and worst parts of the show PERFECTLY. great review. Hope to see more of storm hawks tho haha.
All the best!
I would love a reboot of this! The characters, story, theme, and awesome world are all there. It just needs an exection under better circumstances.
As a kid I was all over it, it was so epic to me.
"I was heartbroken that there was no season 3"
Same
Why hello there.
IT DESERVED A SEASON 3 AND SEASON 4!
@@StormHawksHD ye man. I see it. In 5 years you have the rights and bringing us season 3 to 7 xD
This show was awesome. I saw a couple episodes of it when it was still airing but never really finished. It was engraved in the back of my mind as a show that I loved but continue to forget the name of until I found it a couple of years ago and watched it. I agree that some tweaks and modernization would make a much better show and reach the potential it clearly wanted to fulfill. On a side note, I wanted to offer another show to possibly review for Nostalgia Trip. I think that "Kaijudo" would be a cool show you might like and a show I wish got a lot more attention because its characters, settings, world-building, and plot are really good for the time it came out in.
I've never forgotten this show.
It definitely deserves a reboot
I loved this show, and wait there was a second season!?!?! Why did it take me years to find out? I didn't even know about the rest of the backstory (besides Ace's) until watching this episode. Thanks for making this cause now I gotta watch it again.
Also such a shame there wasn't a third season, it was so good. Storm Hawks definitely deserves a reboot
I wish people would stop calling Aerrow Lightning Strike's "descendant." Just in my opinion, it would be a lot more compelling if they were father and son. That would give Aerrow a real, tangible reason to want to take down Dark Ace. It seems so vague and ambiguous when it really doesn't need to be.
I loved this show so much when I was a kid, I even named my cat Aerrow 😆
I agreed with you a hundred porcent. Fan fact: I did relember the show, but it was just one scene and nothing more, even the name, and It took years tô finally find the name and start to rewatch again, and boy, I love it, this is a great cartoon and deserves be loved by the new generation(also an end tô the story too).
Dude I have a whole Au fanfiction set up for this since it last aired in 2008.
I've got a whole timeline spanning 10 years after the final battle with Cyclonia with my OCS and what happens afterwards. I think it's a very good story. Im just very bad At writing but very good at creative ideas. I hope I can make this a reality very very soon❤
Is it available on AOOO?
I'm the exact same way would love to see some of your work sometime
I couldn't remember the name of this to search all I remembered was :this is is my co pilot radar...and wanted to actually watch jt
Does anyone remember Dragon Booster? That was a favourite of mine growing up. Think Slugterra meets Stormhawks all set around racing with a world ending global war looming in the near future. Tones of world building, lore, great characters, progressive storyline with ACTUAL character development and growth. WHY was it cancelled?
Yes I just finished watching dragon buster last weekend! It was cool.
Dragon Booster was great by bringing the "sidekick" characters up as potential equals to the main hero. It was leading to this big future battle, but NOPE.
Does anyone remember Cubix? Nerdwire should do a video on that
i do! i do remember cubix!
My man
Is quarantine making everyone nostalgic? I just had someone make a comment about fighting foodons. Now stormhawks and cubix? This is somewhat pleasing.
@@zerofang009 I guess so kind of I remember this one cartoon from the mid 2000s called "Jakers!" I'm not sure if you've heard of it I don't really hear alot of people talk about it but I wanna check it out again after 10+ years
@@ProfessorUniverse95 I had no idea what you were talking about. Typed it into youtube, saw a video, and went OH!!! Dont remember what age or what tv channel but I definitely watched that.
Thank you for bringing me back my childhood.
Happy to!!! 🥰
Memory’s unlocked thank you nerdwire!!!
Happy to help 😉
Woot
i still hope some day storm hawks will come back without changing their origin story and art style like samurai jack
Omg yesssss!!! I loved it so much i wish they made more episodes this brings back childhood memories :)
This is one of those shows that makes you reflect and remember it was a thing. Like you remember it but only after seeing it again. What a trip
I need a reboot. We need more shows like this.
Storm Hawks will always be one of my favorite childhood shows....those dam bikes in particular.
i definitely agree that stormhawks had potential but you're right, the 'comedy' was often too goofy that never seemed to really know what they wanted for their audience, little kids, young adults, it was all over the place. The filler episodes were also a problem, often going with the problems in comedy where the episodes were built around pointless jokes instead of expanding the world. If they used their filler eps to show off their incredible world instead of boring over used tropey storylines that were boring and predictable without much payoff for the overall plot. Which you did mentioned, the second season I think did a better job at this if only because a lot of the episodes were interconnected.
The lack of any real background until the second season was also incredibly detrimental to the show, akin to another show with so much potential sym-bionic titan, they showed the origins episode far to late when the first episode felt like the second. In the premier the kid mentions the main characters being the storm hawks then his dad tells him that they're not the real stormhawks. That doesn't matter unless we knew what the storm hawks were but since it's the first episode we don't, it didn't feel hard to follow, it just felt disjointed with the viewers supposed to know things the show didn't tell us.
The characters were great, I didn't really care for Finn, the narrcisistic slacker, wannabe Casanova, was played out, he had some good moments but they were few and farbetween. Piper was my favorite character, it just felt really cool to see a girl be allowed to be smart and strong as well as a dork. Most of the time during that time it was one or the other and the girl character never really got the magical destiny that the main male character did outside of magical girl shows. Piper was amzing and strong and smart and one of my first girl crushes that I wouldn't understand until much later in life
Uff. First crush xD she's 14xD fbi open
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@@garryxc7 i mean... the show aired 15 years ago. I was 15. seems like a weird thing to say
@@Bloodyshadow1 ye OK. XD. I was 11 and had a crush on cyclonis lol.
Yesss!!! I love this show!! The Raptors are my favorite!
I kinda wish the series showed more of how the fight with the Cyclonians put other species in danger of poverty. The Raptors are actually a good example of this as the first episode did show that they did mainly side with Cyclonia to protect their home from being destroyed.
This is one show that I loved watching growing up! For me, it was even better than Avatar, it just drew me in as a kid and I watched it every day after school
I loved Storm Hawks so much. I remember having a crush on Piper 😂
The magic system was so interesting so kid me that I started to research gems. (And for some reason I shipped Cylonis and Piper......)
I love Storm Hawks and I also love the characters in animation is stellar.
It is really unfortunate the Cartoon Network decided to cancel this show, and I definitely agree that it deserves to be revisited in some way. The characters were interesting and the world was intriguing, so it definitely deserves a second go.
It annoys me that Cartoon Network has always treated some of its best action shows like this. Take the Thundercats 2012 remake and Symbionic Titan. Those were both great shows, but the network callously threw them away without even giving them a proper ending. It’s no surprise that their contents fallen so far to the wayside in recent years when they takes shows that could be really amazing, and don’t even give them a proper conclusion.
I discovered this show years afterwards - how? Someone posted a compilation vid of Cyclonis' scenes (sadly now deleted) in a forum thread about best villain quotes. Did some digging, then found the episodes... man, I can't believe I missed it in its heyday.
I definitely share all the criticisms though - as noted, they had so many cool plot threads, but they never really got developed properly. You essentially had to infer a bunch of things to get it to fit together better. For example, the first ten episodes beneath the filler essentially have a subplot of the Storm Hawks struggling to gain acceptance that is completed in Velocity where Aerrow and Piper prove that, despite Finn kicking off an arms race that saw everyone cannibalizing parts, they could lead and be the Sky Knights they claim to be. After proving that, they get a lot warmer reception. Starling - she's been working alone for a long time and clearly has issues from her squadron being killed (and going by Repton's comments, probably eaten by the Raptors!) but also was probably Aerrow's age when Lightning Strike was killed (possibly even at that battle as a trainee) and then was forced to mature quickly for the war because Terra Mesa needed their Sky Knight and Starling was next in line, contrasting her with the seemingly carefree Storm Hawks.
Or the Dark Ace - going by ages, Lightning Strike was almost certainly Aerrow's father... and thinking about it, the Dark Ace and Lightning Strike look like they could've been brothers. Could have had a whole subplot for that throughout the series of Aerrow coming to terms with what was left him and dealing with that - plus whatever happened to his family. To say nothing of the ongoing war which honestly was just a framing device for the various skirmishes.
If they'd tightened that up, got more willing to delve into some dark stuff rather than sticking to dubiously funny filler with episodes involving the Colonel the way that ATLA at the time was doing, and focused more overtly on a plot earlier, there was a lot they could have done. As it is, the show was essentially listless after the first few episodes of establishing themselves and then until the end when Cyclonis finally enacts a master plan.
All in all, Storm Hawks definitely is a setting with a ton of potential. You just needed to early on if not establish a master plot for the whole series then establish smaller plots that you can thread together - for ATLA, this was "Get to the North Pole" in Book 1, in Book 2 it was Aang seeking a teacher and then to Ba Sing Se to plan the Day of Black Sun, then said Day of Black Sun, until finally everything resolves with Sozin's Comet. You can absolutely get your filler in there too as a way to take a load off or subtly set things up for later, but filler needs to feel like it's meant as that or as a way to explore other things that can really stand on their own.
(Also, for what it's worth, apparently the clip show was originally a DVD extra that got retooled into a full on episode later)
Holy shit I’ve remembered a commercial for this show since I was a kid couldn’t find out of it was a dream or not
I was searching for the name of this show for like, almost 4 years... thank you so much...
Storm Hawks was a fantastic TV show plus the other feature attached to it that made it so incredibly special to the audiences behind the TV screen is that it had a red button game called crystal crisis will you get to play as Aerrow and take on different bosses by going through long waves of flying enemies, what I loved about that red button game was you reach the bosses Aerrow flips off of his sky ride and spins into his battle glider and uses his lightning claw attack on the boss by pressing the select button on the remote. And boy!! What I wouldn’t give to play that game again
I remember seeing part of an episode of this series, but I didn't think anything of it at the time because I didn't know what it was. Also, I was a junior in high school when it came out and besides anime, adult swim, and avatar, I didn't watch many cartoons at the time. But after watching this video, I think this show looks pretty good for what it is. I'll put it on my watch list. And it's always a shame when they cancel an unfinished show, they should at least be given a chance to wrap up their story in a final season
Glad to see this show hasn't been forgotten. Thanks for revisiting it!
Sky Knights was probably the reason I liked Slugterra so much (that, and the fact that it’s a good show)
I had Lego Harry Potter Creator on PC. And I remember trying to build their skybase using LEGO and brooms just outside the castle grounds.
thank you so much for talking about this cartoon i love it so much 😭😭😭😭
I remember watching this at 5am in the morning? Wow. Haven't thought of this in ages.
I totally forgot this was a thing. I didn't watch it much but I remember it being on and watching a few episodes.
In other old cartoons people may have forgotten, anyone else remember Spider Riders? Such a strange and good show. But maybe thats my nostalgia talking...
rw:tbh this show reminded me of 3 things
Starwars
MADMAX
TOPGUN
and even Tailspin
In the storm hawks show I gotta admit Stork really outshone everyone else for me guy felt like a real main reason to keep watching
Storm Hawks is one of my two favourite shows along with A.T.O.M Alpha Teens On Machines. And you're right Storm Hawks had potential. :)
Would be cool if Netflix or another studio took over give us a season three. I was in high school and watching it with my little brother at the time.
Me too and I can’t believe we never have a season finale it is canceled in a cliffhanger!!!
Netflix wanted to do but canceled it :(
This was fun to watch as a kid it always reminded me of Jak and Daxter lol
Arrow and radar have those vibes
Oh my god these memories hit me like a truck!!! I used to watch this on some cartoon block and so many of those one shot shows i thought had been lost to the ether yall at nerdwire are such good researchers!! If i could make a suggestion of a show that deserves a second look it is spider riders i last heard of that show like 10 years ago
yes even as a kid i knew the potential this show had !!!!!!
I would love to see a reboot with more in-depth storytelling and filling in some plotholes. I would love to see a backstory for each of the characters, I want to know how Aerrow, Piper, and Finn grew up before meeting each other and attempting to survive together, I want to see Junko's aunt (even if we just see her in a flashback!) I want a whole episode of Stork's life on Terra Merbia (actually seeing the Terra) and the downfall and his own attempt to survive in the wasteland.
Just imagine the possibilities!
I have a suggestion for you. if you enjoyed this you might like Slugterra, it has a similar animation style, similar story line, and it has Sam Vincent the voice Aarow. a great show that was take off the air too soon and a fun watch
Yeah, so many shows feel through the cracks back in the 2010's. Dragon Rider; Storm Hawks; Slugterra; the reboot of Thundercats. It would be great to see some of these shows get a dusting off and second chance to shine.
I want the Storm Hawks back. I loved this show i remember watching this show as a young boy in kindergarden. And I agree that they did make it a bit show with their story and put some episodes in the wrong way. But I still love this show but I am really sad that the show was Cancelled and haveint been mention in many years.
Damn do I remember this on Cartoon Network
I remember this show I loved it and it was disappointing when it was cancelled I hope it comes back someday
Man, memories of this show hit me like a truck this morning. I remember watching this show as a kid, and I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did AtLA then. It's unfortunate this show got so overshadowed at the time.
Looking back into it now, I see how amazing this setting would be for a ttrpg. How amazing would it be to band together a crew of your own with your friends to explore the various worlds of Atmos? Cause I can see it as being an awesome adventure
This was such a great show (if it weren‘t for the overwxaggerated emphasis on slapstick humor). Sometimes it’s fitting, but most times it’s not. It diminishes the threat the enemies pose, a fault many shows even ones aimed at adults commit regularly to this day.
Also, „it was heavily implied that the Dark Ace murdered Aerrow‘s relative“?!
Dude, he literally did so on screen! The only reason they did the „falling down screaming“ way of ending Lightning Strike is that showing his eviscerated corpse was too much for a show an CN.
Canadian Animation dominated the late 2000s/ early 2010s 👏 so many classic shows
I know because Cartoon Network made this a trend after the success of Total Drama Island.
I loved this show! It was one of my favorites! I'll admit, now that I'm older and rewatched it recently, I could do without some of the slapstick and the filler was immense. A few tweaks would have definitely helped, but unfortunately I think the competition at the time was just way too much.
I will say Stork was obviously there for the slightly older audience and is such a product of the time. He's a sterotypical emo kid. All the characters were so fun and vibrant, the designs were unique and stylistic, and the overall premise was one of the coolest things ever to a young teenage me at the time. Really want to see this make a comeback, but the team moved on to other things. Oh well :(
late to the party but i just thought if they were to bring it back would people want a continuation (revamped) season 3 or a complete reboot where some things would be different or a reboot in which it focuses on a new team of storm hawks set in the future with something like Aerrow mentoring a new team
I love Storm Hawks,in Brazil the serie was relesed first on CN in Jun/08 after going to TDT in July,i started to watch for a accident,coming from the school and turns on the TV in a exactly moment hes aired,after this a few scenes including Master Cyclonis face was in my mind for 10 years and finally in 2018 i found the episodes here
HAIL CYCLONIA
I met it in similar way. In the weekend by accident but in Turkey. Hail peaceful Cyclonia!
@@norell791 Merhaba Turşi,all hail to our Master Cyclonis from Brasil
Duuuude I loved this show back when it was on I remember getting really excited when I found episodes on RUclips back in 2009 I also remember having a crush on arrow
NOBODY I know has seen this show. I can’t believe I actually found a channel that acknowledges it. Wow.
Just got new into this show and my favorite characters were Stork, Radarr and Piper :)
I have been looking for this series for a long time
Ah, the days when Cartoon Network had awesome shows debuting. Of all the things that it could've been...
- Storm Hawk
-Hot Wheels Battle Force 5
- And my favorite: League of Super Evil
Teletoon and YTV
I always felt the series was underrated myself.
I literally remembered it a few months ago and tried to re-watch the first 2-3 episodes. It was rough but I think I might try again. I really want to re-watch all the shows I liked when I was a kid and figure out why I liked them.
I like the show, Stork is my favourite character
yay! finally someone talks about this show :))
this show proves that anyone can make their own destinies and the place of atmos ir a real place and so is the crystal it's shown in NCIS
I fucking loved storm hawks, and i loved watching the trailer in surfs up
Only seen some of _Storm Hawks_ and clips, as well as read information, but I hope that the series continues. I ship Aerrow and Piper 😉🥰😌😁👍.
I was fortunate to have grown up with this show and to have played a game called Worlds Adrift.
I loved this show, it actually went longer than I thought it would.
I remember watching this show every after school I always turn on the channel and watch it
They should a video on Slugterra. From the same company that made storm hawks.
I love the storm hawks I feel like if given more of a chance it could been such a great show especially if they continue making a season 3 rather the show being cancelled after two seasons.
I wish they continued with the series it was great surprising since at first thought it might be awful from the art style like how I felt about pokemon when I first saw adds for it but like pokemon it grew on me and I like the show. If they bring it back that would be awsome.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the final episode of Storm Hawks, but here’s an idea I have for an alternate version of it that might have made the studio HAVE to keep the show going (Because “Bolt” was right. People probably weren’t happy with “happy”):
Cyclonia Rising Part 2/Piper Falling; The first three fourths of it remain mostly unchanged. Cyclonis takes over Atmos, the Storm Hawks play pranks on her in retaliation, Piper is getting deathly sick from the Binding, the Storm Hawks come up with a plan to save Atmosia and the other Sky Knights in one fell swoop, etc. Now, I say mostly unchanged, because there is going to be one small change: At least one more scene between Aerrow and Piper, mostly from Aerrow’s perspective. I’m thinking Aerrow worrying about Piper and feeling guilty about making her use the Binding in the first place and ignoring her initial warnings about it.
Now, we get to where Aerrow and Piper are hanging from the giant tower on Cyclonia with Cyclonis and Dark Ace about to finish them off.
Piper says “Aerrow, … I’m so sorry,” before getting dizzy and passing out. Aerrow calls out her name fearfully and moves to catch her like in the show, definitely intent on saving her and giving a speech about how they’re going down together.
Only…
… it’s too late.
She is just out of his reach and Cyclonis or the Dark Ace catch her instead and fly away. Aerrow reaches for them feebly and attempts to go after them, but needs to get saved by Junko. They reach the portal just as Cyclonis and the Dark Ace are going in with Piper slumped over one of their shoulders. Cyclonis destroys the portal, so that the Storm Hawks can’t follow them.
Thanks to all the Sky Knights, Terra Cyclonia is finally destroyed and the people defeated. Most everyone celebrates their newfound, well earned, freedom and safety. Key word: “Most”
Aerrow… is… devastated.
Sure, Atmos is safe and free, but Piper isn’t. She is not only still sick and dying, but now in the clutches of the most dangerous villains Atmos has ever known, setting up the Third Season’s conflict. The Storm Hawks will have to go to the Far Side to stop them, taking the long way around Atmos, since the portal is destroyed. To everyone else in Atmos, the mission is only to make sure that Cyclonis and the Dark Ace can never return to harm anyone again. To Aerrow, though, this is a mission to at least see if he can save his specialist, his navigator, his crystal mage, his friend, his partner, and his one true love. (Yes. I ship them and the Third Season would have had them almost kiss and get interrupted by Finn.)
And the third season after this would focus on Aerrow facing the Far Side’s challenges, the fear of losing his other teammates, and the struggles inside and out caused by Piper’s fate. The feelings of the other Storm Hawks would range from being annoyed by his overprotectiveness to missing Piper and hoping that the people telling Aerrow that it’s too late to not give up on her are wrong.
Reminds me a little of Dragon Booster
OH MY GOD I WAS OBSESSED WITH THIS SHOW AND SLUGTERRA IT WAS ONE OF MY FAVES NEXT TO LEAGUE OF SUPER EVIL
THIS SHOW WAS SO GOOD!
I really do wish they explained the story more, and gave more details on the characters and their motivations. Like why did the dark ace join the cyclonians. The backstory implies that they were on the verge of defeat, that the storm hawks were winning the war, so why join the losing side?
I saw storm hawks as a kid I really enjoyed it. I thought it came way after avatar the last airbender.
If Wakfu can get a new season, hopefully Storm Hawks can too.
I wish they would make more of the Storm Hawks
I had a crush on Stork when I used to watch Storm hawks
I had a crush on arrow
I remember catching a few episodes and wanting to love it. The world looks so fascinating, I love the whole “sky jockey” and steampunk aesthetic. But it just never grabbed me. Shame...
Ultimately I think Storm Hawks has so much potential, although this story could be rebooted, I say keep some of what it had in but also focus more on the story. The aspect of the reoccuring villains like Repton is something in shows I love, Transformers does it on occassion, like the human villains from TFA, or Silas and Mech in TFP. I think a revival could either be a continuation or just a reboot. A reboot would give time to revisit characters, keeping similar beats but changing things so the story is fully shown. I mean DHX did give Slugterra the room for its world building after they aquired Nerd Corps so I assume the management at the time before 2014 was afraid of their studio going bankrupt, so they lended themselves more into the productions we seen up until 2015/16 where they tried to appeal to a younger audience than they seemed to have wanted, partly because of networks and partly because even back then the signs of Cable dying was starting to show. Storm Hawks in the modern day could be done in a way to where its similar in story and plot, keeping the more character furthering episodes, but also fleshing out characters a lot more. Stork is one I want to give a hug personally given aspects like the one you mentioned where he was left with the ship as his only home, I could see Stork have a lot more changes in a revival, maybe even getting to be a focus character in an early episode to explore his life before meeting Aerrow, maybe showing a bit more of what he was able to know and find out. Maybe Stork learned of the Stormhawks by reading old logs left on the ship, maybe while he was living in the wastelands, he managed to survive by using a sort of scrapped up version of an old Storm Hawk bike, maybe scrapping other old ships in order to keep the one he called home safe and maybe end said episode with his perspective of the arrival of the new Storm Hawks, perhaps knowing of Aerrow due to a log from his father so that is why he trusts them to come aboard and helping them. Hell I could see it being compared to the recent He-man reboot if it was done in the darker tone sort of way. Ngl though, no matter what I would love to see it be expanded in scope outside of animation as well (And I do not mean Live Action).
This giving me slugterra and hot wheels vibez
I believe its a French thing that the backstory or origin doesn't happen till midway through the series run. Like code lyoko origin episode happens season 2 and miraculous ladybug origins happens near the end of season 1.
That makes a ton of sense!
Talk about generator Rex and some of the Ben 10 movies
STORM HAWKS WAS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS PERIOD!