What Happened to Tara Duncan
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- The French book series that largely went under the radar in North America had an animated series developed by the same studio that made Code Lyoko
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Fun fact : the show had books for it that were separated from the main books and if you asked for the main books in a library you had a chance to be given the show books that have a completely different story and canon from the main ones.
I also think it's important to know that of the main books only the first two have been translated into English.
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@@PlagueDragonRat Looks like I'll have to learn French so I can read the rest!
@@gigi12rose97 I tried learning chinese to read journey to the west!
That doesn't sound fun at all!!! lol
So the dog grand grandfather was one of my favorite character in the book. He used to be a wizard who was obsessed with immortality so he found a way to slow his age drastically by turning into a dog.
Well, that makes no sense since dog's lives are so much shorter than humans.. he should've become a tree or a turtle... they can live longer than humans
@@Yukosan13 I suppose it's similar to Salem from Sabrina
@@Yukosan13 I don't remember correctly because I haven't read the book in 10 years but it was something like his body would age in dog years while his spirit would live in human years
@@Yukosan13 What actually happened is he found how to be immortal, BUT because he has a tendency to start up infixable messes, that also turned him into a dog permanently. He didn't know that beforehand tho
@@coconoisette Tara Duncan is similar to Cornelia from W.I.T.C.H.
A character summary for each character:
Tara- is the daughter of the prince of a magic kingdom that got banished from her world because she caused the apocalypse.
Cal- is a professional thief and more or less Tara's boyfriend
Minaure- is a descent of the beauty and the beast and she inherited the curse
@@Rose_Riot she was a show exclusiv character so i don't know much about her
Is that from the books? I wanna read the books now
@@moon4236 yep
looked up info about the series and found some info from the books in a wiki which I'm assuming is true and I'm kinda of surprised how far they go with two characters relationship won't say who don't want to spoil it for anyone if they somehow are reading the books
So, Tara is Star
The fact that this video finally confirmed that Tara Duncan wasn’t just a fever dream… Thank you
Actually in Europe, the books are pretty popular among the kids ! The story is much better than the show. Also, it's better to read the book to understand Other World and the magic system which I find kinda cool. In French at least, the new words all make sense and are funny (not sure about the English translation).
Tara is 12 in the 1st book but she grows 1 year older every book. Tara is not as agressive at all and Cal is not chill and calm but the funny guy from the band. Moineau (Gloria) is really intelligent and calm but this is not retranscripted in the show sadly. Tara is also overly powerful in the books SPOILER !!! because she has her ADN modified.
For everyone intrigated about Tara Duncan, I highly recommend the books where you can have all the explainations needed (even about Serena). Also, as the author didn't like that much this show, she worked for the past few years on a completely new one, with a new story and better quality (Disney Channel France) and we can now watch the first episodes so enjoy !
I'm french, read the story when I was a kid, growed up with it and I really love it. It's like all my childhood. The French version is just soooo good. I didn't watch the show, don't want to. But I'm really sad that they ruined this amazing story. Btw I've read an other Mrs Audoin : Indiana Teller. A super story as well. I'm sure that if you enjoyed Tara Duncan you'll love this one too.
@@littlebodybigheart2528 Je suis Belge 🇧🇪 je parle français aussi ! J'ai adoré Indiana Teller. Les Tara Duncan j'ai aussi grandi avec (le tome sortait chaque année pour mon anniversaire 😀)
@@gwenaellerybowski ha mais ouais le cadeau parfait. Franchement ça me rend triste qu'ils l'aient gâche comme ça parce que TD c'est vraiment une des meilleures œuvres jeunesses que je connaissaisse
@Hearick ah c'est drôle personnellement j'aime beaucoup l'humour et la façon d'envoyer les sorts 😅. Et j'aime tellement l'univers que j'aime bien le découvrir plus lentement mais je comprends ce que tu veux dire pour le scénario même si ça ne me dérange pas particulièrement.
Je suis trop jalouse par contre ! L'auteur n'est jamais (à ma connaissance) allée en Belgique donc je n'ai jamais pu la rencontrer 😢
@@littlebodybigheart2528 J'espère que la nouvelle série sera mieux ! Elle n'est dispo que sur Disney Channel France donc je vais encore devoir attendre un peu pour la découvrir
THANK GOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO REMEMBERS THIS SHOW
Yeah
Same.
Same
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Yeah i still watch it sometimes
I REALLY didn't expected you to do a "What Happened to" video about "Tara Duncan" someday!!! XD
I'll try to answers to some of your questions about the series...
5:02 & 7:24 Tara has 12 years old in the first book but of course she grows up over the books (There are 13 books of "Tara Duncan" but only the 2 first ones were released in America.).
The animated series from 2010 sort of takes place between book 7 and book 8. Tara is sent on Earth to hunt Semchanachs (people from Otherworld who comes illegally on Earth for bad reasons). The adventures can be considerated as "canon" but the animated series is still a different media or a spin-off from the books.
Sophie, the author, wrote the series bible and the scripts of a few episodes but she let the studio produce the series. That explains why there are some weird details compared to the books or scriptwriting-facilities-elements-typical-of children's-series like this f***ing scene (6:09) where the bad guy's name is written in the footprints of her shoes!! >_<
11:53 Well, Sandra, the mean girl in the animated series, get a lot of memory erasing spells in one episode. And yeah, she is completely confused at the end of this episode because of them. WARNING: Do not abuse memory erasing spells!
18:19 If I ask to others Taraddicts, they're mostly thinking the show is not good and the books are better (I'm kind of an exception because I discovered Tara Duncan thanks to the animated series and there was also a online video game at the time so I'm nicer with this adaptation). Even the author don't very like the series of 2010.
24:46 The series is canceled because 1) it didn't have enough success. Then 2) the French studio Moonscoop was bankrupt a few years later. They tried to make money by making "Code Lyoko Evolution" (a weird live-action that tried to follow the original cartoon story) which had killed the studio for good. RIP
Now, Sophie has built her own production studio called "Princess SAM" and created a new animated series in CGI for Tara Duncan. Aimed to a younger target, it's more faithful to the universe of the books even if there's some changes to be enjoyable to youth audiences who don't know the books. The show started this winter in France and Switzerland and recently debuted in Italy. Let's just hope it will be released soon in other countries!
Thank you for your new video! You deserve a price for making them so enjoyable and funny! =D
PS: Yeah, the opening song "Sortcelière" is a bop!! Go listen it!
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Thank you for clarify this. I felt that show started in middle of action with I hate it. Because a lot of information was throwed to the audience like Tara is a wizard and have a pegasus and have chief boy and beast girl from another world and they chasing the bad guys from another world who making chaos. That's a lot to take and I felt that I missed so many stories about Tara's mother or her friends parents. I really hate it when they do that to the audience. And I also discovered Tara Dunkan because of animated series. I though that Tara Dunkan books are only in french, but I didn't knew it was in english, but that would help that time, because my level of english was very low.
I also watche that life action Code Lyoko. I didn't like it. They should stay with animated series.
@@WilczycaCzarownica too much text
The world building in this book absolutely rules. There are two opposing sides in this universe Dragons and Demons, the two met when dragons accidentally invented teleporters and one of them teleported in demon dimension.
When demons first interacted with the dragons they discover that If they eat the corpses of dragons they would get a major power bust so demons begun raging wars with the dragons which led to destruction of several worlds such as that of vampires, elves and many other inteligent creatures. Eventually humans got involved and they were a major asset in the fight against demons.
Dragons won and took all the survivors of those world and gave them OtherWorld to live in.
Ok qustion why were Human's a major asset in the war.
@@ev6781 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that's what the books say (I think, I've read those books 9 years ago)
I think it's good that folks can be weird and not have it hurt sales... I'm less thrilled that folks can be abusive, publicly and legally acknowledged as being abusive, but the victims can't legally call what they went through "abuse" publicly even if they avoid naming anyone specific... so I agree, the state of celebrity has changed for the worse, but idk if I agree on the why.
i disagree, i believe that things haven't changed (enough) and that's the worst. At least now we publically talk of such mattersand i hope we will see improvement in the future
Or that some of them can just try to destroy their own victims life (even after cutting their finger off) by false accusations and then lie under oath multiple times and deny everthing, saying that their word is worth more than any evidence because of their gender and when they loose - blame it on social media and sexism. Yeah, it's saddening.
@@PokemonkaDub I have no idea if you're referring to men or women here
@@cartoonishidealism582 they could be talking about both
@@cartoonishidealism582 They're probably talking about Amber heard specifically.
there was a cartoon on nickelodeon back in 2017 that was a female version of TMNT called MYSTICONS. I feel like this is right up your alley and would be good for your what happened series.
I enjoyed what I watched of that show but how's it a female TMNT?
@@superaustin6383 4 teenagers, color coated w/similar weapons, fighting a bigger foe than they thought, and them being a family of shorts. sounds like ninja turtles to me.
@@berniedavis6676 that's a lot of series you could say that about Power Rangers.
@@superaustin6383 there was a little of that too. that or sailor moon. but the 4 personalities of the girls were very turtle-like. the brainy one, the hot head, the fun one, and the no-nonsense leader. the 2012 tmnt was the biggest show that nickelodeon had at the time. of course, they would like another show like that.
Those are more like. Very common character archetypes. See: The Four Man Band.
Translation note from the authors bio:
her and him are both used which seems odd in English so I figured I’d explain that since I know French (which is what I’m guessing the bio was originally written in). In English when we use a pronoun to designate ownership of an item (ex: her pen) we decide the gender of the pronoun based on the person. (The pen is Emily’s so we say ‘her pen’). But in French (and some other languages) the gender of the pronoun is decided based on the gender of the object. Object gender isn’t really a concept that exists in English, for example the word ‘pen’ in French (stylo) is masculine so you would say ‘the pen’ as ‘le stylo’, using the masculine ‘le’ to mean ‘the’. The same idea applies with ‘his’ and ‘her’ in French. When literally translated ‘se’ is ‘he’ and ‘sa’ is ‘her’ but that often creates what was seen in bio with the inconsistent pronouns.
I hope this clears up any confusion anyone had!
It's not “se”, it's “son”
That's cool that the author is Armenian. I kinda suspected that with her last name ending in "ian".
The world has many amazing stories that are only known in their home countries...
Omg same I knew right away when I heard her last name
@@user-dw8uj1fb4t cool
IT IS books accurate just
She’s 17 in the show because it takes place between the books 6 and 7 or something that’s also why the show doesn’t really explain the lore or the backstory of the characters for example in the books Tara dated the grey haired dude and he literally died before to come back to life lmao
It is set in a different timeline actually. The vampire for example appeared tons of times in the books but Tara never met her in the cartoon, unlike her book self.
@@devilsora100 sup
Tara Duncans Opening was perfect nobody can say otherwise XD
Agreed
DVD stores were indeed fun. Great place to hang when the bookstores were unavailable.
After YEARS of trying to find this one show I was OBSESSED with as a kid, here it is! Tara Duncan.
Yes
I read all the novel of this serie. I watched the show and I can compare the two.
- In the novel, Manitou is a spellbinder who turn into dog due to a potion for being immortal. In the show, we don't know how Manitou became a dog but... in his dog form, he's not black, he's only brown.
- We don't know the past of Tara in this show but in the novel we know that she is the heir of Omois's empire, due to her father.
- In the novel, Tara's mother has brown curly hair and brown eyes. She is a "brittle" spellbinder who is kidnapped by Tara's ennemy, Magister when Tara was two years old. Selena is saved by her daugter. In the show, Selena (if Tara's mother takes the name like the novel) is like her daughter (blond hair with white strand of hair and blue eyes). Unlike the novel, Tara's mother is a powerful spellbinder who saved the Earth from vampyr invasion. She disappear in the secret mission (without know if she is deceaded or alive) one year before the show.
- Tara, her grandma and her friends live in Rosemond unlike in the novel where they lived in Otherworld or in Tagon (a french south town).
- There is real stakes in the novel (wars, invasion, conspiracy) and a real worldbuilding. The show has villains stupids without stakes for the characters (except in the last episode where the defeat means war between the vampyr's Republic and the guetteur).
Oh... I forgot to talk about the novel taken from the show.
This little novels adds some elements from the original books series. And modify some elements like the famous scene in 06:09. Master Chem is in symposium due to a semchanach who escape: It's Serena the vampyr. When Cal and Sparrow investigate for the strange attitude of Tara. Serena comes and Sparrow reconize her. Later, they return to the Videoclub in order to find the photo of Tara's mother (the cure of Serena's spell).
@@athenavicenta7668 also in books Tara haves 2 brothers
@@Tomy8853 Yes and her aunt is an empress.
@@Tomy8853 more like twin siblings, a boy and a girl
@@Aurorya Im gonna called them Jerry and Leslie
So I actually have the first book in the series
And yes, she does refer to herself as a princess on the title page of all places lol
Also the book was really good when I read it 10 years ago, would recommend
I remember reading some of the author's blog when i was pre-teen, she sounded kind, funny and a little big exentric. Having an author responding to young readers's mail & questions in my own language was really something big back then. The comparison between her work and the Harry Potter saga did not seem to bother her, she seemed chill about it.
French TV is a nightmare for any children's shows that aren't episodic. Stations demand the ability to play things in whatever order they want. This is why Code Lyoko and Totally Spies don't really have a "start" episode until LATER seasons. Same for Miraculous Ladybug, we dont get the "how" Marinette got her kwami until the end of the first season.
The intro song for this show is a absolute banger. I definitely recommend giving it a listen
Hi, we were surprised to see a video released nowadays about the first Tara adaptation! Thanks for your review, we can't wait to see the one you'll do about the new adaptation we're working on! Have a nice day! Keep making great videos!
Crap I thought he was talking about Tara from Teen Titans! I was really excited I thought he meant like there were comics that said what happened to her after the show got unfairly canceled and turned into the monstrosity that it is now.
8:08 they are probably referring to another Beauty and the Beast remake. Since the studio that made Code Lyoko is French-based, there are a few versions of Beauty and the Beast that were made for French audiences over the years (no, not "bootlegs" or rip-offs, but artistic interpretations since the story is originally a French story)
the show takes place after the books Tara doesn't visit the otherworld because she got banished after she started the apocalypse... twice
2:51 idk about that, a few of the creators of Miraculous Ladybug aren't great people but the show is still a hit and the fandom sort of keeps watching the show regardless. Also Tara Duncan's animation reminds me so much of Witch
Okay, but as someone who grew up reading the Tara Duncan books (I lived in a French speaking household). The books take you on a LIFE CHANGING journey. There are 14 (main) books, and Tara is 19 by the end of it all (with kids LMAO). But I also loved the show growing up, I just wished that it was similar to the books, because you are right in saying the plots of the episodes don't really align with the main series.
I also want to say that although I cannot link the source. But I vividly remember and interview with Princess Sophie where she mentioned not being happy with how the show turned out, due to not having much control.
Anyways, loved the vid and getting to hear someone talk about Tara Duncan, because I thought I was the only person who remembered it. I could talk for HOURS about this series as it was my childhood.
I HAD NO IDEA OTHER PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT THIS SERIES!!! SO GLAD YOU DID A VID ON THIS ;D you covered basically all of my childhood at this point
hell yeah for the Worst witch shoutout. ive been saying that for decades now.
Let me tell you I was a BIG fan of this cartoon in my childhood. I had my own Mary Sue character and everything. I wasn’t even European or anything, my mom just downloaded these shows on her shitty old kindle fire 😭
That comment about Chaotic got to me. Earlier this week I had the urge to start rewatching Chaotic.
Also I have never heard of this series whatsoever but I might give the books a shot
When I say I gasped and could hear the theme song playing in my head, I mean it.
OMG i was obsessed with these books when I was younger… btw from what I remember the show is actually accurate to the books, it’s just that it goes over what happened in a time skip, which is why it’s not mentioned in any synopsis. Because none of the events were ever actually in the books, it was just like « yeah we were sent to earth for a few months as a punishment anyway we’re back now wassup ». That’s why they’re 17 and not 12, it happens way later in the story. And them playing magic cops is mentioned in the books!
The interesting thing is that it was clearly ment for people who had read the books since they don’t bother to introduce anything or anyone, but like you said no one who actually read them really enjoyed the show. I’ve always loved the opening song tho (French version) and if you didn’t know it has a long version and a music video!
That theme song joke had me laughing so hard 😂
Your videos always either introduce me to something new or just hit me straight in the nostalgia, HARD.
As an early fan of the book series, I personally took the show as a way to attract other kids into the Tara Duncan universe. At least it explained to me why they don't explain anything in the show because responses are in the books ;-) ;-). For the age changes, maybe they wanted to insert the show somewhere late in the first cycle book series continuity (Tara is 40 by now) ??
I would watch Tara Duncan every Saturday morning before going to my dad. This brings back nostalgia. I would Wake up at 6am before anybody else and watch it. Good times.
Us Chaotic fans might still be waiting, but I discovered Chaotic is on Peacock of all things while browsing to see if it had anything worthwhile to watch. So the are at least doing something with the franchise atm and not letting it stagnate. (Also the official RUclips channel is still getting different language dubs uploaded to it, which helps keep me optimistic)
You reminded me that this show existed, I grew up watching it, I seriously forgot it existed
The shows that had the same artstyle literally inspired my artstyle along with My scene and artists like Hayden Williams and Nell Brinkley
Anyone notice that Tara Duncan looks like Terra from Teen Titans?
Even their names are a little same!
I read them in French and I freaking loved it back then. I loved it then, still love it now, but I don’t want to read the books again.
Have you heard of this show called Mysticons I think it fits perfectly for the type of shows you cover
From what I understood, watching the show and reading the books around the same time, there was in the books a period where Tara was kinda banished on Earth which wasn't elaborated on in the books, thus leaving the show a part of her life to fill without contradictions... omg I used to love the opening song of the show so so much >w
I don't care what people say to me shows like Tara duncan ,huntik and winx club were my childhood and gave me amazing memories also that tara duncan opening is a banger
*cough* also the Worst Witch which Harry Potter ripped off *cough*
Someone give this guy an award, I loved the Worst Witch.
It did not rip it off per se, it was merely inspired. Even if it did had some aspects of the worst witch, it’s most likely unintentionally. How do you know she ripped them off?
@@nicky2stars getting inspired by different media is not allowed by the logic of these people 🤦
@@nicky2stars I don't necessarily agree with the ripped off part, but I do still appreciate the worst witch for what it was, and I was just glad that Negative Legend acknowledged it.
Did you have to remind us that the Chaotic reboot is in development hell? Twist the knife, man
I actually bought the first book shortly after it came out and never got around to reading it. XD I ended up donating it a couple of years ago when it became clear that they weren't going to publish the series beyond book 2 in english.
the way i gasped out loud omg i didnt think anyone else rly knew about this show?? oo i cant wait to watch this!
also the theme song by dania gio slaps idc idc
No same because I thought no one else remembered Kabillion but me
Them: YOU ARE A PRINCESS!!
Me: Yes I am *hair flick*
Yeah that whole thing at the end about hoping for a continuation. I'm STILL wishing for season 3 of Lolirock.
If you're looking for more European urban fantasy cartoons, can I suggest you check out Monster Allergy? It's an Italian/French/German cartoon based on a long-running comic book series of the same name, and I've got a lot of fond memories of the world they created.
Or, also good: Di-Gata defenders. It's got a BUNCH of lore and magic, and from what I remember complex and some morally grey characters,
Oh its fun from what i remmber bout monster allergy, kinda buy like storyline but th magic guardian of a world that can see an learn powers, a trope. But nice monster friends.
The intro slaps
Negative’s hair just keeps getting better and better
Is it just me or do i just sit at my device and stare into one of their videos so intrigued? just me ok
Can you please do Kaijudo next? It was such a good show and it seems like the kind of show you'd enjoy.
If you like shows with good world building I recommend
Di-Gata Defenders
It just throws you in there with no explanation (And the story is much better than the animation trust me)
start kinda weak but gets better as it progresses and you can watch it on RUclips or Prime video
the show is a tie-in with the book, it's supposed to happen between two books where Tara is pretty much exiled on Earth for plot reasons, hence why the show acts as if the audience knows everything already, and why she is 17 and not 12, because it's like, 5 books in already haha. Also why we never see Otherworlds!
I was a big fan of the books as kid, but didn't get to watch the show all that much. It was wild tbh, in the later parts they acknowledge that Tara's magic is so powerful that it is likely to kill her at some point and everybody had to accept the idea she wouldn't live long and it was a casual canteen conversation that is never brought again. There are two spinoff books that are published fanfiction, straight up, genuine fanfiction Sophie A.M has picked up with the authorisation of the author and got published officially with his name on the cover. There's a whole book where an evil version of her reigns over the world and everyone is poor miserable and dying and it was peak fiction for me
I remember as a kid being a fan of this show and then seeing fanart of it on deviantart and being so confused that none of the characters looked the same, the in-show characters weren't anywhere, and everyone was speaking french or Spanish. I'm still a bit sad today that the show didn't get more love cause I honestly love the anime-esque artstyle! I love that so many shows in the early 2000s were experimenting and using anime as a base for their cartoons (like Teen titans, kappa mikey, totally spies, etc). However, this show is such a pain to watch as an adult, like you said, it's very formulaic and the characters have weird tone (ex: Tara is just mean to her friends for like no reason and idk if it's because of weird dialogue writing or what)
I'm always thinking like No one even knows the series I watched and loved as a kid for example Tara Duncan, huntik, code lyoko and then you make a video on it.... Honestly I love it continue making amazing videos and informing us about the shows we like 😅😂💜💜💜
The second cover, Tara has a much cooler outfit in my opinion. I probably would of liked this show if it was on when I was younger.
The clips of the new show looks cool. I would like to see it when it comes out.
I really loved this show when it first came out, you have no idea how happy it makes me to see you cover it
Oh my gosh!!!! I was thinking about the book series earlier today. I wished that the third book would’ve translated for so long!!!
I enjoy these What happened to series. Edit. I immediately started to laugh the moment you start to play the theme song then immediately cut it off after a second.
Oh hey i remember this show, it used to be on the kabillion channel though my siblings used to watch kabillion shows on our TV's "on demand" feature since that channel wasn't something you could just GO ONTO and watch episodes as they air (i'm assuming it's because we live in the US and it's a french/canadian channel). We were never really into tara duncan though, we were more into code lyoko and bunny maloney; we DID watch one episode out of curiousity though we never finished it. I remember REALLY wanting to like the show and one time one of our dogs had puppies, we decided to keep two of the puppies and we were in the backyard deciding on names for them; i had suggested naming one of them "tara duncan" though my mom shot that idea down because apparently i have a cousin or something named terry and she had a cat named duncan lmao
(We ended up naming the puppies theo and nugget in case you're wondering)
I haven't thought about Tara Duncan in literal years I loved it as a kid
I used to watch Tara Duncan a lot on Netflix I think or was it Amazon Prime I don't remember but I do know I watched it I also watched it on RUclips. I love the show, Tara and her friends, the storyline and the theme song. Also I never read the books I just watched the show I didn't know it came from books.
I remember reading Tara Duncan in french and I loved it at the time (my first language is french), it was a good reading at the time but never got to watch the animated series since I kind of outgrew the book when they started animating it. I think the book and the story is really meant for really young demographic (10 to 13yo) and as an intro to fantasy worlds.
Great works as always, Negative Legend! When it comes to French production, I hope you will cover Team Galaxy and/or Galactic Football next 😁
I've been waiting for you to cover this
.............................. so this book series was my childhood, and i just got curious and wanted to know about the second show. and then i discovered that fabrice wasn't in it and landed here to know more. i didn't but i'm so glad someone spoke up about the first show, which i frankly don't even remember much about compared to the books lmfao. thanks for the video.
Okay this is a month late but I LOVE the absolutely SHAMELESS plug to your patreon XD
I know how you feel about wanting to see if the two copies were different. I had to physically stop myself from rebuying a series by robin hobb just because they updated the covers.
I was unable to stop myself from buying the same series I'd bought...almost 20 years ago now, only a few years ago because it was "re-released" as a trilogy (hypothetically it's getting a show made so they're expecting people to care about the series again, even though the first volume was from the 1980's. So now i still have the copies of the books almost as old as me as well as the new print 3-in-1.
I, like, don't even have time for books anymore but still visit the "local" barnes and noble at least 3 times a year. And at least manga can be read in 30 mins to an hour (glances at pile of books I still need to add to my excel library and sighs)
Omg there are actual people who remember this show?? I haven't ever seen anyone talk about it or even mention it. Ever. None of my friends are aware this show exists. I thought nobody but me had watched it when they were kids lol
Nothing beats waiting for a new season for a show that been dead for years but next year is when they will announce a new season of Huntik or Class of the Titans.
YO a few months back I was desperately searching and failing to find this show I remember from my childhood, and now I just randomly stumble upon it through this video?? I had like the vaguest memories of it, but I'm pretty sure I remembered and searched for the name Tara but didn't find it somehow.
Although I did think it had a weird acronym thing going on like T.A.R.A or something for some reason, might've just been thinking of W.I.T.C.H.
The mansion and supernatural elements were all I remembered but I'm so glad to finally have found it!
I loved this show when I was kid, I couldn’t get the English version of the theme song out of my head for so long (sad there was never a full version). Love that your talking about it, also Sparrow was always my favorite, and the dog grandpa.
i love when you talk about shows i have never heard of. i love your channel i didnlt realize it had been 8 months sicne the last time i watched one of your videos
OH MY GOD BROOOO, I USED TO WATCH THIS, BUT I FORGOT THE NAME ARGGGH I know you would eventually make a video on it!!!
French (ex)fan here ! I confirme, I watched the show when it first came out, huge disapointment. Like hu-ge, in fact the show take place in a sort of alternate timeline/universe after the fifth or sixth book (I'm not sure anymore, it has been a long time since I last read it) where Tara after some shennanigans (ghost invasion, hundreds of deats, problems and other possessions) is banished back on Earth. Pretty light punition if you ask me. Except that she comes back on Otherworld, because of course she does.
I remember watching this when I came back from school everyday. Loved it back then
Hell yea Tara Duncan. Please do Monster Allergy next I beg you
I love monster allergy
"Tara Duncan" is my favorite television show, but it looks similar to "Winx Club".
That was an amazing Patreon pitch and I absolutely love it!
i really loved this show when i was younger! this reminded me sm of my childhood!!😭
Harry Potter didn’t rip off The Worst Witch. The books are wildly different. Might as well claim that Star Wars ripped off Star Trek because they both have spaceships
Me a bit confused as to what he meant by that….so could you clarify it in different words just for me to see if what he meant is the same as what I thought he meant? ……uggggh
I think what was meant was Harry Potter is incredibly derivative of stories that hit the same tropes in way more interesting ways.
NOBODY I TALKED TO EVER KNEW WHAT TARA DUNCAN WAS OMGG
I was looking for this book's title for years. I had no Idea there was a show. WOW
Idk if you have ever heard of it but I’d love to see a video on the Invisible Network of Kids
I'm waiting for Negative legend to discuss Shadow High because I know he would actually fall in love with the series and dolls
Omg, I have been waiting for this video! Thank you so much!!! I've been wondering about this for a while, but during quarantine, I was revisiting the show and decided to read the books too. I've read the first two but haven't been able to find the rest in English. Does anyone know if English translations of the books past book two were ever made and released?
definitely going to give the book a try after this video! if you ever revisit wizard101....my condolences. the old content is still good but its recent stuff is like a mix bag.
ive been looking for this show for 5 years 😭😭😭😭 oh my god
I remember when I was a kid my mom tried to get me into this series. But I never got into it 😅
i fell on this video because I was a fan of the books as a kid and kind of just randomly remembered they exist and wanted to confirm it. I read all the way to like, book 12 I think? it's been a while, and by the end I kind of just grew out of it. The books are a lot of fun, whimsy and have a lot of funny moments, from what I remember at least, although they do get kind of silly. Tara and the characters grow throughout the series, so even though she's 12 at first, a lot of the series surrounds her horny teenage years, and by the time I stopped reading she was like. 20, with kids, so. (the canonical reason for which being that she was too powerful for contraception, apparently. or something like that. This series is weird.) I think I found the show at some point when I was into the series, and I was just like. Oh, this is boring and doesn't really have any of the things I liked about the books, so I didn't watch more than 2 episodes. I sort of vaguely wandered around the french fandom spaces at the time, and i don't think ive seen many opinions on the show. People weren't mad about it existing, but it didn't add anything to the canon, and so it was kind of just ignored. There was this supposed movie in the works that never resulted in anything, but the fandom seemed to have cared a lot more about that hypothetical movie than the show. Also, basically all the series takes place almost entirely in Otherworld, like Tara just moves there in book 2 or 3 and only occasionally hops back to earth, like not even once a book. I think later in series her secret brother gets exiled there for doing war crimes. I also read some of the books in that werewolf series the author wrote. It's alright, although definitely more toned down than Tara Duncan. It's a silly series, not to be read too seriously (but it doesn't take itself that seriously so it's ok). My main criticism with it is that it gets like. Incredibly aggressively heterosexual at some point. Like, not in am mean spirited way, the author is just obsessed with pairing off every character, and it's always in a het way, although idk whether there's more books, and whether something changes about that. But it didn't become that much of a bother for me until like. book 10. Anyways, yeah, I recommend it.
The dude with the dark hair reminds me a lot of Martin Mystery. xD
The blue dragon looks familiar but that's really it. As a Greek Myth nerd I don't like that the siren is a mermaid. Have you've heard of Kaiju No. 8?
I watched the show in French it's literally my childhood and I loved it ,especially the opening which is amazing but I dislike the new 3d remake maybe it's because I miss that old year 2000 cartoon aesthetic 😅❤
This sounds like a show I'd love and hate hate because I wouldn't know what that's going on but love cuz I don't give a full blown explanation to people of their own world like most shows you to explain things
But there had to be a way to explain it without breaking immersion.
I mean, "Arcane" did it.
@@JabamiLain ya I loved arcane for that reason and also because I'm in love with jinx's personality
I know this video is old but... i read all the books when i was young and theyre still my favourite teenage books. I saw the show a while ago and i liked it. I believe the show is an adaptation of all the lore of all the books at once. The main storyline has nothing to do with the books but it is filled with little bits and pieces so the fans can have fun spotting them. Here are a few of them that i can remember:
-Robin the elf hitting on tara is because he is her boyfriend for a major part of the books.
-cal being bad at expressions is a reference to the dwarf people who cant understand double meanings and metaphors
-tara being bad at magic is because she discovered magic and started learning it when most of these people were already fully trained
-isabella's father is a dog because when he was human he was obsessed with immortality and found a spell to live forever but the downside was turning into a dog
-tara hunting monsters is a reference to the eighth book where she is temporarily banished to earth and has to become some sort of magical cop
Oh yeah, a lot of foreign book series from that time period got a cartoon series. Like Witch and Monster Allergy. I hated how they toned down the dark stuff from the book versions.