The Mysterious Cities of Gold

Back again and what is the special occasion? The Mysterious Cities of Gold... SEASON 2. AWESOME!!! Ehum, got a bit carried away. Quick check trough the archive tells me I haven't spoken that much about the series (maybe a relief after my over observation of a certain game series). So now I got a subject to talk about again. First of, the reason for this peaked interest is this trailer (*WARNING* Contain ending spoiler for the original series):

It gets you pumped does it not? Finally, after 30 years we get the continuing saga and all the characters are there. We get Esteban, Zia, Tao, Mendoza, Sancho and Pedro for the main cast and a cameo from Mayuka (the old man in blue that opened the stone temple for the man in red in the beginning, or at least I think its him since they look the same although Mayuka only appeared in one episode, ep. 13 for those interested, and was trapped in Machu Picchu).  The interesting parts is that the setting begins once again in Barcelona, Spain like the original series, but instead of continuing west we go to the east, China. We also get a main villain right from the start (or so it seems, the first season didn't give us the main antagonists until the last 11 episodes although we had adversaries stalking the heroes during the whole course but they were just greedy).

And then it's the Golden Condor:

 The only thing I remember from this series as a child was how they found the Condor in episode 17, climbing on the top of it. My parents didn't understand what I talked about and believed I dreamt it all up and so it could have been until one night when I was seventeen (I'm just guessing, I don't remember when exactly) my dad wakes me up after he went through our VHS collection (the link is for those young enough that doesn't know what an VHS-tape is) and found the very last episode of the series. A half hour later I sat with tears in my eyes as the dramatic ending transpired before me, without knowing the full story it still felt in my heart. Will this season come even close to the original or will it fall flat? Probably have to wait till the english dub comes out next year or something like that, but I will gladly wait for the moment.