Look back on the Mysterious Cities of Gold

So now it has ended, a series that started 40 years ago finally finished. Still open for continuation if someone picks it up, but we finally have seen the seven cities of gold. I wrote about my first memories of the series back in 2012 when they announced the continuation series. Saw them on cable TV back in the early 90's, but only had memory of one episode as the kids climbed the golden condor in the episode that introduced it, and then in the early 2000's dad found the VHS we had recorded the last episode on. I watched it several times and it had Eldorado, the solar reactor and the tale of Mu and Atlantis destroying each other in war, pretty much a commentary on the cold war and the threat of world war 3. The images of that particular scene was haunting. And at university I could watch the whole series on Youtube back in 2006-2007 and then in 2007 they released the DVD collection which I still got.

And in 2014 me and dad discovered that they would show the second season on Nickelodeon that we watched after work or in my case the day at the assigned unemployment centre. Being poisoned by black mould, having no job, having a depression and being forced to move back into my parents house was a pretty downer feeling. That sense of childlike nostalgia and wonder helped me through that dark period. Season 3 and 4 obviously don't have that emotional connection (although, I've watched season 4 at a tumultuous time at my job so it might be after the fact). 

They might have sparked my interest in pre-colonisation civilisations of South America, it talked to my interest of history and the ideas of Eldorado and Atlantis have always have interested me, just look at my enjoyment of The Journeyman Project 3. It has it flaws and it's clear the first season is a completely different thing than the others and the retcons is not the best (If you needed artefacts from all the cities... what was the purpose of the first city? It had the reactor, but I don't think they got that from the tunnel, maybe should have used it as the engine for Ambrosius ship if they had thought it through and bring it from there giving a reason to bring back Mayuka), but with the emotional connection I have with series and the ending being decent enough (it's no Rise of Skywalker at least) I feel it's worth the watch.