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Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea (or in their native French The Engulfed Worlds) is at the very least interesting. It has some good action moments but when I watched this show, just after our cable company FINALLY started carrying Nickelodeon, I had trouble following this show. Maybe now I’d have better luck, I don’t know.

From what I can gather the show involved the world of Arkadia, whose artificial sun, the Tehra, was “failing” and I was never sure what that meant other than it was about to go poof. The Arkadians had ended up in their underground world after a great cataclysm on the surface, so the kids believed that people from the surface were somehow the key to restoring Tehra, and created an artificial woman names Arkana to reach the surface. The series followed her, two surface children named Matt and Rebecca (because going to children was a good idea) and another escapee from the underground “strata” world, the titular Spartakus.

I mostly watched this show because of the action and the sentient vehicle, Tehrig, and I promise you I knew none of these spellings until researching this article. Then there were the comic relief characters Bic & Bac. I never understood them. Literally, but I blame the dubbing for that. I never really understood the strata idea geographically. I had learned strata in science class, so I did get that, but was each layer of the earth supposed to be a different world? Are the layers really big enough to hold an entire world? (I didn’t think so.) And how did the pirates fit into it? Yes, there were pirates as the main recurring threat who of course had their own pirate TV station, raising another question.

But this intro has gone long enough. We’re supposed to be talking intros and this show actually had two, not counting the original French and other languages. Originally I was going to make this a “not so favorite” intro because I didn’t remember enjoying them. Hearing them again, however, I take a more neutral view of them..but I still planned this article so here we go.

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