Most of the television programmes of the 1980s were interested only in marketing toys ( though He-Man was good in its own right) this series captivated young audiences with a story line out of the ordinary
The story centres on three young children Esteban, Zia and Tao the former two through their families have necklaces that lead to the Cities of Gold or El Dorado as its commonly called. This intrigues a Spanish Maverick called Mendoza who alongside other greedy and competing Europeans use the children for there own purposes in their adventures in South America.
Mendoza however warms to the children and encounters the great civilisations and mysteries of South America some of them so remote or lost to the mysteries of time not known to other Europeans combined with mystic and intrigue making the series dynamic with great music and animation.
The minor faults about the series in my opinion is that I think Zia and Esteban should of got together and an adaption of this South American odyssey to the source from where it came The King's Fifth adding more of a colonialist element between Europeans and natives expressed with Esteban and Zia's relationship.
The story centres on three young children Esteban, Zia and Tao the former two through their families have necklaces that lead to the Cities of Gold or El Dorado as its commonly called. This intrigues a Spanish Maverick called Mendoza who alongside other greedy and competing Europeans use the children for there own purposes in their adventures in South America.
Mendoza however warms to the children and encounters the great civilisations and mysteries of South America some of them so remote or lost to the mysteries of time not known to other Europeans combined with mystic and intrigue making the series dynamic with great music and animation.
The minor faults about the series in my opinion is that I think Zia and Esteban should of got together and an adaption of this South American odyssey to the source from where it came The King's Fifth adding more of a colonialist element between Europeans and natives expressed with Esteban and Zia's relationship.