80s weekday cartoons are known for a lot of things--selling toys, the inability of the characters to hit one another w/their guns--but romance ain't one of them. When we do see it, it's often clumsy and ham-fisted (Flint and Lady Jaye I'm looking right at you). Here it's not exactly Harlequin material, but the doomed love affair between Shipwreck and the titular Mara has a bit of substance to it. For an 80s cartoon that is.
Everything else is pretty middle-tier Joe stuff, but the "mature" romance lifts it a notch.
Everything else is pretty middle-tier Joe stuff, but the "mature" romance lifts it a notch.
