Talk:The Cyborg Whale/@comment-831485-20150401032429

I'm one of the few Kaiju fans that seems to love this cartoon.

Yes, it's a pale imitation of the Japanese films which inspired it, but as a straight adventure series, it gets the job done. And many of the original monsters were a lot fun, being the perfect combo of the colorful Toho AND Hanna-Barbera character design aesthetics.

With that said, "The Cyborg Whale" is on the surface a lame one (basically Godzilla vs. a runaway machine), but also illustrates another element the show was secretly good at; gaining its episode ideas from paranormal, fantasy, and scientific trends of the late 1970's.

H.P. Lovecraft, renewed interest in Greek Mythology, time travel, Atlantis, bizarre undersea phenomenon, Egyptian mysticism, cryptozoology, ancient astronauts and other aliens, alternate dimensions, and practically anything else Arthur C. Clarke and "In Search Of" were showcasing at the time.

And this includes deep sea exploration and aquatic robotic rovers, which was quite a popular subject at the time. And not only inspired this episode and its title robot, but also many other science fiction movies, and even other Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the time.

We've got to give "The Cyborg Whale" credit were its due, for being a unique, scientifically plausible Godzilla opponent. Equally as mundane, but still, you get the point.