Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron

This was truly among the best shows of the 90s. It was dark, yet humorous, the characters were awesome (except Commander Feral) and even the villains were enjoyable. I enjoyed all the major villains of the show and enjoyed Callie Briggs always in need of rescue and I am a major Razor/Callie supporter. You're probably wondering why my rating is 9 out of 10 then? The answer is because this show was canceled way too soon. In fact several episodes unused and we'll never get too see them. There was never even an official explanation to the show's sudden cancelation, though I heard Ted turner canceled it for being too violent.moreless

in a world of cats The Swat Kat's are a team of ex police officers that fight crime with snazzy gadgets and a super sonic hyper jet. It's a pretty fantastic show in style, writing and ambition. Great characters, awesome personalities and even better villains. It's sad that a show like this was so short lived when others horrible shows were allowed to live on for years.

This is another one of my relics from my childhood, that I find like a well preserved aircraft is ageless and still has the power to make itself fly; think of this show as "Batman" mixed in with "Top Gun".



The plot was a typical comic book like plot but it was more in it's execution that mattered. The animation style I feel is great, I really like how they created the city making it dark giving it almost a noir like feeling. But most of all created kinda of a alternate world that does feel belevable. I even like how the cats are animated, most notably the female cats that actually look the most human and strangely attractive whether that's a good thing or bad I don't know (though I don't feel guilty). Best of all the action/flight sequences are just great, they are well chorigraphed and cordinated you really have the sense of flight. I even love the fact that the S.W.A.T. Kats invent their own weapons, they use different kinds of missles and bullets, I won't tell you what they are since seeing them used is one of the best things about the show, but I will say that their great because their non cleche/generic weapons each weapon is always a different supprise and puts the S.W.A.T. Kats a step ahead of the game much as "Batman" or "James Bond's" gadgets do. The music is awdsome it has one of the most memorable animated show theme songs I've heard.



The characters are good, T-Bone was always my favorate, he is sort of the most physical, he is a hot shot pilot, rebelious, arrogant, aggresive, a bit short tempered though always fun. Razor is the one with the brains he's uncanily similar to Peter Parker/Spiderman, just like that character he's inventive he's practically the one that made the weapons, he's got fast agility and can climb/stick to walls, and also for some reason has magnitism to the ladies many toward the character Callie.



Supporting characters are unfortunately few mainly because I didn't find many strong ones let alone memorable which is the minor weakness of the show for me, though two for me stood out. Felina, I know a lot of fan had a crush on Callie but to me it was always this character because she was just a strong female charcter let alone a fem fatale. She's agressive, rebelious so she's not afraid to disobey orders or do things her way, feisty, has a dry sense of wit, has a lot of guts she's not afraid of facing danger, and last she hot (what is T-Bone's problem hit on her damn it) she has the hairstyle like Rogue from "X-Men" though only disapointment never knew what she looked like without the paramilitary uniform; okay I might be getting into weard territory moving on.



Callie is okay, a lot of fans like the charcter so do I but she's just not an absolute favorate of mine. I find her charcter mildly developed rather two dimentional, she just doesn't have a real role/function in the show, she just seems to serve a a mere device to supply the S.W.A.T. Kats and us with information and serve as a damsel in distress nothing wrong with that but it feels a bit pointless since theres no chemestry between Razor and her going on.



There are good villians, their typical comic book like villians. Though my favorate is always Dark Kat he's sort of a "Dr. Strange" like supervillian since he uses black magic to try and take over the city and thourt the S.W.A.T. Kats, he also has a pritty creepy voice to boot. I just think that's cool it's technology against magic.



Storylines are good and some are supprising well writen and aren't afraid to be dark, serious or become emotional like one of my favorate episode was when T-Bone is thinking of quiting his role because he accidently caused a fatal injury of an innocent bystander. It really reminds us that this show isn't screwing around it's playing for keeps.



The only bad thing about the show is no supprise, it's life span was cut too soon for no good reason. Which was too bad because I really saw this show going even further, may'be make things more dark and serious, or even develop the characters more. But the other bad thing it's not out on DVD yet, please get it out right now, I've been waiting a long time make my wait pay off.



Well all the same S.W.A.T. Kats flys high.moreless

This is one of those shows which I think it was cancelled before its time... Maybe because the series was ahead of its time. Nowadays, this series would have been considered just another series, but back then, it was one of the coolest things that was ever produced by Hanna-Barbera before it was bought by Cartoon Network. The animation was amazingly cool, and the soundtracl was amazing. Guitar cords really are the best ay to get a cool sound for ana action show like this one. The characters were very cool, and the story itself was very good too. The way T-Bone and Razor ended up saving the city every episode was just amazing. Plus, the supporting cast was also one of the best ones ever seen in a cartoon show of the 90's. The voice cast was perfect, that's all I can say about it. Too bad the series did not went on, but, well, at least there is still the chance that one of these days, the Turbokat might be seen in air again, if they decide to make a remake of the series. 10 out of 10!moreless

Personaly, I have never heard of a person who wouldn't like SWAT kats.Anyway here's my average review:



Title: good.



Theme song: perfect. Everyone agrees that those quitar chords are awsome!



Story: two ex-enforcers who become vigilantes. What more would you like ;) ?



Characters: the main ones- T-Bone and Razor. There are a bunch of other colourful ones for every occaision.



Humour: :)



Unfortunally, this show was cancelled before it's time, and it's one of the biggest mysteries to us fans why did that happened. But, SWAT kats are as popular as always and there are rumours of plans to bring back this marvelous show. Yay SWAT kats, long live the SK :)moreless