Welcome to I Would Revisit/Abandon, a new regular SciFi Squad feature where we will take a science fiction or fantasy universe, franchise or series and examine whether or not we would like to see more of it or if the door should be locked up and the key thrown away. Expect new entries every Wednesday and Friday and although you're safe right here, be warned that potential spoilers lurk beyond the jump!

This week, we'll be re-thinking those plane tickets to...


Place: The planet New Texas. It's just like old Texas, except newer. Also, planet-sized.




People/Characters: Well, howdy, buckaroo! We's got a whole mess'a colorful yokels down on New Texas. We gots us a Marshall with the eyes of a hawk, speed of a puma, strength of a bear, and ears of the wolf -- Marshall Bravestarr! We gots us a horse what walks around on his hindlegs and such, name of Thirty-Thirty. But there's some unfriendly types too -- namely that old coot Tex Hex and his cronies. YEEEEE-HAWWWWWW!!!

What Makes It Unique: Take all of the Old West tropes of a sci-fi show like Firefly, then add He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. If that sounds both terrible AND cool, then you might be a redneck Bravestarr fan.

Verdict: Abandon New Texas forever, just like Mattel and Filmation did.

Reason: While I admit that I'd love to live in a world with bipedal cyborg horses, the Bravestarr universe is not that world. In a time when all toys and cartoons from the 1980s are getting a revival, there's a reason Bravestarr stirs as must interest as a tumbleweed across a dusty plain -- he's lame. The action figures were gigantic and ridiculously expensive at the time, due to the Lazer Tag-like technology that they used to shoot each other, and the cartoon was He-Man with cowboys. Let me say that again -- HE-MAN. WITH COWBOYS.