Oh, poor villains! I remember that this animated series was shown on Ostankino, when this channel was still broadcasting in our country. I was then in the second grade, and after the extension, after the hated rhythm (the most incomprehensible and stupid subject in all our school years!) rushed home so as not to be late for the new series of “Sleepstone” (as the series was called in that translation).
He really delighted me. It was not like domestic cartoons, nor Disney (which we were already familiar with thanks to the same “Ostankino”), nor the American animated series a la Tom and Jerry or Woody Woodpecker. It seemed to me much more beautiful and much more interesting than them; perhaps it was the first fantasy work of my life. The adventures of noops and waats seemed to me incomparably more dynamic, dangerous and fascinating than all sorts of sugary “Duck Stories”.
I watch it a little in the morning when I have a little time before I go to work. I remember my childhood... As a child, I saw only a small part of the series. And it turns out he's pretty sweet too.
And it turned out that negative characters cause more interest and sympathy than positive ones. This is often the case with cartoons of our childhood: we begin to look less biased at characters. Good heroes here are very sweet, very correct and respectable. Boring. Even describing them is boring: a stereotypical good wizard, a reasonable girl, a cheerful lad, a brave forest fighter ... In general, a completely ordinary set of good people.
But the villains - or rather, the servants of the Glavgad, the Urpneas - clumsy knackers (in general, not particularly angry in fact), who are struggling to fulfill the tasks of the master, but they are never lucky, and they always spoil and fail. No matter how hard they try, and still in the end, the order will not be fulfilled, and the next invention will be ruined, and in the end they will receive tumaks from both positive heroes and their bosses. How can you not feel sorry for them?
By the way, both the style of drawing and types of Urpnea are very similar to the Romans from Asterix.
But the Glavgada is not particularly interesting - an ordinary merciless monster without the slightest positive features. Not even funny or caricatured (like Disney villains).
The most significant drawback of the series, in my opinion, is the small variety of plots. Series are generally unrelated, and many of them (within a season) can be watched in any order. And the scenarios are almost the same: the Glavgad commands to get the Stone of Dreams, a mad scientist creates a new crazy invention, dorky soldiers go for the Stone, but everything fails - not so much because of the resistance of positive heroes, but because of their own carelessness.
And you always worry about these soldiers, and they seem to be the main characters.