Dear friends,
I was trolling around on various websites last night, looking for something interesting to watch, when I came upon a web series called The Adventures of One EskimO [sic]. I really liked it, so I thought I would share it with you. Here are two addresses where you can find it and information about it. I actually watched it at the second address, the WB one, and I don’t know if you can watch the whole series at the first one, but the first one has information about the band and backstory and such. So I suggest that you check both out.
http://www.findlittlefeather.com
http://www.thewb.com/shows/one-eskimo
Basically, the series, each episode of which is about 3-4 minutes long, is an animated story of two characters, Little Feather and One EskimO, who meet, fall in love, and are separated by an evil villain called Top Hat. Most of the story is about One EskimO’s attempts to rescue Little Feather.
Although the plot line may sound familiar, there are things about this series that really make in unique and a pleasure to watch. The soundtrack is great; the songs are thoughtful, pensive, endearing, and they match the visual story really well. One song that really stood out to me was “Chosen One,” which was the soundtrack to an episode in the middle, maybe the 5th or 6th one. This music is not the canned bubble-gum crap designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator; this is music composed by real people, and it has a sort of universal appeal to it without being trite. It is heartwarming without being too precious. I think that the band itself might be called One EskimO because, when I went to the findlittlefeather.com site and clicked on “band,” it took me away from that site to another one that was called One EskimO. I encourage you to find out about them, too.
The music is great, and the visuals are also really sweet. The animation is touching…some might find it a little sentimental, but, even though I can really be cynical about life and romance, this story and how it was depicted (with recurring themes of holding onto stars and true love defeating evil) really found its way through my armor of sarcasm and drew me into itself. The colors, the different landscapes–especially the one under the sea–the journeys into the sky, the animals that portray the band (a giraffe, a penguin, and some kind of simian creature that might be an orangutan) are so beautifully depicted that they captured my sympathy and had me rooting for them from the very first episode on. I was so enraptured by the story that I watched the entire thing in one sitting. It doesn’t take very long since each episode is so short, but I watched it right before I went to bed, and I couldn’t stop in the middle in order to go to sleep; I had to watch it right to the end.
I encourage you to watch this series; the animation coupled with the music really create a unique experience. And I must say that I think it’s best watched late at night, when the worries of the day are gone and you can settle down to enjoy something magical and supernatural. Enjoy.
