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"Lavender Castle, a place of legend, fabled right across the universe. This is our quest: to find it!" |
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Captain Thrice, Opening narration |
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Lavender Castle is a part Stop Motion, part CGI children's Sci-Fi series, created by Rodney Matthews and produced by Gerry Anderson.
It follows the adventures of the crew of the Paradox, led by Captain Thrice, on their quest to find the legendary Lavender Castle and prevent Big Bad Dr Agon from destroying it.
The crew of the Paradox include Captain Thrice, his walking stick which was brought to life during a previous encounter with Lavender Castle, Isambard (Engineer), Roger (Pilot), Lyca (Doctor), Sir Squeakalot (Ship's robot) and Sproggle (Navigator).
Tropes[]
- Batman Can Breathe in Space
- Big Bad: Dr Agon.
- Clip Show: The last episode, Birds of a Feather, which has the villains recalling how they've tried and failed to defeat the Paradox.
- Deus Ex Machina: Lavender Castle itself sometimes saves the crew from otherwise inescapable situations.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Captain Thrice has a third eye on his nose.
- Freaky Friday Flip: Brought about by a cosmic cloud.
- Genius Loci: Lavender Castle might be one of these.
- Mental Time Travel: In A Stitch in Time.
- Percussive Maintenance: Isambard often applies this to the Paradox's engine.
- Pirate: Short Fred Ledd.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Dr Agon and Short Fred Ledd's parrot Tin Lizzy have these. Happens temporarily to Sir Squeakalot in "Traitor" after he is brainwashed by Tin Lizzy.
- Star-Killing: Dr Agon does this.
- Third Person Person: Sproggle.
- Unrealistic Black Hole: In Birds Of Prey. It causes anything which goes into it to either shrink or grow.