@@katherinealvarez9216 Because Plato talked about Atlantis as if a real place, including a story about how he heard about the place. And unlike much of the contemporary literature, Plato's mentions of Atlantis were never entirely lost. So you're looking at over two thousand years of people reading about the place, and for most of that time why _wouldn't_ you take it at face value? Yeah, you never met anyone who'd been there, but it was destroyed in Plato's story, so _that_ checks out. Add in its appeal to the ancient astronaut crew and some 'mystics' invoking the name to help build a provenance for their beliefs... and well, you can see the results.
They've been gaining appreciation with time. I daresay they're approaching the point where they're no longer underrated. When they being regarded not as cult classics, but actual classics.
This is an excellent case of showing why retelling an old story isn't inherently a bad thing and shouldn't be an insult. Yeah, this is Treasure Island in Space. So? That does not make it any lesser. Most Disney classics are iconic retellings of public domain stories. And this goes back to long before Walt. William Shakespeare was doing the same thing. Very little of his work was original in a purist sense, but he told the old stories so well they became the versions that lasted to this day. Not every retelling or reimaging works. Some actively make existing stories worse. But to inherently disregard it as an inferior tool for inferior storytelling is wrong.
Disney in this period especially had their own "young man" haircut. The hair is always up off the forehead with a longish bang on each side. This must have been considered rakish at the time.
I've been praying Treasure Planet or Atlantis getting representation for a Kingdom Hearts game for years (imagine my disappointment that it wasn't for KH3, and the world count being HALF of what was in its numbered predecessor). Because, Sweet Zombie Jesus, imagine a solar surfing mini-game or a boss battle with the freakin' Leviathan!
