Thank U Stars - The End Of The Road - January 2025
As many visitors to the Thank U Stars site will know, the site has been on long term hiatus for a while now. Officially we have never closed down
with it always pending a full rebuild to modern standards (I hear mobiles are a thing), and new features. But although it has been started several times in the background, it's just never been finished.
Sadly it is with a very heavy heart, I now have to concede this never will happen on health grounds, and I should warn from this point onwards things get very grim, so take a moment to brace yourselves before continuing.
In October 2022, a big hole was suddenly blown through my life when I was diagnosed with advanced stage cancer, something which had already spread widely by the time it was first uncovered. Despite battling on hard with the disease for several more years, in
2025 I was informed that we were out of options and I would soon lose the fight, also bringing to an end the future for here.
I have set the site up to stay online as an archive of the series as long as possible after I have stopped running, but it will only be sat here now
in an unchanging memorial status. And alas I will never get the chance to ever finish that last chapter of my Further Water fanfiction series now, so I can only ask you to rely on the very best of your own imagination on how you would have
liked to see things end for our heroes in my series.
We can never predict how life will go, and this definitely was not how I'd predicted mine to go or for the site to close. But I would like to thank everyone deeply who I've met or ever interacted with via the
Thank U Stars site over the years. You've all made such a real difference to my life over so many years.
~ Entei-rah, January 2025
Welcome to Thank U Stars
This website is a fansite devoted to Watership Down. What makes it unique, however, is that it primarily concentrates upon the animated series version from 1999/2000. Most fans of the book and original film have taken a very negative view of the series, but I liked it. If you're one of them, and are not going to be persuaded, all is not lost. There is still alot of stuff based upon the Nepenthe Film, to keep everyone happy.
Aside from the main site, there is my fanfiction subsite. This contains all the episodes from my 3 Further Water fanfiction series, entitled 3rd, 4th (would you believe it) 5th Water.
What's on this site
At present, this
site is one of the biggest places for picture galleries, and episode guides, and other information for the
series. There are also some things from the Nepenthe film here, as I compare the modern series with the more traditional film. Some larger, high quality images are available from both for use as Desktop Images. You can also find the multimedia section, featuring some short extracts of both film and series.
There is some original fan creativity on the site too. Firstly theres the fanart section, featuring some brilliant work by other Watership Down fans. There's also my fanfiction series, 3rd, 4th and 5th Water. Basically, the animated series had 2
seasons over 1999/2000, each with 13 episodes. There was a third series,
but it was never aired in the UK. I hadn't seen it, hence I
decided to create my own alternative virtual series 3, to try and complete
some of the unfinished storylines. Wrote between September 2002 and March 2003, this became known as 3rd Water. After the positive response I received from that, I decided to write a second series; 4th Water. Produced between June 2003 and January 2004, this didn't continue from the official series 3, although by the time I started it I did now know much of the official plot. Instead, it continued where 3rd Water left off. Now I am onto my third and final series 5th Water, continuing the adventures further, though it is currently on hiatus awaiting the long-delayed series finale, as I've not been much in the mood for writing for a while. Rest assured, it will be completed though! All of them can be accessed from the fanfiction subsite.Most importantly, Im going to make sure this
site is updated regularly, as there's nothing worse than an out-of-date site.
Remember to check back often - I usually update the site weekly.
Finally, the background music is an extract of a song called Thank You Stars, and is sang by Cerys Matthews. If you're the sort who doesn't like music loading on the homepage (It will be dropped in the relaunch, so enjoy whilst you can =;)), you can disable it for future visits by clicking Here. For more information on the Watership Down series, check out the background page, accesible from the menu on the left. If you dont see the menu, click here.
| Site Launched - 18/8/2002 Final Archive Date - 21/1/2025 |
