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Originally posted by: JediSage
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I just got done subjecting myself to the CGI laden GI Joe: Valor VS Venom and while it was not the worst thing I ever sat through, it could not match the hand drawn GI Joe cartoons of the 1980s that dominated my childhood.

So I thought I'd pop in and see if anyone else here spent time with the GI Joe show.

I grew up with that version of Joe. I was really in awe when they were doing 5 part story arcs, like the weather control machine, etc; while other shows were doing one shots (except Transformers). The one thing that I could never really get over was that nobody ever died on the show. Everyone was the worst shot on the planet.

Funny you should mention that, Jedi Sage. In the original script for GI Joe: The Movie (1987), Duke (the rugged blonde guy who kinda looked like classic vintage Aquaman) was supposed to die, but the death of Optimus Prime in the Transformers movie upset a lot of kids, which led to unhappy parents, so the GI Joe people changed Duke's death to a coma, even though if you watch the scene [without audio] and just go by the reactions of Lt. Falcon (Duke's half brother), Scarlett (the jaunty red head) and General Hawk, then it's quite clear that Duke is dead. Now whenever I think of that scene and the coma line, a voice in my head screams "The man is clearly dead!"

And this all goes back to the fact that production actually started first on the GI Joe movie, but GI Joe ran into a series of production problems and delays, allowing the Transformers film to finish first, so release dates were swapped, giving fans time to freak out over the death of the great one (Optimus Prime), thus short changing Duke and GI Joe, leaving some fans to theorize that maybe if GI Joe's movie had gotten released first and kids freaked out over Duke dying, Optimus Prime might have been spared (although they did bring Prime back, which I guess makes him the Jesus Christ of Autobots).

Isn't it great that you have me to provide you with this useless trivia?