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So I thought I'd pop in and see if anyone else here spent time with the GI Joe show.
Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.
Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.
Any GI Joe fans around here?
So I thought I'd pop in and see if anyone else here spent time with the GI Joe show.
Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.
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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.
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
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?
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Anyone got those new DVDs of the show? How are they?
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I thought for sure this thread would grow much bigger and faster then this.
Anyone got those new DVDs of the show? How are they?
I too am surprised how little action this thread is seeing.
Got Season 1, Part 2 (the second half of hte first season), which comes with three different audio options (5.1, 2.0, and "Original Broadcast") and interview with voice actors Bill Ratner, the man who gave us Flint (the guy with the beret) and Mary McDonald-Lewis, the woman who was Lady Jaye, and they talked about how the auditions for GI Joe were like an old Hollywood cattle call, with hundreds of voice actors lined up with scripts in "shaky hands". Mary McDonald-Lewis said she was originally reading for a much smaller part, but the voice director Wally Burr liked the sound of her voice and asked to be Lady Jaye, which she claims she got because Wally was impressed with how passionately she screamed "Yo Joe!" into the microphone. Bill Ratner said the key to his winning the role of Flint was his ability to grunt and groan and do various throat punishing straining noises, which proved to be a big part of the acting in GI Joe, since the Joes were forever getting into fist fights with Cobra operatives and what not.
The DVD for GI Joe the movie comes with retooled sounds, 12 GI Joe public service announcements (in which various GI Joes explain to kids the true meaning of life - or how to survive it) and two TV spots advertising the original GI Joe miniseries GI Joe: A Real American Hero (better known as "The MASS Device").
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
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?
LOL
I didn't realize there was a Joe movie in 87 (where was I? Hmmmm...Oh yes, I was in hell, otherwise known as a Vocational/Technical High School). I had only watched the tv series that was on around the same time as the Transformers tv show, although I was quite traumatized by Prime's death. Rodimus Prime was a freaking loser.
*Edit* Also, I thought the Baroness was the hottest chick in that show!
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I did have (and still do have) most of the first few 80s series of the GI Joe toys. I bought more of those than say Transformers mainly because of the cost. I faithfully watched the show but even as a kid also found it silly that no one ever died. I guess I was spoiled by Robotech, a series in which even major characters could kick off at any time.
The GI Joe comic series from Marvel was, IMHO, superior to the show in many ways and I followed it for quite some time after I stopped watching the show. Anyone else read the comic?
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The GI Joe comic series from Marvel was, IMHO, superior to the show in many ways and I followed it for quite some time after I stopped watching the show. Anyone else read the comic?
I've looked for the GI Joe comics but can never find them. I've talked to a few people who have read them, and they make me feel like I'm some kind of sinner for not being a die hard fan of Snake Eyes.
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There really were some cool stories in the Marvel series. A lot of time of course was spent on Snake Eyes and Stormshadow, but I mean heck- they were *ninjas* man! And it WAS the 80s!
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Originally posted by: greencapt
The GI Joe comic series from Marvel was, IMHO, superior to the show in many ways and I followed it for quite some time after I stopped watching the show. Anyone else read the comic?
I've looked for the GI Joe comics but can never find them. I've talked to a few people who have read them, and they make me feel like I'm some kind of sinner for not being a die hard fan of Snake Eyes.
If they don't have them, nobody does
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