![]() ![]() They wanted outlandish colorful characters and crazy asian aesthetic superheroes. Kids didn't WANT a bunch of military chic dudes. This to say nothing about Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and Disney Channel throwing all kinds of weird stylistic stuff on tv. Then you had sailor moon and all of the anime beginning to come in. You had the X-Men coming out with a new show and Batman as well and those also had movies with multiple toylines. You had Pokemon and almost as many monster shows. You had Power Rangers and like a dozen knockoffs and derivatives. Yeah and once you look at what the mid to late 90's were like it makes way more sense. As a die hard Joe fan, I never considered snake eyes to Merritt his own origin story, let alone any lines to be said since he couldn't talk. And now, kids just play games on tablets and don't stimulate their imagination the way we did as kids. ![]() The 80's had the best run of toys the world has ever seen. Those turtles were awesome, but they too died out at the same time. They brought the same style offering weapons, blimp, a van and technodrome. If I recall history, it was the Ninja turtles that killed GIJoe. They also had a toy for every environment, like snow mobile, boats and subs and did I mention space ships?ĭon't get me wrong, Transformers were fucking amazing, but the Joe's play value was so much more. They also had bases and space stations.Īll Joe's could be posed like a real person and that elastic that gave out made for surgery and mixing of Pants. All Kinds of guns, cool build your own vehicles and planes and the legendary aircraft carrier that was bigger than a coffee table. If it can't capture at least some of that original fire, then to the audiences, what even is the point?ĭamn, they still sold Joe's in the 90's? I remember that coming to an end in 88. When they make GI Joe the complex, interesting, Real American Hero that the fans want they'll have something that makes money. Throw the whole thing out and start over from fresh cloth. No soft-reboots, no intra-versal nods, nothing. They need to take a couple years off and pull a Nolan's Batman on the franchise. This wrongness is why fans hate these films and won't even go watch one that admittedly looks fun even though it's about the most interesting character. Snake-Eyes, an extension of this original film, has this wrongness in its DNA. While I get the reasoning behind doing this, it was the wrong thing to do *from the start*. ![]() ![]() The "America, fuck yeah!"-ism was completely thrown out in favor of a pan-global something anti-terrorist force. There are many, many reasons why it sucks, of course, but the main thing is this: It wasn't the GI Joe that became popular in the 80s, and didn't even try to be. It was way farther ahead of its time than a GI Joe comic should have been.īut then we've got the film series. If you can find it, download a PDF of Issue #21, "Silent Interlude", an issue dedicated to Snake-Eyes that *has no dialogue*. I thought it was just something I enjoyed because "America, fuck yeah!" at the time, but I went back a few years ago and re-read the original run, and it was even better than I thought. There were no two-dimensional characters even the most ludicrous ones were given enough attention that the sheer goofiness started to make sense the main characters had complex and morally intriguing plot lines the main story arc itself was epic. GI Joe's Marvel comics series, it should be pointed out, we incredibly adult in its themes and very, very well written. ![]()
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