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As some of you might know, I've been collecting the DVD sets. Mainly for the accessories (the MASS Device). Well, my wife sent me the DVD's to watch while I'm stuck here. I watched the MASS device and noted how corny and cheesy it was. (I remember as a kid watching the Cartoons and thinking how unrealistic they were.) Then I sat back and watched the Revenge of Cobra and Arise Serpentor, Arise. The more I watched, the less I enjoyed and thought, "My God, Hasbro signed off on this crap? " I finally got to "Pyramid of Darkness" and I had to quit. I couldn't finish watching them. It was too painful.

I can suspend my disbelief only so much! Water Robots made of water? A "entry of death" with spiked walls, buzz saws in the floor and a crazed robot that when a parakeet says "Hail Cobra Commander, the great snake rules forever" goes away and lets you through like nothing happened? What about everybody around the area? This stuff is normal for Cobra? No wonder they can't win a battle! Pink Florescent mud that is translucent and bubbles but isn't hot? A Javelin that creates bubbles? Fatal Fluffies?

Jumped the Shark? this whole thing jumped the Ocean....kinda like that Michael Jordan commercial... "Off Jupiter, around the rings of Saturn, off the moon.....nothin but net!" C'mon! I know it was written for kids, but are kids that gullible? I mean I watched it as a kid and thought it was hokey, I just watched to see how the animated Characters stacked up to their comic book persona's. Am I alone in this? I mean, there is a pleasure derived from watching the cartoons, if only to see our favorite characters in action, but God, these Cartoons are SOOOOO bad! Is it me?

And all of this BEFORE I start hitting all of their SNAFU's using my military logic (Like everyone in GI Joe can fly a SkyStriker? Or a Slugger can shoot down aircraft?) Please someone tell me I'm not just a cynical old man with no sense of nostalgia? Tell me that in the Grand scale of things, the plot devices in the cartoon were so stupid they didn't even catch the attention of 8 year olds!

Anybody...anyone......???

12-10-2008, 08:29 AM	#1
ender098 Veteran Offline --> Posts: 3,665 --> Join Date: Dec 2005	The Cartoons; Were they that silly? As some of you might know, I've been collecting the DVD sets. Mainly for the accessories (the MASS Device). Well, my wife sent me the DVD's to watch while I'm stuck here. I watched the MASS device and noted how corny and cheesy it was. (I remember as a kid watching the Cartoons and thinking how unrealistic they were.) Then I sat back and watched the Revenge of Cobra and Arise Serpentor, Arise. The more I watched, the less I enjoyed and thought, "My God, Hasbro signed off on this crap? " I finally got to "Pyramid of Darkness" and I had to quit. I couldn't finish watching them. It was too painful. I can suspend my disbelief only so much! Water Robots made of water? A "entry of death" with spiked walls, buzz saws in the floor and a crazed robot that when a parakeet says "Hail Cobra Commander, the great snake rules forever" goes away and lets you through like nothing happened? What about everybody around the area? This stuff is normal for Cobra? No wonder they can't win a battle! Pink Florescent mud that is translucent and bubbles but isn't hot? A Javelin that creates bubbles? Fatal Fluffies? Jumped the Shark? this whole thing jumped the Ocean....kinda like that Michael Jordan commercial... "Off Jupiter, around the rings of Saturn, off the moon.....nothin but net!" C'mon! I know it was written for kids, but are kids that gullible? I mean I watched it as a kid and thought it was hokey, I just watched to see how the animated Characters stacked up to their comic book persona's. Am I alone in this? I mean, there is a pleasure derived from watching the cartoons, if only to see our favorite characters in action, but God, these Cartoons are SOOOOO bad! Is it me? And all of this BEFORE I start hitting all of their SNAFU's using my military logic (Like everyone in GI Joe can fly a SkyStriker? Or a Slugger can shoot down aircraft?) Please someone tell me I'm not just a cynical old man with no sense of nostalgia? Tell me that in the Grand scale of things, the plot devices in the cartoon were so stupid they didn't even catch the attention of 8 year olds! Anybody...anyone......???