Greetings!

I liked what I saw in the movie trailer for the most part. But then again, trailers can often be better than the actual movie...they are designed to catch attention and this one certainly did with me. What I didn't like about the trailer are the little details.. destro is so short.. not the big huge dude like the figures represent.. felt more like evil robocop corporate ceo. Cobra Commander as The Doctor also seems lame. To me I would've liked it better to keep Cobra Commander's origins a mystery. No used car salesman, no 1000 year old reptilian scientist, just "who was he before cobra?" kinda background. Keep it open ended that way he could be anyone... a politician, a rich billionare, anyone could become cobra commander.

I also didn't care for the design of the vipers. They looked like sand-vipers which I never really cared for. To me, the silver faceplace viper style is a viper. That battle suit can be state-of-the-art even in today's world.

The baroness looked hot, and scarlett too. The new joe uniforms visually looked cool to me, yet because it's so uniformed, it didn't seem Joe to me. Each member in the Joe team is a specialist, and therefore the outfits are all different.. each designed on the need of the specialist. The uniform made them all look cookie-cutter.

What's this about Breaker being the hacker/IT guy? Granted communications is a subset of telecommunications and telecommunications is a subset of IT, but I -- a software engineer -- find it hard to accept Breaker being the end-all jack-of-all-trades comm/hack/IT guy.

As for multiple roles, it does make sense that Hasbro is trying to cut cornors by having the movie characters enhanced with traits from other Joe characters. I really think keep the Joe team small for this one movie, like when GI Joe ARAH first came out.. the team was small and made do with what they had. They can always do another movie with newer characters. But keep it tight and simple and true.

Power suits are okay with me, it's supposed to be how we're headed anyway. Just don't make them superman suits. Skin-tight latex body suit makes sense for certain things.. they are excellent for covert/sneaking around in because they are noiseless, but certainly not practical for every mission.

The whole trend to re-imagine a brand seems to be commonplace recently. I was first deeply annoyed when Harmony Gold chosed to re-imagine Robotech (I'm a big time Robotech fan) when there wasn't truly a need to do so. With GI Joe, the story line with ARAH is fantastic, the formula obviously worked. Changing too much and then you have a fork in the story lines.. two camps, the classic and the film. There's enough branching of so many Joe storylines that it's confusing. Classic GI Joe verses the Intruders, GI Joe verses COBRA, Sigma 6, Sunbow cartoon, those other cartoons, Cobra-la, battleforce 2000, etc. Now the film line.

Keep the classic ARAH storyline, a re-telling but true to the original formula.

And it looks like some super weapon that grows/destroys the tower. The underwater arctic battle looks interesting. I really need to post about my Joeverse.. because for me, my Cobra base is in the arctic.

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