To "celebrate" Earth Day today Boomerang (Cartoon Network's classic-cartoons channel, if you forget) had a Captain Planet marathon... that cartoon is so awful that I even noticed how bad it was when I was a kid... yet somehow I watched parts of five episodes today... :(
The lesson I learned is that companies aren't just insensitive but actually WANT to destroy the planet itself because it is alive and actually cares about us and that every single "unnatural" thing we have ever made is bad for the planet, but fortunatly I don't have to do anything because a super hero is doing the job for me.
Yeah, that show really doesn't help awareness of environmental issues...
If anything, Captain Planet only made me more of a Republican in my youth, 'cause even when I was eight years old, the concept that anyone would go out of their way to cover the world in sewage was a ridiculous concept.
You know what show is REALLY bad? The Super Friends. Man, that show is just plain awful.
They have Superfriends on Boomerang. 11-12pm weeknights. It's really cheesy, and not very good (particularly when compared to much better more recent superhero cartoons like Batman: The Animated Series/The Adventures of Batman & Robin or Justice League that they also show...), but I think I'd rank Captain Planet lower... at least the Superfriend seems to be TRYING to be silly. :)
Quote:If anything, Captain Planet only made me more of a Republican in my youth, 'cause even when I was eight years old, the concept that anyone would go out of their way to cover the world in sewage was a ridiculous concept.
The problem is, in the real world, people do that simply out of not caring, not out of outright malice... the issues the show raised were all good ones, but characterizing destruction of the environment as the overt actions of evil people dedicated to destroying it is silly.
Quote:The lesson I learned is that companies aren't just insensitive but actually WANT to destroy the planet itself because it is alive and actually cares about us and that every single "unnatural" thing we have ever made is bad for the planet, but fortunatly I don't have to do anything because a super hero is doing the job for me.
Yeah, that show really doesn't help awareness of environmental issues...
Not really, no. :)
(Captain Planet is vulnerable, though... oil products are his weakness!)
Captain Planet had bad guys who ran factories that produced nothing at all aside from raw sewage and poisonous gases.
Yeah, and plots like "these two bad guys bought a time machine, went back in time to 1872, bought up all the land rights to the Grand Canyon, and are now in the present day using the Grand Canyon as a waste dumping site -- because buying the land rights back then gauranteed them those rights through all of the years in between, somehow! Yeah, now THAT makes sense... ah...
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Remember the episode with Captain Pollution? Or the one with the sewer rats.
The cartoon is a guilty pleasure!
I remember watching it when I was 7.
I was just talking about Captain Planet with some friends the other day and how it was the most god awful attempt to liberalize America's youth. It always pissed me off that the one stupid guy was an American. Fuckin' stereotypes...
Yeah, and how the Asian chick was good at math and the black kid was hung like a dead giraffe.
And the Native American guy has the power of Heart, whatever exactly that is supposed to mean...
... sending and recieving psychic messages or something? I don't know really... in one episode he saved the town by using his psychic powers to convince people to come with stuff to clean up the pollution before it sunk into the ground... erm... yeah.
Anyway, since I don't think I've ever heard of people actually LIKING this show, liberal or conservative, how the heck did it stay on the air for six seasons?
Maybe like how The Simpsons has been on the air for 18 years even though no one ever admits to liking anything after the eighth season or so.
I call it the "Secret Lover Syndrome".
I watched it cuz it was on before Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
I watched it as a kid because I had absolutely no sense of judgment. I always did think it was strange, however, that the show seemed to be anti-technology, and yet it was... y'know... on TV... which is technology.
I would watch it to just to masturbate to the russian chick.
'Oh Veeler, dunchu know you kant just alvays get vutchu vant. Zumtimes, you jast hav to zit back and enjoy the breeze.... VIND!!!!'
Pure eastern european hotness.
Considering your avatar Geno there's a certain irony, or should I not bother pointing that out?
Quote:Maybe like how The Simpsons has been on the air for 18 years even though no one ever admits to liking anything after the eighth season or so.
I call it the "Secret Lover Syndrome".
That's a good point... at least The Simpsons started out popular, though, and even if it got repetitive, never was truly awful like Captain Planet I'd say.
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Considering your avatar Geno there's a certain irony, or should I not bother pointing that out?
You mean the fact that Sideshow Bob is a TV character who once condemned TV to the point where he was willing to nuke Springfield?