By Your Powers Combined...
I'm currently listening to: "This is a Rebel Song" by No Use for a Name on LAUNCHcast
This morning as I was cleaning the refrigerator doors at work, I felt it hit me. I miss Captain Planet. You know, that 90's cartoon that was all about brainwashing kids into putting a stop to pollution, poaching, and other bad stuff for mother earth (embodied in the form of Gaia). It was about leadership, friendship, and creating a entity to stop pollution in a tight bodysuit! Yeah!
Am I the only one who would sneak downstairs to watch Wheeler? Am I the only one who thought it was a bit odd that Ma-Ti would be the one to recieve the heart ring?
Even the villans still managed to be slick (as in oil slick). I mean, just look at Dr Blight(voiced by Meg Ryan). Looten Plunder looks sumpin' like a pimp. Heh, well, sometimes. Lime green doesn't seem to suit him... Purple, maybe.
It did have a reasonable run between the two series, I suppose. The second never really seemed to make it off the ground. I don't know if it'll make a third revival anytime soon. And if they even try to make a movie, I think I'll cry... mostly because I don't want to see Brad Pitt manipulate the elements of nature. But, let's face it, it's owned by AOL/Time Warner. Which means it's either tucked away for a rainy-day revival or will never see daylight again.
For example, the Captain Planet store is down. I wonder for how long. Well, I'm not really all that suprised.
If you pop by the comments on IMDB, they have less-than-favorable things to say about it. Heh, I'm sure you'd find the same for "James Bond Jr" (he was a sexy little kid- just my age at the time), or even the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". When you're a kid, you don't care. You just remember the concept.
That is, if you can sit through it.
THE POWER IS YOURS!
4 Comments:
I remember that show. I didn't watch it, but I remember it. I saw bits and pieces of James Bond, Jr. and loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. M is a big fan of TMNT. We got a DVD at Wal*Mart back in April of the first four or five episodes for about $10. Very interesting...
5:55 PM
Now I miss it, dammit.
11:16 AM
Moues, you know you weren't the only one. Remember how I would occasionally jump up and acted out the chant at the very end of the opening. God, I must have looked crazy. I hadn't known that there even was a website. I always wanted Kwame's ring, but that's a different story altogether. It's neat to note that there were a lot of fairly big names for this Whoopi as "Gaia" in one version, LeVar Burton as "Kwame", Meg Ryan as Dr. Blight, Tim Curry as "MAL," jeff Goldblum as Verminous Skumm, Martin Sheen as Sly Sludge and Sting as Zarm. I think it was the only cartoon that mom would be "somewhat" ok with us watching. She still didn't like us watching it, but she tolerated it because I think she knew it was educational.
2:52 PM
Sometimes I like to go off on a tangent about some of the stupidest things. This is not one of those times. Good day.
2:49 AM
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