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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2016, 12:13:32 PM »
What has happened with those dolls in the past is that you get scalpers and the prices are double what retail would be. And exchange rate sucks xD.

Graphix looks cool but I can't pay $200+ for a doll right now ><

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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2016, 12:49:13 PM »
Here in the UK it used to be on a Saturday morning during the summery 80s that the Jem cartoons were shown! I loved the theme tune and the oh so 80s opening credits, lots of pink lipstick, BIG hair and bright costumes!

I used to buy the 80s Jem comic too - from issue 1 - they are squirrelled away somewhere... it has been years since I have seen them, though.

I found a clutch of dolls earlier this year in a charity shop - a single Jem and some very "baity" Misfits - alas, I was not too interested in getting them as I thought it would be too much effort to restore / re-dress etc. Hmm maybe I should have got them!
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2016, 04:34:11 PM »
What are some of your favorite songs from the show?
There was this one Misfits song I really liked but can't remember what its called or which episode.

Only the Beginning is catchy
Twilight in Paris
Its a Hard, Hard Life
Let Me Be
the original intro, never liked the second one as much
Music is Magic
I Like Your Style

I wish we'd gotten more Stingers songs honestly

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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2016, 05:17:34 PM »
Warning, long geek post coming up. So many loved songs..;)

The Stingers have amazing songs. Especially Destiny because it features all of them, not just Riot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pkifMPzqcw
(RIP Vicki Sue "Rapture" Robinson. Amazing voice)
That was always my favourite of theirs. Hard Hard Life probably second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9gvoujTVfU
But the Stingers songs are great. Don't like the characters, but their music was great. And come on, any group that can rhyme stipulation and intimidation in a kid's show has to get kudos. (Mind Games)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIslDJZAxxg

I think if I remember right they got the effect of Riot's voice by making the same guy sing the songs through in two octaves and then merging them to get the unique sound. (Gah, Im going to miss that mailing list since all kinds of info came out on it)

I hated the Stingers being used as the group pushing the Misfits out of the show (which was the intention as "parents complained" about the Misfits or something stupid. BUT as villains they were well constructed with the background and the individual issues/talents.

Misfit-wise
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Universal Appeal,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXOiT5nBmGw
Designin' Woman..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBZwMzLkHAk
(Jetta isn't in that one but it's on her doll cassette so I think of it as "hers" somehow)
I also liked Queen of Rock N Roll...(Roxy's awesome bass xD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ZbrsFWqMQ
and It Takes Alot (To Survive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aZNaN8Z5EE
And then from the Jetta era:
I like your Style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0NCju1CzeI
Trapped (just for the sax solo xD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwIuEi4dLqc
Free and Easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeCg4MA9eg0

There are some other amazing Misfit songs from season 2 but I wish they had used Jetta's sax as much as they used her character...

Jem wise - Beat This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VON_lBtq6EM
 She's Got The Power (Synergy, ne xD),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S4W262boHo
She Makes an Impression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAI936153HE

I also loved Roxy's song (I'm Gonna Change)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BotNmNULwwA
and I'm Okay (Kimber & Stormer).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iinCliptuFY

Plus this one, for the Misfit feels :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulzz6BGynjo


Songs I hate:
Open a Book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIcXxjyUx58
Especially in this episode because it wouldn't happen in modern times. You can't just tell someone who can't read to go read a book and open their mind. Not when there are so many people who struggle to do that because of legit reasons like dyslexia. I think in modern terms Roxy would be considered dyslexic, and that song is just not right.

Freedom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ut9avH6cw
Aside from being really patronising to international viewers, this song is Sunbow's irony to the world. How can you have this song at the end of an episode in which the FBI pursue JATH to take Synergy as a "national risk" when Synergy is just privately owned stage equipment..?

KJEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5LTC-PLBA
Really? "Don't forget the news and weather?" Plus they forgot Raya for half of this video. Awkward...

I don't know what my favourite episode was. But the worst episode by a mile was Renaissance Woman. As a history major it just makes me want to curl up and cry.
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #19 on: December 30, 2016, 05:25:07 PM »
Queen of Rock n Roll is the one I was trying to remember! Thanks taffeta!

I personally think the stingers had the best songs of the bunch. Had no idea parents were complaining about The Misfits. But I agree that the Stingers brought their own unique spin to the show. And Riot does have a heart...when his massive ego isn't getting in the way.

Isn't renaissance woman the obligatory time travel one? haha, that one wasn't too bad to me because I still giggle madly whenever Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is on. Plus I get to see Tech Rat freak out.

Was Tech Rat voiced by Chris Latta? I know Sunbow used the same voice actors for hasbro properties.
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #20 on: December 30, 2016, 05:37:42 PM »
Queen of Rock n Roll is the one I was trying to remember! Thanks taffeta!

Yay :D Glad to be of help! It's an obscure song in an obscure episode but it rocks!
It was also supposed to replay in another episode but it didn't. One of the scripts I have it's mentioned but was cut by the time the episode was made. It might have been Britrock. I remember "I'm Gonna Hunt You Down" in that ep, and "Between Me & You" (ah, that's another of Jem's cringy ones, "yeah, it absolutely doesn't matter that you're an earl and you're rich and stuff...") but only 2 songs, not 3. I am pretty sure Queen of R&R was meant to get a replay in that ep but got cut. Probably due to time...
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #21 on: December 30, 2016, 05:44:06 PM »
That poor pet fox.
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #22 on: December 30, 2016, 05:46:24 PM »
Hmmmmm what I remember most about Jem is that I was forbidden to watch it.  Along with Ninja Turtles.  Also MOTU - either He-Man or She-Ra.
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2016, 06:06:01 PM »
That poor pet fox.

Pretty sure it got the last laugh. I have mixed feelings about that video. I love the Misfits. I find Jetta and Roxy's antics in it -falling off horses, catching in nets - hilarious as they don't have a clue. I hate fox hunting. But the fox gets the best of them, so it's all good in the end. At least they didn't have hounds. That wouldve made it unreasonably unpleasant.

Just a really ugly thing to choose as symbolic of upper middle class rural British life.
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2016, 07:30:35 PM »
I have a lot of favorite Jem songs but my absolute favorites are

The first Jem Theme

Only the Beginning

Twilight in Paris

Like a Dream

Truly Outrageous (long version)

Music is Magic

Always There in My Heart

What's that song that Jem and the Holograms sing that starts "Tell me I'm crazy...  I never liked that one. 

I also didn't like Renaissance Woman or Mid Summer Night's Madness. 


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« Reply #25 on: December 30, 2016, 08:09:43 PM »
I love Midsummer Night Madness! Had some of the funniest Riot moments! XD
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #26 on: December 31, 2016, 06:59:59 AM »
I think I was too young for Jem.  I was born in 84, I can't remember when Jem was out though.  I do have the complete series I bought at F.Y.E. and I fell in love with it.  I think I was more into MLP and Care Bears at the time.  I did collect barbies like crazy and if I had been in to Jem I probably would have had some Jem dolls but like I said I didn't watch it back then.

The very last episode was sad for me.  I liked how the little girl (can't remember her name) finally found her Dad and everyone was saying goodbye to her but I think everyone was also saying goodbye to the fans who were watching the show.  It reminded me of the end of MLP the movie, and I know after that movie originally aired there would be more MLP episodes on TV but to me it still felt like the end of MLP not sure why.  I have all the episodes and the movie on DVD (and MLP Tales) but every time I see the end of MLP The Movie it makes me sad.

I agree about the first Jem theme being better.  The second theme didn't seem to fit.
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #27 on: December 31, 2016, 07:14:07 AM »
Tell me I'm crazy..I think it's I believe in Happy Endings from The Fan.

The reason I remember that is that one of the UK vhs tapes, a batch anyway had a really bad soundtrack on it. And it resulted in weiiird versions of the songs. So when that gets mentioned, I think of "wonky endings"...

http://www.etherella.com/britrock/surprise.htm

Can find the link for it here if you want a laugh ;)

I remember Christy Marx saying that the final ep (the girl is Banee) was kind of a hurried decision. They had introduced a bunch of new characters including Astral and Regine and had a line planned for the year but Jem got cut suddenly and so that was the last ep. A lot of the fans asked her why Banee and her father since it was such an odd way to end it, but apparently that was just how she chose to do it.

I wish it had been a proper finale type story for the three bands but somehow the song "Now" at the end of Stingers Hit Town 2 is more of that for them although so much is not settled at the end of that episode.
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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
« Reply #28 on: December 31, 2016, 12:43:29 PM »
Thanks Taffeta. :)

I liked that Banee found her father but doesn't that contradict one of the Starbright episodes where Banee was going blind and Jerrica said they didn't have any idea who Banee's parents were?


I also thought it was funny in  The Stingers hit Town that when all of the people in the club were starting to riot and destroy things Riot told everyone to sit back down and Jerrica said "They're sitting down because he asked them to?"


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Re: Let's Talk about Jem and the holograms
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