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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?" Ponyfan
One of the things I like about Jem is that it not only had a really diverse cast, but it was obvious that the writers actually did research when they were portraying different countries. And since this was in the 80s, research took more effort than it would now that we have the internet.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on January 02, 2017, 09:37:50 PMOne of the things I like about Jem is that it not only had a really diverse cast, but it was obvious that the writers actually did research when they were portraying different countries. And since this was in the 80s, research took more effort than it would now that we have the internet. As the resident of one such country I'd have to both agree and disagree on the amount that they did. I think it depends on the writer. (I also know people in Croatia who are quite offended by the episode set in Yugoslavia)....Renaissance Woman, on the other hand, is totally different. As a historian as well it drove me nuts, but it's just stupid from start to finish. First you have a Renaissance Fair. Never heard of those before. Second, you have a pseudo Robin Hood figure appearing in this fair - but the concept Robin Hood belongs to a pre-Renaissance era, so that's wrong. Most stupid of all, though, is the idea that the area, Carfax I think? is feudal, there's a baron and local indentured peasantry who are being oppressed. The writer of that episode completely ignored the existence of the industrial revolution The idea is obviously to create a story with homage to the Robin Hood tale, with Danse as Maid Marian, but realistically the story doesn't make any sense and it doesn't represent 1980s Britain in any way, shape or form.I don't think that Jem is terrible at presenting other countries. But I don't think it's overly great at it at times, either. And I know that Christy fought really hard to get a proper voice artist for Jetta to really make her British. Every other British voice in the show is terrible, and they are all would-be cockney, which is a London accent that has no place whatsoever in rural Carfax. So I would say that, for my country, yes and no. Depending on the episode. And the accents are almost universally terrible.
Renaissance Woman was weird because halfway through everyone seemed to forget they weren't LITERALLY IN THE PAST.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on January 03, 2017, 08:11:46 AMRenaissance Woman was weird because halfway through everyone seemed to forget they weren't LITERALLY IN THE PAST.Agreed. But my point is, Renaissance Fairs are an American thing but this was set in the UK. And we don't have them, as far as I am aware. And if we did, people here don't generally think of the Renaissance and Robin Hood as going together, because they frankly don't. In this country you might get county fairs in rural areas, or you sometimes get battle reenactments or mock-jousting tournaments with some kind of mediaeval reference, or stuff like that. And of course in November we stuff an effigy, stick it on a bonfire and burn it, which can often be a community event. But I've never heard of a Reinaissance fair here. That's what I meant about the episode having a very shoddy grasp of British life.I totally agree that they lost the plot halfway through though, and blurred whether they were in a Fair or in the past. Which is where the problem of feudalism comes in and gets totally misunderstood. The only saving grace about that episode is that we find out Raya's good at archery. And they bother so little to give us anything about Raya past her intro ep and the gratuitous "Mexican trip" ep that any little detail is welcome in my view.But yeah, not all the episodes are well researched. And not all the writers are Roger Slifer or Christy Marx's calibre.You can have an amazing bad episode, though, such as the Shangrila one, which is totally ridiculous but amazingly funny. And then you can just get a bad episode like Ren. Woman. :-/.
Oh it was supposed to be in the UK?
She had that romance going on with Stormer's brother, she got shoved into the luggage compartment of the bus, she was pretty sarcastic and her braininess and natural suspicion let her catch onto some plots.
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on January 03, 2017, 10:28:15 PMShe had that romance going on with Stormer's brother, she got shoved into the luggage compartment of the bus, she was pretty sarcastic and her braininess and natural suspicion let her catch onto some plots.Yeah, but what I mean is, they could have explored a lot more about her background. You can pick out a lot about her character and her relationship with Craig is pretty nice because it's complicated, but I feel like there's more in her that we could've seen. She certainly never had what I would call an Aja episode, unless you count China, which was so early on it really just seemed to be a cultural reference.