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Quote from: Galactica on February 11, 2020, 12:43:38 PMI don't have the episodes memorized (and only a vague recollection of them anyway)- but I am sure Pizazz did all kinds of crazy homicidal things. Didn't she chase Jerrica around with a tractor? (Or maybe Jem) or try to run her off of a cliff ? I remember Roxy running a digger crazily around the future Starlight mansion. I'm sorry, I went rather into default mode because I've seen so many people over the years try and use the volcano scene as a rationale to prove the Misfits are evil, when it's nothing to do with them (literally). At the same time they're pretending like it's fine that Jem's there crashing gliders, stealing from museums, and so on because she's the 'heroine'. It's hypocrisy and I just hate it. You can't justify someone doing bad things just because they're the heroine and the show is named after her . As a kid I can see people might miss it, but there are so many things that should make an adult viewing feel uncomfortable vis a vis the overall morality of a heroine who is encouraging her boyfriend to two time her with herself.On the subject of violence that would be censored now, maybe we should also be talking about Rio's anger management issues and the poor pot plant he assaulted. I also remember Stormer's brother Craig putting a microphone (?) cable around Eric's neck at one point.
I don't have the episodes memorized (and only a vague recollection of them anyway)- but I am sure Pizazz did all kinds of crazy homicidal things. Didn't she chase Jerrica around with a tractor? (Or maybe Jem) or try to run her off of a cliff ?
For fear of taking this OT this will genuinely be my last post on the Jem subject, but there was also that ep where she created a third identity to get some space from the Jem Jerrica problems, only to have Rio go after that identity as well...Back on main topic....
On the topic of Mario... Mario. His games.Like, I love Mario, I liked Odyssey, I'm always playing Mario Kart, but I don't think I have any nostalgic feelings towards the games. I feel cozy whenever I play Yoshi's Island, Rayman, the Zoo Tycoons, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, The Sims 2, Nintendogs, and Animal Crossing Wild World, or if I listen to their soundtracks... I don't really feel anything towards Mario. Mario's good, but not nostalgic, for some reason. The only Mario song that makes me go "aww" is the credits theme for Mario 64. Rayman might have been my first game ever, but Mario is what really got me into gaming. I spent a lot of time playing Mario 64. Yet when I watch people play Mario 64 on Twitch or Youtube, I don't get any warm fuzzies. It's just a nice game that I liked, nothing more than that...
There are certain cartoons that I still kind of enjoy buy they feel pretty awkward compared to when I watched them as a kid, like Moomins, but one particular example is The New Adventures of Speed Racer. I really liked it as a kid because of the subplot taking place in the dystopian future, but now when I look back at it I realize how many problems it had typical of edgy boys' cartoons of that era. Filled with cringeworthy techno-babble, trying to be as serious as possible while maintaining the G rating (i.e. criminals would always do things like smuggling diamonds or designing new weapons, but no drug cartels or human trafficking), always bypassing the "no guns in kids shows" rule by giving everyone a futuristic energy weapons even when it made no sense (the high-tech protagonist team or characters from the future could get away with it, but even soldiers from a small rurithanian country in Europe had them!), or how every human driver would always conveniently jump out of their car right before it crashed, or writers failing at thinking four-dimensionally in the time-travel episodes (like the one there the future "invaded" the present (???) and the 90s architecture inexplicably morphed into futuristic one, wth), or the hamfisted environmental messages... Overall, I still like it and I still think it had its charm, but God, sometimes it hurts.
Does anyone remember the Super Mario Brothers Super Show that had the live action segments and the animated Mario cartoons? I bought a DVD of some of the episodes and they were so boring to me as adult. I still love Mario games but the animated cartoons didn't hold up for me. Ponyfan