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Where is your personal “line in the sand” drawn for the fantasy element of GI Joe?
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07-07-2018, 03:18 PM
minstrelboy
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I had an idea for two parallel stories revolving around the basic lore of ARAH primary characters where it starts out with the person that would become Cobra Commander, but his story would be tragic and kind of draws out sympathy for him and his cause. And the team that would be GI Joe would be more a tool for heavy-handed political aggression; though the individual soldiers on the team would mostly be unquestioningly following orders, their tactics would further give the reader more reason to sympathize with Cobra. I like the idea that with shifts in perspective the good guys could be bad and the bad guys could be good.
Obviously that kind of story wouldn't need anything extraneous like high-tech gimmicks or fantastic feats of heroism. I think Max Brooks’ “Hearts and Minds” mini-series planted the seed for this idea, and that was a story I loved. I love when you have tangible elements supporting your characters instead of black and white/good vs. evil story-telling. It’s incredibly lazy (like Owner Of A Lonely B.A.T. pointed out) to just have brainwashed fanatics (unless you can make that happen in an interesting way).
But again, it takes REAL LIFE experiences to drive an individual to enlist in the military or join a terrorist organization. Every Cobra Trooper should have a backstory and a reason to be fighting for Cobra. Like the way George Miller developed a story for every character in the Mad Max universe. Even the individual vehicles have a history. That kind of world-building gets me pumped.
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