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05-02-2010, 11:32 PM | #13111 |
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Hey I just noticed that the jungle Duke has his old rank of E-8 back. Whoops! Got demoted.
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05-02-2010, 11:33 PM | #13112 |
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The thing about Renegades is that it is an E rated show. It's meant for kids to watch (no bullets, there will be lasers). As they said "they don't want to show anything that a kid can find in dad's closet" (meaning bullets). Which makes perfect sense.
But the guys behind it have had ALOT of experience with cartoons and they want to push the E rating as much as they can get away with. The plan is to make it adult writting and depth of storylines, but still of interest to kids. Best of both worlds.
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05-02-2010, 11:34 PM | #13113 |
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He was shacking up with a Cobra agent, if that's not worth a demotion then I don't know what is...
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05-02-2010, 11:36 PM | #13114 |
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They did say people could get killed though, so at least no more cobras jumping out of exploding tank and Rattlers.
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05-02-2010, 11:37 PM | #13115 |
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The thing about Renegades is that it is an E rated show. It's meant for kids to watch (no bullets, there will be lasers). As they said "they don't want to show anything that a kid can find in dad's closet" (meaning bullets). Which makes perfect sense.
But the guys behind it have had ALOT of experience with cartoons and they want to push the E rating as much as they can get away with. The plan is to make it adult writting and depth of storylines, but still of interest to kids. Best of both worlds. However, this doesn't sound like such a change to me. I've been watching the old Sunbow cartoons on DVD, and there's stuff in there I never noticed as a kid. They're very politically savvy. A kid could learn a LOT about current events in the 80's. Obviously it wasn't overdone, but I've been shocked at how serious some of the problems the Joes deal with are... "Let's play soldier" and "Ghost of a Chance" are particular examples of this. So, I'm glad the new cartoon will be edgy, but I don't see that as anything new. That's just the good ole Joe that I know. ;)
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05-02-2010, 11:38 PM | #13116 |
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What I like about it that Sunbow didn't do was that there is an overall arc to the season and things carry on from episode to episode.
Someone gets shot in one episode, he's still shot in the next. They mentioned that if someone has a PDA and it gets destroyed, the next episode they don't have a PDA anymore until they can go and get a new one.
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05-02-2010, 11:38 PM | #13117 |
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Duke is a First Sergeant. If that's not law in the Joeverse, I don't know what is ;)
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05-02-2010, 11:41 PM | #13118 |
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What I like about it that Sunbow didn't do was that there is an overall arc to the season and things carry on from episode to episode.
Someone gets shot in one episode, he's still shot in the next. They mentioned that if someone has a PDA and it gets destroyed, the next episode they don't have a PDA anymore until they can go and get a new one. Season 2 of Sunbow really steps it up, and there are some recurring storylines. The Flagg sinks and has to be resurrected later, mind control substance is found in Asia in one episode, and is being exported in another. Serpentor's origins and powers are often revisited. Don't get me wrong; there's a lot of stuff that's silly. It was for kids. I've just been really surprized at how savvy it really was as I've been rewatching it.
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05-02-2010, 11:42 PM | #13119 |
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They even mentioned the episodic nature of TV in the 80s, lol
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05-02-2010, 11:43 PM | #13120 |
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