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Times When GI Suffered The Most Loses
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06-06-2020, 11:32 AM
HitandRun
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I just finished the Arise, Serpentor, Arise 5 Parter in my GI Joe re-watch and I don’t think the Joes ever took more Ls in the Sunbow series than there.
By their nature 5 Parters have the Joes losing a lot but here it’s even more staggering. The plot revolves around Cobra collecting DNA of famous (mostly dead) world leaders to create Serpentor. Most episodes revolve around the Joes guarding the final resting places of these leaders. In every instance Cobra successfully gets the DNA of the leader except ONE: Sun Tzu, and even then they briefly captured it. It is just the case they used to capture the DNA was damaged by Sgt. Slaughter so it was not usable.
Speaking of Slaughter they also capture his DNA to replace Sun Tzu's DNA. That one is again rendered unusable when Cobra is in the process of creating Serpentor.
At one point Hawk is going over all the DNA Cobra has stolen. He lists the battles lost that we've seen over the course of this 5 parter then says "dozens more".
By dozens lets take it to mean at two dozen (24). By definition this would be the lowest amount he could mean. There are at least 6 battles the Joes fought over the course of this 5 parter (I didn't bother counting) only 2 of which they won (the battle for Sun Tzu's DNA, and liberating Slaughter's DNA). So out of at least 30 cases, the Joes were only successful TWICE. Worse still most of these cases Hawk says they didn't even know about until after the DNA was stolen which is an even worse failure in my book.
For G.I. Joe that's a win percentage of less than 7%.
And to cap it all off Cobra succeeds in their grand ambition of creating Serpentor, who at least in theory is supposed to be the greatest threat the Joe team has ever faced.
The Joe team celebrating at the very end of part 5 aside, Cobra kicked G.I. Joe's butt in Arise, Serpentor, Arise.
I watched Arise, Serpentor Arise two weeks ago - I gotta say I really enjoyed the plot line and the idea of creating a Cobra Emperor utilizing the DNA of all time great historic figures. The fact that they lost Sun Tzu's DNA which caused Serpentor to lack strategy, be a poor tactician and lack wisdom or cunning was a great twist - something that obviously flew over my head the last time I watched it as a young kid. I feel you could use that same plot line today and make it a GI Joe live action movie.
That said the Joes did get their asses handed to them until Serpentor's defects caused him to use nothing but force on his assault on DC.
I also watched Operation Dragonfire - It was slightly annoying that Sgt. Slaughter was basically in charge of everything and the lack of any other Joe character development. Another fun, interesting plot though and it was cool to see how Scoop's character evolved, the birth of Python Patrol, CC getting his revenge on Serpentor (although he said it was only temporary in the cartoon). The only disappointing thing was that CC was restored to a snake man like he was presented in The Movie rather than just becoming human again - they could of killed the Cobra-La nonsense right there!
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