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Henry Gilroy Explains Why G.I. Joe: Renegades Was Cancelled
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01-27-2023, 02:53 PM
Adonirum
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SmokeBellew
Renegades was a brilliant concept. The A Team conceit seems a bit generic, but it was a terrific way to introduce the characters and team by starting with a tight group and building.
The real genius though was Cobra itself as a corporation hiding a global fascist movement in plain sight. That's the realest GI Joe has ever gotten and incredibly appropriate for modern times. It would be ridiculously easy for such a thing to happen in America today.
Think about it: infiltrate all levels of society with commerce/consumerism and marketing/propaganda, hide a military under the guise of a private security subsidiary, infiltrate nation-states by providing "private security services" and forces, and with the way we turn a blind eye to corporate shenanigans and greed these days, you can take over the world without the status quo noticing. We're only a step away from such a thing occurring right now.
I agree. Like that approach of storyline as it feels like Cobra can easily fit that and a good way to mesh with modern era.
I've been working on some fan fiction with that approach. It always struck me that even for a silly cartoon some of the plots were very forward-thinking in terms of how Cobra Commander used mass media. Easy to picture how it could play out with modern social media.
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