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09-21-2009, 09:38 AM | #1 |
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With the new hasbro network, they'll need some show for primetime.
How about a Live Action G.I. Joe TV Series. I'm not talking about a continuation of the Rise of Cobra. I mean the comic series come to life. A weekly hour long show along the lines of The Unit (Minus the wives on the home front making stupid decisions.) aimed at adults and young adults. Bullets and ocasional blood. This would be a strictly American TV show so it could true to the comics with the better elements of the Cartoon mixed in. More realistic but keeping the original characters true and appearances closer to what the classic fans have known and loved for the past two and a half decades. To keep it more realistic. They wouldn't have to be battling cobra every week. They could bring in the Red Shadows, or any number of fictional despots, dictators or terrorist groups with asperations of domination both locally or globally. They could have stand alone stories with some subplot stringing the shows together. And they could focus on different characters on different missions playing to their strengths or what not. I could see it and I would get cable just to watch it.
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09-21-2009, 09:53 AM | #2 |
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Have JJ Abrams do it and I'm there!
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09-21-2009, 10:04 AM | #3 |
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The television network would never get it right.
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09-21-2009, 10:06 AM | #4 |
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They'd never be able to do it without making it so cheesy that it'd be physically painful to watch. Because no matter how much some of us might wish otherwise, Hasbro still wants G.I. Joe to be for the kids, not the thirtysomethings.
Also remember: "The Hasbro Channel" is a joint venture with Discovery Kids. The Discover Kids side of the house is in theory going to have as much say about what gets shown on the channel as Hasbro does, and there's no indication they want it to be anything other than a kids' network, at least to start. |
09-21-2009, 12:38 PM | #5 |
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What Hasbro doesn't get is that G.I. Joe is collector driven, if they would ever care to do the opinion polls they would see that most of the money they make off of G.I. Joe is the collecters. They might want to actually consider the collecters when coming out with new products.
If they were smart they might actually come out with something to keep the collecters happy. But you're right though, they'd probably have SABAN produce it and instead of "The Unit" we'd end up with Power Rangers versus Cobra, and I would have to eat a bullet. But still, how cool would that be if we got a TV series and they actually got it right.
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09-21-2009, 12:40 PM | #6 |
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09-21-2009, 12:44 PM | #7 |
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Would be great if done right, maybe with some action like Jack Bauer in 24. But it would end up more like Power Rangers on mainstream T.V.
So i say noooooo please keep it in the theaters where we get some action. |
09-21-2009, 12:48 PM | #8 |
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What Hasbro doesn't get is that G.I. Joe is collector driven, if they would ever care to do the opinion polls they would see that most of the money they make off of G.I. Joe is the collecters. They might want to actually consider the collecters when coming out with new products.
If they were smart they might actually come out with something to keep the collecters happy. "Opinion polls?" Where are they going to run these polls? Casual buyers/kids aren't likely to even bother with a poll, and posting it on say, a site like this is of course going to produce a biased result. Mary Jo Soccermom may have bought dozens of G.I. Joe toys for little Billy...but she's not going to come on the internet and talk about it. |
09-21-2009, 12:54 PM | #9 |
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I could see a live-action show happening, but it would probably be a lot more like "Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm" and other kid-friendly adventure shows than "The Unit" or "24". My guess is, if any Joe show happens, it'll be animated and aimed at kids, not older fans, kind of like "The Spectacular Spider-Man" or "Iron Man: Armored Adventures". They'll probably even make the Joes teenaged.
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09-21-2009, 12:58 PM | #10 |
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great idea, but not very likely.
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