Some character designs appealing, though. Yes, the people who are complaining about toy tie-ins may have a little bit of a point on this one. Lots of scene recycling, standard 80s animation, almost porn-like with its repetition. Someday someone in some pop culture should get trapped under a closing door and have their legs crushed. I’m with myself and anybody who can pay my price”. Shipwreck: looks like the old GI Joe doll, the big manly bearded guy. Why not just nuke Cobra’s headquarters if they’re controlling the weather from it? That would solve the problem real quick. Why keep making new world-ruling thingies? Wow, what an accomplishment.ĭestro: why don’t you stick with your inventions, man. Zartan: “While GI Joe and Cobra battle for the land, I rule the swamp!”. Roadblock: kind of a low-rent Muhammad Ali, but a step up from Black Vulcan, etc. New one-note people: woman with laser javelin, guy with a dog.ĭuke abandons helicopter to fight 25 guys hand-to-hand. Refugee from Village People? I am sorry, but this is one of the gayest things I’ve seen. Cartoon villains have low self-esteem, they expect to lose, because they spend so much time preparing to escape. “Secret”.Ĭobra Commander is graduate of Lex Luthor school for last minute escapes while heroes stand around congratulating themselves. ![]() We are at Cobra’s secret base in Patagonia. This is like “Where in the World is Cobra Commander?” Educational! Off-screen civilian collateral damage ok? Roadblock(my personal favorite), Leatherneck, Sgt. Whooops on the no death thing–Joe does seem to trap a bunch of Yanomano miners in a diamond mine with a big explosion. The previous season, the Joes had strong leadership with both Duke and Flint. No wonder Cobra is always back next week, strong as ever, they never lose a single guy. Keep in mind this was before Wikipedia or any pop-culture wiki: researching this stuff used to be hard, you young whippersnappers.Įverybody has a gadget, single-note personality formula.Īdvanced technology with no general consequences, very comic-book.Ĭobra guys bail out, escape exploding buildings–Standard & Practices obviously very hard at work to make sure that there is no impression that bad guys are getting killed (that line wouldn’t be crossed for quite a while afterwards). ![]() The series premiered with a Five-Episode Pilot. The Joes consists of military personnel from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard with a variety of skills and military specialties. So here they are as I wrote them circa 1997 or so: intellectual work in progress! Keep in mind that I hadn’t ever seen the cartoon, a rare lacunae in my kidvid knowledge. Joe was formed with the express purpose of stopping the terrorist group Cobra and the weapon distributors, mercenaries and scientists they hire. ![]() The episodes in question were “Cobra Stops the World” and “The Revenge of Cobra”. It was one of the shows of the 1980s that I didn’t have a personal memory of, so I felt kind of obligated to watch it. Sorting through some old papers in my version of spring cleaning, I found some notes I wrote while watching two episodes of the 80s version of GI Joe while I was working on Saturday Morning Fever.
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