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heystasaFirst of all, context: I can't stop watching Nostalgia Critic and Nostalgia Chick. Very funny, very well observed, occasionally fantastically brutal reviews of old(ish - from the eighties and nineties, mostly) kids tv shows and movies. Most of the texts they look at are legitimately terrible - though often in profoundly creative ways - but some are still quite lovable; especially if, like me, you were just slightly too young to tell the difference between shite and awesome when they first came out.
I'm particularly fond of the Chick's look at
80s/90s kid's entertainment with yelling, sarcasm, criticism, liberal use of intertextuality, and cameos from guns and puppies. Essentially, I'm in love.
There are two things that have appeared in my watchings that I particularly want to share. One of which induced epic squee and will probably only be understood by me, and the other... is... well.
1)the cast members of Star Trek: The Next Generation make kickarse voice actors.
I actually already knew this, with Riker and Deanna playing Xanatos and Demona (DEMONA) in Gargoyles (best - show - ever), how could I not? They make the show (fecking DEMONA). And I remember a few cameos, like Colm Meany in the Ireland episode (COLM MEANY). But, somehow, I didn't know that Data voiced Puck (PUCK!).
DATA = PUCK.
fffffffffffffffffffff OHMYGOD I CAN'T EVEN.
I FOR SERIOUSLY DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS A WAY TO MAKE EITHER OF THOSE CHARACTERS ROCK MORE.
PUCK!
Fecking, YES.
(Also, I'm so rewatching the entire series soon, and am totally buying the comic continuation when I get back to Sydney. I kid you not, best show ever. New York, mythology, action, stealth, fantastic villians, Shakespeare, Arthurian legend, DEMONA, science. It's like every awesome geekish thing has been mixed together in perfect harmony to create one astoundingly good and subtle ultra-show. With incredible voice acting.)
1.5 - AKA, the seque) The dude who played Geordi La Forge on Next Gen did the voice over for the intro to Captain Planet.
2) Captain Planet did an AIDS episode. (8:45 mins in)
Captain Planet...
... did an AIDS episode.
CAPTAIN PLANET
DID AN EPISODE
ABOUT
AIDS.
And, in the grand tradition of Captain Planet (AKA, the most atrocious, obnoxious, insipid, boring, mind-blowingly, unequivocally, unspeakably, inconceivably out and out terrible children's shows ever made - besides, possibly, Batfink) it doesn't appear to have even been a particularly good or educational episode. I was more sort of staring at the screen in horror and occasionally half-sobbing "WHY???", than anything else. It's... amazing.
And... I... just... why?
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Date: 2009-07-05 07:03 am (UTC)What really jumped out at me in this entry, however, was your fleeting mention of "Batfink." Good God, that was a terrible show. I would literally run crying from the room whenever it came on ABC Kids. To this day Dad has even this horrible habit: whenever we have a big argument, just at the point when I'm at my most emotionally riled up, of puffing up his chest, holding his arm over his face and saying "your words cannot harm me, my wings are like a shield of steel!" After this I run away crying and confused.
As you can see, I'm slightly traumatised by the mere allusion to Batfink. *rocks in the corner*
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Date: 2009-07-06 02:22 pm (UTC)I am so sorry. Truly it was a horrifying show, and I should have thought before mentioning it so casually and with so little warning. I've worked up something of a resitance to it through shared commiseration with my mother (who was just as boggled and annoyed by it as me when she was little. Honestly, why would they re-air that?!), but I do hope I've not done you too much harm in my insensitivity. *pats you*
Maybe you could fight your dad off with some super-sonic sonar radar next time?no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 05:39 am (UTC)Thanks so much for linking to him! :D
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Date: 2009-07-06 05:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 02:28 pm (UTC)You're welcome! :D
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