heystasa | Things I have learnt from the Nostalgia Critic so far (Reply)

First 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 ~~Bowie's amazing package~~ Labyrinth, the joint review of Fern Gully (I still love the movie, though, nonsensical environmentalist propaganda that it may be), and That Guy's inquisition into Titanic - an animated musical (which should be watched even if you, like pretty much everyone in the world, have never heard of the movie. Which is... terrible. Beyond all reason. So bad it's somehow sort of beautiful). In fact, anything that has That Guy gaping in disbelief or exploding into a frothing rage (ie., most things he reviews) is pretty ace.

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?