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tampitt
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Oh the disillusionment of childhood
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I tunned in to watch Battle of the Planets on Boomerang this morning......the show wasn't like I remembered
I grew up with this show like most everyone else here on the forum...the show was kick ass...then. Watching it now, lacks something, perhaps the nativity of youth and dreams forgotten. But I'm sure most of it has to do with the fact I have been shown the light of truth, Gatchaman. Battle of the Planets, with all my childhood idols;Mark, Jason, Princess, Tiny and Keyop; just pales in comparision to Ken. Joe. Jun. Ryu and Jinepi.
I know, I know, I shouldn't compare them, while they are alike, they are too different, too much has changed. I guess it's like comparing ENIAC(the first computer) to the computers we have now. The basis is still there, but too much has been altered to compare them in the same class.
Anyway, I've become accustom to hearing Gatchaman in Japense (even though I can't understand very much other than "Bird Go!" ). It's just not the same.
This is not saying I don't like BotP, I think I will just go on remember BotP with the nativity of my youth, to do other wise would tarnish the sacred memories I have and the good times BotP gave me.
I'm going to go wallow in my own self-pity now and remember my more innocent days, before cynicalism moved in...ok so it's gonna be a short trip. Maybe I show just go and watch Gatchaman instead.
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25-04-2004 17:49
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meridianday
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Hmmm, I know what it meant to me as a child. Back then kiddie fare was endless variations on Scooby Doo, (mostly with that annoying git Scrappy), Captain Caveman, Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs (this is what BOTP replaced on Saturday mornings, (was it in Multicoloured Swap Shop?), the Hair Bear Bunch, Hong Kong Phooey and the like. Compared to that lot, BOTP was absolutely mindblowing at the time. Now we're a more sophisticated audience of adults, BOTP shows its age. Especially those first few episodes, which weren't exactly the best of the lot as Gatchaman either.
I hadn't seen BOTP for at least 13 years when G-Force appeared on the Sci-fi channel over here, and so I switched on and was rather unsure about what I was seeing. It looked like BOTP, but it was nothing like what I remembered. It took a long time for me to start to like G-Force - if it wasn't for my memories of BOTP I would never have tried. Likewise when I got hold of some BOTP episodes, it took a while for me to start to accept it again. The love I had for BOTP as a kid is quite different to how I feel about the series now. I'm not sure it's really possible for most people to watch the series and feel the same way about it as they did as children. It is still possible to love BOTP as an adult, and I still do love it, but in a very different way.
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26-04-2004 19:50
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CricketBeautiful
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Yep, different way is right.
For a while, esp with the politics in the fandom, I was desparing of ever enjoying it again. I don't like it when something I remember fondly is ruined.
Then I took some advice from a wise woman: go watch a few episodes.
When I'd finally gotten the entire set, I OD'd on the first five. Not good. And the first five ain't that good.
But, I took her advice, and added to it.
I thought of myself as a romantic 13 year old, just getting into a life-long love of fantasy and sci-fi. Reading StarWars and Derynii and Heinlein's junior stuff. Faith in good versus evil. Girl gets her hero. I even half-believed Zark.
And it all came back.
I'm working through the series a few at a time now, and try very hard to get that feeling in my writing. Sure, it's not the deep angsty or realistic stuff that's popular nowdays, but if I like it, that's all that counts. And, based on what others are saying, there are a lot of lurkers who want that feeling again, too.
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26-04-2004 20:38
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