ImaginaryEngr76
Shared on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 16:41My little girl loves cartoons, but then again, what 3 year old doesn't. Every night before bed, I'll read her a story and then let her watch a 20 minute or so cartoon. She usually wants to watch Backyardigans, Carebears or some other kind of rainbow colored cartoon with cheery tunes, but last night she went rifling through my DVD collection and pulled out my Best of The Masters of the Universe DVD set (which was sandwiched in between my copies of the original Transformers the Movie and GI Joe the Movie). I'm not sure why she wanted the change of pace, but hell, I'd rather watch one of these than another show starring Swiper the Fox.
She wanted to see the episode about the origin of the Sorceress, I guess because she could identify with her and Teela I guess. While watching it, I couldn't help but think about how to children of the '70s and '80s, MotU, GI Joe, Transformers, and the like were kind of like our modern junk culture mythology. While the ancient Romans had Jupiter and Pluto, the Greeks had Zeus and Gaia, Egyptians had their Amon and Isis, we had our Dr. Mindbender and Mumm-ra the Everliving.
I wonder if in 2000 years, college kids of the future will study and write papers on parallels between the Starscream/Megatron and Desto/Cobra Commander dynamics. Maybe they'll offer their thoughts on why "The Power of Greyskull" somehow gave Prince Adam a George Hamilton-esqe tan and an echoey voice. There will probably be classroom debates on why the two biggest villains of '80s cartoons, Cobra Commander and Skeletor, were whiny pussies (how did Cobra Commander keep Destro under his thumb all that time?). Maybe there will be lectures on the sexual tension between Lion-O and Cheetara (or was that between Lion-O and Panthro?). Maybe they'll finally figure out if Zartan was a Paranoid Schizophrenic or just misunderstood, why Snake Mountain the toy looked completely different than Snake Mountain from the cartoon, and how everyone was fooled by Faker. Finally, hopefully, someone one day will be able to come up with a compelling reason for the existence of Orko, Snarf, and Kremzeek.
She wanted to see the episode about the origin of the Sorceress, I guess because she could identify with her and Teela I guess. While watching it, I couldn't help but think about how to children of the '70s and '80s, MotU, GI Joe, Transformers, and the like were kind of like our modern junk culture mythology. While the ancient Romans had Jupiter and Pluto, the Greeks had Zeus and Gaia, Egyptians had their Amon and Isis, we had our Dr. Mindbender and Mumm-ra the Everliving.
I wonder if in 2000 years, college kids of the future will study and write papers on parallels between the Starscream/Megatron and Desto/Cobra Commander dynamics. Maybe they'll offer their thoughts on why "The Power of Greyskull" somehow gave Prince Adam a George Hamilton-esqe tan and an echoey voice. There will probably be classroom debates on why the two biggest villains of '80s cartoons, Cobra Commander and Skeletor, were whiny pussies (how did Cobra Commander keep Destro under his thumb all that time?). Maybe there will be lectures on the sexual tension between Lion-O and Cheetara (or was that between Lion-O and Panthro?). Maybe they'll finally figure out if Zartan was a Paranoid Schizophrenic or just misunderstood, why Snake Mountain the toy looked completely different than Snake Mountain from the cartoon, and how everyone was fooled by Faker. Finally, hopefully, someone one day will be able to come up with a compelling reason for the existence of Orko, Snarf, and Kremzeek.
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Submitted by Baine on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 16:50
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