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Post by Dullahan on Dec 7, 2010 17:29:34 GMT -5
I remember liking Power Rangers, but I can't remember why.
And I liked Captain Planet. And I think it could've been good....if it hadn't been so dang heavy handed. And I'm a pretty heavy duty enviromentalist, and I thought they went overboard.
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Post by WildKnight on Dec 7, 2010 17:32:48 GMT -5
All environmentalism aimed at children is heavy handed. I'll never forget the PETA geniuses handing out "coloring books" that told children that if their parents owned fur or leather coats, they should hide their puppies and kittens from them.
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Post by Dullahan on Dec 7, 2010 17:36:07 GMT -5
That's PETA. You can't expect much good from them.
Besides, any programming that tries to teach kids lessons tends to be less than subtle.
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Post by Jet on Dec 7, 2010 17:43:53 GMT -5
Imagine my impression when I heard that PETA was trying to ban cow milk and replace it with... human milk. There's crazy, there's stupid, there's insanely world record braking stupid, there's Darwin awards... and there's this. Words fail me.
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Post by WildKnight on Dec 7, 2010 18:18:00 GMT -5
I wish I could say that PETA wasn't representative of most environmentalists and animal rights advocates that I've known... but it is. "Reasonable" doesn't seem to be in a lot of these peoples dictionaries.
As far as kids shows go, Nightmare is absolutely correct; whenever they're designed to teach a lesson, it's almost universally done with an extreme heavy handedness (at least in the U.S.) For some reason there's a perception that children aren't very bright or capable of picking up on subtle concepts. I think we do our kids a massive disservice by underestimating them (and ourselves as well, because when we underestimate them, we let them get things over on us)
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Post by Dullahan on Dec 7, 2010 22:34:43 GMT -5
Hey, don't lump us in with PETA. Like I said, I'm an enviromentalist, and I think I'm fairly reasonable. Usually.
And agreed. Kids are a lot smarter than people give the credit for. I get the incentive to try to simplify stuff, but come on, they can handle it if you don't talk down to them. In fact, they'll listen all the better because your not trying to talk down to them. They like that, I've found.
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Post by WildKnight on Dec 8, 2010 6:54:49 GMT -5
I said most.
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Post by Presto on Jan 13, 2011 0:39:34 GMT -5
Shikenger was awesome.... Power Rangers Samurai... looks passable. Im gonna hate watching it, just because i'm gonna be filled with 'Thats not how shikenger did it' moments. :: is already missing all the little dudes in black costumes. ::
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Post by Ushima911 on Jan 13, 2011 2:39:59 GMT -5
Hey, im glad this got brought up again! I was at sac anime 2011 last week and guess who was there. The "actors" from the show: Mighty morphin power rangers! I got to meet em, shake their hand and get autographs. Boy that was a long 2 hour line to wait in..still..was pretty cool. I was pissed that the green ranger wasn't there...just red, black, blue and yellow..or was it pink? idk..i got to shake mighty morphin hands ;D
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Post by Ricochet on Jan 13, 2011 15:29:50 GMT -5
Hey, im glad this got brought up again! I was at sac anime 2011 last week and guess who was there. The "actors" from the show: Mighty morphin power rangers! I got to meet em, shake their hand and get autographs. Boy that was a long 2 hour line to wait in..still..was pretty cool. I was pissed that the green ranger wasn't there...just red, black, blue and yellow..or was it pink? idk..i got to shake mighty morphin hands ;D Pink, probably. There's no way you could have met the original yellow ranger. She died in 2001. Ofcourse you could have met the other yellow ranger.
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Post by Ushima911 on Jan 13, 2011 16:19:28 GMT -5
Ah...I see, then it was the pink.
..poor poor yellow ranger..you will be missed
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Post by Presto on Jan 13, 2011 21:55:19 GMT -5
Just for a little nostalgia and omg response.
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Post by Brainstem on Jan 14, 2011 21:18:58 GMT -5
Repeating an old point, but don't be pissed that the Green Ranger wasn't there.
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Post by Presto on Feb 17, 2011 2:55:21 GMT -5
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Post by Ushima911 on Feb 17, 2011 6:00:34 GMT -5
............................
power ranger pirates..?
dude, i swear at this rate, they'll eventually make vampire power rangers..geez..
thats the media craze right?
it goes from ninjas, to samurai, to pirates, to vampires. I know im missing some..but its 3am right now and i dont wanna have to think about it..it'd hurt my heart...lol
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