When a show is cancelled but follows your views
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If that show was done today it would be cancelled by the left for cultural appropriation.
As a kid I was not into GI Joe, X-Men, Thundercats, Turtles, etc but I didn’t hate this show. Reminded me a little of Bionic 6. At the time I wasn’t bombarded with “the message”
Of all the several cartoons with an environmental message at the time, Captain Planet was probably the worst, if only because it seemed to almost parody the envrionmental movement with its shit villains.
But at least it still dealt with real issues like industrial-chemical pollution, degredation of wildlands, wildlife loss/biodiversity issues, etc. Not too long ago, I saw some weird tweet about how "old school" environmentalists were "ignorant" of "climate change", and sneered at the concept of "pollution", or didn't seem to hink it important (the twit probably thought being anti-litter was racist or something, I bet, and probably would screech racism at the Crying Indian ads.)
I mean, for the audience it was meant for it seemed exactly as over the top as it needed to get its point across.
"Over decades the emissions from this factory will induce birth defects in the local population" won't matter to a 6 year old, while "A PIGMAN IS DESTROYING THE FOREST OVER GREED" will actually scare them into some kind of action. Even if its just learning a little bit about the environment.
Captain Planet was so over the top that I even realized it as a child. But it was cool.
True. Now you can’t have any sort of legit environmental discussion due to the climate cult
Counter point: It got me, a small six year old child, to run around a playground picking up garbage to put in the trash can. I'd argue that's a positive influence to instill in children.
The problem with Captain Planet is that it's so simplified & one-dimensional that it makes children vulnerable to more dangerous threats (climate cultists).
Protecting the environment is good. But you also have to realize that 90% or more of "environmentalist" causes are fucking scams (recycling, carbon credits, climate change, ESG, etc) which exist basically to make life worse for normal people and allow billionaires/corporations/politicians to launder money to themselves and their friends.
The latter message is way too complicated for a children's show, though. So I'd prefer if we just cut out the Captain Planet shit and showed normal people positive ways to respect the environment, without turning that normal & correct behavior into a cosmic battle of Good vs. Evil.
What's funny is that its the most woke show possible decades before its exact formula became common.
The only white male in the group is portrayed as constantly wrong, even when he is right, and is required to take the bullying of his entire group for "the greater good." When his past is revealed, its shown that he comes from a poor crime riddled shithole in New York unlike everyone else who comes from relatively privileged positions in their own nations, but "classism" means nothing compared to color and gender.
The black African is the leader because he is calm (lol, a calm black dude is like a tall asian), the girls are the smart ones, and the Brazillian exists.
Heart boy was the Brazillian. Asian girl had Water.
never showed reruns? i remember being able to catch it in the morning all the time when i had a tv.
That’s what I was about to say. You can find episodes
Same. They might have been exaggerating re-run scarcity, but making an easily disproven meme pic makes it dishonest.
Or ... you know ... it was just crap.
"There was a conspiracy to destroy this show because of it's message!"
"You literally just made all of that up..."
That didn't even happen.
I don't know if it was the first ever, but it was certainly an early example of trying to propagandize kids before they were sophisticated enough to understand, well, anything.
Just about all those 80s cartoons fit for the Saturday Morning lineup had the mandatory propaganda reel at the end of each episode to promote "good values". I admit, some were good like remembering to turn the light off when you leave a room (they said to save muh environment, but it also saves your money in bills).
Better "transforming group" shows:
Both of those are awesome and long time favorites.
MDE: World Peace preached a similar message and met the same fate
I always felt bad for the Mogli kid who got assigned the magic ring with the power of "Love"
It's like Steve Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs being given the alias "Mr. Pink"
He never did it take the power upgrade from the Ring to the Fist of Conquest that everyone else did in that one episode.
Sure, it was pretty much given to them by Satan and they only stopped him from deposing Gaia because the Heart
breakkidsweet chin music's Satan in the facemanaged to resist the temptation of power while the other 4 were off literally making islands, volcanos, tsunamis, and tornadoes in a macro level, 4 way rock-paper-scissors game.They stopped airing it because it sucked ass, and I say that as somebody who loved Captain Planet growing up and had several action figures from the series.
Ironically the Villians were largely voices by Hollywood libs
It wasn't 'diverse' in the sense they understand it, which involves shoving every single race into a single neighborhood. It was about cooperation that transcended nationality. It also had a pretty long run didn't it?
Sounds like bullshit to me. Most people don't realize the show was created by Ted Turner, the founder of TNT, TBS, and CNN.
https://youtu.be/d1FkPjWL8mA
That Ted Turner segment is a 100% accurate documentary and you can't convince me otherwise.
And what of the corporations going whole hog on
no-whitesdiversity since the early 21st century? Did every corporation commit to a suicide pact?I forget the story of captain planet but I thought I recall it was the brainchild of a rich environmentalist wacko who threw a ton of money into getting it out there. Presumably once the money dried up that was it, the show was obviously terrible cringe and never had any organic popularity.
Captain Planet is a good benchmark because when shows get made that are this terrible just to push a message you know companies are getting paid form somewhere to do it.
Diverse in the sense that each community is different, not five identical globalist pools of slag.