Captain Planet!
Captain Planet!
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The only sad thing about Captain Planet was that it taught me that if you point out the wrong-doings of the rich and powerful, there will be correct action taken by the authorities to right the wrongs and to punish those responsible. The truth is much sadder imho.
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My local water company was fined £2m for dumping huge amounts of sewage in the river.
Their profit for the year was about £500m.
Like, what is even the point? We should be renationalising this shit. Fuck these people.
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I agree.
It reminds me of that joke that a corporation is an ingenious tool for personal profit without personal responsibility.
It may be radical, but I strongly believe that the people running corporations (aka those making decisions) should be personally held accountable for crimes and wrongdoings of their corporations. It goes against the very idea of a corporations, but absolutely horrible people have been exploiting hiding behind corporations. I bet that if those people had to face the prospect of serious prison time, some actual personal responsibility, they would think twice before committing crimes. (edit for spelling mistakes)
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Since you can't put a company in prison, all of management should be on trial for intentional poisoning of the population.
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People talk a lot about the ethnic stereotyping of the original Power Rangers, what with the Black Ranger being black (and of course majorly into hip-hop), the Yellow Ranger being Asian and versed in several Asian stereotypes, and the leader being the straight white male (who then gets displaced as leader by another straight white male).
What we don't talk about is how, to spite all of that, it was still a huge step forward for the time to make it such a diverse cast. It was progress, warts and all.
The original idea was to make the Red Ranger Native American which...wow. But still... it'd also have been note worthy for the time too to put a Native American character in this line up, let alone as the leader.
Honorable mention to Billy who, to spite the character not being gay, the actor was (and got harassed for it). I know he's said he never made Billy gay, but I can't help but think there's a reason I identified with Billy as a kid, and not just because he was the nerd.
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and the leader being the straight white male (who then gets displaced as leader by another straight white male).
Keep in mind that he became the leader upon becoming the white ranger.
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he became the leader upon becoming the white ranger
MAGAts: When I was a kid I loved the White Power ... Ranger
Everyone: Stop fuckin' saying it like that!
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On behalf of the council of native Americans, the clear monolith that we are, Jason David Frank was already introduced into the list of Honorary Native Americans the moment he tried to beat the fuck out of Goldar without being able to morph. Even if he was made suddenly native despite not being one IRL.
Good luck finding an actual native decorated martial arts actor back in that day. We take every baby step we can get.
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Matí, the heart ranger that could communicate with animals, was Native American, tho likely from South America.
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Too bad Power Rangers had terrible working pay and working conditions... https://jacobin.com/2023/07/power-rangers-labor-exploitation-wga-sag-hollywood-nonunion#:~:text=The%20show%20and%20its%20toy,work%20environment%20under%20hazardous%20conditions
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And inexcusibly formulaic.
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Green hair and blue skin.
He blue himself. There are dozens of us.
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Da ba de da ba die
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Green hair, blue skin... I see where ot goes. Red flag.
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I always felt bad for the kid who got the shaft by getting the lousy heart ring.
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While it wasn't as flashy as the others, long range communication, and the ability to mess with someone's head are not to be underestimated. It was fairly useless on its own, but a powerful force multiplier on the others.
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You have a point, but he mostly sat in the back and didn't do much in my memory.
I also always wondered where Captain Planet went when he left. Like was there some Captain Planet bachelor pad where he hot tubs and reads the paper?
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There was an episode that showed an alternate timeline where Wheeler refused the fire ring, so the planeteers were never able to summon Captain Planet and couldn't defeat the villains, so they ultimately went their separate ways but kept the rings.
Ma-ti is shown using the heart ring to essentially mug people, altering their minds to force them to give him money.
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Poor Matei
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They don't show it in the episodes, but when that kid grew up he got laid like there was no tomorrow.
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Oh, is that what the heart ring does?
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The 90's were such a weird time for representation. All the higher ups in media were still old white people, but some of them were well meaning and did think it was important to insert people of different ethnicitys and cultures into their programming. Problem was that none of the people of the culture being depicted were involved in the writing, so these characters were often offensive stereotypes. Apu from the Simpsons and Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager are two of the most egregious examples. This all paved the way for actual progressive inclusion in media, but man has a lot of it aged poorly.
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Apu has more character progression than Homer Simpson does
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The problem with Apu stems deeper then just the character itself though. He embodies a mix of negative and positive stereotypes, but the biggest problem is the fact that he is written more or less exclusively by white men, and voiced by a white man doing an impression of an Indian accent. I think the character could have been pulled off fine if there had been someone of Indian decent offering creative input and voicing the character.
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That guy from Short Circuit, Benjamin. It wasn't until I was an adult I found out the actor wasn't Indian.
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We elected Hoggish Greedly as premier of Ontario.
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Hair? With a MULLET. Not super woke, still impressive.
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The greatest mullet ever.
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"I did it... They're all trees... They're all trees!"
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- Takes one look at this thread's title and puts on... ♪Captain Planet, he's a hero! Going to take pollution, down to zero! We're the planeteers, you can be one too! Because saying the planet is the thing to do! Looting and polluting is not the way! Here is what Captain Planet has to say! The Power is yours!♪
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I'm 50 and I have no idea who captain planet is. When and where was that a thing? Did you need to have cable? Because like 5% of my friends had cable. I've still never paid for it.
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Captain Planet? He's a hero, he's going to take pollution down to zero. https://youtu.be/OiYjTb3opAA?si=-wXp-JTkWkhAGELC
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It was an early '90s cartoon, and yes, you needed cable to watch it.
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That explains it. Nobody I knew had cable money then.
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Not in the UK. I don't know why but on the 4 channels I had I still managed to watch it.
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It comes on Boomerang, so idk maybe watch an episode of jabberjaw like when you were a kid and stick around to catch some Captain Planet
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Cool but I don't have boomerang
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Pretty sure in the late 80's early 90's it was on Fox kids broadcast tv
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Those kids are radicals
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Nobody I knew ever watched that show, it was Ted Turner's pet project he threw money into. It's a shame to have it included in the cartoons of that time.
It didn't reflect anything socially except egotistical social engineering experimentation by a megalomaniac.
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We grew up with a series where Black Jesus, a perpetually horny twink, a trans slug, a bucket of goo with identity crisis, a rehabilitated rebel/terrorist, and an Irishman reconciled cultural differences to restore a planet following a decades-long occupation. And it was awesome.
Rehabilitated? Her resistance movement won the war and they just promoted her. She was not a rehabilitated rebel/terrorist, she was a successful and proud rebel/terrorist.
IIRC she got heels and a sexier uniform after too
Wtf did I just read? What series was this? 🤣
It's Star Trek DS9
And a bisexual tailor. Yep just a simple tailor, nothing to see here.
And a space Uber capitalist who's there to be ridiculed and whose brother quotes Karl Marx and somehow ends up leading their people.
Average FTL crew
Sisko, Bashir, Dax, Odo, Kira and Keiko O'Brien. Am I right or am I right?
Miles, not Keiko - although those two have an entire sitcom's worth of issues between them.
Plus they teamed up to fight actual Space Karen! Loved that show
I still want a Celebrity Deathmatch episode for Kai Winn vs. Delores Umbridge
My child