![]() We open on a military runway, where we meet Duke and Scarlet. I'm not gonna make a big deal out of it like with my "Where I Watch: My Little Pony" threads (not to self: review Simple Ways already!), but I figured I'd make a thread for watching the entire show and writing my thoughts about it.Īnd so, let us begin with the five-part miniseries that started the franchise's televised presence: The M.A.S.S. ![]() (On the plus side, I know how to read now, so I can actually tell what's going on in the small handful of Transformers episodes we have taped.)Īll that, in short, was my childhood's experience with G.I. eighteen episodes of the show that I've watched a two-digit number of times each. So, those VHS tapes from a couple years ago with the episodes in Hebrew? I rewatch them. I'm adapting to France and to elementary school, but there are mountains in the way - the TV can't get any broadcasts. My parents would tape a lot of cartoons into a bunch of VHS tapes during broadcast, so that I'd be able to rewatch them later.Īnd boy did that come in handy. The other one was the "video" - by which I mean, VHS. Now, to better follow my perspective, keep in mind that the TV wasn't the only electronic device involved with this story. And how could it not? Aside from a vast cast of entertaining characters, it featured exciting action straight out of children playing war, with sci-fi elements and grandiose villains.I have no idea if growing up in Israel in the 80s, with universal military service and all, influenced my reception. The show quickly became my favorite, rivaled only by Ox Tales (screw you, Ox Tales was fun). Joe, was "Koakh Hamakhatz", an attempt at translating Action Force - with the lyrics claiming they were an international team (not that the dub of the show itself made any effort to sell that). Yes, the intro I grew up with translated the theme song from the show, and put it over a condensed visual of the intro for the movie. And of course, there's three big hit shows produced to sell Hasbro-made toys: Transformers introduces me to science-fiction with its civil war among giant robots from another planet (sadly, the show is subbed and I don't know how to read yet, so I need an adult to translate), My Little Pony introduces me to fantasy (when playing with the girls at it, I get to be Wind Whistler), and then. There's the Care Bears, unwittingly setting me up for a future experience writing fanfiction. There's the Muppet Babies, dazzling me with imagination and endless pop-cultural references that I won't fully get until years later. There's Once Upon A Time, Life, which first introduces me to science by explaining the inner workings of the human body. There's Ox Tales, which delights me with its animals cartoon physics. ![]() There's Sesame Street (the Israeli version, so instead of Big Bird there's a giant hedgehog called Kippi Ben-Kipod). What's on TV? Well, there's some boring grown-up stuff like Sh'at Kosher (exercise show) and Pitzoukhim (some kinda game show, I think?). I'm a little kid in kindergarten, and among my formative experiences is the television.
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