Oh what a tangled web we weave...
This is another one of those fascinating looks at my strange, strange thought processes. This one brought to you by Cartoon Network, What Kind of a Lame Power is Heart, 90's Nick, and....Portal.
Hay guys, remember when Cartoon Network in the 90's where it was less teeny-bopper-ish and it still aired Space Ghost Coast2Coast and stuff like that? Remember the old hilarious BUMPERS? I loved the parody of Radio Shack's old "You have questions? Come to Radio Shack"*; "Cartoon Network: You have questions? That's....understandable." ("Why are the Smurfs blue?" Random smurf: "WE'RE NOT BLUE! WE'RE GREEN! ADJUST YOUR TV!")
Anyway, I think my favourite besides the Radio Shack parody was the one with the Wonder Twins, which I was reminded of while surfing TV Tropes once again and finding, of course "What Kind of Lame Power is Heart?" The Wonder Twins are a guy and a girl and the girl can turn into any animal and the guy can turn into...anything water. They were doing some sort of PSA and the girl turned into a BIG SCARY TIGER and the guy...a bucket of water. So he started angsting about What Kind of Lame Power is Turning into Water. I think I liked it because it had one of those lines that are HILARIOUS taken out of context: "I can be defeated by a sponge. It doesn't even have to be an EVIL sponge!"
But yeah, lame powers. I actually think a lot of powers aren't all they're cracked up to be (seriously, I don't want to be able to read ANYONE'S mind. Reading what people say on the Internet is scary enough.) But I ended up trying to remember if there WAS any use of turning into water/liquid/goo. (I had to quickly shake out all the horrid art I found on FA on accident...oh, you furries. Apparently they think it's good for sex!) With the liquid metal guy in T2 he could at least turn into anything he touched, and so could the Changlings in DS9. (Shhh, my dad's a Trek fan, you don't think I haven't watched that?) So basically it would have the advantages of normal shapeshifting. Kay. The only other character I could think of that was screwed with just being able to turn into liquid and nothing more was from that show Alex Mack.
I honestly didn't remember much about that show, other than that she turned into a puddle, could zap stuff, wore a hat, and was one of those boring shows I watched because me and my brother left the television on Nick all day while we waited for Nicktoons or something actually funny like Pete and Pete or Salute Your Shorts to come on. So, being the bored-ass person I was with the ability to log onto YouTube, I decided to look it up!
Now, while I guess I figured that turning into a puddle WOULD be useful for sneaking around and...apparently BEING A CREEPER (seriously, what's with all the breaking into people's houses?) the thing that actually happened was that after a while every time the BIG BAD CHEMICAL COMPANY (Yes, TGWTG fans, imagine me doing the "BIG BAD GOVERNMENT" thing that the Bum does) came up, "Still Alive" started playing in my head...
I recalled that earlier on while watching I thought it perhaps would've NOT bored me as a kid if they got rid of all the goopy teenage school drama stuff and just did all sneaky conspiracy stuff and all, basically using the powers to do EXCITING stuff like sneak around and get around risky problems...then I realized maybe the fact that "Still Alive" started playing in my head wasn't such a stretch. THAT WOULD ACTUALLY KIND OF MAKE A NEAT GAME.
As long as you included a snarky, psychopathic robot, though. Even Portal wouldn't have worked as well as it did without GLaDOS. I know there's a million games with lab escape as a theme, but hey, I had actually thought of a way that Alex Mack might've been ENTERTAINING, that alone is a major achievement.
But then again, I've never found any type of story where the focus is on a character's special powers, even "classic" superhero stories, interesting. Usually you have to tack on tons and tons of character development to the story to get me interested. (Iron Man <3 <3 <3 )
("But Julian!" you cry. "Most people like robots because they can do super cool things!" You should all know that for me, that's not so much it. Notice that Lillian has NO WEAPONS OR ANYTHING, her "special" powers are doubling as a camera and...maybe hovering. And although Johnny Five can do some neat crap, that's not really the focus of the story. At all. Especially since, y'know, he gets RID of his laser after the first movie. By now you should all realize I like him because he's a MAJOR DORK who's naive and is obsessed with pop culture. In other words, yes, I understand him more than I wish I did...[as you can tell by the contents of THIS WHOLE DAMN JOURNAL ENTRY...pop culture ahoy!])
(For those curious, I still would only the whole liquid shapeshifting thing appealing if I could be like those Changelings in DS9 and turn into whatever the feck I want. As long as nobody pressures me to "BE THE ROCK" like they did Odo in one episode...LOL I do admit shows and movies with those characters have the best lines to say randomly when you want to confuse people. :D )
Hrm, having found out how weird Viacom is about YouTube videos, I dunno how much luck I'll have looking for any of my favourite Nick shows but I know there's at least SOME Angry Beavers eps.... <8)
*There's a part in Short Circuit 2 where J5 yells "HAVE QUESTIONS! NEED ANSWERS!" I once blurted out the "Come to Radio Shack!" quote while watching because that memory came back and then I realized what I said....YIKES.
Hay guys, remember when Cartoon Network in the 90's where it was less teeny-bopper-ish and it still aired Space Ghost Coast2Coast and stuff like that? Remember the old hilarious BUMPERS? I loved the parody of Radio Shack's old "You have questions? Come to Radio Shack"*; "Cartoon Network: You have questions? That's....understandable." ("Why are the Smurfs blue?" Random smurf: "WE'RE NOT BLUE! WE'RE GREEN! ADJUST YOUR TV!")
Anyway, I think my favourite besides the Radio Shack parody was the one with the Wonder Twins, which I was reminded of while surfing TV Tropes once again and finding, of course "What Kind of Lame Power is Heart?" The Wonder Twins are a guy and a girl and the girl can turn into any animal and the guy can turn into...anything water. They were doing some sort of PSA and the girl turned into a BIG SCARY TIGER and the guy...a bucket of water. So he started angsting about What Kind of Lame Power is Turning into Water. I think I liked it because it had one of those lines that are HILARIOUS taken out of context: "I can be defeated by a sponge. It doesn't even have to be an EVIL sponge!"
But yeah, lame powers. I actually think a lot of powers aren't all they're cracked up to be (seriously, I don't want to be able to read ANYONE'S mind. Reading what people say on the Internet is scary enough.) But I ended up trying to remember if there WAS any use of turning into water/liquid/goo. (I had to quickly shake out all the horrid art I found on FA on accident...oh, you furries. Apparently they think it's good for sex!) With the liquid metal guy in T2 he could at least turn into anything he touched, and so could the Changlings in DS9. (Shhh, my dad's a Trek fan, you don't think I haven't watched that?) So basically it would have the advantages of normal shapeshifting. Kay. The only other character I could think of that was screwed with just being able to turn into liquid and nothing more was from that show Alex Mack.
I honestly didn't remember much about that show, other than that she turned into a puddle, could zap stuff, wore a hat, and was one of those boring shows I watched because me and my brother left the television on Nick all day while we waited for Nicktoons or something actually funny like Pete and Pete or Salute Your Shorts to come on. So, being the bored-ass person I was with the ability to log onto YouTube, I decided to look it up!
Now, while I guess I figured that turning into a puddle WOULD be useful for sneaking around and...apparently BEING A CREEPER (seriously, what's with all the breaking into people's houses?) the thing that actually happened was that after a while every time the BIG BAD CHEMICAL COMPANY (Yes, TGWTG fans, imagine me doing the "BIG BAD GOVERNMENT" thing that the Bum does) came up, "Still Alive" started playing in my head...
I recalled that earlier on while watching I thought it perhaps would've NOT bored me as a kid if they got rid of all the goopy teenage school drama stuff and just did all sneaky conspiracy stuff and all, basically using the powers to do EXCITING stuff like sneak around and get around risky problems...then I realized maybe the fact that "Still Alive" started playing in my head wasn't such a stretch. THAT WOULD ACTUALLY KIND OF MAKE A NEAT GAME.
As long as you included a snarky, psychopathic robot, though. Even Portal wouldn't have worked as well as it did without GLaDOS. I know there's a million games with lab escape as a theme, but hey, I had actually thought of a way that Alex Mack might've been ENTERTAINING, that alone is a major achievement.
But then again, I've never found any type of story where the focus is on a character's special powers, even "classic" superhero stories, interesting. Usually you have to tack on tons and tons of character development to the story to get me interested. (Iron Man <3 <3 <3 )
("But Julian!" you cry. "Most people like robots because they can do super cool things!" You should all know that for me, that's not so much it. Notice that Lillian has NO WEAPONS OR ANYTHING, her "special" powers are doubling as a camera and...maybe hovering. And although Johnny Five can do some neat crap, that's not really the focus of the story. At all. Especially since, y'know, he gets RID of his laser after the first movie. By now you should all realize I like him because he's a MAJOR DORK who's naive and is obsessed with pop culture. In other words, yes, I understand him more than I wish I did...[as you can tell by the contents of THIS WHOLE DAMN JOURNAL ENTRY...pop culture ahoy!])
(For those curious, I still would only the whole liquid shapeshifting thing appealing if I could be like those Changelings in DS9 and turn into whatever the feck I want. As long as nobody pressures me to "BE THE ROCK" like they did Odo in one episode...LOL I do admit shows and movies with those characters have the best lines to say randomly when you want to confuse people. :D )
Hrm, having found out how weird Viacom is about YouTube videos, I dunno how much luck I'll have looking for any of my favourite Nick shows but I know there's at least SOME Angry Beavers eps.... <8)
*There's a part in Short Circuit 2 where J5 yells "HAVE QUESTIONS! NEED ANSWERS!" I once blurted out the "Come to Radio Shack!" quote while watching because that memory came back and then I realized what I said....YIKES.