Comments | lost_spook: "Ignore him, Sheila, he's just having one of his days..."

lost_spook

"Ignore him, Sheila, he's just having one of his days..."

Mar 01, 2011 17:29

Okay, stay with me while I take this meme to places it oughtn't to go... like some old 1980s cartoon... (we'll return to relative normality afterwards).

( Diana, do you hear? Do you hear what you have done? Listen, Diana, listen to the people you have set free... )

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persiflage_1 March 1 2011, 17:34:36 UTC

I don't see why you think you're mad for thinking a cartoon character's awesome. Seems pretty normal to me.

lost_spook March 1 2011, 17:39:24 UTC

Aw.

Well, I thought other people might think I was mad for not thinking I was mad to like a cartoon character... :-D

persiflage_1 March 1 2011, 18:09:08 UTC

How's liking a cartoon character any different to liking one played by a flesh-and-blood actor? They're none of them 'real people'!

lost_spook March 1 2011, 20:05:29 UTC

True! I suppose, from my memory, a lot of the characters in the rest of the cartoons I used to watch were rather 2D! I just maintain this was not the case with Dungeons & Dragons, and so Diana and Sheila were awesome. And Eric, Presto and Hank were pretty cool, too. ;-D

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clocketpatch March 1 2011, 22:23:07 UTC

You keep putting shows on my watch list. It is getting unmanageably long. lol

lost_spook March 2 2011, 08:45:46 UTC

Aw. Sorry! (And, really? D&D? :-D) Oh, well, if your list gets too long you'll never be able to catch up, so you can just watch what you like anyway. (Spooks and Blake's 7 should be near the top, though. After Ashes to Ashes, obviously.)

clocketpatch March 2 2011, 11:56:29 UTC

Yes, I am VERY much wanting to see Ashes to Ashes *prods North American DVD release* I knows it's tied up with some kind of copy-right thing with the music but... well... if they managed to get through the absolute mess that was Eight's TV movie... hope springs eternal right?

I miss good Saturday morning cartoons. Not that I'm seeing any at the moment, good or otherwise, without access to a functional television, but I do miss them...

lost_spook March 2 2011, 16:50:09 UTC

Oh, sorry, I didn't realise the series wasn't available in Region 1. Must be the 80s soundtrack, oh dear. :-(

Aw. :-) Well, as you can see, I still think that as far as those sort of cartoons go, D&D was the best - in terms of having proper characters, anyway. I'm pretty sure there are a few eps on YouTUbe.

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lost_spook March 2 2011, 08:43:25 UTC

Heh. Thing is, I still like D&D very much. Which is why I maintain it was of course, te overlooked gem of 1980s cartoons. :-D

I haven't seen He-Man since I was about 11, but I do remember I used to like Teela. I just had a problem in that I grew to dislike He-Man a lot. :lol:

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lost_spook March 2 2011, 17:14:47 UTC

:lol: I have plenty of shows I could say as much about, so n no worries - never apologise for that! It's fannishness, writerlyness and all sorts of things, that we stop and think about characters and if the whole narrative hangs together.

I'm afraid at this distance I just remember how I wanted Adam to lose his sword, so everyone else would have to do things (esp Teela, Man-at-Arms and the Sorcess, I think), and how much I resented getting preached out (for what was probably a few seconds, but seemed like ages at the end of the ep) about what the obvious moral was by someone who went round punching people a lot. I do remember preferring She-Ra and I was intrigued by the world set-up, definitely.

However, the real reason I went off the cartoon involves a Christmas special, a Skeletor action figure (with a water pistol dragon!) and a He-Man lunch-box. I could forgive He-Man lots of other things, but not the lunch box... ;-D

D&D ext_1388976 September 7 2012, 21:58:27 UTC

Awesome choice from my all-time favourite carton. So glad they released the DVDs so I can enjoy the show again as an adult. Child of the Stargazer one of my fave eps along with City at the Edge of Midnight and the Last Illusion. Great emotion and depth to characters as you say. They don't make em like this anymore!