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bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2012-06-26 01:52 am
bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2012-06-26 01:52 am
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I Swear One Of Them Was Wearing An ERECTOR SET On Her Head
Sweet! All four seasons of Ocean Girl showed up on on Netflix instaplay!
God damn, I was obsessed with this show as a kid, on account of IT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME. On the one hand there was a bunch of kids living on a futuristic Underwater Dome Of Science, and on the other there was a feral alien girl who could hold her breath for forever and lived on an island and hung out with a humpback whale. CRACK, I TELL YOU. PRETEEN GIRL CRACK.
Of course, I didn't have my shit together enough to actually watch it every week, so I've only got a a hazy idea what the big story arc is. So I'm catching up on what I missed.*
Turns out I missed a lot. For one thing, the older kid who hangs out with the feral gal is kind of a neurotic controlling douchebag. He tends to boss her around about who she can meet and what she can do when she's on his station, mostly because he's paranoid that someone, somewhere, will see her someday and instantly conclude that she is a magic alien.
Which isn't entirely impossible, seeing as the people in this show are probably the worst I've ever seen at acting casual--and bear in mind I am a grandmaster of failing to act casual. (From both ends, too--I just can't lie, and I tend to forget other people do.) But even I can tell you a few things about how to do it.
Like, y'know, if you're trying to keep somebody's superpowers a secret, it's probably not helpful to respond to every random "Howzit?" with "OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT NOTHING SHE'S JUST MY SISTER WHO WORKS HERE WE'VE NEVER MET AND SHE DOESN'T HAVE SUPERPOWERS WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT AND ANYWAY SHE'S DEAD ON THE MOON WITH STEVE OH LOOK OVER THERE IS THAT A MONKEY PLAYING A BANJO?" *flee*
Also, if you don't want people to observe those powers, even I know you probably shouldn't put giant HD displays all over public workspaces with live feeds of your pals doing superpower things. You wouldn't have to scramble to keep people away from the monitors if you DIDN'T HAVE THE MONITORS.
But yeah, even when the cheese shows through, I get a warm fuzzy sense of nostalgia from it. Tough to admit how much 90s kids' science fiction made my imagination what it is today.**
It still doesn't beat the hair from Space Cases, though. By god, I WILL have Jewel Staite's rainbow hair someday.
*The hair, for example. Oh, god. The HAIR.
**Almost as hard as admitting how much of my sense of fantasy has been influenced by a SNES game that requires you to battle a giant evil wedding cake. Super Mario RPG: great game, or the GREATEST game?
God damn, I was obsessed with this show as a kid, on account of IT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME. On the one hand there was a bunch of kids living on a futuristic Underwater Dome Of Science, and on the other there was a feral alien girl who could hold her breath for forever and lived on an island and hung out with a humpback whale. CRACK, I TELL YOU. PRETEEN GIRL CRACK.
Of course, I didn't have my shit together enough to actually watch it every week, so I've only got a a hazy idea what the big story arc is. So I'm catching up on what I missed.*
Turns out I missed a lot. For one thing, the older kid who hangs out with the feral gal is kind of a neurotic controlling douchebag. He tends to boss her around about who she can meet and what she can do when she's on his station, mostly because he's paranoid that someone, somewhere, will see her someday and instantly conclude that she is a magic alien.
Which isn't entirely impossible, seeing as the people in this show are probably the worst I've ever seen at acting casual--and bear in mind I am a grandmaster of failing to act casual. (From both ends, too--I just can't lie, and I tend to forget other people do.) But even I can tell you a few things about how to do it.
Like, y'know, if you're trying to keep somebody's superpowers a secret, it's probably not helpful to respond to every random "Howzit?" with "OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT NOTHING SHE'S JUST MY SISTER WHO WORKS HERE WE'VE NEVER MET AND SHE DOESN'T HAVE SUPERPOWERS WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT AND ANYWAY SHE'S DEAD ON THE MOON WITH STEVE OH LOOK OVER THERE IS THAT A MONKEY PLAYING A BANJO?" *flee*
Also, if you don't want people to observe those powers, even I know you probably shouldn't put giant HD displays all over public workspaces with live feeds of your pals doing superpower things. You wouldn't have to scramble to keep people away from the monitors if you DIDN'T HAVE THE MONITORS.
But yeah, even when the cheese shows through, I get a warm fuzzy sense of nostalgia from it. Tough to admit how much 90s kids' science fiction made my imagination what it is today.**
It still doesn't beat the hair from Space Cases, though. By god, I WILL have Jewel Staite's rainbow hair someday.
*The hair, for example. Oh, god. The HAIR.
**Almost as hard as admitting how much of my sense of fantasy has been influenced by a SNES game that requires you to battle a giant evil wedding cake. Super Mario RPG: great game, or the GREATEST game?
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*groans* I just realized that this show is the direct cause of a character of mine, Valery who rode around on a killer whale (because kller whales are prettier than humpbacks) and who in turn sparked a story about a water planet where people could talk telepathically to specific types of animals, and one prophesied dude who could talk to all animals. And then that sort of spiralled out of control. So yeah. "90s kids' science fiction made my imagination what it is today," so true.
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Come to think of it, I'm actually surprised I don't have a character who came directly from Neri. Although I probably make up for it with an alien who pretty much started out as Bowser the Koopa King. So there is that ...
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* Or else it was based on a book or something.
(Also, Super Mario RPG rocked. And Space Cases...)
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I later found out that George Takei and Mark Hamill both made appearances on Space Cases. I was absurdly pleased by that.
Don't get me started on Super Mario RPG. Holy shit it was awesome.
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I've been engaging in a little video nostalgia myself, only in my case it's DVDs of Urusei Yatsura.
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I haven't heard of Urusei Yatsura, so we're even!
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Ever hear of Ranma 1/2 (or Inuyasha)? Urusei Yatsura is an earlier series by the same artist: less fighting, more insanity, more puns. You still see cosplayers dressing up as the alien princess Lum. Incredibly silly, lots of fun. I've been using it to cheer myself up lately.
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I am not much for anime. I can spot the main character from Inuyasha, but other than that I am in the dark. (Possibly because I was traumatized by Unico at a young age. WHAT THE FUCK, MAN, WHAT THE FUCK.) But while I do not get anime, I certainly get Warm Fuzzy Feelings. Sometimes you gotta indulge in silly fun things from the glorious past.
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Hope it lightens up soon, and in the meantime, well, there's always the go-to shows to make you feel better.
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Actually, for all it's kind of a cheeseball kids' show, I'm impressed that it's standing up pretty decently. The production isn't too shabby--they got some good locations and set pieces, and they reuse the main ones pretty well. Plus, while the writing is a bit repetitive, and it isn't exactly mind-blowingly brilliant character arcs and worldbuilding like, say, Avatar: The Last Airbender, at least it actually kept going and ran to a finale.
(ETA--Just realized this comment got cut off!) Anyway, yeah--I'm rather pleasantly impressed that it's actually better than the usual kids' fare.
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I got the entire series of Bionic Six from a
bootlegrare DVDs booth at a con, and was surprised to find that at least the first episode was pretty decent. Haven't gotten farther yet.no subject
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Ghostwriter has a special place in my heart, though, because so much of the show was based on teaching you how to use encyclopedias, card catalogs, atlases, periodicals, biographies, and all the other fabulous research tools Available At Your Local Library. Not even a decade later, all you need is Google.
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