The Hollywood ad wizards keep coming up with new ways to ruin my childhood. The latest travesty is the new G.I. JOE turd that will be unleashed on the public in August. Gone are all the unique to character uniforms which are replaced with a single, all-black, super suit for all members of the force. (Why not just make a movie of Snake Eyes clones?)
Slate took us down memory lane (does Shipwreck not sound a bit like Jack Nicholson) of the old JOE series from 1985 in all it's "0% casualty rate" glory. It's important to take a look at the a bit deeper. Beyond the instant negative reaction the censors would have to massive slaughter in a kids cartoon, you can look at the reason that no one dies in context of the story we tell ourselves.
No one wanted to be a member of Cobra, not even Destro for as a Joe you always had the ability for crafty escapes and were always in the right place at the right time. You always won as a JOE, never died, in fact, didn't even kill anyone but emerged as the savior of your nation. Everything will be alright. Good will always triumph. The stories of our culture are built into everything we do and that is something we always need to be conscious of.
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