Archive for February 26th, 2009
Recycle: Captain Planet!
I was out having dinner with my good friend Jho tonight (and Yankee Elv and Mr Teeny Bop) so it’s a quick update today. And kinda weird…
I heard that they (the mysterious they) are recycling Captain Planet!
Captain Planet and the Planeteers!
Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. That early 90s cartoon of eco-friendly doom! Goooooo PLANET! (My workmates and I have been using this slogan and the catchy theme song for a long time as a weird form of pep-talk. The office has always been quite GenY/GenX).
So apparently (I didn’t know this), they were going to make a Captain Planet movie, and the whole internet got super excited, but then it didn’t happen. So the web-based Mother Nature Network (who knew that existed!?) has released a bunch of Captain Planet episodes starting back from the first episode, and you can watch them whenever you want! You can watch that funny little Heart guy with the monkey again! Also, since everyone is so excited, now they’re actually talking about a Captain Planet movie for real.
Now, I must say, cubicle singing at work notwithstanding, I do not usually trawl the internet looking for Captain Planet fansites, but this information turned up in my RSS list and brought back so many memories. This show was the first environmentally focused show I ever remember watching (and it was really more aimed at kids my brother and sister’s age at the time, but that’s what happens when you’re the elder sibling – you watch these things long after your kiddy cartoon time is done and gone). It was good and the theme song was catchy. Heart kid cracked me up. I may have imagined, at the time, that if the Russian chick from the Soviet Union was a real human instead of a cartoon, she might have been cute, although since I didn’t really get the whole same-sex attraction thing back then, I don’t know if those thoughts were quite that well formed. These days, Gaia might be a bit more… adult (who knew that Whoopi Goldberg voiced her??)
Coming back from my tangent… Captain Planet and the Planeteers is pretty awesome. Cartoons like this have sparked off some really good events and groups, like the Captain Planet Foundation.
Anyway, totally going off on a tangent, but yeah – recycling eco-friendly tv cartoons for the win!
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