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| Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:11 PM |
| (Last updated on Sunday, April 26, 2009 09:46 AM) | | On the Viewer - G.I. Joe: Resolute (Episodes 1-3) |
 by Fëanor |
I've never been a huge G.I. Joe fan, but I do remember really enjoying the movie - partially because for the movie they stopped pulling their punches and actually killed a character or two. And when they give Warren Ellis the job of writing an animated G.I. Joe miniseries for adults, you know no punches will be pulled anywhere, ever. The first episode is exciting, intelligent, adult, violent, dangerous, mysterious, tense, and brutal. The dialogue is a little corny, especially Cobra Commander's, but after all, he is a melodramatic supervillain. How's he supposed to talk? Plus, at the end of that first episode, Cobra succeeds in doing something unspeakably awful, killing millions of people. Cobra never succeeded in doing anything in the original show. I'm hooked.
Episode 2 is even better, as it focuses pretty much entirely on a G.I. Joe ninja infiltrating a Cobra island facility in hardcore, ridiculously awesome fashion in order to fight a duel of honor with Cobra's ninja.
In episode 3, Duke gives an inspiring speech to get the Joes moving. "We're more than one good soldier. And we're more than a bunch of guns and vehicles on the armory deck. They've underestimated us the way they always do." They get working and quickly discover not only how Cobra knocked out satellite communication and blew up Moscow, but where the technology is originating from. Duke and his girl prep for a dangerous mission to take it out.
Exciting stuff! I'm looking forward to the rest of the episodes. |
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