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Childhood Memory Obliterated

Voltron

Recently I picked up all the Rurouni Kenshin box sets and in one of them, a promo disc was included with the very first episode of Voltron - Defender of the Universe (Lion version). Blast from the past, right? I remember it being such a classic cartoon back in my youth along with GI Joe, ThunderCats, He-Man and the like. So I figured what the hell I'll take a look for old time's sake.

O...M...F...G... I can't believe my generation actually watched and loved this show. It's so horribly, horribly, incredibly horribly bad. I'm crying hot tears of shame inside. The stilted voice acting, the "is that French? No wait, is it Indian? What the hell is it?" accent, and the craptastic dialogue ("We're space explorers and we need space!") combine into a maelstrom of suckitude unparalleled in my adult life.

I'm never watching any of those old cartoons again. Ever. I'd rather leave my cherished childhood cartoon memories resting peacefully in the hazy depths of my mind.

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Lol. Yeah, but you gotta admit, though we still watched Voltron religiously even then we knew that Voltron went above and beyond in the badness department. No matter what happened, you knew... you KNEW that at the end Voltron would come back and win instantly by busting out his Blazing Sword!

Ben:

Nah, that kind of badness I can understand. The series is named after him so he's gotta kick ass no matter what. But if I were to continue watching the show now, I don't think I could make it to the end of another episode to even get to the Blazing Sword. And I've sat through some pretty bad anime in my time so in order for me to give up on something, it's gotta be pretty horrendous.

But I still love the idea of Voltron. I mean c'mon, 5 robot lions merging to become one sword-swinging ass-whupper? That was unprecedented back in the day. Plus I still like the theme song. That, at least, still brings back good memories.

Yeah, the Lions were pretty cool (way better than that other one with the millions of vehicles!) But come on - even my youthful brain wanted a little more variety than, "there's no way we can win!" ... "Wait! I have a great idea! Form blazing sword!" *slash*slash*slash* "hooray!".

I think at the time, I'd say the list for me went:

Robotech
Transformers
Thundercats
GI Joe
Voltron

As the big ones, not even getting into the various thundercat ripoffs. :) Or MASK! remember? Hm... where's youtube....

Ben:

Oh there's no doubt Robotech and Transformers were the top two but unfortunately, Robotech was never available to me when I was a kid back then. The only time I saw it on TV was when I visited an uncle out in San Diego. So my top 2 then was Transformers and then GI Joe.

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