Hey, want to see an episode of a 1980s kids show so prophetic it’s sad?
Granted even in the 1980s there were attempts to sanitize KIDS TV by the parent groups, but using computers to change movies? Questionable social message propaganda poorly disguised as storytelling? Manipulating the news? G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero saw it coming.
The episode is “The Wrong Stuff”, as the Joes must travel into space to stop Cobra’s satellite television network from spreading pro-Cobra propaganda. Why they didn’t already use Joes who know about space travel, given they had a space station in one of the early miniseries and there’s an astronaut on the team (unless he wasn’t added to the 1980s toyline despite being one in the original 1960s line) back when the only “U.S. Space Force” was part of a competing toyline and TV show I couldn’t tell you. It is interesting to note that how Cobra altered old movies and put together new movies involves technology that didn’t exist then but in today’s AI Deepfake world I’m surprised we haven’t seen happen in a world of altered dubs, censored dialog, purposeful mistranslations, and digitally extended hair covering naked buttocks. It’s probably coming, and we don’t have a highly trained special mission force to save us from current Hollywood. Let’s see if they can save the day here. Enjoy.
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