It’s time for the last leg of the Joefest, celebrating G.I. Joe: The Movie finally making it to the theaters, And it only took the passing of a century to do so. “Arise, Serpentor, Arise!” is a five-part miniseries, continuing the trend of starting a season with a miniseries. And that’s if you count the first three miniseries as separate seasons. It’s also the most important going into the movie as it establishes the official chain of command for G.I. Joe and introduces a new leader for Cobra that will play a big role in the movie, where the full extent of his origin is explained.
Tired of Cobra Commander’s ego-driven failures, the top brass of Cobra decide to create a new Cobra leader, inspired by a dream the top mad scientist (because of course they have a top mad scientist) Doctor Mindbender has. Being a miniseries this of course leads to a fetch quest around the world, this time collecting the DNA of some of the greatest…and most ruthless…leaders in history, though even Cobra’s not touching Hitler. The Joes must stop their thefts but luckily they have some new members, including pro wrestler and drill sergeant Sgt. Slaughter! And yet William “The Refrigerator” Perry never got to play himself in an episode and we never saw an episode where the Street Fighter heroes fought alongside the Joes. Yes, these things actually did happen in the toyline, while Slaughter would not only voice himself in both G.I. Joe cartoons but actually filmed live-action segments for later “rerun” seasons of the original. He even appeared in a comedy video about the Joes and Cobras’ downtime activities. And it all started here. We’ll be watching the episodes combined into movie form, like the other miniseries in our Joefest. Enjoy.
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A Better Way To Approach Creators Of Bad Adaptation
Let me preface this by saying there are people out there in Hollywood who absolutely do not care about what the fans of a property want. For them it’s just lazy marketing to get something out or a belief they can “do it better” than the creator. That’s how you get Todd Philips’ Joker or Frank Miller’s The Spirit. Heck, the people I targeting with this approach may not care either, but only the liars will be able to treat fans as “toxic” when the truth is they don’t care and don’t want to be called out on not caring.
The angry Twitter responses are not helping, and in fact may be adding to the dumpster fire that the (anti)social “platform” has become. Basically we have no chance of convincing anyone of anything. So I want to come up with a few things those of us who want Superman to act like Superman, Star Trek to represent what made fans of Star Trek and turned a show cancelled in three seasons into a TV and movie empire, and any other adaptation at least feeling like I’m watching what I’m being told I’m watching can explain to the actors why we don’t like their take. It’s not the actors’ fault, it’s the screenwriters and directors (either part of the “we can do it better than the original” crowd or just wanted to get out their own story and the only way to talk the studio into it was lying about it being an adaptation of something more popular–and probably better) who are screwing this up. Before we start our arguments let’s realize a few things so we can better get them to realize a few things.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 17, 2022 in Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight, web series and tagged adaptation errors, commentary, Twitter.
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