Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
I like to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. I usually watch about 3 hours worth of cartoons each morning and then officially start my day at around 11. I figure most people my age do not get up until about this time anyway, so I'm not really wasting my morning. Anyways, this blog entry really isn't about that per se. (Matt, please notice how I correctly spelled per se.) I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this morning (a show I used to watch when I was little) and they went through and explained how the turtles became mutants. It was very interesting because I had always assumed that they were originally human and then mixed with turtles somehow (think Spiderman or X-Men), but really they were turtles all along and then mutated into bigger turtles that have human characteristics. This is rather interesting, although a little unbelievable because I would have thought that many of the human characteristics picked up by the turtle can only be learned, which would be difficult seeing as how Splinter prevented the turtles from having any human interaction (except with April, but that was only after the turtles were already developed). The fact that I was actually in deep thought about this issue is probably a good sign that my brain has already started its transformation into useless things, although I did have a lapse yesterday at a supply chain club meeting. Hopefully by the end of May my brain will have turned 100% into a vat of useless knowledge.
posted by chen at 9:44 AM
3 Comments:
Chen. A lot of people talk about all the neg aspects NP has, but nobody ever talks about its potential to turn average orphaned turtles into crime fighting superheroes. And they don't even need guns - just bows, swords, some throwing stars and they're good to go. The TMNTs also seem a lot easier for the kids our age and younger to get along with. They're kind of hip and with it (or maybe I'm not). Well, what I am trying to say is that Superman, Batman, the Xmen and the Hulk etc. all seem to be distracted quite easily by women. While in the end they usually kill/capture the bad guy and save the girl, their overall crime-fighting stats are greatly reduced. Those super heroes will never make me feel any safer. They'd never risk anything to save a 20 something yr old male.
Mark, I can understand your frustration with Superman, Spiderman, etc. There is nothing more annoying then when Spiderman has to save MJ's life for the umpteenth time. However, at the same time I do feel sorry for the turtles. If the situation were to permit itself, one of the turtles would totally hook up with April, but because they are mutants that is not possible. That's what made X-Men a good movie, there were both male and female mutants. Although Mark, I will have to disagree with you on the crime fighting stats reduction, if anything it goes up because all these superheros are having to make meaningless saves.
The stats are tainted.
These shows only show the ladies who are getting into trouble and needing to be saved. Perhpas it's not that the superheros wouldn't save 20-somthing males, its just that they never need to, because the shows never present that option.
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