For those of you who didn’t live through the 90s on North American television, please see the video below.
I pity the youth of our generation, for they will not have such great kids shows to grow up with. Nickelodeon had the best damn series of live-action kids shows and I have no idea why they stopped doing those. Amazing set designs, themes, and really cool challenges. Shit was so AWESOME. Everyone can agree that Legends of the Hidden Temple was the best simply because of that bad-ass temple run, but I’ve always had a special place in my heart for Guts. No real gimmicks, a slightly less cheesy host, just a mini-olympics for kids with a bad-ass mountain. What was even cooler was when they graduated to Global Guts and got kids from around the world to compete on some ridiculously fun-looking challenge games. Each kid got a translated introduction and a little montage video of what they like and how much cooler their country is compared to everyone else’s. It was such a cool little show and I hope it gets resurrected just like everything else from the 90s is slowly returning.
So, yeah. Leslie and I have been doing nothing but marathonning The Last Airbender. Almost at the end of season 2, will probably finish that up after this post. We also watched the live-action movie and well, I kinda wish I could have spent those two hours doing anything else. I love bad movies, but it wasn’t even really that bad. Like that douche on a messageboard who insists that he’s trolling, it’s just wrong enough to be slightly irritating but too bland to really care. At least I could laugh at Dragonball Evolution (and oh god I laughed so much), and at least the Super Mario/Street Fighter live action movies had some heart under all that campiness. Still, I’m probably pretty late to complain about this movie and at the very least, it had some really pretty backdrops.
Alright, that’s enough out of me. See you guys on Sunday!