Guys, this thread was just a JOKE.........................................

it matters not, I need to be a douche some more before I'm done

if it's a show about war (like transformers) there should be casualties and unlike in energon there should be some actaul debri (like the death of starscream in armada)

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IT'S A CARTOON, IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE REALISTIC

 

"War" as defined by kids' shows is on a level with what children do when they have their toys fight with each other. It's just imaginary play; the kids aren't re-enacting the battle of Antietam or anything.

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:note did I ever tell you you're my hero...

The same reason why Stormtroopers always missed,

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Becuz humans are bettr than TFs accordng to the Japanese showz

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To call anything that happens in a kids' show "war" (or to imply that it should reflect the reality of war in some way) is kind of missing the point of kids' programming. Of course it's not going to be realistic; it shouldn't be. It's an onscreen representation of imaginary play.

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I disagree.

 

As kids we watched war movies and people died, we saw over the top moralising about soldiers not wanting to kill but ultimately being given no choice.

 

Many of our kid's shows were the same, they portrayed war and death and responsibility.

They didn't talk down to us and avoid "awkward" concepts, they didn't replace bullets with lasers, or people with drones, they didn't give us shows where everyone laughed at the end of the episode and everything was alright, where nothing had any lasting effect.

 

The way we played reflected that.

 

Our imaginary play didn't suffer from the realism of what we watched, it didn't limit us, it gave us more possibilities, and moral teachings in a way I suppose, too.

 

When some British fans say, as I have, that they found the G1 TF show to be condescending and childish to them even at the age of 9, that's not some kind of arrogance or claim we were smarter than American kids.

We were just lucky enough to grow up in a country where those who were repsonsible for programming realised that there was a place for that kind of realism, that the fact that we were kids didn't mean we had to be shown a rose coloured world where nothing is real.

They realised that the kind of thing you say shouldn't be, was beneficial to us, from both and educational and fun point of view.

Becuz humans are bettr than TFs accordng to the Japanese showz

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I never posted in this thre4ad at 5:05

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Also remember that they didn't show as much violence or blood on DBZ and masterforce was never shown here.

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Actually they only toned it down in Season one of DBZ in the original airing, they later reaired the first season with all of the gore that the later seasons had. I watched they fight that they showed with the Nappa, and Vegeta both ways and I think that it looks much more realistic the way they reaired it. What with the blood dripping from Tien`s arm, and Yamcha beaten to a bloody pulp, Nappa`s bloodied face, the blood all over Goku at the end of the battle. Oh and by the way When Nappa went out and had fun he destroyed several ships and I think he destroyed two or three palnes and we only saw one pilot parachute out of an F14 which is a two manned plane. However I liked the scenes from the end of the Cell Saga better. I`m a father and I don`t mind the occasional death of a character or two but for the most part it`s best if the fictional characters dying are just some unknown random people which still progress the story by infuriating the heros.

Becuz humans are bettr than TFs accordng to the Japanese showz

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HIDDEN MEANING REVEAL'D

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I never posted in this thre4ad at 5:05

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Actually, when you quote it gives the time in the quoting poster's local time, not yours.

To call anything that happens in a kids' show "war" (or to imply that it should reflect the reality of war in some way) is kind of missing the point of kids' programming. Of course it's not going to be realistic; it shouldn't be. It's an onscreen representation of imaginary play.

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I disagree.

 

As kids we watched war movies and people died, we saw over the top moralising about soldiers not wanting to kill but ultimately being given no choice.

 

Many of our kid's shows were the same, they portrayed war and death and responsibility.

They didn't talk down to us and avoid "awkward" concepts, they didn't replace bullets with lasers, or people with drones, they didn't give us shows where everyone laughed at the end of the episode and everything was alright, where nothing had any lasting effect.

 

The way we played reflected that.

 

Our imaginary play didn't suffer from the realism of what we watched, it didn't limit us, it gave us more possibilities, and moral teachings in a way I suppose, too.

 

When some British fans say, as I have, that they found the G1 TF show to be condescending and childish to them even at the age of 9, that's not some kind of arrogance or claim we were smarter than American kids.

We were just lucky enough to grow up in a country where those who were repsonsible for programming realised that there was a place for that kind of realism, that the fact that we were kids didn't mean we had to be shown a rose coloured world where nothing is real.

They realised that the kind of thing you say shouldn't be, was beneficial to us, from both and educational and fun point of view.

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I'd swear I've heard this before