Good Lord I love Fridays. I always used to roll my eyes at the folks running around saying TGIF! TGIF! You know… I like my job, and my weekends are so damn busy that Fridays weren’t necessarily anything special.
Well, now Friday is “Renegades Day” and it’s definitely something special.
Over the past 3 hours or so I’ve watched the latest episode nearly three times, pulled clips, and posted it all up on the Episode Guide. You can also check out the review/entry itself at the link below:
This is almost like work. Good thing I love my job.
great episode!
Storm Shadow is my favorite character. He is pretty much the single reason I have been into GI Joe all these years. The ninja in white, with a troubled past and a black shadow over his soul……
This guy just didn’t cut it for me. The outfit was fine…the red sash kinda looked like the first Sigma Six figure.
It was the HEAD! That damn head design! So freaking UGLY! Giant honker of a nose sticking out of what looks like toilet paper wrapped on his face. SO stupid. And when he’s unmasked, he has sideburns like a Hassidic Jew! Ridiculous!!
A ninja mask….is that so hard? Resolute did it just fine, even though they robbed the character of all his soul and honor…at least he LOOKED like the SS we all know and love!
Supposedly the new figures are gonna be “realistic” and fit right in with PoC. How in the world is that gonna work? Are we gonna get a decent new Storm Shadow body with a head that has a nose like Adrian Brody sticking out of his mask?
I would love an updated, “realistic” SS on a par with the unreal new Snake Eyes that just came out….but not if it’s gonna be based on this design!
My other gripe was calling Jinx “Kim.” In all my years in Japan, I have never ONCE met a Japanese person named Kim. Or Tomisaburo for that matter…but at least that’s a step in the right direction!
Pathetic as always, whining about looks rather character, story or plot, once again another idiotic fan shows how much a hypocrite they are and looks the other way with the crappy Resolute and everything they got wrong there. The name Kim is what the comic book writers came up with; so don’t blame the writers of Renegades.
Why don’t people state what is so wrong about his look rather than crying like a little child.
It’s a CARTOON. It’s DRAWINGS coming to life through the magical process of ANIMATION!! I watch cartoons because of how they LOOK…..it’s a VISUAL MEDIUM….looks are EVERYTHING!!!
What don’t you get about the fact that this is a poorly designed and cheaply animated cartoon? The story may be freaking fantastic but it doesn’t matter if all the characters are UGLY and move in a choppy jerky fashion cause there was no budget to animate the damn thing!!
I don’t know how I can make it more clear. One of the coolest aspects about Storm Shadow over the last 25 years was his LOOK. His outfit. His uniform. He is a bad ass ninja dressed in WHITE. It’s a dichotomy. A juxtaposition. It’s COOL.
Larry Hama gave him awesome characterization and stories. The Sunbow series didn’t. But at least he looked COOL in the Sunbow series.
Now he looks like a dumbass. The character was robbed of his most important element….his visual aesthetic….his coolness.
I didn’t like how SS was portrayed in Resolute. It was a disgrace to the legacy of the character….but he LOOKED good and his fight scenes were fluid and exciting….as a work of animation, it was enjoyable.
Renegades has ugly character design and bad animation. Comparing it even to the Sunbow series (which I was not a fan of, but at least they had good designs and smooth animation) is like comparing Hanna Barbera’s crap to a Disney feature.
If you like Renegades, fine. Good for you. If I want to read all the best story/plot/characterization….I’ll read Hama’s stuff or other comics or even fan fic. If I want to enjoy a work of ANIMATION…I’ll avoid Renegades cause it’s simply not very well made.
As for naming Jinx “Kim”…..what issue of the comic was that? Cause I’ve read the Marvel series many many times and I certainly don’t remember her ever being referred to as Kim.