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| Yes, exactly, ninja turtles has got no class, exactly.. "holy glaucamole"??? was a childrens show only,directed solely at dumbed-down American kids and those imitating dumbed-down american kids, which Samurai and that genre were not. |
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| What class ? It's good for a laugh. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Re the Samurai, I watched it way back then and also got a real belly laugh at the send up on Fast Forward yrs ago. They just couldn't keep straight faces, which made it even funnier. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hopefully it has some more class than that did.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I suppose it's like the Ninja Turtle of a different generation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| there are a few vids of Phantom Agents on youtube..mostly opening credits. that head master teacher that they had that had ragged on Samurai must have been a right plonker, and was still the same now.. |
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| I watched it, even though I had only seen Samurai casually, I was and am a huge fan of the other Japanese 60s ninja show they mentioned, Phantom Agents (Butai Ninja Gekko) but I was spewing that they were so dismissive of it,and only talked about it for a minute, that show was bloody sensational, and, as they suggested, likewise, worked well with the hilarious dubbing than it would have with subtitles... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watching the Shintaro documentary on SBS last night brough all my childhood memories flooding back. It brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. Kids of today would laugh off a show as amateurish and clumsy as The Samurai, but as a child of the 60's, to us, the show was a wonder to behold. No-one had ever seen anything like it. Just watching the show highlights, and the scenes of 60's Australia only re-confirmed to me that the 60's was the best decade of all to be a child growing up. There were no computers, no internet, no mobile phones, no Playstations. We spent most of our time playing outdoors with friends - be it footy, cricket, bike riding, pretending to be ninjas, or our favourite superheroes. We were never bored. After school, we would rush home to watch shows like The Samurai, Superman, Lost In Space, The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis. Sometimes we would be allowed to stay up late to watch creepy shows like The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Deadly Earnest. Back then it seemed like everything on TV was new and exciting. What happened? I look at my kids now, and all they are interested in is listening to bland dance-pop on their i-pods, and surfing the internet. I have to pry them out of their seats with a shoe-horn to get them to play outside - and when they do go out, I worry about how safe they are. The world is no longer the relatively safe place that I lived in as a child. Back in the 60's many people were so trustful, they would leave their car parked in the street with the keys still in the ignition. You could leave money out by the front gate for the milkman. How times have changed. |
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