Nevermind. The title kinda spoils the answer to that.
Captain Power, power on! *cue audience clap*
First things first. For those of you born before this show went on air, or have been to retarded as a kid to understand the premise of the show, sucks to be you. But since I have long since considered myself as a candidate for the next living saint, I'll try to make this post as ingoramus friendly.
Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future is a TV series based on the premise that machines are able to grow out of their unstellar careers as toasters and vibrators and turn against their masters- humans. Mr. Powers and crew get cool gear to fight back and then some.
The main reason why I think this series is groundbreaking is that back then, there were no sci-fi series shows on local TV. Aguila and Valiente don't even come close (and no, for the last time, Anna Luna is not an alien). From watching huts in the province, CPASF rockets your ass into the far future you can only imagine as a kid.
Next, there were computer graphics on the show. Sure the blinking of the symbols on their bodies was epilleptic inducing but what the heck - the robots actually looked digital and for the same reason, I thought they were just awesome.If you look at Soaron here *cough* LOTR *cough*, that's PS1-grade graphics right there. For something made for the TV back in 1987, the SFX team should be winning oscars already.
Also, unlike GI JOE or other pussy shows, people here actually die on a regular basis. Well, not really die. They get "digitized", whatever that means. I have a good hunch the machines will just convert you to hentai jpgs to be downloaded by nerds all over the world. I think that's worse than death.
As for the characters, they were also cool. Sure they look awkward now but back then, they definitley looked better than Spock and his krew (Take that you trekkie bastards). Let's see what I can remember.There's only one girl that I remember in the show. Somebody told me there was another one but I cant remember (I'm a one-woman man ,even then).
The girl's codename is Pilot. She's the town girlfriend of the show, occassionally being rotated among the active members of the Power team sa a love interest. Dont ask me, it must be an 80's thing.
Then there's Scout. He doesn't do much other than run around in his ridiculous-looking armor (being a show from the 80's it takes a lot of silliniess to come out as ridiculous. Scout manages to enter the power team using this feat. I mean, look, it's a silver Lego astronaut! )Scout can disguise himself as an enemy and pretty much do what an average PLDT lineman can do. Though I don't think he's up to climbing telephone posts on that thing.
Can you say Obi Wan Kenobi? I can. OBI FUCKING KENOBI. Tank is pound for pound, the most kickass member of the power team. He commands a power suit that's the basic equivalent of a lovechild of a fully armed gundam and a beer buddy.As with any 70's/80's show, if a guy shows up with a beard, he's most certainly hauling ass with him. Tank does not fail in that sense.
Tank puts Power in Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.
Hawk can fly. I wanted to be him for that. But then I realized there's nothing he can do that the the Captain Power standard jet cant do. For that reason, he sucks ass and if ever the series got continued, I'm most certain he'll die a gruesome death at some point in the future.He's basically like scout, except he flies around instead of crossdressing like Scout. Man, does Scout suck or what?
Dread is your typical bad guy. He resemble's Dr. Man of bioman if he's not acting like the douchebag Darth Vader. He doesn't do much either, but the fact that he commands all the oven toasters of the future, he rules.
Lastly, there's Captain Power. Not much to say about him, he's the generic good guy. If he's not hitting on Pilot, he's slapping asses with the rest of the crew.A bisexual for a hero in the 80's era. That's groundbreaking indeed.
Anyway, the series spawned off more toys than episodes. The adults hated it because nobody hardly cried in the series (whereas everybody from Anna Luna, Mara Clara, and Valiente cry at least once an episode). The k ids were then forbidden to watch it because too many people were dying (note to self: maybe this is the reason kids nowadays are so damn violent, they grow up thinking guns just "stun" people.
The show stopped airing.
As I remember it, the rest of the Televised 80's was shrouded in darkness and sorrow.
update:
Since I love you guys so much, here's a tubefeed of the *gasp* actual opening video for the series:
4 comments:
Nice, obscure finds. Very entertaining.
I never saw that show. I've never even heard of it until a few moments ago when I started reading this entry. Which channel was that on?
(By the way, spammers have found your blog. Expect more to come soon. Better moderate the comments from now on, not that I care about what you do with your blog. Mine is just a suggestion anyway. XP)
hahahah!!!
capt. power is the best ahahah!!!
very nostalgic !
I loved this TV show. I remember all of them except Scout. And I remember Pilot all too well. (=<
Fave episode: Capt Power got locked up in a cell during which his suit was "low batt". Now, the door was controlled electronically, and *gasp* he used the panel to charge his suit. d=
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