All The Colours Of The....
In a glorious reliving of the 80's (though happily without the Flock of Seagulls haircuts), Mel & I have been watching a few downloaded episodes of
Rainbow Brite. This marks one of those rare occasions where something I recall from my childhood doesn't entirely seem so silly when I view it at an older age. The animation quality, given the time, was surprisingly good. After watching the first two episodes, I have also come to the following conclusions about the series:
1) Starlite the horse couldn't be any more gay.
2) Lurky, the big dustball of a villain, resembles the result of a genetic splicing between Snuffleupagus and the Hamburglar.
3) Twink, the fuzzy little star-shaped sprite (read: magical girls' obligatory talking mascot), really needed to have been eaten in the first episode. Ideally chewed the recommended 30 times before being swallowed. At least then he would have served a purpose (other than annoying me incessantly).
4) continuity really needed to be checked in episode 2. As our heroine is on her quest to find the seven Colour Kids (one kid per colour, natch), she saves Red, Yellow and Green. Shortly thereafter, the villains capture Indigo, Blue and Orange. Mysteriously enough, however, when Rainbow Brite rescues them, we now have Indigo, Green and Orange. Possibly Blue was trained in the ninjitsu art of substituting some object for himself in order to avoid capture. Alas, he switched with someone who already head been rescued. He needs to work on his ninjitsu. Or else take better notes from David Copperfield performances.
5) the green colour kid, Patty O'Green, despite her namesake, is not Irish.
6) the red colour kid, Red Butler, really does seem to give a damn. That and he bows like a girl.
Quote of the Day: and the exact words uttered by Mel have not been changed in the slightest too. "No hands down [Chaos'] pants, unless they're mine!" Mel insists I give proper context for this. If it's context she wants, she can write about it in her livejournal. Mwah hah hah ha ha ha!
posted by Phillip at 6:39 PM
