Captain N: The Game Master - Episode Review - 05 - Mega Trouble For Megaland
Mark Moore
Mega Trouble For Megaland
Friday, May 24, 2002, 8:30 PM - Monday, March 27, 2002, 6:48 PM
"Mega Trouble For Megaland" is the fifth Captain N episode script that
Jeffrey Scott wrote. It's Part 2, continuing the story from
"Videolympics".
No multiple versions, no title pun, so I can get right into the
episode itself.
First, we're given a recap of the events of "Videolympics".
Wow, I just covered 1:24 with one sentence. How often does that
happen? =)
So, yeah, this episode is just a little over 19 minutes long,
excluding the recap. They better have made it good.
The first new scene is in Mother Brain's lair on Metroid. She gloats
to Hippo and Eggy about defeating the N Team. She says, "I've done it.
Captain N and the Princess will never be able to find their way out of
that warp. I am the Supreme Ruler of Videoland!" Mother Brain calls it
a warp, but, in this case, the correct term is "warp zone". You'll see
why.
I should mention that Simon said "Ultimate Warp" in "Kevin In
Videoland", but I don't know if that was meant for correct terminology
or to fit with "ultimate wimp". MB then laughs, and Hippo and Eggy
join in.
The next scene is the Mount Icarus Colliseum. It's empty. Huh? All of
the spectators have left already? No one is discussing what had just
happened?
The narrator says, "Meanwhile, within the deadly Warp Zone to
Oblivion,..."
The N Team falls into a large area and lands on some, um, pod-like
thing that starts moving. They travel on it.
It's 10:36 PM. I'll write more tomorrow.
It's 1:57 PM. Let's continue.
Kevin says, "Something tells me we're about to have a nightmare on
Mother Brain Street." This line is interesting, because the next
episode written is called "Nightmare On Mother Brain's Street".
Perhaps Jeffrey Scott got the title from Kevin's line in this episode?
Mega Man says, "It's the mega center of our universe, where all warp
zones intersect."
Kid Icarus asks which one they came out of. Lana replies, "I don't
know, but the wrong one could take us to any of a hundred deadly
fates." Whoa! An acknoledgement that people can die in Videoland!
Kevin has a plan on how to find a way home. He uses fishing line from
Simon's backpack to tie each of them to the spool. Then Mega Man goes
into a warp. Kid Icarus goes into another one.
Dumb line: Kid Icarus: "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe-icus, this is the
warp zone into which I go-icus." Did we really need that?
Duke goes into another warp. Kevin says it's Simon's turn. Simon says,
"Don't be silly. I want to make sure both ofyou get off safely." Wow!
Captain N teaches safe sex! :P
Simon pushes Lana into her chosen warp. Kevin goes into another warp.
Simon reveals that he's just going to hang out until he feels a pull
on his line, so he won't have to risk his "handsome neck".
A giant mouth with teeth arrives. Simon gets scared and dives into a
warp.
Great line: Simon: "Uh, on the other hand, why worry about a neck when
you've got an entire body to think of?!"
Simon warps into a pot on a fire. He's surrounded by blue-skinned
natives with spears. He goes back into the warp.
Great line: Simon: "Well,...this doesn't look so bad. But that does!
Lana warps onto a base in a baseball stadium.
Dumb line: Lana: "This must be the colliseum." Gee, I guess the modern
design, the green field, and the players wearing baseball uniforms
didn't convince her otherwise.
The ball is pitched and hit, and Lana is told to run. I guess they
don't care that this girl appeared out of nowhere and isn't a member
of either team. Lana runs and slides into the next base.
The umpire (wearing a black cap with the letter "NB" in yellow)
declares, "Safe." The audience (again, aliens) cheers.
Great lines:
Lana: "Is this the Mount Icarus Colliseum?"
Umpire: "Naw. This is Yankee Stadium."
So, Lana has warped into some Videoland version of New York City on
some video world.
The umpire scratches his head. Lana runs back to the previous base and
goes through the warp, surprising the baseman. Um, if there's a fixed
warp on that base, then how come other players haven't disappeared
(hence the surprise)? If other players have disappeared, then why was
the baseman surprised?
Come to think of it, why are there all these warps to such a "deadly
warp zone"?
For that matter, what's with "Oblivion"?
Kid Icarus exits a warp and find himself in the Mount Icarus
Colliseum. It's deserted and windy. He tugs on his line.
The rest of the N Team comes through the warp.
Lana asks, "Where is everybody? We've only been gone a few minutes."
Logical, but we had previously seen that everybody was indeed gone
after a few minutes.
Mega Man's "mega sensors" indicate that 7 days have passed on Mount
Icarus.
Dumb line: Kevin: "One of those warp zones must've been a time warp."
One of those? How about the one they had just gone through? Note to
writer: Don't make the characters sound dumb! This is also another
instance of Kevin stating the obvious.
Lana says that Mother Brain's had free reign over Videoland for a week
and walks off.
The N Team witnesses slaves working under the watchful gaze of an
alien overseer on "Mount Mother Brain".
A man informs them (rather loudly) that Hippo and Eggy have taken over
Mount Icarus, and Dr. Wily has taken the Three Sacred Treasures to
Megaland to conquer that world, too. Um, Mother Brain has had these
three very powerful items in her possession for a week now, and she's
managed to conquer only one world?
Mega Man says they have to warp there. Lana says, "But nothing can
stop the power of the Three Sacred Treasures." That brings up the same
question of how come Mother Brain has been able to conquer only one
world.
Megaland is shown to be a blue, mechanical worlds of spheres and loops
surrounded by pink space. What the heck? Is the entire world
artificial?
It's 8:17 PM. I'm going out for a bit to visit my mom on her break at
Wal-Mart.
It's 12:06 PM. Let's continue.
Kid Icarus says that he can stop the power of the Three Sacred
Treasures "with fire arrows, a sacred bow, and a protective crystal".
Um, I haven't played much of Kid Icarus, but, from what I've read in a
FAQ, Protective Crystal, Sacred Bow, and Fire are three weapons that
you can acquire in the game, and the Fire sets your normal arrows
aflame; there is no "Fire Arrow".
Kevin says that Kid Icarus will have to get past Medusa to get them.
Um, you don't get anything when you defeat Medusa in the game. She's
the final boss. Game over. There is no mention of the Three Sacred
Treasures in the game. In fact, you get the three weapons in Sacred
Chambers or Sacred Training Chambers throughout the game. I suppose
these are what the chamber in "Videolympics" was based on, but it was
way off. The Three Sacred Treasures in this two-part episode are
treasure chests.
Lana says, "Kevin and I will go with Mega Man and see if we can slow
down Dr. Wily until you and Simon get the power items we need." Wow,
Lana sure took charge there. Is she still the leader of the N Team? I
mean Kevin is the "Captain", but I suppose that a princess outranks
even a captain.
And Lana didn't mention Duke. Guess she forgot about him. Hee, hee...
Dumb line: Simon: "But Medusa is even uglier than Mother Brain! One
look at her face turns a man to stone!" Since when? I know that it's a
part of Greek mythology, but Medusa didn't turn Simon into stone in
CastleVania.
Dumb lines:
Kevin: "Look on the bright side, Simon. You'd make a very handsome
statue."
Simon: "Ah, yes. I would, wouldn't I?"
Simon then runs off, Kid Icarus flying slightly ahead of him. That's
all it took to convince Simon to risk his life? Promise him that he'd
make a handsome statue! Remember that, fanfic writers!
Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke walk over a bit, and a warp (yellow
light) suddenly appears below them. They go down into it. How did they
know that there was a warp to Megaland there? Do people from Mount
Icarus frequently warp to Megaland by accident?
Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke appear in light on a green lift in a
laboratory, and it lowers them to the floor. Green is the dominant
color in the lab - walls, floor. Dr. Light (Mega Man's creator) walks
over and greets them. Geez, he's a midget! He's slightly taller than
Mega Man, reaching the top of Lana's shorts. He's also wearing a green
outfit as opposed to the white lab clothes in the Mega Man video
games.
Dr. Light says, "Mega Man! I'm so glad you could come. And you must be
Captain N. I've heard a great deal about you. He seems oddly cheerful,
considering that Dr. Wily is trying to take over his world.
When Kevin starts listing all of the robots that Dr. Light had bult,
he calls Cut Man "Cuts Man". How'd they get that wrong?
It's interesting that Dr. Light has five fingers on each hand, whereas
Dr. Wily has four. Odd.
Also, in one shot, Lana is wearing her blue shorts and her regular
royal top. How could the animator have possibly screwed that up?
Dr. Light suddenly becomes full of despair as he tells them about how
Dr. Wily reprogrammed the robots for his destructive ends. It's odd
that he says, "And now he's back again - and using the power of the
Three Sacred Treasures to take over our world." Why didn't he say "And
now he's back"? Back again means that this is Dr. Wily's third attack.
Well, actually, Mega Man II did come out in 1988, so the attack in
this episode would actually be Dr. Wily's third attack. So, how come
the Mega Man II Robot Masters don't appear in this episode?
Dumb line: Kevin: "Don't worry, Dr. Wright. The Mega Man game is my
specialty. I'll zap Dr. Wily into warp factor 10." Not only does this
statement make no sense at all (warp factor is a "Star Trek" measure
of speed), but Kevin calls Dr. Light "Dr. "Wright"! I guess this error
was bound to happen. Jeffrey Scott must've read the Mega Man
instruction manual, which does indeed call the scientist "Dr. Wright".
The intent of the game's creator was for Mega Man's creator to be
named "Dr. Light". However, the Japanese have no "l" sound, so "r" is
used as an approximation. It was a translation goof. "Light" became
"Right", which became "Wright". Mega Man II does call the scientist
"Dr. Light", but Jeffrey Scott obviously didn't play that game. The
closed captions call the scientist "Dr. Right".
Dr. Wright says, "You'll have to make it past all six deadly robots to
get to him." Whoo-hoo! The robots are deadly! But then the writer had
to ruin this statement with a:
Dumb line: Dr. Wright: "I've been working on a new robot that may be
able to help you. I call him...Garbage Man. He's programmed to trash
the other robots." Oh, please, not a dumb, made-up robot.
Dr. Wright activates the huge Garbage Man, who proceeds to eat all of
Dr. Wright's equipment. All Dr. Wright does is sit, watch, and beg.
Why doesn't he deactivate him? Dr. Wright can deactivate him, can't
he?
Oh, yeah, Garbage Man burps, too.
A funny part is Kevin knocking Dr. Wright on his butt when he runs
off.
Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke run down a corridor. At the end of it
are warps to the six robots. Dr. Wright just has warp zones to these
places in his lab? I always assumed that Dr. Light gives Mega Man the
coordinates, and Mega Man uses his built-in teleporter to go to the
places that the Robot Masters have taken over. I guess I was wrong.
See what great help this TV series gives you on video games? :P
Kevin advises Lana to wait in the corridor. Lana removes his Zapper
from its holster, twirls it, and fires it (left-handed) a few times!
Oddly, the Zapper beam is blue.
Great line: Lana: "My father trained me to fight for freedom, Captain
N. I can take care of myself."
Go, Lana! ^_^
Lana hands the Zapper back to Kevin. Kevin looks nervous and asks,
"Uh-huh, uh,...who's arguing?"
I think this is only time in the entire series that Lana intimidates
Kevin.
If Lana's so handy with a weapon, why didn't she ask Dr. Wright for
one?
Mega Man decides that they'll challenge "Cuts Man" first. They run to
a door, it rises, and they go in.
If the Mega Man game is indeed Kevin's "specialty", then why didn't he
suggest that they defeat Bomb Man first, then Guts Man, and then Cuts
Man?
Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke land in the Cuts Man stage. It doesn't
look like it does in the game. For one thing, it's all blue.
They start climbing a ladder. Duke doesn't want to, but he eventually
climbs. A Blader arrives, and Kevin zaps it.
Kevin gets hit by a beam and falls. The others climb back down to
check on him.
Great lines:
Lana: "Are you all right, Kevin?"
Kevin: "Hey, hey, hey, I'm the Game Master. They can't hurt me. Ow."
Mega Man says, "But each time we get hit, we lose power." So, Kevin,
Lana, and Duke lose energy just like a robot?
In the next scene, they're shown climbing up a ladder. Duke's too
tired / lazy to climb, so Kevin has to carry him on his back. They
should've left him back in the corridor. They're gonna go back there
anyway.
When Lana reaches the top, she moans erotically and says, "That was
incredible! I can hardly believe we made it all the way through!" What
makes this line more enjoyable is that Lana says it while on her hands
and knees.
Kevin says, "We haven't." Lana asks, "You mean there's more?!" Mega
Man says they've got only a little energy left. Apparently, they're
all connected, so, when one of them is hit, they all take damage. That
isn't the case in any game that I know of.
They all stand up. Kevin says they have to get past Big Eye. Lana
doesn't think that it's a big deal. Then Big Eye arrives, and he's
huge! Way bigger than in the game. Wrong color, too. I guess they went
by the manual's black-and-white picture and the name. Also, in the Cut
Man stage, you don't climb up to get to Big Eye. You climb down.
Great line: Kevin: "It's not the eye I'm worried about. It's what's
attached to it!"
Kevin then yells, "Nuke him!", and he and Mega Man start firing. The
shots have no effect. Big Eye hits Mega Man. They have only one energy
unit left. Mega Man says, "One more hit, and we're finished." Not
"dead"? Oh, well.
Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke all walk close to each other (why?),
and Big Eye stomps on them.
After the commercial break, Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke land at
the beginning of the Cuts Man stage.
It's 5:17 PM. I'm gonna watch episode 2 on the 2nd "Sailor Moon S" DVD
now. I'll type more later.
It's 9:40 AM. I had watched episodes 2-6, finishing the 2nd DVD. Yeah,
"Sailor Moon" is that much fun. =)
Lana says, "We're alive! What happened?!" Whoo-hoo! Lana expected them
to be dead! Murder exists in Videoland! Yeah, DiC, you show everyone
who's boss! Um, or something...
Kevin says, "We got the boot from ol' Big Eye." Lana gets in Kevin's
face, points her right index finger at him, and asks, "You mean we
have to go all the way through again?!" Hee, hee, Lana's pissed. =)
Kevin tells him that, when he first played the game, he went through
it 50 times before he got to Cuts Man.
Great lines:
Mega Man: "I'm afraid this isn't the same as your game, Captain N."
Lana: "What do you mean?"
Kevin: "What I think he means is, if we get trashed two more times,
we're goin' to the big trash dump in the sky."
Is Kevin saying that there's some kind of an afterlife? And in
Videoland?
Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke start going through the stage again.
The narrator says, "As Captain N and the others make another attempt
to get to the deadly Cuts Man, Simon and Kid Icarus make their way
toward a rendezvous with Medusa." Man, all this talk of death is
awesome!
Simon and Kid enter a palace and see the (black) warp to Medusa's
palace. Unfortunately, Hippo and Eggy are sitting in a hot tub right
in front of it.
Simon gets dressed up in a blue toga, black wig (with his blod
eyebrows and bottom of his hair clearly visible), glasses, and
sandals. Kid Icarus is wearing a football helmet. Simon's backpack
comes through again! :P
Hippo thinks that Simon is the steam bath repairman. Simon nods, but
Kid Icarus shakes his head.
Great lines:
King Hippo: "This bath isn't hot enough. I'm barely sweatin'!"
Simon: "Uh, yes,...well,...we'll have it fixed for you in a jiffy.
Won't we, Shrimpicus?"
Kid Icarus: "Whatever you say,...Dopius Maximus."
Simon hands Kid Icarus a wrench, but it's too heavy, and Kid falls
down.
Simon disguises his voice (now he's worried about that?) and tells
Hippo, "Tell me when it's steamy enough for you."
Hippo waves his left arm. Simon starts turning up the steam.
Great lines:
King Hippo: "Ooh! That's hot enough."
Simon: "What's that? Still too cold?"
Simon turns the steam all the way up. The steam bath turns into a
geyser, and Hippo and Eggy go up in the air.
Simon says, "We can use the steam as cover! Come on!" Why would they
need to do that? Hippo and Eggy can't reach them, and, even if they
did see Simon and Kid go into the warp, I doubt they'd follow them
into Medusa's lair.
The narrator says, "Meanwhile, back in Megaland, Captain N and the
others have made it back through the deadly Cuts Man maze." Whoo-hoo!
I bet they talk about death more in this episode than in all of the
other episodes combined!
Mega Man touches an energy pellet and absorbs the energy. He rubs his
"stomach".
Dumb line: Mega Man: "Mmmm, that energy pellet tasted great!" How can
energy taste great?
Dumb line: Kevin: "Ah, sorta like an electric cheeseburger, huh?"
Electric cheeseburger?
Big Eye arrives again. Kevin steps forward to fight it. Lana says, "Be
careful, Kevin. If he flattens us, we're through!" Not "dead"? Oh,
well.
Great line: Kevin: "Don't worry, Princess. I got to be Game Master by
learning from my mistakes."
Kevin runs up to Big Eye and jumps over it. He fires at it. Big Eye
heads for him. Kevin is standing next to a huge drop.
Great line: Kevin: "C'mon, you big trashmasher! Try to squash me! I
dare you!"
Big Eye approaches. Kevin uses his Power Pad to get out of the way.
Big Eye stomps right by the drop. The blocks under it crumble. Kevin
arrives behind Big Eye and shoots it until it falls. Then he shoots it
one more time, and it blips out of existence. You can't defeat Big Eye
like that in the game. You shoot at it.
Lana runs up to Kevin, hugs him, and exclaims, "You were magnificent,
Kevin!" Kevin acts kind of modest about it.
Great lines:
Mega Man: "There's no time to waste! We've got to mega move it!"
Kevin: "Well, I wouldn't call hugging a princess a waste of time."
In the next scene, Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke are standing in
front of a door. Mega Man says, "When I open the door, we've got to
run. Ready?" Kevin and Lana nod.
The episode's featured song begins. This time it's "Danger Zone" by
Kenny Loggins (made popular in "Top Gun" 3 years before). I recently
found out that a singer named Long John Baldry sang a lot of the songs
on Captain N. He sings mostly blues and did backing vocals on at least
one of Rod Stewart's albums. Here, he sings a verse of "Danger Zone".
Mega Man pounds on the door, and it rises. Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and
Duke run through the corridor to Cuts Man's chamber.
Here is where the episode really screws up. The other five Robot
Masters - Ice Man, Fire Man, Elec Man, Bomb Man, and Guts Man - are in
the corridor!
Here's what happens. Ice Man comes out of hiding and fires. Kevin
flips rapidly (without using his Power Pad) and shoots Ice Man. Ice
Man blips out. Duke notices Fire Man and knocks Kevin to the floor.
Kevin turns around and shoots Fire Man, who also blips out. Elec Man
fires while hanging upside-down on a wall. Kevin dodges and shoots
Elec Man, who blips out. Bomb Man is about to throw a bomb. Kevin
yells. Mega Man turns around and shoots the bomb, which explodes. He
then shoots Bomb Man, who blips out. Kevin gives a thumbs up, turns
around, and shoots Guts Man. Lana smiles and points at Kevin as she
runs past him. Kevin shoots 2 more robots, and the door to Cuts Man's
chamber opens. The song ends.
That scene is very inaccurate. First, the other Robot Masters don't
appear in the corridor in the game. There are only three spinning
mounted guns (like one of the last 2 robots that Kevin shoots).
Second, it takes more than one zap to destroy a Robot Master. Maybe
these were cheap copies that Dr. Wily made, but, with the Three Sacred
Treasures, you'd think he could've made them more durable.
Cuts Man walks out of his chamber (which doesn't happen in the game),
and he's tall - probably as tall as Kevin! Um, Mega Man was built
short, Dr. Wily and Dr. Wright are midgets, but the Robot Masters are
tall? C'mon, DiC, try to be a little consistent!
Cuts Man launches his (yellow) Rolling Cutter. The others get out of
the way. Cuts Man gets the Rolling Cutter back. Kevin zaps him a few
times. Nothing happens. Cuts Man sends out the Rolling Cutter and hits
Mega Man. He gets the Rolling Cutter back.
Kevin then reminds Duke of how he used to love to bark and run circles
around the gardener (is Kevin's family rich?). He tells Duke that Cuts
Man is the new gardener. Cuts Man sends out the Rolling Cutter again.
Duke runs over and distracts Cuts Man. The Rolling Cutter hits Cuts
Man, and he blips out. This can't happen! In the game, the Rolling
Cutter affects Cut Man just like a plasma blast from Mega Man's arm
cannon.
Also, no dog is that smart! How could Duke possibly know what Kevin
was saying?! Welcome to Videoland.
Great lines:
Lana: "Well, that wasn't so bad."
Kevin: "You're right, Princess. Compared to the next five robots, Cuts
Man was just a wimp."
I don't see how one Robot Master is more powerful than any another,
but I love the expression on Lana's face. =)
In the next scene, Simon and Kid Icarus enter Medusa's lair (in their
normal clothes).
Dumb line: Simon: "What perfectly dreadful statues. Medusa has lousy
taste in art." Uh, Simon, remember how you said that looking at Medusa
turns a man to stone?
Kid informs Simon of this. Kid then spots the power items on a shelf.
There hear Medusa's laugh and see her shadow. Kid gets a paintbrush
and a can of black paint out of Simon's backpack. He pulls Simon's
goggles down over his eyes and paints them black.
Great lines:
Simon: "Hey! I can't see!"
Kid Icarus: "Good!"
When Kid gives Simon a thumbs-up, I just noticed something. Kid Icarus
has four fingers. Cheap animation.
Kid puts a bucket over his head and tells Simon to distract Medusa
while Kid gets the power items. He tells Simon to not look at Medusa.
Great line: Simon: "What am I, an idiot?"
Yes, he is. Medusa talks in an erotic voice and convinces Simon to
take his goggles off. Simon yells and turns to stone.
Kid (while holding the Protective Crystal) bumps into Simon and
briefly looks up to see that he's been turned into stone. He turns,
runs, and falls into Simon's backpack. Medusa chases after him. She
picks him up. Her eyes glow yellow. Kid holds the Protective Crystal
up, and Medusa turns to stone (while yelling about it in cliché
fashion).
Simon turns back to normal.
Dumb line: Simon: "Wow, I must be out of shape. I feel kind of stiff."
Doesn't he remember what just happened?
The other warriors in the lair turn back to normal. I guess being
turned into stone by magic and then being turned back to normal has no
fatal or otherwise harmful effects, regardless of how long a person
has been stone.
The warriors are confused. Simon tries to be a leader and says,
"You've enlisted in the army against Mother Brain. As your commanding
officer, I order you to free this world!" The warriors salute, yell,
and run off. The whole time, the Captain N theme music plays. I admit
that this scene made be excited and happy when I was little.
Suddenly, a warp (yellow light) opens in the ceiling above Simon and
Kid. Simon jumps up into it. Kid flies up, carrying Simon's backpack
(with the power items inside). The warp closes. How do they know where
it leads? Why does it open at that moment?
Meanwhile, back in Megaland, Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke arrive at
Dr. Wily's secret command center (which would be in Skull Castle in
the games, starting with II).
Kevin zaps the door like in "Kevin In Videoland".
Dr. Wily turns around in his chair to face them and says, "I've been
expecting you, Captain N. Congratulations on nearly destroying my
deadly androids." Whoo! More death! More death! Er, anyway, I'm not
sure that "androids" is the correct term, since an android is "an
automation in human form".
Kevin holsters his Zapper. Why?! He should fire a short beam at Dr.
Wily, knock him unconscious, and arrest him!
Lana says, "But we did destroy them." Dr. Wily shows them the Three
Sacred Treasures (hooked up to his machines) and says that they've
given him unlimited power. Okay, so, if he has unlimited power, then
why hasn't he flooded Megaland with his robots and conquered it
already? For that matter, why hasn't Mother Brain conquered every
world in Videoland already?
Kevin and Lana gasp. Dr. Wily presses some keys and creates the six
Robot Masters again. Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke turn to retreat.
Ice Man (using a gun) creates ice bars in front of the door. How?
Kevin says, "Oh, man,...what I wouldn't give to be able to press my
RESET button." Regardless of the fact that this wouldn't work in
Videoland, if Kevin did do that, what would it mean? Would they start
just this episode over or the entire series?
Elec Man zaps Mega Man. Fire Man melts the ice, and it rains on Kevin,
Lana, Mega Man, and Duke.
The six Robot Masters approach Kevin, Lana, Mega Man, and Duke.
They're growling. Things are looking bad for our heroes.
Suddenly, Simon and Kid Icarus blip in front of them. How'd they get
there> Did they warp in? Or did they go to Dr. Wright's lab, and he
teleported them into Dr. Wily's lab? Either way, how come they could
do it so easily, whereas you can't in the games? Doesn't Dr. Wily have
any barriers preventing teleporting or warping into or near his lab?
Simon says, "Never fear! Simon Belmont is here!" The Captain N theme
music starts playing again. I admit that this scene also got me
excited when I was little. Fire Man fires at Simon. Simon hold up the
Protective Crystal and deflects it. Lana orders Kid Icarus to shoot
the Fire Arrow at the Three Sacred Treasures. He does, but his shot
misses. The arrow starts going all over the room like in "Mr. and Mrs.
Mother Brain". Lana takes off her crown (the 1st of only 2 times in
the entire series)! The Fire Arrow hits it and is directed at the
Three Sacred Treasures, destroying them. The Robot Masters are
destroyed.
Dr. Wily stares at the N Team, who try to look tough (the background
music helps). Kevin puts his hands on his hips.
Dr. Wily converts his chair into a little car and drives at them. They
run out of the way, except for Kevin.
Great lines:
Lana: "He's going to ram us!"
Kevin: "Not if I have one word to say about it, and I do: Pause!"
Kevin presses his Pause button. Everyone stops except for him. No one
can talk except for Kevin (unless the others are just not saying
anything of their own free will). Kevin goes to Dr. Wily's car,
changes the course, and hops off of the car. The pause wears off, and
Dr. Wily's car spins out of control and flies out of the room.
Back on Mount Icarus, the warriors throw Hippo and Eggy into a
(poorly-animated) warp.
On Metroid, in her lair, Mother Brain has a crown on her jar and is
looking at herself in a mirror.
Dumb line: Mother Brain: "Pretty soon, I'll be Princess of all
Videoland. Then everyone will be kneeling before this beautiful
frame." Beautiful? Yeah, right.
Suddenly, a warp opens, and Hippo, Eggy, and Dr. Wily land in MB's
lair, surprising her. I'm surprised, too. I can understand Hippo and
Eggy, but how did Wily get there?
MB's viewscreen turns on. Kevin and Lana are shown (in their normal
clothes) standing in the Throne room in the Palace of Power. Lana
says, "Say hello to your royal subjects, Princess Mother Brain." Kevin
says, "Game over! You lose!"
Okay, how the heck did Kevin and Lana get back to the Palace and
change clothes in time to send a message to Mother Brain?
For that matter, how did they know that Hippo, Eggy, and Wily would be
sent to Metroid?
Then the viewscreen goes blank. MB yells a cliché at Hippo, Eggy, and
Wily: "Idiots! You've ruined everything!"
She shocks them with her tentacles, and they run away.
That's the end of "Mega Trouble For Megaland".
Lesson: Teamwork? Epic "heroic struggle against oppression" story?
Succeeding against great odds? I dunno.
Rant time! ^_^
This episode was another one of my favorites while growing up. I
enjoyed both the Mega Man and Kid Icarus plots and how they tie
together. However, it's still full of plot holes, clichés, and a
stupid plot device. The Three Sacred Treasures have unlimited power,
yet Mother Brain has taken over only Mount Icarus in one week. We
never learn what the Three Sacred Treasures are. The plots and
gameplay for both Mega Man and Kid Icarus are inaccurate. Why are
warps located in such odd places? How does the N Team know where the
warps are located? How come no one else accidentally goes through the
warps?
The writer wasted a good opportunity to create a long story arc.
Imagine a four- or five-part episode that deals with Mother Brain
getting the Three Sacred Treasures. The N Team is sent a week into the
future and discovers all of Videoland under MB's control. They form a
strategy, each go off to a different world, lead a local resistance,
and fight for freedom. In Part 4, they locate the Three Sacred
Treasures. They finally make it to Dr. Wily's lab or Mother Brain's
lair, have a huge battle, destroy the 3STs, and free Videoland! I
thought this up in a few minutes.
This episode isn't completely disposable, due to a bunch of great
lines and the "epic" feel. But it wasn't really that epic. The N Team
fought to free one world and prevent another world from being taken
over. It's not so overwhelming. Oh, well, we get to see Lana in that
cute outfit, and Lana has very nice hair! ^_^
Other things that save the episode are all the talk of death, Lana
smiling and hugging Kevin, Lana being upset at Kevin, and Lana
standing up to Kevin and firing his Zapper!
Interesting notes:
Except for the final scene, we didn't see the Palace of Power in this
episode.
Kevin and Lana are the only N Team members that wear their regular
outfits in this episode, and that's only for a few seconds in the last
scene.
The N Team travels a week into the future and stays there. That means
that they're each one week younger than they should be. They'll have
to adjust when they celebrate their birthdays.
The story's time was advanced one week from "Videolympics" to this
episode, the same amount of time that passed in the real world.
I wonder if a week passed on Kevin's Earth, too.
As for what to cut out, I'd say the Garbage Man bit. It was dumb. It
portrays Dr. Wright as an idiot. Removing it would've freed 51
seconds. Those 51 seconds could've been used for more take charge
Lana, upset Lana, or happy-with-Kevin Lana. Or all three. They
could've thrown in a kiss. Stupid Garbage Man. He ate up the time,
too.
Usefulness ratings:
Kevin: 9 (finding a way to get them home, defeating Big Eye, 4 Robot
Masters, Cuts Man, and Dr. Wily and warning Mega Man about Bomb Man)
Lana: 1 (destroying the Three Sacred Treasures)
Simon: 2 (providing the fishing line, getting past Hippo and Eggy)
Mega Man: 1 (destroying Bomb Man)
Kid Icarus: 4 (finding Mount Icarus, getting the power items,
defeating Medusa, firing the Fire Arrow)
Duke: 2 (knocking Kevin down from Fire Man's flames, distracting Cuts
Man)
The running total usefulness ratings so far are:
Kevin: 22 (5 episodes)
Lana: 3 (5 episodes)
Simon: 6 (5 episodes)
Mega Man: 4 (5 episodes)
Kid Icarus: 8 (5 episodes)
Duke: 6 (5 episodes)
That's the end of my review of "Mega Trouble For Megaland". I'm gonna
work on my 5th "Linda Danvers" (pre-Supergirl) story now. Next episode
- "Nightmare On Mother Brain's Street"!
mhirtes
Mark Moore wrote:
>
> Episode Review
>
> Mega Trouble For Megaland
>
> Friday, May 24, 2002, 8:30 PM - Monday, March 27, 2002, 6:48 PM
>
> "Mega Trouble For Megaland" is the fifth Captain N episode script that
> Jeffrey Scott wrote. It's Part 2, continuing the story from
> "Videolympics".
>
> No multiple versions, no title pun, so I can get right into the
> episode itself.
>
> First, we're given a recap of the events of "Videolympics".
OH NO WE'RE FUCKING NOT!
Mark, PLEASE! Don't you get it?? Your Captain N fetish is not only
exclusive to a meager handful of sad twits like you, but your continous
postarrhea about it is highly disturbing.
Are you aware that there are more people who wished the show NEVER
existed? That they curse the names of those involved in it's creation
and pray that their children are born retarded & with cloven hooves? Who
rejoiced like it was VE Day when it was taken off the air for good,
never to befoul the circuits of a communications satellite again? That
they wish to develop warpdrive technology ASAP so that they can ride far
ahead of the transmission waves that are currently heading out into deep
space and obliterate the signal before it reaches aliens who determine
it to be an act of war via Stupid Rays and send a fleet to destroy the Earth?
Metlhd3138
neutron,,or sick Japanese Hentai like Love Hina and La Blue Girl, or REALLY bad
early 80s stuff like Pandamonium, Hulk Hogans Rock N Wrestling (I bet Vince
McMahon uses tapes of that show as blackmail against hogan), or <shudderr> the
gary coleman show,,or capitol critters/fish police/family dog and all those
other unfunny 1990-93 simpsons knockoffs. Compared to all that stuff,, Captain
N isnt that bad.
S.t.A.n.L.e.E
Hmmmmm... except Love Hina is not hentai...
but La Blue Girl definitely is.
Laters. =)
Stan
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Metlhd3138
Its not? Funny, i was flipping through the first issue,,the first girl you see
is nude,,guess i must have gone only on assumption.
mhirtes
Metlhd3138 wrote:
>
> Hey,,it could be worse mikey,,he could be recapping eps of rugrats or jimmy
> neutron,,
Oddly enough, at least there is a little more viewership of those two
than was for Captain N.
Heh. I wonder if I should deliberately write up some "Rugrats slash
fiction" just to scare the shit out of people? <g>
> or sick Japanese Hentai like Love Hina and La Blue Girl, or REALLY bad
> early 80s stuff like Pandamonium, Hulk Hogans Rock N Wrestling (I bet Vince
> McMahon uses tapes of that show as blackmail against hogan), or <shudderr> the
> gary coleman show,,or capitol critters/fish police/family dog and all those
> other unfunny 1990-93 simpsons knockoffs. Compared to all that stuff,, Captain
> N isnt that bad.
Wanna bet?
mhirtes
If you judge anime as hentai because of a nekkid babe, then you've got
one BIGASSED broad brush.
I guess that mean that Ranma 1/2 is hentai, because of all those onsen
scenes in it.
Such fare is barely shrugged at in Japan. It's over HERE in the US where
such things are treated with a more "Taliban-esque" fashion.
We celebrate Memorial Day to honor those who died defending Freedom
against the Japanese & German militaries, and now they have more freedom
in Japan & Germany than WE do here. Talk about irony!
jet...@getnet.net
>>Hmmmmm... except Love Hina is not hentai...
> Its not? Funny, i was flipping through the first issue,,the first girl you see
> is nude,,guess i must have gone only on assumption.
That's just fanservice, not hentai. Love Hina is a "hapless, average guy
surrounded by girls" anime like Tenchi. Unlike Tenchi, the girls aren't
interested in Keitaro, and in some cases quite hostile.
--
David "No Nickname" Crowe jet...@getnet.net
"S'matter big brain? You never suspected that enough obedient ants could
soften a concrete sidewalk's crust??" -Giant Man, Tales to Astonish #50
Metlhd3138
>one BIGASSED broad brush.
Thats not what i meant,,its just that the first time you see a girl in Love
Hina (and im going by the comic,,the anime might be different) she's nude. I
mean, even Ranma 1/2 at least showed Akane fully clothed when they introduced
her. And i happen to be a big anime fan, and my fav show is Tenchi which is
FULL of nudity but its not gratutitous like LH was.
Metlhd3138
>fiction" just to scare the shit out of people? <g>
You mean where they get sliced into little bits by a mad slasher?
Sweet Zombie Jesus
news:3CF2F8EF...@radiks.net...
> I guess that mean that Ranma 1/2 is hentai, because of all those onsen
> scenes in it.
Best....show....ever.
(I'd like to see the Bathhouse Battle episode on US TV..hehe)
--
-Greg
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"Hello floor!!! Make me a sammich!!!!"
-GIR, Invader Zim
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Pål Are Nordal
>
> Are you aware that there are more people who wished the show NEVER
> existed? That they curse the names of those involved in it's creation
> and pray that their children are born retarded & with cloven hooves?
I still think the stuff with the Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo was funny...
*Hangs head in shame*
Arklier
wrote:
Apparently the only person who has a problem with Mark posting all
this Captain N stuff is furry p0rn guy here. I'm not a fan of the
series (way too much license taken with game continuities like Mega
Man & Castlevania, just for example), but it had its moments.
-
If you can't figure out my address, you need help.
mhirtes
Arklier wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 May 2002 16:23:58 +0200, Pål Are Nordal <dr...@spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
> >mhirtes wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you aware that there are more people who wished the show NEVER
> >> existed? That they curse the names of those involved in it's creation
> >> and pray that their children are born retarded & with cloven hooves?
> >
> >I still think the stuff with the Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo was funny...
> >
> >*Hangs head in shame*
>
> Apparently the only person who has a problem with Mark posting all
> this Captain N stuff is furry p0rn guy here.
And yet that's still a bigger demographic than "Caption N fandom".
In fact, bald midgets who dress up as unicorns and play hockey with
sticks made of chocolate is a larger demographic than "Caption N fandom".
> I'm not a fan of the
> series (way too much license taken with game continuities like Mega
> Man & Castlevania, just for example), but it had its moments.
What "moments" are those? Bad animation, retarded characters, villains
too dumb to be in Scooby Doo, and Frank Welker's squealy voice to add to
the misery. Oh yeah. This is what a bought a DVD recorder for.
Arklier
wrote:
>
>
>Arklier wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 28 May 2002 16:23:58 +0200, Pål Are Nordal <dr...@spamcop.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >mhirtes wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Are you aware that there are more people who wished the show NEVER
>> >> existed? That they curse the names of those involved in it's creation
>> >> and pray that their children are born retarded & with cloven hooves?
>> >
>> >I still think the stuff with the Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo was funny...
>> >
>> >*Hangs head in shame*
>>
>> Apparently the only person who has a problem with Mark posting all
>> this Captain N stuff is furry p0rn guy here.
>
>And yet that's still a bigger demographic than "Caption N fandom".
>
>In fact, bald midgets who dress up as unicorns and play hockey with
>sticks made of chocolate is a larger demographic than "Caption N fandom".
You'd be surprised. There are a few Captain N sites that apparently
are quite popular. Generation X thing, I guess. Here's one of them I
found after querying hotbot:
http://cnn.captainn.net/index.html
>> I'm not a fan of the
>> series (way too much license taken with game continuities like Mega
>> Man & Castlevania, just for example), but it had its moments.
>
>What "moments" are those? Bad animation, retarded characters, villains
>too dumb to be in Scooby Doo, and Frank Welker's squealy voice to add to
>the misery. Oh yeah. This is what a bought a DVD recorder for.
When I say 'it had its moments' I meant that it was hilarious to
compare the characters in the games to what ended up on the TV. Some
of the lines were (unintentionally I'm sure) funny. I won't bother to
repeat the few that I remember here, since you obviously never watched
the show anyway. Looking at one of the aforementioned sites, Frank
Welker did one voice for the show, a rather minor part that didn't
appear until the second season. Not that I have anything against Frank
Welker. He's done some of my favorite characters. As for the villians,
evil guy stupidity is a plague among cartoons, so Captain N is hardly
alone in that regard.
I agree that the animation and character design were horrible. Many of
the characters they used (Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Alucard, King
Hippo, ect.) already had detailed character models in concept art and
for instruction books that came with the game. Why they didn't just
stick with the models the game companies created boggles the
imagination. The only characters that came out looking even passingly
close to the originals were Pit (erronously called by the game name
Kid Icarus) and the Eggplant Wizard. Everyone else got mangled in the
extreme. The first (and hopefully last) cartoon to have a mostly naked
big light blue fat guy with man-tits complete with dark blue nipples.
Ugh. While admittedly there probably wasn't much to work on with some
of the characters, many of them got assigned personality traits that
you wouldn't expect. Simon went from a heroic vampire slayer to an
egotistical, ineffecive, narcisstic jerk with a dimentional hole for a
backpack. Other characters had more backgound to them, most of which
was completely ignored. Still others were plucked from continuity
irregardless of other characters around them, thus how Mother Brain
ended up the main villian, but Samus Aran (the char you actually play
in Metroid) is nowhere to be seen. It is definitely NOT my favorite
cartoon, or anywhere close to my favorites list. There are many things
I don't like about the show, as a matter of fact. If Mega Man weren't
in it (no matter how mangled in form and background) I could write it
off as a total loss.
But Mark seems bound and determined to post his huge, spammy reviews,
and he obviously isn't deterred by any criticism. And since this is an
animation newsgroup (no matter how bad the animation is) his posts are
on topic. If you don't like them, then don't read them.
mhirtes
Arklier wrote:
>
>
> You'd be surprised. There are a few Captain N sites that apparently
> are quite popular. Generation X thing, I guess.
Just goes to prove that 12 years of Reagan/Bush has cranked out a
generation or morons.
Arklier
wrote:
*shrug*
A lot of people have blind spots for cartoons they watched as kids,
where people who are older or younger don't have those rose colored
glasses. Myself, I think most of the made for TV Hanna Barbera
cartoons in the 60s (Yogi Bear, Top Cat, The Flintstones, ect.) and
most of the cartoons from the late 80s and up were total shit. In
fact, the only HB cartoon I can remeber liking was Dark Water. But I
myself admit I have a blind spot for cartoons of the early 80s, thus I
remember liking stuff like He-Man (which has a new cartoon series in
production), The Smurfs, Turbo Teen, ect. I haven't seen any of these
shows in a long while, so if I were to see them again, I probably
wouldn't like them now. I think Captain N is a similar case. The show
hasn't been on TV in 10 years, and people are remembering it as they
saw it when they were 5-10 years old.
Michael Lo
Like you Mike, I find this guy's fanboy devotion to Captain N and his
subsequent slash fics disturbing if only for his lack of writing skills.
But hey I got some entertainment value from what he wrote, I laughed my
head off reading about the guy's petty tyranny and control issues to his
other cohorts not to mention his experience with all that shitslinging
between some seriously frightening people who were his ex-compadres. It
gives me the shudders imagining a person willing to go to blows over the
festering pile of grey dogshit that is Captain N. Heck, he even had some
psychotic fangirl get his account closed because she was outraged at his
"treatment of Captain N stories". I swear these people should wind up on
the old Jerry Springer show or in a psych ward.
To one Mr. Mark Moore, you sir are a glutton for punishment and I almost
admire your thick skin that borders on masochistic. But really, do you
want to spend another couple of years on this?
Michael Lo
> >Hmmmmm... except Love Hina is not hentai...
>
> Its not? Funny, i was flipping through the first issue,,the first girl you see
> is nude,,guess i must have gone only on assumption.
I just started watching the series. The cartoon so far has no one
in the buff. Everybody's been bathing with towels on including Keitaro.
Any time he accidentally bumps/falls on a girl it's just a setup to see
him shot through the air from a haymaker and bounce off the ground like a
human ping pong ball.
Arklier
Lo) wrote:
>Like you Mike, I find this guy's fanboy devotion to Captain N and his
>subsequent slash fics disturbing if only for his lack of writing skills.
>But hey I got some entertainment value from what he wrote, I laughed my
>head off reading about the guy's petty tyranny and control issues to his
>other cohorts not to mention his experience with all that shitslinging
>between some seriously frightening people who were his ex-compadres. It
>gives me the shudders imagining a person willing to go to blows over the
>festering pile of grey dogshit that is Captain N. Heck, he even had some
>psychotic fangirl get his account closed because she was outraged at his
>"treatment of Captain N stories". I swear these people should wind up on
>the old Jerry Springer show or in a psych ward.
Let's not point fingers, now. According to 'normal people' just the
fact that all of us like cartoons as an adult (any cartoons) makes us
just as nutty as people who like Captain N.
>To one Mr. Mark Moore, you sir are a glutton for punishment and I almost
>admire your thick skin that borders on masochistic. But really, do you
>want to spend another couple of years on this?
Mark has a thick skin. It doesn't bother him, apparently. If all these
people who really care about the series couldn't get him to stop, what
makes you think this will?
mhirtes
Arklier wrote:
>
> On 31 May 2002 15:05:39 -0700, Iwillnev...@hotmail.com (Michael
> Lo) wrote:
>
> >Like you Mike, I find this guy's fanboy devotion to Captain N and his
> >subsequent slash fics disturbing if only for his lack of writing skills.
> >But hey I got some entertainment value from what he wrote, I laughed my
> >head off reading about the guy's petty tyranny and control issues to his
> >other cohorts not to mention his experience with all that shitslinging
> >between some seriously frightening people who were his ex-compadres. It
> >gives me the shudders imagining a person willing to go to blows over the
> >festering pile of grey dogshit that is Captain N. Heck, he even had some
> >psychotic fangirl get his account closed because she was outraged at his
> >"treatment of Captain N stories". I swear these people should wind up on
> >the old Jerry Springer show or in a psych ward.
>
> Let's not point fingers, now. According to 'normal people' just the
> fact that all of us like cartoons as an adult (any cartoons) makes us
> just as nutty as people who like Captain N.
Yes, but in such a metaphoric sense. Animation fans would be like gay
people, whereas Mark Moore is like a leatherman walking around downtown
Salt Lake City with a banana-warmer showing from the gap in his chaps
and a dildo buzzing in his ass, waving to the mormons as he strides by.
>
> >To one Mr. Mark Moore, you sir are a glutton for punishment and I almost
> >admire your thick skin that borders on masochistic. But really, do you
> >want to spend another couple of years on this?
>
> Mark has a thick skin.
AND a thick skull, apparently.
Mark Moore
> people who really care about the series couldn't get him to stop, what
> makes you think this will?
Just a bit of a "correction" here:
Webster Sterling Swenson is the self-proclaimed leader of the online
Captain N fandom. He's the guy that created The Captain N Network and
hacked into my accounts.
He claims that I had "perverted" and "defiled" Captain N with my
fanfics.
My main Captain N site, The Unofficial Captain N Home Page, wasn't
even where I was hosting my fanfics, but Webster had a problem with
that site, too. He admitted trying to hack into it to take it down
after I refused to take it down myself.
Why did he want my site taken down? Because I didn't update it often,
so it was a "disservice to the N-Fans", and he claimed that he could
"put the site to better use".
Webster is really obsessive. He found out a phone number and called up
a person that he didn't even know (long-distance) to get her to put up
a link to his site, simply because she wasn't reading his e-mails.
She, in fact, never saw his e-mails, because she has someone weed out
the junk mail for her. I told him this, and he said, "Then that's her
problem."
Webster keeps talking about "the spirit of N" and how "Captain N
questioned reality itself" and all this crap. C'mon, it's just a
cartoon series!
Now, the majority of his site updates consists of online comics made
using video game sprites - especially his "N-Fans" series. It's about
him and his buddies having adventures in Videoland.
He even created a September 11th "special edition" of "N-Fans" based
on the terrorist attacks:
http://www.captainn.net/img/e0037_se.gif
So, Webster Sterling Swenson is not really a Captain N fan. He's a fan
of his own stories.
In fact, the newest "N-Fans" comic is located on the main page of the
site every day, but you have to click on links to get to any Captain N
material.
He's gotten even worse recently. He bans people from his message board
if he thinks they're being "homophobic" (example: someone saying that
the thought of a same-sex kiss grosses them out) or if they say
something negative about Webster's boyfriend, Phoenix.
He also bitches at them if they capitalize the "f" in his nickname,
"N-finity".
He says that the supposed "complete revolution" against me was "about
as epic" as the French Revolution.
Now, I'm a Captain N fan, but I'm not a crusader like Webster. I'm
just trying to point out to people what he doing and get them to be
more open-minded about Captain N fanfics.
Mark
mhirtes
Aaron Hazouri
>on the terrorist attacks:
>
>http://www.captainn.net/img/e0037_se.gif
I cannot thank you enough for posting the link to this image.
-Aaron!
--------------------
In Memory of
Chuck Jones
1912--2002
Rex the Reaper
Would you please quit spamming the newsgroup with your mindless
"Captain N" shit? Do we really need to be reminded about a series most
of us would rather forget?
Arklier
wrote:
<snip Mark's post>
>Would you please quit spamming the newsgroup with your mindless
>"Captain N" shit?
I wouldn't call it 'mindless'. Pointless is more like it. Mark, if
you're going to spam the group about Captain N, then at least keep it
to stuff directly related to the cartoon itself. Few (if any) of us
care about the state of the fandom, and who and who is not a 'true
fan'. Post your episode reviews and leave it at that. And clean up
your writing of pointless details. We don't need (or want) to know
that you stopped writing to visit your mom at Wal-Mart.
>Do we really need to be reminded about a series most
>of us would rather forget?
I'd rather forget about anything having to do with John K and Don
Bluth. Can I demand people stop talking about them?
Seriously, all of Mark's post headings make it perfectly clear what
the subject is about. If you don't like it, then don't read it. No
one's grabbing your mouse and strapping you down to the chair to force
you to read Mark's posts. It's not Mark who's spamming up the
newsgroup so much as people who are replying just to bag on his posts.
Especially furry p0rn guy who seems to split up every reply into a
different thread, and the really idiotic ones who quote the whole damn
thing in order to make a two sentance reply at the end. Get my drift?
He's not going to stop, and some people might actually (dare I say
it?) be interested in finding out more about a cartoon they watched as
a kid. So all of you accusing him of spamming the group can kindly get
stuffed.
Michael Lo
rory_ll...@hotmail.com (Mark Moore) wrote in message news:<8d108ea4.02060...@posting.google.com>...
mhirtes
Asslighter wrote:
>
>
> Seriously, all of Mark's post headings make it perfectly clear what
> the subject is about. If you don't like it, then don't read it. No
> one's grabbing your mouse and strapping you down to the chair to force
> you to read Mark's posts. It's not Mark who's spamming up the
> newsgroup so much as people who are replying just to bag on his posts.
> Especially furry p0rn guy who seems to split up every reply into a
> different thread,
Like I said, I still was involved with a larger demographic than Captian
N fandom (who can hold their cons in a phonebooth).
> and the really idiotic ones who quote the whole damn
> thing in order to make a two sentance reply at the end. Get my drift?
> He's not going to stop, and some people might actually (dare I say
> it?) be interested in finding out more about a cartoon they watched as
> a kid.
Exept for the TRULY brain-damaged, anyone who saw that show would say
"Man, that thing SUCKED!".
Rex the Reaper
> On 2 Jun 2002 19:28:48 -0700, natja...@aol.com (Rex the Reaper)
> wrote:
>
>
> >Do we really need to be reminded about a series most
> >of us would rather forget?
>
> I'd rather forget about anything having to do with John K and Don
> Bluth. Can I demand people stop talking about them?
The difference is that I'm not the only one who would like for him to
stop posting this shit. Many others would like him to quit, too.
>
> Seriously, all of Mark's post headings make it perfectly clear what
> the subject is about. If you don't like it, then don't read it. No
> one's grabbing your mouse and strapping you down to the chair to force
> you to read Mark's posts. It's not Mark who's spamming up the
> newsgroup so much as people who are replying just to bag on his posts.
> Especially furry p0rn guy who seems to split up every reply into a
> different thread, and the really idiotic ones who quote the whole damn
> thing in order to make a two sentance reply at the end. Get my drift?
Idiotic? Who's the one writing a two paragraph essay in response to
two sentences?
Who gives a shit if I quote the "whole damn thing". If it bothers you
to scroll down a little ways to see the message then you need to get
out more.
> He's not going to stop, and some people might actually (dare I say
> it?) be interested in finding out more about a cartoon they watched as
> a kid. So all of you accusing him of spamming the group can kindly get
> stuffed.
>
I afraid you're outnumbered in this arguement. You and your troll
buddy are the ones who need to get stuffed.
Arklier
wrote:
>Arklier <ark...@hotnospammail.com> wrote in message news:<l3jmfukcitcb58dfc...@4ax.com>...
>> On 2 Jun 2002 19:28:48 -0700, natja...@aol.com (Rex the Reaper)
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Do we really need to be reminded about a series most
>> >of us would rather forget?
>>
>> I'd rather forget about anything having to do with John K and Don
>> Bluth. Can I demand people stop talking about them?
>
>The difference is that I'm not the only one who would like for him to
>stop posting this shit. Many others would like him to quit, too.
So? It's a free country, err, internet. Excercise some self restraint
if you don't want to read his posts.
>> Seriously, all of Mark's post headings make it perfectly clear what
>> the subject is about. If you don't like it, then don't read it. No
>> one's grabbing your mouse and strapping you down to the chair to force
>> you to read Mark's posts. It's not Mark who's spamming up the
>> newsgroup so much as people who are replying just to bag on his posts.
>> Especially furry p0rn guy who seems to split up every reply into a
>> different thread, and the really idiotic ones who quote the whole damn
>> thing in order to make a two sentance reply at the end. Get my drift?
>
>Idiotic? Who's the one writing a two paragraph essay in response to
>two sentences?
Hey, when I see censorship, I have to speak out. I would defend any
person's right to post about any cartoon on this group, no matter how
sucky. Admittedly, there's not all that many more that suck worse than
Captain N, but I'm sure I can come up with some worse ones that have
been discussed here. But let me pose the question you totally ignored
above again, just so you don't miss it this time: Who's the one that
stapled your butt ot the chair, forced you to surf over to google
groups, then click on the subject link, and held your eyelids open
with toothpicks to make you read Mark's post?
>Who gives a shit if I quote the "whole damn thing". If it bothers you
>to scroll down a little ways to see the message then you need to get
>out more.
Here you are, complaining about Mark spamming the newsgroup, and yet
you just spammed the newsgroup more than he did by quoting his entire
message to add a few lines of drivel at the bottom. If you can't see a
problem with this, then you haven't been on the Usenet very long. Some
people still have to pay for bandwidth, you know. This is a pet peeve
of many more people than hate Captain N, and is considered a Usenet
courtesy from way back in the 80s, if not earlier. If you want to
express your two lines, then send him a God damned email instead of
spamming the group even more.
>I afraid you're outnumbered in this arguement. You and your troll
>buddy are the ones who need to get stuffed.
Mark is not my buddy. I don't even know him. I think his fanfics
stink, his reviews are full of ameturish writing, and the show he
adores is only 0.2 grades from total crap. But if everyone was
controlled by popular opinion, then we'd probably still be banging
rocks together in caves. Popular or not, Captain N is a cartoon, and
thus a subject for this newsgroup. Mark's long, spammy 'state of the
fandom' and shit slinging towards other people is NOT on topic for
this newsgroup and I wish he'd knock it off. But see, unlike some
other people in this group, when I see something I don't like, I
ignore it. Or I mark it read on my newsreader.
Other people are spamming the group more than Mark is, and if they
would just excercise the self restraint NOT to read posts that are
obviously by him about Captian N, then everything would roll along
very quietly and there would be less spam in this newsgroup, which
everyone seems to be soooo upset about. And I wouldn't have to waste
time writing posts like this.
Aaron Hazouri
>that you stopped writing to visit your mom at Wal-Mart.
I do.
I think these things are absolutely hilarious when I can't sleep at 2 AM.
Little details like that help immensely.