I have been nerding out recently and watching old 60's Star Trek with my friend Andy and it's made me think back and kind of get in touch with my young nerd self again. Not that I ever lost touch, but I like having an excuse to watch cartoons.
So besides growing up with a healthy dose of Star Trek conventions and episodes of Next Generation I remember specifically becoming a huge fan of EXOSQUAD. I was so into ExoSquad that I would wake up at 6:15 every morning before school and catch ExoSquad on whatever UPN was before it became UPN. After that was Biker Mice From Mars which I thought was stupid. Anyway my parents put up with this, my dad even helped me call the toy stores to see when they got new shipments in so I could have the whole ExoFleet. Man those E-Frames were cool as shit. Just look at how cool this thing is-
Who wouldn't want to play with that ^?
I'm re-watching ExoSquad right now on Hulu (Thank God for the internet). No wonder I was such a die hard little fan of this show as a kid. I am as an adult too. It's a really well written, smart and dare I say edgy sci-fi show, only with Saturday morning cartoon animation and kickass toys to go along with it. It deals with real moral issues about the dangers of playing god and racial inequality/superiority are center to the story.
In fact it makes me feel kind of weird because it shares alot of plot similarities to my favorite "adult" show Battlestar Galactica.
Man, it's so good. I think when I'm done with ExoSquad I'm gonna re-watch ROBOTECH. The first Macross part is still the reason I decided to make movies as a kid. I'll do a separate post about that later.
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