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favoritism

posted 18 years ago by thomas-467
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Why was jake getting special treatment, in terms of weapons systems? The hick had SIX systems!! Max had five, while poor ace, my favorite, had to make do with four!! Ace had skyknight, skybolt, orbital interceptor and,later, strato strike. Max started off with three. Cruiser, tidal blast and depth charger. Later, he received sea bat, then fathom fan. Jake also started off with four. Wild weasel, hornet, detonator and fireforce. Later, he got swingshot, then awesome auger. Max got sea bat, the other two got nothing. Later,(i need a theasaurus)jake got swingshot, and ace got nothing!! Oh, he got strato strike, but max and jake got new systems too!! By the way, regardingrex charger, one of the two new centurions: his weapons system, electro-charger,looked ridiculous!!

[–] grayoo7 18 years ago

Well if you have seen all episodes then you would understand, it was in the last 5 episodes " Man Or Machine" where Ace, Jake, and Max got the extra strong weapon systems because the council in the city thought that they might need stronger weapons against Doc Terror and his evil Doom Drones, Mylee said that in episode 1 of " Man Or Machine.

[–] thomas-467 18 years ago

It wasn't the last episodes i was talking about. Max got sea bat out of the blue, jake and ace got nothing new. Then jake got swingshot, and ace got nothing until strato strike, but max and jake got new systems too. All i meant is that jake seemed to be someones ass kisser to get six systems. As for the last episodes, i've only seen a few clips. I bought copies of every episode on ebay. Not exactly dvd quality, but until there's an official release, i'll have to make do.

[–] grayoo7 18 years ago

I bought about 4 sets on ebay of the Centurions complete set, I watch them all the time,

I don't know hat you exactly mean about the weapons systems but I will try and find out by watching them again

[–] skunkobot 18 years ago

It's because he bonked May Lin.

Rex and John's weapon systems both looked riduculous. Spinning ninja indian on a skateboard EXTREME!

[–] thomas-467 18 years ago

All i meant is that it's unfair that jake got so many weapons systems,and ace got one less than max, and two less than jake.Also, i don't think they got fathom fan and such in the final five episodes, i think it was before that. Even if it was to finally get doc terror, ace still had less than the other two. To change the subject, anyone think a centurions movie would work? I know in a cartoon, you could do more,but is it worth a try?

[–] grayoo7 18 years ago

Aha ok now I understand what you meant,

Yes I think it would be cool if they could make the action movie from The Centurions that would be possible now when they have such good technology but it would expensive to make the transform scenes if you understand, the full beaming down scenes in the action movie, when it was too expensive in the cartoon,

have you signed the petition at the http://www.petitiononline.com/6600F/ ?

THAT WOULD HELP BY GETTING THE SHOW RELEASED ONTO DVD.

[–] minerals 18 years ago

The things i know of is this involving the weapon systems. I have found this out. I think invovling the episodes they should have put the five part Man or Machine episode in the middle of the series instead of the end because since the storyline shows that was when Rex and John were introduced into the force of the centuions that means all those episodes that were played before this five part episode should really had been played after it.

Involving the weapon systems I think what it is with the way at times Jake would do things single handed like on the epiosde "Road Devils" when he used Wild Weasel to get to that girl in the out of contol truck and then had the weapon system beamed back up so he could get into the truck and save the girl from wrecking by stopping the truck in time. Then came the time on the episode where they were over in egypt and that one man was helping Terror by doing the chant to wake up some mummies it showed how Jake was alone and had to deal with finding that lost pharoh's crypt in order to find a way out of there. Then after that it showed how Max and Ace were having a hard time fighting Terror and those mummies unitl Jake showed up. You see one thing the reason I think Jake got more weapon systems is because being the ground guy he has harder things to deal with. You see if there is a flood Max can jump into the water and get to deep water to where he will not feel the shock waves from the water flow. Ace can Get up in the air to avoid the water but if Jake is inside a cave where the water is coming from he has to have Swingshot to get up on the roof of the cave to avoid drowning. So you see there are times when Jake can get into hard spots that only those extra weapon systems can help him with. One thing all Centurions fans need to do to figure this out is to watch the show. The reason the show has not done as good as others like G.I.Joe and Transformers is the toy company that created the toys for the show back in 1986 Has been bought out by the company that makes the G.I.Joe and Transformers toys. With the way things are Hasbro is not making the centurions toys because they are using some of the designs of them to make more things for their G.I.Joe toys. Like for example when that Valor VS. Venom came out for G.I.Joe one of the things they have the action figure of Duke using closely resembles the back part of Max Ray's Tidal Blast weapon system! So right there Hasbro is using the Centurion toy designs to promote other toy lines they already owned back when Centurions was on tv.

[–] chublub 18 years ago

Ace was the best indeed