The Biggest Thing This Show Is Missing...
The biggest thing this show is missing is the grand sense of adventure that the original series (and comic books) captured. This show doesn't "feel" like G.I. Joe at all. As I (and many others) have pointed out, it "feels" a lot more like the A-Team than anything resembling its namesake.
Where are the pilots engaged in aerial dogfights over Eastern Europe? Where are the Rangers cutting paths through Amazonian or Central African rainforests? Where are the specialists of *any* kind? Where are all of the missions located in exotic places around the world? Antarctica? The Andes Mountains, the Kalahari Desert, etc., etc. Semiloaf put it really well:
They each had specialized talents. So, the situation affected who was needed to fight the particular problem. This would allow for the vast GI Joe characters to be used in the show. This way, it's not always the same characters. I remember GI Joe having marines, SEALs, paratroopers, computer specialists, etc
This show is sorely missing variety. It's the same handful of guys living out of the back of a delivery truck. It's like watching MTV's Road Rules (except, surprisingly, more boring because the cartoon characters are less eccentric than the reality-based TV personalities). G.I. Joe shouldn't be an intricate study into the human condition and the development of interpersonal relationships between a half dozen people trapped in the back of a truck for months on end. It should be about American special forces - the elite - the best of the best - fighting international terrorism all over the world.
Since I mentioned the delivery truck, I may as well point this out too... Where are all of the awesome vehicles? With today's military technology, we get guys running from the law (what self-respecting military personnel would desert their positions like that rather than stand and defend themselves legally?) in a truck they stole from Cobra. I want to see pilots in F-22 Raptors, Abrams tanks sweeping through the Sahara, SEALs infiltrating an oil rig via submarine, etc., etc.
I *don't* want the same band of Robin Hood's Merry Men helping Ma and Pa Kettle fight off street thugs at their local grocery stand. The A-Team is awesome in its own right, but G.I. Joe should exist on a different scale altogether. It should feel *epic* rather than completely underwhelming which, with G.I. Joe: Renegades, just isn't the case.
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