I have since loaned my copy of Resolute out several times, twice to people who aren't even Joe fans, and everyone has come back raving about it. My friend Ty was kind of skeptical, but he brought my copy back to me, handed it to me, and said, "Dude, Snake Eyes is a BAD mother @%#$!@!!!!" If it's something non-Joe fans can enjoy, then I find it greatly successful.
Bingo, that's exactly what I think now. I read a few complaints discrediting this animation but when watching it, there was never a doubt in my mind that this is not the Joe I grew up with and that's the way it was going to remain until the last 58th minute of it. It has a lot of give and take I would say. More mature on the blood, bullets and characters getting killed (if we compare with the previous shows only) and a bit less mature on some dialogues and character behaviours, agreed. I'm rather glad it took a new approach, and glad a few of us may not have liked it as much. For every Joe fan that didn't like it there's always a good chance that a non Joe fan did.
It could've been a cooking show with people dressed up as Joes. To people who don't know about Joe, who cares if they look like military cooks, as long as the recipes are good, and it's entertaining. OKay, yeah Joes and cooking
right.
If we long for what we grew up with, then thankfully there's always the good old Sunbow and DIC shows, and the comic books that we can turn to. The old memories are what supposedly brought the fans together in the first place, so the second cannot undo the first one - Yo-Jack!
