Captain Planet

Captain Planet is an American children's TV show which is supposed to inspire kids to care more for the environment. To be honest, the plot isn't half bad. I like the idea of kids with powers beyond belief and use it to fight bad guys. The animation seems pretty standard, I like the idea all the characters are from the centre and the 4 corners of the Earth (how the characters know each others dialect, I have no idea). Now, anyone who knows this show might be thinking that I might be criticising the power of Heart for Ma-ti, but the power to read people's minds and control animals sounds pretty awesome so I won't criticise it so much. OK, I'm being to optimistic for this show, time for my pessimistic side. So, here's the points that annoyed and confussed me.

1. Captain Planet (the character).
The character is the main focus of the show. Combining the powers of earth, wind, water, fire and heart creates some entity with powers of the rings. He is fun-loving, childish and energetic. But he's unbelievably annoying and obnoxious. He makes so many annoying puns that most people would know. And obviously his weakness is pollution (ie oil, smoke and green house gases) which is stupid since stuff like that can be found easily. And I'm glad that it is found easily because you have no idea HOW annoying he is!

2. The Fire ring.
This makes no sense. Everyone (OK most people) know that fire is not a element but a chemical reaction. I know some foreign cultures does mention fire is an element but really, it's not an element. Plus, the ring just shots a stream of fire, if the writer (Ted Turner)wanted to improve it, he should make the Fire ring allow the wielder able to control and conjour fire, rather than shoots streams of fire.

3. How the charcters use the rings.
As we see in the intro, Kwami the leader can make pillars of earth blast out under the enemies. Linka has the power of wind and can conjour twisters and blasts of wind. Gi can can makes water come out from pipes, fire extinguishers, fire hydrants and other things that contain water. WHY CAN'T THEY USE MORE TECHNIQUES FROM THE RINGS?! Think about it! The Earth itself is Kwami's weapon! He can make mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes, that is some power! Gi has water, she has control over oceans which covers 3 quarters of the Earth! She can conjour tsunamis and floods and possibly cause deluges and snowstorms since snow is water. (Speaking of which, since there is water in the air, can't she create water in the air?) And Linka can fly in the air and can make vortexes which sucks away oxygen she can use it to knock the enemies unconcious. YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER THE EARTH, USE THOSE DARN POWERS!!!!

4. Gaia.
Gaia is a protogenoi (primordial god) and is basically the Earth itself, WHY CAN'T SHE KILL THE BAD GUYS HERSELF? She can create earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, avalances, she can defeat the enemies in a snap, but noooo, she will risk the lives of 5 teenagers instead of do it herself. And, I didn't like the design for Gaia. She looks more like Philyra, the goddess of paper and perfume (yes I'm dead serious). When I think of an Earth goddess, I think of a woman with a dress that looks like it is made of soil or grass, not a woman who wears a purplish-pink dress. I just didn't like the idea. Plus, the plot hole is, if she is a Greek goddess, wouldn't that mean all the other Greek gods exist? I mean where is Pan, Demeter, all the other Earthly and agricultural gods? And, the characteristics of her is completly reversed. Gaia is not a kind goddess, she's the one who gave the sickle to her son, Kronos, and told him to cut his father who was also her husband to death. She was the one who gave birth to the Giants and told them to kill the Olympians. Yeah, I would clearly serve her!!

So thats the points that I didn't like much about this show, OK there are other points of the show I really hate, mainly the AIDs episode when this was for young children, but these ones I really didn't like the points I don't really like about. And I hope know one will decide to make any more annoying Enviromentalist TV show.