Operation: P.O.W.E.R.P.U.F.F. - Intro
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mancalledtrueTime to get the trainwreck under way!
Remember when Cartoon Network was still the Cartoon Network? Back before this CN Real business, before the live-action movies, back when Toonami was still around? Pardon the nostalgia filter, but those were the days, weren't they?
Today's subject deals with two series from different eras of the Cartoon Network: Powerpuff Girls and Cdename: Kids Next Door.
I watched Powerpuff Girls all the time when I was still in school. Hard to believe how old that show is (I have several cousins who weren't born when it was in reruns); it started as a short on "What a Cartoon", for cripe's sake.
Codename: Kids Next Door is one that I largely missed, though I saw enough of the series that I'm familiar with it (otherwise I wouldn't be doing this sporking). The more I think about that show, the more it unnerves me. That show has one of the most disturbing premises ever, if you think about it too hard. Also, the constant "homages" (read: this side of ripping off) get tiresome after a while.
Brian Corvello decided to cover both series under a single umbrella, giving us "Operation: P.O.W.E.R.P.U.F.F.". It did well enough to spawn a sequel, which we'll get to in good time. We have to get through this one first.
Remember when Cartoon Network was still the Cartoon Network? Back before this CN Real business, before the live-action movies, back when Toonami was still around? Pardon the nostalgia filter, but those were the days, weren't they?
Today's subject deals with two series from different eras of the Cartoon Network: Powerpuff Girls and Cdename: Kids Next Door.
I watched Powerpuff Girls all the time when I was still in school. Hard to believe how old that show is (I have several cousins who weren't born when it was in reruns); it started as a short on "What a Cartoon", for cripe's sake.
Codename: Kids Next Door is one that I largely missed, though I saw enough of the series that I'm familiar with it (otherwise I wouldn't be doing this sporking). The more I think about that show, the more it unnerves me. That show has one of the most disturbing premises ever, if you think about it too hard. Also, the constant "homages" (read: this side of ripping off) get tiresome after a while.
Brian Corvello decided to cover both series under a single umbrella, giving us "Operation: P.O.W.E.R.P.U.F.F.". It did well enough to spawn a sequel, which we'll get to in good time. We have to get through this one first.
On first blush, the two seem like they'd be a good fit for each other. The Powerpuff Girls are chronologically... I don't think it's ever established. Physically, they're no older than six. The KND would be a given for them.
But does it really work in the final analysis? Let's find out.
You know you want to read along.
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Date: 2012-01-07 01:50 am (UTC)Personally I don't think that the two series would work well together in a crossover. Maybe if done correctly it might work, but judging by the fact that this is a sporking, it won't end well.
The Powerpuff Girls are kids, yes, but they're kindergarteners; completely different from KND, since going off of this one episode I happened upon showed that kindergarteners had like their own tribes of giant crayons and stuff. Not to mention the three girls have superpowers. Almost everyone in Codename: Kids Next Door had weapons that gave them their abilities, except for a few people like Count Spankula. [I always thought he was kind of cute when I was younger, believe it or not xD] If superpowers like the ones the PPG have don't clash with KND, I'm not sure what does.
Now onto KND itself... Would anyone really expect them to let the Powerpuff Girls join up with them? And even if they did, what would happen to Townsville? It's destroyed enough even with the PPG there guarding it 24/7. Think of the children! D: