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Destro and Connery are Scottish. You're right though, it sounded like the the actor was doing an impersonation of Connery. But being a fan I liked it.

Killing Bludd was brilliant. They had to kill characters that mattered. Kill a hundred Cobra Troopers or a thousand BATs and nobody would care. Fans have wanted deaths for a long time, if they killed Icecream Soldier or Crystal Ball it would have just been weak. Not knowing who would live or die made the battles intense and made the series more interesting as a whole.

I wouldn't count Storm Shadow out yet...

I always picture Destro as having a very Connery-esque voice, so I approved.
The original toon Destro also seemed to attempt a Connery imitation... it just wasn't a particularly good one.

I always felt his voice in the old sunbow cartoon was a variation of connery anyway, so it worked for me. He should have said "I'm Sean Figgin' Conery!" :)

Bludd being killed didn't work for me however. Just made no sence. Death for Death's sake never does.

Some fans, please. And they're the minority, judging by how riled up the fandom got when Devil's Due went on their killing spree a while back. Most of us feel that these characters should be preserved for the future, rather than killed off to demonstrate how "mature" and "adult" the story is. Blowing up Moscow got the point across just fine without resorting to the unnecessary deaths of Bazooka, Major Bludd, etc.

Which has always been Warren Ellis's M.O. (Ellis is a comic book writer who wrote Resolute, by the way). Back in around 1992 or '93, he took over writing Doom 2099 for Marvel Comics and killed off the entire supporting cast in his first issue! Killing characters off for no reason other than shock value is what he does, and for some reason people seem to think it's ingenious and clever, rather than the work of a hack who can't think of anything better to do with the characters.

Sorry if I sound snarky, but I just don't like Warren Ellis and I don't like needless, shocking, "THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER'S G.I. JOE"-style deaths. I'm not trying to start a fight, just presenting my opinion.

(And that said, for the most part, I actually enjoyed Resolute. I skipped the webisodes and watched the whole thing on Cartoon Network instead. When I have more time later, I'll give my thoughts in the Resolute thread.)

I have to agree with Self-Modifier.

Larry Hama's GIJoe comics were always mature but up until the Trucial Abysmia story, very few Joes had died, and those that did were generally created for story purposes (Mangler immediately comes to mind).

I guess what I wanted was a Cobra with a purpose, GIJoes being soldiers doing an impossible job, sometimes taking heavy damage for very small victories, getting screwed over by politics, etc. The stuff that made the Hama run so fun.

Instead it's Old GIJoe Cartoon + Death.

I Liked the Destro voice. Better than the cheap "JAmes Earl Jones" impersonation of the 80's toons. Cobra Commander is a DEFINITE improvement! He's dowright Evil!!

I thought it was great made I very fitting for the character

Oh, definitely!
CC's voice was so awesome!
Shame he was still a complete idiot.

Well like I said, we don't really NEED deaths to have a mature GIJoe story.
Larry Hama's comics pretty much proved that. The series made it over one hundred issues with very few deaths. And even following the Trucial Abysmia storyline, there were few deaths. Yet up until Ninja Force's instroduction, the comic kept going strong with great stories and great characters.

Agree, Ellis has been given alot of cred for stories he actually had little to do with, I tend to be turned off when I see his name on a comic. I was worried when I heard he had the helm on this, and looks like I was right.

Of course saying that in many circles gets turned into people saying "bitching" on other boards.

I had forgotten he did that in Doom 2099, but I remember it happening, totaly went downhill after that.



Les not starting a fight but recently there was an interview with Larry Hama (I believe it was on Generalsjoes.com) where he said his run on GI Joe was "Just a job." In fact I was kind of surprized how calous he seemed about it.

For the people taking it hard about writers claiming G.I. Joe was "Just a job" you have to remember that it was. The comic was a 24 page toy commercial, I'm pretty sure Hama would've rather done other stuff if he was given the choice. It just so happens that G.I. Joe saved his job at Marvel (and then being the only guy who knew the characters saved it again)

I just realized that I got so carried away ranting, I never gave my opinion on Destro's voice! Personally, I had nothing against it. I've always felt that Arthur Burghardt was trying to do Sean Connery back in the old days -- he just wasn't very good at it. The voice in Resolute was suitably deep, so the accent didn't really bug me at all.

Okay, now I'm off to the main Resolute thread to give my thoughts on it...