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...

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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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.

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