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Our crack podcast staff reveals (and revels in) its true age during a short analysis and retrospective of Captain Power in the early moments of this episode. Â We first started talking about it in the after-show of two weeks back, but I don’t remember why. Â It was a short-run program in the “V” and “Otherworld” band of the sci-fi spectrum, but it was evidently formative for us in the way that only a toy/television cross-marketing animal can be.
It hit most of the standard 80s geek g-spots, but excelled by teaching us lessons about interactivity before we had the words to describe what we were doing. Â Toy spaceships that were guns and could blow each other up, and a television show that could blow up that toy? Â Love it! Â None of us would dispute how truly awful this cheese was, or how badly it has aged, but those things don’t matter to the children we used to be. Â I’m sure when we cry jaded tears about the games and fiction of today, Â the Captain and his bitchin’ toy spaceships are working against us.
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