Kwame plants seedlings in the hot desert heat Gi swims with dolphins Wheeler fights crime Linka plays keyboard on a mountain and Ma-Ti rescues a monkey from jaguars. Ah, so the exposition at the beginning of the episode hasn’t happened yet. So, she decides she must send out her bejeweled rings to special kids around the globe. RELATED: For more nostalgia, check out Grading Degrassi!Īfter she sees all the damage - factories dumping into water, smog from cars, plastic soda rings in the ocean - she realizes that Earth is dying. Lady, that means you were awake for the Industrial Revolution … you didn’t foresee this? She’s shocked by the amount of damage humans have done in those hundred years. Meanwhile, his eco-villainy wakes Gaia up from a century-long nap. His mission? Drilling for oil, he snorts - he’s a pig, get it □? This place where he’s drilling for oil is a wildlife sanctuary, btw. The episode proper begins with a bunny being smooshed as Hoggish Greedly ( Ed Asner) clomps his AT-AT Walker through the forest. Anyway, when these special kids point their rings up to the sky, they shoot laser beams that summon Captain Planet ( David Coburn). I don’t know why this show doesn’t get more specific with these kids’ homes than their continents (or the USSR), but … that’s what they’ve chosen to do. RELATED: Read more Millennial Misremembers! Ma-Ti ( Scott Menville) from South America has the power of Heart.Gi (Janice Kawaye), armed with the power of Water, is from Asia.Linka (Kath Soucie) hails from the Soviet Union, and she is Wind-powered.Wheeler (Joey Dedio) is from North America and has Fire power.Equipped with the power of Earth is Kwame ( LeVar Burton), from Africa.The Earth is in peril! So Gaia ( Whoopi Goldberg) has sent rings to five special kids around the world, and the location choices are fasc-i-na-ting: Oh sweet - the first line of the Amazon synopsis is “Eco-villains beware!” I’ve got high hopes, y’all.Ĭourtesy: Captain Planet and the Planeteers WikiĬaptain Planet and the Planeteers opens with an expositional prologue. RELATED: Check out our TTRP interview series, Tavern Talk Thursdays! Let’s rewatch! These kids were superheroes, yes, but they were also just ordinary teens, which was meant to show that anyone can be an environmentalist? From what I remember, Captain Planet and the Planeteers is about a diverse group of teens who the Earth calls upon to stop people who are polluting and other such horrid things. I can see how an environmentalist show spoke to the budding anti-capitalist-vegan-queer-agendist inside me. At some point in my youth, I wrote President Clinton a letter telling him to protect wolves and addressed it “Dear Bill.” In fifth grade, I wound up in the principal’s office for staging a walkout in science class … because we kept rolly pollies in terrariums. RELATED: Millennial Misremembers: The Care Bears What I (mis)rememberĮven back when, I cared about animals and the planet, but my methods were quite childlike. That’s pretty neat! But did it deserve those awards? #Captin planet series#You, however, can benefit from my misremembering! Today, we’re diving into Captain Planet and the Planeteers, so next time someone brings up the woke agenda on television, you can impress them with your nostal-edge.Ĭaptain Planet and the Planeteers premiered September 15, 1990, on TBS with “A Hero for Earth.” The series aired for a total of six seasons and even won two Environmental Media Awards over its run. Hey, hey, hey! Welcome to Millennial Misremembers, the column where I unsuccessfully try to hold onto my youth by reliving media from my past.
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