1960s TV Series

dncorp

Reminds me of the Old Japanese Mech TV Series of the 1960s, that was in Japanese, with English Subtitles that did not really match what was being said in Japanese, the lips never matched what was being said either like there was a lag. Used to practically run home from School just to watch the Cartoons, MECH, and Children's Programs that started after the "Soap Operas".

Those were fun to watch. Back then children also knew how to separate Fantasy (seen on TV) versus the Harsh Reality of the News (Race Riots, Beginnings of the Save the Democracy of South Vietnam Vietnam War, Racism that existed all over the U.S., Violence of the Students for a Democratic Society's Weather Underground bombings, Communist Party Student Movements, the routine yearly Forest Fires and Hurricanes).

I realize just how "innocent" I was back then, after over 5 Decades, and how simple life was for everybody (Adults, Teens, Children) compared to Now (2017). I used to buy the Japanese Plastic Model Kits and very carefully actually read the instructions, clean parts, sandpaper the molding marks and glue seams and mix paints, paint with an air brush to build the MECHs. Even making the small human figures look real (from a distance), even painting in eyes using a 10x magnifying glass. While some of my Friends used to just glue everything together. I still have a couple of those MECHs I built so many Decades ago.

To this day I still wonder why we don't have these for Real for the U.S. Military, back then I got interested in the Advanced Research Projects Agency (A.R.P.A.) later renamed Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (D.A.R.P.A.) because of all the cool things they were creating like "Exo Skeletons", "Human Amplification Systems", "Augmented Human Programs".

score 8/10

dncorp 12 September 2017

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