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It was with great joy and happiness that when i woke up this morning that I came across "GI Joe: Sigma 6" on Fox 5. I saw the title of the show as it was on a commercial and I anxiously awaited what I would see.

Then it happened once again.

Japanimation.

They did it with at least two remakes of the Transformers, and now they have done it with GI Joe. Yes, maybe Saturday morning cartoons aren't geared for 29 year old's, but is there anyone out there that appreciates American cartoons becoming Japanified? I don't think so. And let me say this isn't anti-Japan in any way. I love Japan. They've brought us Nintendo, Playstation and ninja's. I just can't stand the way they animate their cartoons.

The quick chops, the dialogue that doesn't correspond to the mouths of who's speaking, the slow walking, ugh, it just makes it all unwatachable. It's too late to stop it now, though. We had a chance years ago when Pokemon was huge, but now a monster has been unleashed, and the Ritalin-raised kids clearly are seeing something the rest of us are not.

Alas, I watched, despite the confusion and the epileptic fit that I kept jumping in and out of. The story had something to do with an evil computer virus and a robotic dog. Beyond that, I don't know what the hell was going on. Cobra Commander was much bigger and angrier in this version, as oppossed to the bitter, gay queen he was in the original.

Maybe I'll watch it again if I so happen to come across it, but it's more likely that I'll watch the GI Joe Movie whenever I'm having a craving for America's daring, highly-trained special mission force.

Yea, the spores of Cobra-La turned Cobra Commander into a talking snake in the movie, but it made a whole hell-of-a-lot more sense than anything I saw today.

I mention this now because I'm headed to an engagement party this afternoon and I'm pretty sure I'd get kicked out of I brought any of this up.

Well, unless it was the engagement party of Destro and the Baroness, but this one is for Mike and Sara, and I don't think they have anything directly to do with Cobra.