by lhb412 » Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:44 pm
One change for the Wachowski's movie I think is an improvement is the crazy fail-safe systems the cars have to prevent fatalities. I have no problems with death depicted, even in a cartoon for younger folks, but in the original Speed Racer there's an incredible amount of fatalities and collateral damage occurring around our main characters and often they're really blasé about it! That may be a part of the Americanization, though. For all I know, in the original they had people saying 'Oh, no! Those poor people!' or 'They may have been killers but no one deserves to go out like that' ect. ect.
Anyway. I got to the point where I'm getting the one-shot episodes amid the standard 2-parters. I'd read that it's generally felt that they're inferior to the longer stories, but I think The Snake Track, Man on the Lam, and The Supersonic Car are pretty great single episodes.