Watching GI Joe: The Pit of Vipers
Lately I've been wanting to do a Joe post, if only as a morale booster. Picking an episode proved tough. I could pick the episode where Cobra at the start successfully destroys the world's oil infrastructure and then attempts to ransom the six remaining loaded supertankers into global domination. I could pick an episode where Cobra establishes Fox News. I could pick one of the 'crazy even by GI Joe standards' episodes. Instead, I pick one where the Joe command structure is subverted by a smart Cobra plot - and AI. link to full episode We start strong, with Fort Kickass: Cobra has build a cathedral-like fortress and coated it with a thin veneer of mesa, near the Joe base in the American southwest. Cobra units erupt from it like some sort of anthill, if the ants were part of the Warsaw Pact. This is detected by the Joes! All hands on deck! By the watercolors of dawn, the Joe attack begins. A gopher is disturbed. Air-dropped assault buggies...