{"id":9542,"date":"2009-12-20T00:28:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T08:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=9542"},"modified":"2009-12-20T00:29:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T08:29:29","slug":"g-force-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9542","title":{"rendered":"G-Force, 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"302\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FoO5H_UKCrw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FoO5H_UKCrw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Another sort of Star Wars-influenced adaptation. <\/p>\n<p>I used to watch this early mornings before heading out to school, often missing the ends of episodes. Didn&#8217;t know much about it until I looked it up tonight.<\/p>\n<p><em>Battle of the Planets<\/em> (1978) was a reworking of a 1972 Japanese program called <em>Gatchaman.<\/em> Redubbed and reedited with Star Wars-like elements, the Gatchaman team became &#8216;G-Force.&#8217; The American version was heavily <em>sanitized<\/em> to remove &#8216;graphic violence, profanity and transgenderism.&#8217; <em>Wow.<\/em> And the original show had an environmental theme, sort of lost in translation. <\/p>\n<p>More details on the Wiki page <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Planets\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> American show titles (above), original Japanese titles (below). Interesting contrast.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"302\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xx0vhpG3lLc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xx0vhpG3lLc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"G-Force, 1978\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9542\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another sort of Star Wars-influenced adaptation. I used to watch this early mornings before heading out to school, often missing the ends of episodes. Didn&#8217;t know much about it until I looked it up tonight. Battle of the Planets (1978) was a reworking of a 1972 Japanese program called Gatchaman. Redubbed and reedited with Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9542"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9697,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions\/9697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}