This one is long overdue, time to finally tackle Captain Planet.

The planet is being ravished by pollution and mass destruction, Gaia no longer able to tolerate such atrocities calls upon five teenagers to summon the champion of Earth, Captain Planet to rid the world of looting and polluting.
Yes it's the king of environmental cartoons Captain Planet, and it's really, really cheesy, to a degree that you wonder what on Earth the program makers were taking.
I enjoyed it when I was a kid but I don't look back on it fondly mainly because there was a period where cartoons would stop their antics to deliver PSA messages, a side effect to the rules set out by Ronald Reagan for kids TV deregulation was you can screen a 20 minute cartoon to sell toys but it was to come with a good healthy message, don't do drugs, recycle and don't be an ass hole, all wholesome preachy stuff that parents demanded were on every show.
There's nothing wrong with these messages, they are good messages but there are some issues with it.
1. They are being dictated by cartoon characters, not real people, this is the kinda stuff you should be taught in school.
2. The high cheese value later killed off the genre in the late 90s during the Golden eras of cartoon channels and the advent of anime in America
3. It's failure means that crazy people are now preaching these messages, the same people who super glue themselves to trains and buildings thinking the government will stop and listen to them.
I remember Captain Planet's guest appearance in Ok Ko Let's Be Heroes, where Kwame is now the only Planeteer remaining where he says "the planteers quit and got real jobs" whether that's a dig at the actors not coming back or a sadder in context statement that no one believes in Captain Planet anymore.
I find 2019 exhausting, every week there's a protest or a report that's either about racism, sexism, environmental concerns, political correctness, LGBT rights or another pathetic argument spoken by a pathetic human; worst thing about it is, both sides are as bad as each other.
The right wing are being portrayed as pathetic whiney bigots.
The left wing are being portrayed as whiny intolerant snowflakes.
So where am I going with this?
As cheesy as Captain Planet was, we need him back just to teach us how to be decent human beings again, only then can we solve the problems of this world.