Go, Speed, go...

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*waves to everybody* Hiya!

Looking ahead, I've been a member of this community for quite some time but don't think I ever posted. Now, however, I hope to find somebody here who'll listen to me ranting about how my head almost exploded after discovering (and watching) some videotapes from 1993 in our attic with "The New Adventures of Speed Racer" on them.

Speed has the worst crush on Racer X!!! I need to share this or I'll go nuts!!

Back then, when I was eleven, I wanted Speed to get it on with Trixie. Watching the show now, I realized Trixie doesn't have much of a function. More, she isn't even Speed's girlfriend, as opposed to the Japanese classics (where she didn't have a function either and spent most of the time bitching around being jealous because there's no way she could have been Speed's girlfriend with all the chicks he went nuts over).

So, last week, for the first time, I realized how all the action in the show is pretty much Speed stumbling into some mean!plot, Speed shortly angsting over mean!plot, Speed contacting Racer X to help with mean!plot or Racer X showing up to save Speed from mean!plot, Speed angsting occasionally over whether Racer X is You-Know-Who, Speed and Racer X kicking ass to overcome mean!plot, Speed showing no interest in girls whatsoever.

Among all this, I found some truly dreamy stuff (I watched the German dub):

Episode #10:
Speed: *in a tone of total admiration, bearing the matching facial expression, running towards and looking up at Racer X* "Racer X! What are you doing here?"
Me: Gawwww!!!!! Lovely!!!!!

Episode #3: [Speed doing his first transeuropean race and suffering from romantic hero worship]
Speed: *totally dreamy* "That's Dirk Swaggert. The best race driver in the world!"
Racer X: [later] "Speed, Dirk's the spy I was telling you about!"
Speed: [just got to know Racer X] "That's Dirk Swaggert! It can't be!"
Racer X: "Then why did he shoot your tires?"
Speed: "I dunno... Maybe he thought it was your car."
Me: Yeah. Uh-huh. Sure.

Episode #11:
Racer X: "Thanks for saving me."
Speed: "Hey, I can't count the times you saved me. Finally I've been able to do something for you."
Me: *sigh*

Episode #8: [guy kidnaps Speed and brings him to the year 2078 where he's supposed to compete with mutants in a battle race]
Guy: *laughs in evil, delightful way* "Speed Racer... my little star."
Me: *has a sudden image of Speed being forced to give blowjobs to evil guy and ugly mutants in abused!pleasure!boy!fashion*

And finally:
Episode #9: [Speed and Racer X end up in a jungle millions of years in the past and must fight dinosaurs]
Racer X: "First, we'll find shelter."
Speed: "And then what? Shall we play Adam and Eve?"
Me: No comment.

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Yeah, well, so are Fred and George and that never stopped the people in the HP fandom (gotta love that fandom; it made underage stuff and incest *cough Lucius Draco cough Weasley slash cough* fashionable).

Besides, in two Speed Racer incarnations from NOW comics from the eighties, Rex even fakes his own death so the Racers don't have a clue who Racer X is. And Rex can have more angst that way. :D