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If anyone has access to Hulu and hasn't already seen this series, you should immediately get on there and start watching. I can totally see why so many people who saw this as kids look back so fondly on it. It's almost the Platonic ideal of a kid's show; I can only imagine how much young Rev. would've loved this had he seen it. What kid wouldn't want to be the only person who could control a giant, nigh-unbeatable robot who does little ritual poses before each attack and has a head like the Sphinx, and have to fly around the world in said robot's hand (or with their own personal jetpack) to fight one of the more eclectic collections of kaiju out there? The only downside is you'd be Johnny Sokko, with Giant Robot, working for Unicorn; and you're battling the Gargoyle Gang, led by Emperor Guillotine from the planet Gargoyle, and his henchmen Dr. Botanus and Spider, who have monsters with names like Nucleon, Iron Jawbone, and the Gargoyle Vine. It's even worse if you use some of the original Japanese names; the group was Big Fire, the one henchman was Dr. Over, and the monsters listed were Globar, Iron Power, and the Satan Rose.

Oh, sure, as an adult I have to regularly ignore lapses in logic; I've found myself muttering, "What the hell? Why did they do/not do (fill in the blank)?" at least twice an episode and more than once the bad guys had Johnny at their mercy and didn't just shoot him in the head. (I know, I know.) However, I'm finding it easy to quickly let that stuff go and just get ready for Giant Robot to kick some monster ass. Or for a bunch of people to be machine gunned/blown up/killed by a rampaging monster. No blood at all, obviously, but damned if a lot of people haven't been murdered already in the first six episodes.

There are a couple of episodes I'd like to see screened at a future T-Fest because I'm sure they'd go over well. It's just a hell of a lot of fun all around. Highly recommended.