Here's my review of Operation: Dragonfire.
"Op: D" is one of my favorite GI Joe five-parters. I liked it a whole lot more than the Mass Device or Pyramid of Darkness. Unfortunately, it's the stuff that came afterward that most fans remember.
The DiC series started out alright. It kinda sucked that nearly all the voice actors were outsourced to Canada (the only ones to return were the Baroness, Sgt. Slaughter and Cobra Commander). Then Chris Latta left after one season and got replaced by Scott McNeil, who did a FANTASTIC impression, but still...it wasn't the same.
One thing I appreciated about the DiC series was that they trid to make Snake-Eyes/Storm Shadow/Scarlett more like they were in the Marvel comics. In the Sunbow series, Snake-Eyes was a bit player, Scarlett was in love with Duke and Storm Shadow's nemesis was Spirit. They dedicated a few episodes to trying to ignore all that and import the characters personalities and relationships from the comics.
Unfortunately, so many
bad ideas came out of the DiC series. I mean, the drug awareness 2-parter with Head Man is inevitably the one part of the DiC series people remember best...when they
really shouldn't. The Eco Warriors were a bad Captain Planet cash-in (though Cesspool came out of their arc, whom I really liked).
Then there's quite possible the absolute worst episode in GI Joe history...the one where Cobra holds a bunch of elementary schoolers hostage and tries to "re-educate" them by reading them pro-Cobra text books. Oy.
I liked a lot of things about the DiC series, and as campy as it was, I'd like to see it on DVD.
Of course, we still haven't gotten all of the
Sunbow series on DVD, so who knows if we'll ever see the DiC seasons.