>It looks like Penn Zero is retiring. It’s been announced that the Disney XD series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero has been cancelled after two seasons. >Created by Sam Levine and Jared Bush, the animated series follows Penn Zero, a young boy who takes up his parents’ job as a part-time superhero. The voice cast includes Thomas Middleditch, Adam DeVine, Alfred Molina, Tania Gunadi, and Larry Wilmore. >Levine revealed the cancellation news on his Tumblr, saying new episodes will still air through 2017: >I’m making this announcement to let you know that the second season of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero will be the final season of the series. >Levine revealed the cancellation news on his Tumblr, saying new episodes will still air through 2017: >I’m making this announcement to let you know that the second season of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero will be the final season of the series. >We are finishing up the story we began telling in 2014. New episodes will air through 2017, leading up to our series finale. I’m really excited for you all to see our big, bombastic, super funny, visually purty, exponentially musical, big-time exciting and emotionally everything season 2.” >He also thanked the fans for their devotion to the show: >The most exciting part of making this show has been to see it resonate with an audience. To know you dig what we put into the universe is honestly the biggest gift. We made this stuff for you. And you’re inspired and make your own stuff because of what we did. And that truly inspires me. Thank you all.
Hey guys, I'm happy to see these cartoon threads have been around since I made the first one. I just finished Duckman, Bojack horseman, and 12 oz, all good shows in their own way. Hope you guys are good. God bless.
>>29343 >Just spreading awareness on this little show. It's nothing special to be honest, episodes are passable, you'll probably get a chuckle here or there if you're lucky. But the main draw is the antagonist Teresa, a plant alien's mission is ti inspect humanlife and send reports to a mother ship up in space so they can get ready to invade. >She's a 10/10 cutie and the start of the show with a good voice actress and mannerisms.
>>29386 One of the more interesting episodes in that batch is Progress Report. It explains some of the backstory behind the arrival of the Kemii and how things came to be. But I found one glaring continuity error in the episode, pictured here. Notice how the Kemii pumpkin base is in the living room. That scene is before the setup of the base. This might be laziness on the background artists who didn't make the fix.
Also additional episodes have been added to that folder throughout the week, including the final, episode 52.
Sometimes I think Nick is too busy trying to sell whores as child actors than actually making good cartoons anymore. I don't even think it's a "you grown up" thing, I still bother watching other cartoons to this day, but I just can't touch Nick anymore and haven't in years.
>>28986 >I really like stop motion. I used to fear it when i was a kid Same. Check out Junk Head if you haven't already, one of my favorite stop motion shorts
>>30112 In the suggestions for that video there was a link to a full episode, "Johnny Grow Your Own Monster + Who's Johnny?," so I did a manual count of the whip cracks in that episode myself. Counted a total of 150, 40 less than in the episode in that video. I might be off by a few. Sometimes the sound would play too many times a second and I would miss it, or it was indiscernible from the other sound effects that were playing on top of it.
>>31601 I watched this a couple of times as a kid. I think I had the VHS with some other oldies. Took the simple message from it. Watching it now in retrospect, brutally forcing others to be happy with industrial bombing seems a bit uneasy.
And the final scene of the Darkies crying "I don't want to be glad, I want to be sad" and forcibly held underwater. Kind of reminds me of what Normies think of Wizards. Our life is like the life of darkness and sadness. So anything is justified in forcing us into the light.
>>31601 This cartoon is utterly disquieting. The boozemakers are supposed to be the good guys, yet bombing the fuck out of nonconformists and coercing them to become one with Big Brother with a face-wide smile on your face is by no means good, at all.
>>33644 i remember seeing porn of that last year but i had no idea what it was called. i thought it was steven universe, but even that im not sure whats about. feels like all the cartoons i watch are too old now.
>>33685 Maybe I watch more kid's cartoons that I should, enough to differetiate them when most people can't yet can tell the difference between Dexter's Lab and PPG and Invader Zim, but I really can't imagine Star in the SU world. Then again, KND and Billy & Mandy had a crossover just ten years ago. I wish I could muster up enough brainpower right now to explain the small differences and general style of 00's cartoons and 10's cartoons.
>>33693 >Then again, KND and Billy & Mandy had a crossover just ten years ago. I thought that crossover was strange seeing as those two shows are completely different, but it appears Warburton and Atoms are friends. If you look at Mr. Normburton's blog (warburtonlabs.blogspot.com) you will see them having dinner and going to cons together.
>>33762 That's comforting. Because I had a dream where I groped a character's heaving breasts. (It's not relevant to this thread so I won't be sharing.) I wasn't sure if it was the thing that would be safe to share.
>>33757 I don't like it that Star does things to me The fact that she's from some magical world yet lives with Marco feels like it's made for me to self-insert in >>33761 Ed, Edd, n Eddy even made a short cameo in that episode. And even though its art and animation are both far different than Billy & Mandy and KND, it'd fit better considering all the wacky machines the Eds made out of trash and household items just like the KND, almost like they were excommunicated operatives. I feel like rewatching KND again. The best thing about that show was the creators starting with just fives kids in a tree house, and slowly worldbuilded and expand into a show about a space-faring military organization with a 100 year old history, with the most mish-mash technology.
>>33767 >What do you mean by that? I can probably find it on sad panda anyways.
I share this room with my brother. About that comic, i cant find it, maybe the author dont even want to draw it before ending this one. Heres the tumblr of the author. I hope nobody will ban me for posting this
>>33803 The voices are cute, which is the only positive thing that can be said about this. It looks like it will be nothing more than inoffensive random access humor.
>>33874 >Speaking at an an event for IndieWire during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Harmon took the blame for the series delay and boiled it down to creative complications, saying “it’s late because of me.” >“If Justin [Roiland, Rick and Morty co-creator] were here he’d agree,” Harmon elaborated. “He and I would go, ‘Yeah, we fucked up,’ and it’s hard to put your finger on how we fucked up. Rick and Morty keeps taking longer and longer to write, and I don’t know why.” >He said that he and Roiland have difficulty producing the series, attributing some of the issues to differences between the two creators.
Reminder that the writers of the show admit to shoving their agenda into their episodes without any collaboration or communication with other writers.
This is what made AT mostly filler and retconning, and this is now the cancer killing the already cancerous SU. Wanna know why there's so much filler? Fucking writers like this that just write what they want.
Netflix Officially Announces New Animated Series Based on "Castlevania" >Remember the “super violent” animated series based on Castlevania that we reported is actually happening? It seems like Netflix has picked up the bill, as they’ve announced a new animated series based on the Castlevania video game franchise. >The first season of the production will include four half hour episodes, and its set for a broadcasting date sometime later this year. A second season is already planned for sometime next year.
>>33960 Here's the full description from Netflix themselves: >Inspired by the classic video game series, Castlevania is a dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself. The animated series is from Frederator Studios, a Wow! Unlimited Media company, written by best-selling author and comic book icon Warren Ellis and executive produced by Warren Ellis, Kevin Kolde, Fred Seibert and Adi Shankar. https://archive.fo/jyHm6
>>33963 >>33960 From what I remember about the Game Centre CX episode Konami don't seem to give a fuck about consistancy with the story in Castlevania. Which was probably inevitable given that they made so many sequels that they had to ret-con some stuff. You can pretty much think of every game as a reboot except direct sequels starring the same characters
Awesome. This is one of my favorite shows and it's pretty surreal to see that it's finally going to get the conclusion it deserves. Here's hoping it's a good one. The TV-MA rating should help. The show could be pretty gruesome at times, so it'll be interesting to see what they do with it beyond blood/viscera instead of oil/wires. Is Carpenter Brut doing the whole soundtrack, or was that just for the trailer?
Yeah, sorry about the first two pics. I originally meant to post the gif versions of them, but I couldn't find any. They're much more appropriate in gif form.
>>34112 I don't agree with cartoons being ugly, but if you're asking why they look like that, I guess the answer is essentially CalArts and nepotism and influence over the animation industry. They've been the ones churning out most animators for decades now and most people won't hire you or take you seriously unless you graduated from there, but it seems since the late 00's they've been the ones forcing their style on everybody else. They ruled over the late 90's and early 00's too, though not a lot of people seem to notice. Also I always get annoyed when people use Gumball as example of how "all cartoons look the same today". It's probably my favorite show this current generation. It's the most unique looking show overall probably because it's originally made in the UK and made by a French guy, last I read.
>>34133 They're almost like the Skull & Bones of cartoons. Some other familiar names: Genndy Tartakovsy. Craig McCracken. Alex Hirsch. Lauren Faust. Thurop van Orman. Patrick McHale. Paul Rudish. Chris Buck. Aaron Springer. Butch Hartmann. John Lasseter. Jorge Gutierrez. Pete Browngardt. Arlene Klasky. Rob Renzetti. Tim Burton. JG Quintel. Pen Wards.
Gumball is one of the most original looking cartoons but that does not means is not ugly, it may not look as cheap either but it does not look pleasing to the eye.
The least horrible looking cartoons are like TLoK or those DC comic book movies they have been putting out.
It angers me when people say shit like my little Pony is "moe".
>>34140 >but that does not means is not ugly, it may not look as cheap either but it does not look pleasing to the eye. I still disagree. There's some character designs I find really cute and I enjoy the whole look of it. Can't convince you on it though. >or those DC comic book movies they have been putting out. I don't really watch them a lot, but the DC comics movies look a little too boring for me, to be honest. I've still been putting Korra aside for another day, though.
So that new Nick show Bunsen is a Beast has just barley premiered and they are already shilling a crossover special between it and Fairly Oddparents. Nice job Butch.
This was alright. I actually never even knew about it until now. The only reason I even found it is because, as I was looking for more info about the upcoming 5th seasons of Samurai Jack, I stumbled across some of Genndy's other little known works that, personally, I was completely unaware of. Pretty crazy he'd do something like this. Definitely a lot different than his usual fare. It probably would've gotten boring after a while, but I'm pretty confident that at least the action/animation would've remained good, considering Tartakovsky's involvement. I mean, I'm really not sure why something like this got passed over at the time it was released, yet rancid crap like "Tim & Eric" or "Squidbillies" ended up being greenlit for multiple seasons. I've heard it had something to with the cost, but enh. Whatever.
Another thing I was totally unaware of was "Sym-bionic Titan". Can't believe he did a whole new show like that and I'm only finding out about it now, many years after the fact. I thought he was done with cartoons back then and, instead, was all about the film industry. I mean, is it any good? Based on some clips I watched, it looks a bit too kidsy for me, to be honest.
>>33879 >Season 3 >Morty will be shelved and replaced by Summer most episodes >Beth and Jerry will seek help to fix their failing marriage only to go back to square one each time >The federation taking over Earth and arresting Rick will be retconned >Morty won't score >Rick will be portrayed sympathetically in a half-assed manner >Summer will spout more feminist BS >There will be many "LOL LOOK AT HOW DEPRAVED WE ARE" degenerate BS >Hamon will force plots about real world politics in the show >reddit will jerk off to how amazing they believe this show is
I don't give a shit what anyone says, R&M is a fine sci-fi cartoon, more enjoyable than Futurama even. Both I enjoyed mainly just for the adventures and settings, but R&M gave me more smiles.
>>29954 Why stick with stop-motion when you can take things one step further? Does puppetry even count as cartoons? They're not frame-by-frame, but they're still technically animation.
To be fair she quit because the writers wouldn't let her put her stupid ideas into the show. The show is actually very good and not cancerous at all, though a few episodes this season have been unusually poor. I think it's one of the best cartoons on t.v at the moment.
Same. Yeah it might be a bit hipster-ish/Reddit-tier, but enh. It's still okay. As you say the settings/ideas they play around with are pretty cool and, personally, it gave me a few good chuckles here and there. When I watched it a second time though, I can kinda see why some might see it as just cringey horseshit ("get schiwfty", "wub dub" and its lame attempts at being philosophical/deep being the prominent offenders) That being said, I'm not massively looking forward to seasons 3, but I'll probably still end up watching/enjoying it whenever time that happens to be after it comes out.
Hmmm. It's good, but doesn't the action seem a little off, or am I just crazy/imagining thing? I guess I was expecting something a bit more intense/frenetic. Seems a bit slow/simple, for some reason. Then again, it's just a clip, so whatever. Still pumped to see it.
Also, minor gripe, but I don't really like the look of the new beetle drones. Too generic. Their prior look was much better.
>>34418 >decided to finally check this show out to see what the fuss is about >never watched gravity falls and everything I've seen of SU is cancer but I like the occasional magical succubus show >about midway through season 1 and it's alright >cute entertainment that gets a laugh here and there >thankfully no forced political agenda
>>34472 Nope, I actually liked season two more, I caught up with the last episode today. It's getting interesting, there's more focus on the story and there a lot of memorable parts like Marco hunting Hekapoo through dimensions for sixteen years. There's also some good music. The only "political agenda" I've seen was mentioning one of the characters (Jeanna) is fighting patriarchy and is vegan, but that was it. I haven't really cared much for western cartoons, minus Samurai Jack, but this show I want to keep up with. Hell, I even root for some characters, Marco's a pretty cool guy.
>>34465 It's weird seeing a post like that. Because when I last browsed /co/ (around the time S1 aired) they were laughing at all that shit. I dropped off the show around S2's episode where they go to the planet controlled by one being. I'm guessing the show went from niche to popular, and popularity always = Reddit.
>>34335 >flash Flash, flash? The same flash they made animations with on Newgrounds like pic rel? That's impressive. I wonder how does the process look like with so many people working on it.
>>34494 The only thing I didn't like about the Unity episode was the relationshit stuff at the end. >I'm guessing the show went from niche to popular, and popularity always = Reddit. I've seen this happened with so many things it's not even funny anymore. I get the "self-preservation of the board" explanation, but sometimes it just looks hypocritical. Though to be fair, Rick is kind of the "nihilistic and a wicked sense of humor" shitpost brought into a character. >>34495 >I wonder how does the process look like with so many people working on it. A lot of Motorcity was done in Flash, which still boggles the mind.
>>34547 The new Samurai Jack continuation looks promising. Genndy cares more about directing action than anything else and it's pretty silly yet endearing to see him making his own sound effects. Don't know if he counts since he's from an older generation of cartoonists now.
>>34547 Yeah, it feels like they have to fill some sort of quota, probably why I only watch older anime and a gem that emerges every now and then like Ping Pong Animation. Cartoons can never quite reach this level, they don't even try.
>>34550 He probably still has "vision", most shows seem to lack that. Real action too, there are some exceptions like Breaking Bad, but usually it's The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones which seem to be written on the go.
>>34500 I don't even see the problem with nihilistic based jokes. I always saw the meme linked with neckbeards so I guess it makes sense as to why they act that way towards it. Nihilism and all the other "neckbeardy" and "edgy" philosophies are hated by /pol/ and /pol/ might as well have taken over 4chan these days.
I'm hating cartoons day by day just coming to this board.
They are just propaganda now, they haven't cared about Improving their art since the fucking 90's, they could try to be funny to compensate the terrible visuals, but no, they have to shove their stupid social studies garbage.
For those who want to try out the series. A short review would be that the characters are nice as I really liked the dynamic between the main character and her father. The setting is standard, all the races of the galaxy gather up for a galactic race to win the ultimate prize, but it does it's job. It's more of a trial by fire story(i.e. a story in which the main character must overcome obstacles in order to become an adult), and towards the second half of the season, it focuses more on the ancient evil rather than the races. It has a few plot twist, but as I said, the story is standard. The artstyle and animation, however are top-notch and I really liked how each racer had it's different type of vehicle, depending on their culture and all that shit. If you want to know if the story is pozzed, well it is about a succubus seeing for the first time aliens and it is to be expected that she might like one human-like Arabian prince, though she ends up loving her human team-mate, kinda like how Kirk boldly went where no man had gone before. The music is also good, with a catchy main-theme, embeded related.
My favorite episode would be the one in which she races fights against the one who killed her mother but ends up learning that it didn't actually kill her All in all, I recommend giving the series a try, if you haven't before. This along with Chris Colorado and Wakfu are one of the few(in comparison with America and Japan) good series that France has released.
http://archive.is/whwlc >In addition, the network has ordered a fourth season of Star vs. The Forces of Evil,[…]ahead of its third-season premiere >Star vs. The Forces of Evil: Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension, a hardcover book based on the series and written by the series' supervising producer Dominic Bisignano and Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), will be released by Disney Press on March 7" >Disney XD said that the two series [Milo Murphy's Law and SvTFOE]reached more 100 million consumer views combined during 2016 across Disney XD's linear, digital, social and global platforms
>>34532 >"When I was growing up, we didn't have these kind of cartoons. They were simply fun entertainment with no built in sexual agendas. I believe folks ought be focused on something other than sex and their genitals … and our children's genitals. Disney, you are getting ready to lose a chunk of change!"
WOW, Why Christians and conservatives slam Gay stuff in a show about fucking Demons of all kinds? yeah, being gay is sinful, but so is making illustrations of the human figure and even worse, idols and demons. Why so fixated in the gay shit?
>>35015 Easy target. A real serious Christian wouldn't have their kid read Harry Potter for obvious reasons, but that's much harder to do without being called a kook or a religious nutcase.
>>35235 Both cartoons are why the whole Terrence & Phillip "Poopy-farty toottoot Canadians hahaha" isn't just a joke. Mega Babies can go to hell, such a horrendous production.
>>35241 God I'm a retard. I mistook solipsism with stoicism. Anyways, I was worried that Samurai Jack would become too "edgy"(kinda hate that word) now that it's on Adult Swim, but I think they know they don't need to overdo the blood and guts, and only use it when necessary. The recent scene with Aku still shows they're still keeping some of the silly side-aspects of the old show.
Who do you guys think the green rider is? I was hoping it was Jack's visions of a more menacing Aku, given his "supposed" dormancy, but this recent episode seems to have shot down that, arguably, much better idea. I was kinda hoping they'd make Aku more of an oppressive, unseen presence that we'd only catch brief glimpses of, until his climatic return against Jack near the end. For one thing, that approach would've not required Aku to speak very much, side-stepping the massive problem of dealing with Mako's absence. Greg would still be needed to some extent, but, largely speaking, only in bits and pieces until the final showdown. They could've also explained the change in Aku's voice due to it being a result of his long dormancy/equally bad transformation from having to deal with an, almost, immortal Jack. Not to mention, it would also explain why Aku wouldn't know that Jack lost his sword. As it is, I think it's pretty damn stupid/hard to believe that wide and awake Aku hasn't looked at Jack once through one of his demonic portals to see that he, in fact, doesn't have the sword. Granted, Samurai Jack was always pretty dumb/plot hole filled when it came to its story, but still. All I'm saying is that there was the potential for so much more. As it is though, it's still okay.
The action's still great, the humor/silliness is on point, and the way they're showing Jack's frayed psyche is pretty cool as well. That leaf scene in particular, was properly unsettling. I hope there's more stuff like that.
Anyway, at this point, I think the rider is either A. the random creature/entity that was responsible for Jack having lost his sword during a battle with it, or B. the shadow version of Jack, or his father
As an aside, I can't wait until these dumb bitches he's fighting are out of the way, so we can move to something more interesting/compelling. They remind me too much of those stupid ass battle nuns from Hitman Absolution. I realize they needed to have Jack kill someone, but I was hoping it was going to be more accidental in the sense of him having killed an innocent civilian, not someone actively attacking him. He's already killed people under those circumstances, such as in the "Princess and the Bounty Hunters" episode. I know it's not explicitly clear that he killed them, but they looked pretty dead to me (especially Boris).
>>35247 I got a crazy theory regarding this show but like every theory they are borne from madness and are always wrong.
Jack will never get to the past, he'll get his sword back make no mistake and he sure as hell will kill Aku but even if there was a chance for him to go back he won't, why?
Because one of those assassins develops feeling for him, he'll reciprocate of course because he's literally never been with a succubus for his, what, seventy/eighty years of life and this'll be his anchor to a future that he's helped make sure is relatively safe and has a legendary reputation in.
I would add more but I don't see it going much further and I don't really care.
Neat photoshop. I assume you think it's a dark reflection of Jack then? I guess that'd be fine if that's what they went with, but, IMO, I still think Aku would've been a way better choice. I suppose to Genndy, however, it was more important that Aku remain a harmless goofball whose sole purpose is for comic relief instead of taking the opportunity to flesh him out in the same way they're doing for Jack, and make him a bit more menacing/demonic. And like I said before, the idea of him being dormant/only seen in quick visions would've made loads more sense to the plot as well. What a shame they didn't go with something more interesting, but whatever. Then again, compelling story telling has never really been Genndy's strong suit.
I also think it's dumb that Jack just "lost" his sword, due to some sudden moment of incompetence on his part. Feels lazy/cheap, writing-wise. Once again, to me, a much better approach would've been basing it off an accidental civilian death Jack was inadvertently responsible for which then caused him to lose his righteousness. Since the sword is useless without a righteous wielder, Jack would've had no choice, but to stash the sword somewhere until he could regain his honor/belief in himself and his quest. You could still have Jack doubting himself/going nuts due to the destruction of all the time portals, since that would still be in effect. God, this stuff feels so obvious. Why they went with such a lamer premise, I'll never know.
The current synopsis for episode 4 of Samurai Jack is making me ill just looking at it. >Samurai Jack partners with a deadly assassin in order to escape a gargantuan creature that has swallowed them whole.
God damn it. Is this "assassin" supposed to be one of those dumb bitches we was just fighting? If so, seriously Genddy? You're going to give a Jack an extremely out of character, shoe-horned in love interest, now? What a fucking hack. I sincerely thought him and his team would do better than that. They're clearly already laying the groundwork for it, what with the "deer love scene" that all those cunts were gawking at/confused over in the latest episode. On that note, the way he got over killing someone, felt insanely rushed and lazy. The scenes with the wolf were also terrible.
>>35248 >Because one of those assassins develops feeling for him, he'll reciprocate of course because he's literally never been with a succubus for his, what, seventy/eighty years of life and this'll be his anchor to a future that he's helped make sure is relatively safe and has a legendary reputation in.
Man, I really hope you're wrong, but now…..fuck anything's possible. Oh well, hopefully the action will remain good, at least.
A new show came out on Netflix, it's about a boy and his ghost buddies going on a quest around the world to stop an angry god from destroying the world. It's a adventure cartoon that was better than I was expecting, and the ghost succubus is pretty cute too.
>>35479 Taco here. This franchise seems to get better and better. In practice that's not saying much though. The first movie was shit in every sense, both writting and animation. The second movie was shit but bearable. 5.4/10 probably. The third one was ok decent, the animation was better and the writting was ok. 6.3/10. I haven't seen the new one but as for the trailers go it seems like they now have actual animation.
I didn't thought they would accept a Mexican series, Mexico is very un-PC tbh.
The same company even made an episode in one of the "El Chapulin Colorado" animated show (A slapstick super-hero parody originally from the 70's) episodes where a couple of (Probably gay) Americans come as tourists to Mexico, they towered in height over all the other characters and were pretty /fit/ compared to the mexican cast but acted like pussies and when a ghost appeared they kept calling it the "African American ghost" prompting the Mexican cast to correct them by saying it was called the "Black ghost"
New Shows: >Apple & Onion >Craig of the Creek >Summer Camp Island >OK KO Let's Be Heroes >Ben 10 reboot (already aired in most of the world and will be premiering on American CN in April) >Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Premiered at the beginning of this month and has been airing new episodes almost everyday so far)
Returning Shows: Adventure Time (new miniseries that will explore what has happened to the kingdoms of OOO while Finn & Jake were away during Islands) >Steven Universe >We Bare Bears >Amazing World of Gumball >Mighty Magiswords >nuPPG >Teen Titans GO http://archive.is/qwaI7
Definitely one of the best episodes. The show certainly had a lot of variety to it, that's for sure. Unfortunately, nothing in this recent season has come close to reaching the same level of quality, which is a shame.
On that note, I'm surprised there isn't more Samurai Jack related talk on the latest season. I guess there must not be that many fans of the show here, or something. Either that, or disinterest.
>>35546 I think the show still has plenty of time to transition into the feeling of the original seasons, as far as variety and quality is concerned. The seemingly greater focus on an over-arching narrative and multi-episode sagas would invariably separate them from the freedom to take then next episode in whatever way they wanted. I don't necessarily think that changing the focus like that is a bad thing, and even transitioning away from the spectacle of episodic adventures to character focus isn't even a bad direction to take it.
We'll have to see what this next episode does (I haven't seen 4, yet), because as far as I'm concerned, the season isn't solidified until episode 5, and even then it will be episode 4 that gives us the biggest clue.
>>35585 >I haven't seen 4, yet Oh, never mind. Apparently, Adult Swim aired fucking Rick and Morty in Samurai Jack's timeslot yesterday for goddamn April Fools, so I have to wait a whole 'nother week until the next episode. Fuck Adult Swim.
I hate Rick and Morty so goddamn much, and now I actively want to murder its creators.
Agreed. I just don't like the road they seem to be going down at the moment (Jack x Ashi bullshit).
I also feel like they've wasted a lot of narrative opportunities for really digging into/taking advantage of this kind of grander, multi-episode story structure. >We'll have to see what this next episode does (I haven't seen 4, yet), because as far as I'm concerned, the season isn't solidified until episode 5, and even then it will be episode 4 that gives us the biggest clue.
Yep, I suppose you're right. Here's hoping things start to pick up and it turns out I was just being a hyper-critical cunt.
I honestly can't believe Genndy even agreed to this. What the fuck was he thinking? Why kneecap your own, MUCH better show for something as fucking retarded as a R&M April Fools marathon? Then again, they may not have given him a choice. Mike Lazzo probably shoved it down his throat. I mean, if this was a way to give R&M some kind of favorable "edgy publicity", by snubbing Samurai Jack (a show Justin Roiland isn't event fit to lick the boots of), then man did that backfire.
>>35540 Same I'm hoping nuPPG goes all Teen Titans Go and starts attacking its critics in individual messes of a tantrum in each episode this season, just to see it go lower and laugh at the squalor and the people defending the CalArts style.
It wasn't the greatest show out there but when it first aired it showed some promise. Then the second season aired with the creators shoehorning in their politics and was overall painfully mediocre. Now that the 3rd season aired it's the new Big Bang Theory for young adults and teens everywhere with normalfags spouting quotes and memes from the show left and right.
>>35675 I always thought it was just a whackier and slightly more lowbrow version of futurama. I don't laugh at the burping but it doesn't annoy me. Doesn't really bother me and I don't find it as jarring as the shows you guys are comparing it to; the closet it got to jarring was the episode where they bury the dead ricks and give their little optimist-nihilism speech.
New Cartoon Network pilot Welcome To My Life. Its got an interesting art style and I like the documentary approach the used. Could this become a full series or will it just fall into the void like so many others?
>>35694 Holy shit that was actually so cool. I've been watching tv all day, shit like Westworld and the new Star Wars film, if you can call it that. This was hands down the most enjoyable 8 mins of the day, hope it will get launched.
>>35694 That was cute. I can't figure out what age they're supposed to be but maybe they're just not very smart or something. (Taking pictures of water?)
>>35694 This was probably the closest thing I've seen of "slice of life" in western cartoons. And I think for that reason it probably wouldn't do well on TV, as most kids want to watch more actiony and cartoony stuff like Teen Titans Go and Adventure Time.
>>35694 You know instead of instantly accepting the monster why not have the kids bully him relentlessly for being a monster? It would be different then just having another "everyone is so tolerant" show and you'd have actual conflict within the show and instead of everyone accepting each other at the end the monster could just get over the bullying and move on. It wouldn't be good but at least you'd be doing something different.
>mfw Samurai Jack has decided to take the relationshit/twu wuv approach when it comes to the main plot
Welp, looks like I >>35410 was right. Instead of moving on from those dumb bitches, it would appear that Ashi is going take a much larger role in the show now, as Jack's sidekick/love interest/tether to staying in the future. Now it's going to be the whole "She hates me now, but she'll me love later" routine followed by "NO! Aku is going to kill her! I must go back to save her!", with all the usual "blah, blah" bullshit in between, associated with such a lazy/beaten to death direction. I suppose in Genndy's mind, part of being "mature" was having a shoe-horned romance being shoved into the proceedings. I'd always hoped he'd do better than that, but I guess I was mistaken. Talk about pissing all over one of the main aspects that made Samurai Jack so fresh and unique in the first place. The focus should've been on Jack, and Jack alone. Just as it was in the original show. Jack's shadow/former self should've been his constant sidekick here, not Ashi. Making her part of the mix just wastes time, along with the potential for more compelling storytelling to take place. As it is, Samurai Jack has gone full normalfag.
The synopsis for episode 8 reads as follow: >The burgeoning relationship between Samurai Jack and Ashi takes an unexpected turn after they find themselves hunted by one of the galaxy's deadliest creatures.
Only reason to watch this show now, is for the action/animation/art.
Yes and no. That sort of thing certainly happened a couple times here and there throughout the entire course of the first four seasons, but not all that often to be worth mentioning. To be honest, the only ones I can think of are "Jack and the Warrior succubus" (which really doesn't count since it was Aku), "The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful", that section where he's a kid in "Jack Remembers The Past", and the last story "In Four Seasons of Death". In almost each case, he usually ended up destroying/defeating those bitches without mercy. Then there were episodes like "Princess and the Bounty Hunters" that clearly showed Jack didn't care about some stupid succubi problems (noble, or otherwise), so long as they were standing in his way. By and large, Jack was pretty volcel. It sucks that Genndy had to upend that wonderful aspect to his character, in the pursuit of more "mature" storytelling.
>>35733 I'm thinking they'll do more of an apprentice/master thing with her for a couple of episodes, that winds up ending with her battling her former bosses, and then just fucking off to let Jack be the lone samurai that he's supposed to be. She's basically only been around in earnest for a single episode, and that's a reasonable character arc for her. I wouldn't expect her to stick around, and I really wouldn't expect a long-term love interest. In fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if she fucks off to "find herself" immediately at the beginning of next episode.
>>35735 They never stuck around for long. They were one-off characters, usually for a single episode only.
I partly agree with you. She'll leave for an episode or two, but then come back to be his sidekick/apprentice/love interest, or however else you'd like to define it. One way or the other Ashi's a main character now. That I firmly believe. The days of Jack being a lone volcel samurai are over. There were much better approaches Genndy could've taken for the story, but he went with the laziest/most boring one. I hope I'm wrong and things turn out better than how I'm envisioning it, but, at this moment, it doesn't look like it.
The synopsis for episode 5 seems to indicate Jack being temporally on his own. Potentially fighting side by side with the Scotsman against a giant robot.
The synopsis for episode 6 seems to indicate it being an Ashi centric episode with her trailing after Jack and seeing his good deeds.
The synopses for both episode 7 & 8 clearly indicate them working together again, to get back his sword. Which will probably lead to them falling in love.
Last two episodes don't have synopses, since they're the final showdown, I'd imagine.
And yes I know they are just synopses and therefore could be inaccurate, but I doubt it, given the accuracy of prior synopses.
I think not focusing on the actual character of Samurai Jack was probably the smartest thing they did in the original seasons. He was a vessel for blind revenge and destruction, bent on completing his quest by any means (within reason). Jack was basically raised from birth to vanquish Aku, and traveled the world to learn every fighting technique and discipline for the singular purpose of killing him. Obviously, his peaceful childhood solidified a strong moral compass that had him choosing saving innocents over traveling back in time (even if traveling back in time would ultimately save the innocents regardless), but this was obvious from the very start. They didn't have to dedicate a single moment to explaining this to the audience, it was just known to us like it was the most obvious thing there was.
This sort of style in story telling and their previous comedic focus goes a long way to explain their apparent inexperience with character development and nuance. It's not to say they're bad at it, but it's almost (and don't take this to be a condemnation) anime-levels of bluntness when it comes to conveying a change in thought. The first three episodes were pretty good at not falling into this trap, in my opinion, but it almost feels like they jumped the shark with episode four. The fight scenes and art is absolutely fantastic, as always, but I felt completely frustrated every time a character opened their mouths. Ashi is a mistake. It distracts from Jack as a character without informing us about anything we don't already know, and her inclusion is little more – in my opinion – than fanfiction. Ashi being an assassin trained by Aku or one of his minion, but then changing sides when she sees how noble and just Jack is, is something I would expect to see on FanFiction.net, not canon material. I swear to fucking Christ, if Ashi is the one to get the killing blow on Aku, I am going to kill a motherfucker.
I don't know if anyone here read the "original" sendoff to Samurai Jack (the comic version), but the synopsis was that an older Jack (not immortal) realized that traveling back in time was impossible, and instead set out to create an army consisting of his friends and allies he made in his travels (à la AtLA) to defeat Aku in the future. I was skeptical from the get-go of this new season, because in my mind the story had already seen its conclusion. I would get to see this play out in fantastic animation, of course, but I knew were it was going. Turns out, they scrapped it and Jack remained a wandering samurai that not only didn't age, but was so obsessed with the past that he has become insane. What the fuck were they thinking? They had twelve years to write a script, and this is what we got? Come on.
>>35749 >This sort of style in story telling and their previous comedic focus goes a long way to explain their apparent inexperience with character development and nuance. It's not to say they're bad at it, but it's almost (and don't take this to be a condemnation) anime-levels of bluntness when it comes to conveying a change in thought.
Yes, I agree completely. A lot of what made the original seasons work so well, is that the emphasis on what was around Jack and not on Jack himself. Jack was basically just a semi-interesting/boilerplate character, who could be placed in numerous bizarre situations given the unique setting. The story-boarding process took precedence over the story itself, as it were. As a result, it's really no wonder Genndy and his team are having this much trouble with conveying something weightier, when they're so used to just throwing whatever happens to be on their mind in the pot for a random, isolated episode. They work best with a disjointed, "to be aired out of order", kind of structure. More strongly focused, narrative driven media, just isn't their strong suit.
Then again, the way they handled Anakin's shift to the dark side in the Clone Wars mini-series was quite excellent (what with his journey on Nelvaan reflecting his darkest tendencies, culminating him force-choking the shit of that Trade Federation member), so that clearly shows they're capable of doing better. Not to mention, the way they handled General Grievous was also downright amazing, given how exquisitely menacing/relentless they made him. Hell, just based on the Clone Wars alone, I would've loved to to see what Genndy's take on the prequel trilogy might've been. Maybe they just had better writers for the Clone Wars, or something? I don't know. >The first three episodes were pretty good at not falling into this trap, in my opinion, but it almost feels like they jumped the shark with episode four.
I disagree. The whole "the wolf and Jack are the same!" scenes were just godawful, as far as beating you over the head with that anime level bluntness you mentioned. What's more, everything to do with the assassins, outside of fighting Jack, was also terribly delivered. The assassin arc should've been two episodes, at most, before refocusing back on Jack and his struggles, both internal and external. >Ashi is a mistake. It distracts from Jack as a character without informing us about anything we don't already know, and her inclusion is little more – in my opinion – than fanfiction. Ashi being an assassin trained by Aku or one of his minion, but then changing sides when she sees how noble and just Jack is, is something I would expect to see on FanFiction.net
Couldn't of said it better myself. As far as I'm concerned, giving Jack a dumb sidekick to share the screen with and waste what very little time they have for a given episode, completely killed whatever potential this show might've had for telling a great story/compelling finale. I mean, taking this route just seems so anti-ethical to what Samurai Jack is at its core, which is Jack's journey as a lone wanderer trying to redeem himself for his failures. Ashi could've worked as another Scotsman like, recurring character, but having her as a major focal point to the final season, is just outrageously stupid. The fact that Genddy thought it was a good idea is just mind-boggling to me, and really goes to show that not even he knows why people love Samurai Jack. The fact they could do so right to Star Wars, but do so wrong for Samurai Jack is really quite unfortunate. >I swear to fucking Christ, if Ashi is the one to get the killing blow on Aku, I am going to kill a motherfucker.
I doubt it'll be that bad, but I certainly see her being a nuisance right up until the very end, which is still quite the shame. >I don't know if anyone here read the "original" sendoff to Samurai Jack (the comic version), but the synopsis was that an older Jack (not immortal) realized that traveling back in time was impossible, and instead set out to create an army consisting of his friends and allies he made in his travels (à la AtLA) to defeat Aku in the future
Huh, interesting. I'm afraid, I myself never read the comics, (which is something I should probably remedy at some point in the future) Regardless, I'll admit that particular conclusion would've been pretty cool to see. Having Jack finally let go of the past in a definitive way and accept that his family, along everything he'd ever known from that point, died a horrible death and that he forever failed them, would've made for some really gripping stuff. >Turns out, they scrapped it and Jack remained a wandering samurai that not only didn't age, but was so obsessed with the past that he has become insane. What the fuck were they thinking? They had twelve years to write a script, and this is what we got? Come on.
I feel like they could've made this premise work just as well, if not better, than the one in the comics. Unfortunately, Genndy and his team just suck at telling a grander story. They're great at "show don't tell" stuff, but as far as a broader narrative is concerned, they're hopeless. Getting rid of Ashi, while incorporating some of the ideas I mentioned here >>35247 and here >>35263 would've, in my opinion at least, certainly made for a much better start. As far as the conclusion is concerned, I have no idea. Personally, I was envisioning something along the lines of Frank Miller's Ronin, where Jack would have to sacrifice himself in some way to finally destroy Aku, but since that conflicts with what we saw in the Guardian's portal, I suppose that, not only would be a cliched approach, but a dumb one as well. Perhaps the best approach would've been having my modified start to Genndy's premise, combined with the comic's conclusion where Jack either loses his immortality in some way, or never has it to begin with.
I wouldn't mind her if the series was going to go on for longer, but we only have what, 10 episodes? And nearly half of them already gone? It feels to me like she's unnecessary and tacked on, and time spent on her is time taken away from Jack and all of his issues. We have six episodes left, about the same time total as a movie, and Jack still has to get his shit together, the Scotsman is showing up or something, he has to get the sword, gotta find out what that phantom rider thing is, and the show's ultimate conflict and main plot point has to be resolved. That's a lot. And then you have to add Ashi's arc on to that, and it has to be fleshed out and believable because she's pretty much questioning everything she knows and on the hinge of doing a total 180.
Genndy's really on track to half-ass this thing, big time
>>35774 Eulalia! Part of the theme song has been stuck in my head ever since I was a kid, and I haven't heard it in years. I got a Redwall collectible goblet, too. I've been meaning to get into Mouse Guard.
>they cant turn jack into female >so they added a succubi in it >the show now focuses on her perspective to jack >it will never be the lone samurai again Fucking feminist Fuck you I curse all your ancestors
So this is happening, a million years after cancellation and promises of movies and miniseries and comics… What's the opinion? Will Vazquez and Nick fuck up or will it be as good as Jack's comeback?
>>35797 Viacom and social commentaary Not a good mix, the lolrandumb and nihilist humor worked better back then. I could see some tryhard edgy shit coming from it now.
>>35797 I wish these writers would come up with original IPs instead of trying and failing to bring back the past. Just like the ship sailed on Leave it to Beaver and The Brady Bunch, the ship has sailed on Invader Zim. It was a product of its time, and that time is gone. Invader Zim deserved another season or two back in the early 2000s, but that didn't happen. It's like reparations, there's no point in trying to do it now.
Unless they're planning on doing something really new and interesting with it (which I doubt) it's just going to wind up being a cheap marketing tool for aging 90s kids trying to hang onto the last vestiges of their youth. That said, maybe the younger crowd is retarded enough to think that "lolsorandum" humor is the pinnacle of comedy, so who knows?
>>35801 >That said, maybe the younger crowd is retarded enough to think that "lolsorandum" humor is the pinnacle of comedy, so who knows? Today's kiddies get their kicks from YouTube whores screaming over poop video games and acting like retards. I'm sure they'll lap this up.
Honestly, lets not pretend that in the past shit like gross out or slapstick was any better or intelligent. It's getting repetitive seeing this thread and 8/10 it's posts going on about how cartoons were better (in my generation of course) compared to the ones now. Cartoons from the start were trash designed to get kids to sit down in front of the TV for as long as possible and then brainwash them into buying whatever toyline the shows had. All that changed was how the shows appealed to kids which changed generation to generation. Nostalgia kills self-awareness. I notice that any cartoon I had fond memories of from a child are no problem for me to rewatch today. Meanwhile a show airing at the same time that's praised that I never bothered with is easy enough to see the problems with and I can only wonder how people tolerated it when they were younger. A similar situation would be the classic, "When did reviewers like AVGN/Nostalgia Critic stop being funny?" The answer? They never were. People just grew out of them.
>>35797 Samurai Jack and Gorillaz came back, and they had to make something, so they realized the millenial market is an untapped one that they could leech off, so they brought it back. Thank's a lot nineties kids, you ruined politics, culture, and now you ruined cartoons.
Unfortunate that the new Samurai Jack is turning out to be the same disappointment The Legend of Korra was, but lapped up by breedgroids all the same for stronk wymyn and so on.
What happened to Aku? He's supposed to be the incarnation of evil. The original seasons depicted him giving outlandish punishments for small infractions. So why did he let the mud men go after dirtying up his lair? The original Aku would have sentenced the mud men to get cleaned to death, or sent them to the mines, or something other than telling them to fuck off. Why can we see the bottom of the Pit of Hate? In the original Pit you had no idea what was down there, but you knew that you did not want to go down there. In Season 5 the Pit is basically a shallow cylinder home that Aku sleeps in just because. How does Aku not know that Jack lost his sword? We can assume that there was at least a few weeks of time between Jack losing his sword and the events of the first episode. Even if this was after the time Aku stopped spying on Jack altogether, how did nobody else notice either? There are probably spies in every city, and any one of them could call Aku at any time and tell him that Jack doesn't seem to use the sword anymore. Even if Jack never visited a city in this timeframe either (which is highly unlikely unless all of his armor and weapons in the first episode were salvaged from bounty hunters) then even the simple act of saving someone or defeating a bounty hunter could spread the rumor of Jack not using his sword to fight anymore. Why can't the Scotsman lend Jack his sword if he's still alive? I don't think the Scotsman is still in his prime and he probably doesn't need the weapon anymore either. It was shown to be at the strength and durability at or near the level of Jack's sword too so he doesn't have to worry about not having a weapon.
>>35845 After 50 years I accepted that Aku probably stopped watching what Jack is up to because it's like watching a 24/7 show with the same repetitive plots and outcomes. Jack may have legitimately just avoided cities having no reason to go to them, like no leads on a time portal to follow, he usually had a reason to be in most cities, and is especially avoiding Aku's city(ies) without the sword. The Scotsman probably just doesn't want to let go of the sword, and Jack wouldn't want to ask to take it off him, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Scotsman died, Jack took his sword, to further complete his transformation into Guts by having a giant heavy magic sword.
I just watched this. I thought it was pretty good, especially the second part when they get out of the room. Some parts had me legitimately laughing out loud like when the camel was tripping or with the "kinglet".
They just played City of Heroes for 3 hours and pasted Muslim shit on top of it, really, this characters are just Muslims in name, they do not FEAR their wicked God, they do not KILL infidels.
1. The Simpsons 2. The Flinstones 3. Looney Tunes 4. Peanuts 5. Scooby Doo 6. Rocky and Bullwinkle Show 7. Batman The Animated 8. SpongeBob Squarepants 9. Family Guy 10. South Park
>>36024 What 50-year-old wrote this >>36045 I was denial for years that the art styles in cartoons were stagnating this decade, but I finally had to admit last year. With a few exceptions, it's like if Family Guy's disgustingly dull style tried to be cute. Hopefully the new Samurai Jack might prove popular enough to influence a shift in something that's at least different(even if 00's CN was revamped Hanna-Barbera, but it's better than having to stylistically rip on anime).
>>36074 The idea of this reference was nice, props to the writer, but there a few problems with it. Firstly, the target audience, the little succubi, won't get it. Secondly, it was performed in the most cringeworthy way they could've done.
>>36078 MLP is not only targeted at little succubi. Bronies have a greater purchasing power, and thus Hasbro mantains a delicate balance between pandering to bronies and little succubi at the same time.
>>36085 Eh, it might serve a purpose, I think they'll rally up everyone against Aku, so more or less they needed to show Jack's deeds. It was a long time, most people probably didn't bother to catch up on the old series and just jumped on the hype. It would be a bit of an asspull if suddenly Scotsman or Jack amassed a great army to fight Aku without this episode. I just hope Ashi sacrifices her life to help Jack or something. I don't like her.
>>36085 Yeah, it's even worse because they only have 13 episodes and they are wasting half an episode on this crap. I mean I know it's build up for the whole "We're here to help you fight Aku" thing that will happen in the final few episodes, but the way they did it was pretty annoying.
The film will be a sequel to 2002's Hey Arnold!: The Movie and the two-part series finale "The Journal", which also premiered in 2002 on Nickelodeon, as part of the fifth and final season. The movie will serve as the definitive series finale, and will answer all the unanswered questions, including the whereabouts of Arnold's missing parents. The TV movie is projected to premiere on Nickelodeon in November 2017
>>36115 Hey Arnold was one of my favorite shows as a kid, and I really liked that chapter about his parents in the peru or whatever. Finally something I can look forward to. I just hope they don't ruin it.
>>36045 >Is animation in the west becoming too stagnant? animation is becoming more stagnant in general, not just in the west. as much as the weebs love to go on about "muh glorious nippon", shit like sameface and other animation shortcuts are just as prevalent in anime as in western cartoons. granted it's happening to both of them for different reasons, but it's still there.
From what I've seen on this show it can be interpreted as anti-religious because it criticizes american protestanism though it's more than that. A lot of the character stuff was pretty good though
Where do you watch your cartoons? Especially recent ones. Watching the new Samurai Jack was the only schedule I've put on myself in a long time, but I've missed the new ones for the last two/three weeks.
>>36480 I was really expecting them to stick to Jack's character. He's a dumbass with succubi sometimes, but he doesn't really seek them out. I guess he didn't seek her out either, but I was at least hoping for more of a master/apprentice relationship that didn't go into this. I guess that's too much to ask of modern CN.
>>34418 Yo just checking in the show picked up some after the mewberty episode. Glossaryck In particular was good for a laugh. It seems that whenever star isn't the main focus the show is much better both in terms of quality and comedy. Pixitopia was a good episode for this reason. It focused on Marco and his friends instead of directly featuring Star. The lobster monster episode was also better then the average episode. The blood moon ball episode was pretty good once again mostly because of Tom and Marco the comedic timing has improved a lot from the early episodes where before the jokes were mostly just star being retarded now there's some decent set up the dead horse joke in blood moon ball was actually decently done. Toffee is infinitely better then any billion by virtue of him being an actual villian.
As of now I'd give it 4/10 or 2/5 it's nowhere near as bad as I thought it's not good but it's also not Steven universe.
Is there any cartoon where it looks like it's going to be the usual kid-friendly story of a protagonist on an adventure, but then it turns out that the world is not a happy place and our protagonist should have stayed at home? Like, the protag packs his lunch and hops on a ship going to far away lands, but instead of having a fun adventure he gets betrayed, robbed, abused, and sold to slavery. Watch our lovable hero suffer horribly in this sadistic story that feels like a never-ending gut punch!
watching Generator Rex, is actually pretty good, i though it was going to be a "generic cartoon just to sell toys" like Ben 10 but it turns out to be surprisingly good and well written, it has that Roswell Conspiracies/Men in black cartoon feel to it.
‘Animaniacs’ Reboot Being Developed By Steven Spielberg, Amblin TV and Warner Bros. — Exclusive
http://archive.is/m1mMp > Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation are kicking around a brand new version of the hit 1990s cartoon, IndieWire has learned. The potential reboot comes as “Animaniacs” has experienced a new surge in popularity since arriving on Netflix last year. > There’s no home yet for “Animaniacs,” and insiders caution that it’s still in the early stages of development.
>Apple and Onion >Craig of the Creek (No clips yet but it's supposedly done by the same crew as Clarence) >OK KO >Summer Camp Island
Apple & Onion=Safespace Spongebob OK KO=aiming for the nostalgia anime fags with a hard on for SU and AT Summer Camp Island=Shouldn't this be on Nick Jr?
>>37156 >>37157 New show Billy Dilley's Super Duper Subterranean Summer. According to some promos that have been released this show will be airing new episodes everyday throughout this month.>>37157
Never played any of the Sonic Boom game or been into the Sonic franchise after the genesis era, but for some reason i enjoy this show. I'll admit the writing isn't all that great and the animation can be stiff sometimes. I just find it comfy.
It's extremely offensive for the sake of being offensive, and it is glorious. The third season was a bit forgettable. If I remember correctly, I didn't like some of the season 3, and some of season 2, but it was alright during that time. I've watched the entirety of the series and the movie, and I don't regret not watching it. The house looks quite comfy at night though, to be honest.
Would recommend. You can watch it easily for free on steaming websites.
On other news, I'm quite sad that the spinoff show of KND is not going to happen unless a petition - one that's gotten 90,000 signatures, but is still under its goal of 150,000 signatures - won't happen. I don't think it's going to happen very soon. It would be really funny though if it happens in five to ten years, and all of the people who have watched the show had kids. THAT would be irony.
>>37826 I've never really been in to Sonic, but I too enjoy the cartoon. If it had any sort of serious approach with plot and fighting then I'd never have bothered with it, but it get some laughs out of me.
I wish i could say i liked this movie. it was a cool concept but I don't think <80 minutes was enough to get any real substance in such a large and divided world. The animation was cool, especially the rotoscoped battles scenes.
The main problem is that, well, Avatar isn't that cool of a wizard. He's babe-hungry and gets married. This led to a massive disappointment at the end. I expected some sweet thunderous wizard battle but it was about 1.2 seconds of "bang bang" and that's it - the world is at peace.
>>39743 The author conflates correlation with causation. Sure western animations became much more progressive, but that is a result of shifting cultural values that also coincided with the development of CGI technology. The only point where CGI could perhaps directly have affected the ideologies imprinted in these animations is from younger people who were trained in CGI replacing the people who were trained in traditional animation, but that is also ultimately a generational thing.
I really like TheMysteriousMrEnter. He's very well spoken and knows a lot about cartoon tropes. As an adult watching this episode it disgusts me how as a kid I disliked Squidward just for being uneasthetic and portrayed as annoying and bad while the opposite is true. Spongebob and Patrick are hyper-normies and the only idea that someone can have different hobbies and dislike being social is enough reason for them to torture Squidward. They can't accept him and since they cant mold him into normalcy they have to torture him just for being different. I think most wizards wageslaves can relate with Squidward.
Spongebob is the normie at work that asks you why you dont go out partying and why you dont have or try looking for a girlfriend; and when after a while he doesn't see a sign that you are trying to change its his queue to stop pretending he's a friend and start tormenting you for not being like him as he cant fathom people not having biological and societal aspirations. He might categorize you as a loser, weird or crazy.
>>41840 The idea that spongebob acts the way he does because he decides to assume a hostile stance as a response to squidward's love for solitude and unwillingness to partake into their activities is dubious to me. It seems more to me like spongebob and patrick are just naive, child-like, annoyingly impulsive and just infatuated with squidward whom they take up as their friends.
>>41840 I too am a fan of TheMysteriousMrEnter and his reviews. Bonus is that he is asexual, aromantic, and autistic that in his own words is "pure enough to own a unicorn ranch". Or in other words he is one of us.
>>41845 Its kinda borderline when out of the goodness of their hearts, they have to force the anti-social to have fun for their own good against their will
>>37234 And we have to wait another year. The Lord Inquisitor is also dead. On the plus side, there's this and Death of Hope (trailer). I think they're enjoyable even if you're not into Warhammer 40k.
>>42601 I loved the thundercats reboot though. Really sad that how they ended it before it was finished though. In every other way it was better then the original in my opinion. Which is high praise from a guy who loved the original growing up.
>>43012 I saw the trailer in whatever it was, 2013? All I remember is feeling aghast. My mind seems to have blacked out the rest like how a rape victim would. This reinventing old cartoons and movies shit needs to stop. It's a desecration of their uniqueness motivated by crass capitalism. >reboot And I can't wait for this illiterate term to die. Cartoons aren't computers.
>>43114 It was killed by executive decisions and written off as a tax write off. Between no toy sells, fucking around with when they showed it, barely advertising when it was on to its target demo killed it before it even had a chance. It was not helped by its slow start and meh premiere numbers ether.
>>43116 Thats a shame. Im rewatching the show and is far more cool than i remember. Theres an episode where a kids that looks like pearl, talk shit about lace father. Lance punch the shit out of him. In jew univese, he would just cry
>>43695 just stop The only similarity between Rose and Pink Diamond is color. You aren't actually stupid enough believe they are one in the same, hence why you first posted it on /b/ as a troll. Stop.
>>43704 I heard that once you get over the artstyle the show it self is not that bad, but I haven't gotten around to watching it myself though. Been "busy" re-watching Justice league and Justice League Unlimited again.
>>43728 honestly, I'd rather just have my memories of the real ducktales, unspoiled by some crass "remake" in whatever that ugly modern animation style is called
I don't know how long it will last but I really enjoy all the people streaming cartoons on youtube allowing me to pop in and watch random eps like I used to watch on tv.
>>43652 >>43727 I actually got around to watching "a single pale rose". Sorry I didn't believe you dude. Like at all. Like so much so that despite your efforts to spoil the it I was still totally shocked by the reveal.
God this fucking show is stupid. And Rose is officially the fucking worst. That said, despite me hatting the show I still want to see how this dumbsterfire ends so I will watch when the next chunk comes out soon. God fucking damn it!
I hope bojack in bojack horseman finally kills himself. It would make me happy to see that. I don't hate the guy, but I just think it would be a great and really iconic way for the series to end.
I don't want it to go on for many more seasons. It will dilute the sadness of his life. I hope season 5 is the end, but I know, from the ending, it won't be. He hit a high point in the least season, so it wouldn't transition well, in my eyes, for him to kill himself in the fifth season.
My theory is that Rick is white diamond, he created the gems because he wanted to create sentient LIFE out of stones and store all the information of their bodies and personalities within, after he did it he separated in 3 parts to mock the holy trinity.
Sad, but true. I seriously hope they do something super edgy like making a case for suicide, but they won't ever. If he actually did it though, it would be the most memorable show that I've watched.