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raditts posted:Well this thread sure got lovely in a hurry. I would like to apologize for setting off the poo poo-powder keg that is sithsaber
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And I just realized I asked the same goddamn question earlier in this thread. You know, I think I'll just watch it.
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icantfindaname posted:I would like to apologize for setting off the poo poo-powder keg that is sithsaber It's okay, he got probated for being lovely elsewhere.
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icantfindaname posted:I would like to apologize for setting off the poo poo-powder keg that is sithsaber Power keg? Sithsaber is more like a dirty-bomb, just emitting a constant radiation that induces nausea and head-aches and, over time, death. The Punchsport Pagoda is like the only subforum I look at that he hasn't poo poo up. That being said, I'd to discuss how, for the most part, that Ben 10 was pretty cool. All the aliens had pretty rad designs. And, as someone that always longed to be some kind of "chosen one" as a kid, and this show definitely hit a trigger in my brain.
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Weird, I was actually getting tired of the Chosen One stuff by the time Ben 10 came out. But those were still some pretty rad alien designs.
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Level Slide posted:Weird, I was actually getting tired of the Chosen One stuff by the time Ben 10 came out. But those were still some pretty rad alien designs. Especially the ghost one and the resulting storyline where the alien escapes the Omnitrix and Ben gains forms that, just happen to, exactly resemble Universal Studios Monsters. edit: And I just remembered that, in the lovely live-action, made for CN, Ben 10 movie loving Lee Majors plays the grandpa. Which is pretty awesome. El Tortuga fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Jul 19, 2014 |
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I like how Ben 10 subverts some of elements of the child superhero subgenre. Max not only finds out about the Omnitrix in the first episode, he guides Ben on how to use it instead of stopping him (which leads to the twist later in the show). Max and Gwen participate in a lot of the action scenes. They also found a way to make multiple seasons of a cartoon starring 10-year-olds without involving the parents, and I think Ben's parents being non-traditional liberal New Age types was a nice touch (also the fact that Ben is really embarrassed by it).
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Sith saber I know you're probated but I really got to know why you brought up Squidbillies (nvm that it's a great show) as a CN show. Like are you aware adult swim is it's own thing in a lot of regards? That programming on [as] is totally removed from CN, right?
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I'm not that keen on Ben 10 either. While the designs were pretty great, the whole show felt kinda samey to me; like it wasn't giving me anything that I hadn't already seen elsewhere. I was kind of bored by it. Please notice how I avoid losing my poo poo over the fact that people like something I don't like.
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Yeah I don't like Ben 10 and all it's spin offs either. Not really a fan of man of action or whatever. A lot of their ideas are poorly executed.
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Why do we have a separate adventure time thread??
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Motherfucker posted:Why do we have a separate adventure time thread?? Can you imagine the alternatives? Do you have any conception of how many posts that thread gets?
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DoctorWhat posted:Can you imagine the alternatives? Do you have any conception of how many posts that thread gets? You really don't want Adventure Time talk in this thread, Motherfucker. Especially last month.
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Rudoku posted:You really don't want Adventure Time talk in this thread, Motherfucker. Especially last month. What happened last month?
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Jul 19, 2014 14:22
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Level Slide posted:All I know about Motorcity is that it looks nice and is about cars and was cancelled. For a cancelled series that is about cars and looks nice, how well does it wrap itself up? It wraps itself up acceptably for being cancelled. Not as good as it could have been, but good enough. Probably Sym-Bionic Titan level of wrap-up. The MSJ posted:I like how Ben 10 subverts some of elements of the child superhero subgenre. Max not only finds out about the Omnitrix in the first episode, he guides Ben on how to use it instead of stopping him (which leads to the twist later in the show). Max and Gwen participate in a lot of the action scenes. They also found a way to make multiple seasons of a cartoon starring 10-year-olds without involving the parents, and I think Ben's parents being non-traditional liberal New Age types was a nice touch (also the fact that Ben is really embarrassed by it). Grandpa Max Tennyson is the best character on the show and I think he could carry his own series pretty well if they explored his younger days. I always liked the world building and alien stuff in Ben 10, but the plots got repetitive pretty quickly.
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Motherfucker posted:Why do we have a separate adventure time thread?? Why wouldn't it gave it's own thread?
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Moatman posted:What happened last month? Breezy.
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Motherfucker posted:Why do we have a separate adventure time thread?? Take a look at that thread and you'll realize you want none of that here.
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Jul 19, 2014 14:55
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I mean just look at the fact this thread is over four years old and the Adventure Time thread us less than a year old and the AT thread is over 70 pages longer and it should be pretty clear why that show has it's own thread.
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Look at it this way: Sithsaber would post in here three times as much if this was the AT thread. That thread is loving poison in every respect.
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Jul 19, 2014 16:07
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Close both the Adventure Time and Korra thread and have them all post here. 
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As a regular of the AT thread I can confirm that the posting ratio there is much too high to just slap it here. I'm a little surprised to see all this negativity towards it, however. MrAristocrates posted:That thread is loving poison in every respect. raditts posted:Take a look at that thread and you'll realize you want none of that here.
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Jul 19, 2014 18:19
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paradoxGentleman posted:Does analysis bother you that much? From what I've heard from mods, yes it does. People hate it for some reason.
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Jul 19, 2014 18:29
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If I wanted to read essays from teenagers who get Cs in philosophy I'd become a high school teacher
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It was mainly a joke to rile up AT watchers by implying their show is a kids show but it didn't work because I'm a loving idiot I guess?? Although concentrating Sithsaber in one thread seems like it'd be great... A concentration thread if you will.
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Motherfucker posted:It was mainly a joke to rile up AT watchers by implying their show is a kids show but it didn't work because I'm a loving idiot I guess?? You seem really bad at jokes.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Does analysis bother you that much? I find the kind of analysis that goes on in that thread to be thoroughly pretentious bullshit. Even the intentional stuff. It's a thread for a children's cartoon that reads like a freshman film studies course. e: it's fine, like the show. But reading into the subtext of the nonsense doesn't make it more adult. Arist fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jul 19, 2014 |
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I didn’t like Ben 10 in the beginning but have mellowed out about it over the years, particularly when they recovered from the tween grabbing abomination that the second series was (WHY CAN'T MAGIC BE ITS OWN THING? gently caress ALIENS BEING BEHIND EVERYTHING). Mostly I just hated how CN treated the show as their Sponge-Bob and gave it all the video games and good toys that shows like Symbotic Titan deserved – but that can be more Mattel and Hasbro asshattery than bad 2010s networking killing off Ben 10’s competition instead of the dime barrel garbage.  I do know that my respect to Ben 10 enjoying action and animation for its own sake has grown in proportion for my dislike of the people that try to turn AT into a philosophy thesis.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Close both the Adventure Time and Korra thread and have them all post here.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Merge the AT and Korra threads. Merge all the forums into a singular thread.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Merge the AT and Korra threads. I would probably kill myself.
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Sorry to hear you guys feel that way, I guess. It just really feels like there's something to it, you know? Like subtext and themes and whatnot.
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Whenever I go in there, it's occasionally ridiculous bullshit, but usually it's just incredibly sophomoric "analysis" of basic character motivations and story beats, which are not in any way difficult to discern even just unconsciously, because the show just doesn't have all that much to give in that regard. Treating Adventure Time's ability to tell a basic story like it's incredible doesn't make the basic poo poo you're able to identify some sort of trenchant insight. Sorry I'm being a dick about this, I just get really annoyed when I see adults needing to validate their enjoyment of silly stuff by claiming it's deep. It's how we get dumb poo poo like gritty Superman (sorry, derail over!).
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MrAristocrates posted:Whenever I go in there, it's occasionally ridiculous bullshit, but usually it's just incredibly sophomoric "analysis" of basic character motivations and story beats, which are not in any way difficult to discern even just unconsciously, because the show just doesn't have all that much to give in that regard. Treating Adventure Time's ability to tell a basic story like it's incredible doesn't make the basic poo poo you're able to identify some sort of trenchant insight. Take a shot every time "The Hero's Journey" is mentioned.
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Move Korra and AT threads to ADTRWparadoxGentleman posted:Sorry to hear you guys feel that way, I guess. I suggest you go read an actual book (and no game of thrones doesn't count) icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jul 19, 2014 |
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Anime doesn't either.
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If you don't think Adventure Time isn't full of subtext and double-meanings, then I don't know what to tell you, son.
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El Tortuga posted:If you don't think Adventure Time isn't full of subtext and double-meanings, then I don't know what to tell you, son. I got 99 problems and dicks ain't one.
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