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LORD OF BOOTY posted:yeah, Jim Starling is the Ducktales character, Jim Sterling is a weird-looking guy on Youtube who dresses like Oddjob and has bad opinions about video games
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Hey guys, did I tell you I don't like *internet personality*? Oh *internet personality* makes me so mad!
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khwarezm posted:Hey guys, did I tell you I don't like *internet personality*? Oh *internet personality* makes me so mad! For some reason I read this in Strong Bad and Homestar's voices(first line for the former, second for the latter)
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Well, time to bunker up against Internet Cartoon Dudes, I guess https://twitter.com/rwmead/status/997539690847891457?s=21
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Waffleman_ posted:Well, time to bunker up against Internet Cartoon Dudes, I guess Glad to see they're finally gonna make a good Thundercats
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May 18, 2018 19:36
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I don't think Thundercats is as beloved as Teen Titans, so the nostalgia goggles won't color peoples' opinions of this one as much, I think.
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Yeah, I'm banking on Thundercats predating most of the Dudes What Have Strong Opinions On Cartoons' experiences.
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I see they've decided to take a big steaming dump on one of my favorite childhood cartoons in order to duplicate what they think is success with TTGo. "Yay!"
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Rassle posted:I see they've decided to take a big steaming dump on one of my favorite childhood cartoons in order to duplicate what they think is success with TTGo. "Yay!" TTGo is successful so, lol. I hope that dump is full of corn.
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Rassle posted:I see they've decided to take a big steaming dump on one of my favorite childhood cartoons in order to duplicate what they think is success with TTGo. "Yay!" What was your opinion on Star Wars The Last Jedi
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Both the "self-aware" comedic angle and derivative visual style seem like bad choices made because those are the trends, which sucks. That intro is fun though.
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I'm not annoyed that it's nothing like the old shows, but more that it looks like 90 % of everything else on the network and that CN appears to be allergic to anything that isn't 75 % comedic right now. It doesn't look like it offers anything that the more original properties like OK K.O. and Steven Universe do, either, so attaching that general aesthetic onto an existing property just feels like CN is enforcing a house style more than anything. Also, for all he did to pump up the intro, it's not really anything special and goes by way too quickly.
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I'm pretty sure a lot of internet people will credit their sexual awakenings to sexy cat people. For the real reboot humor, they need to draw all the dude cats sexy and muscular, while Cheetara wears practical, skin-covering clothing and is given a cool but completely non-sexual portrayal.
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Waffleman_ posted:Yeah, I'm banking on Thundercats predating most of the Dudes What Have Strong Opinions On Cartoons' experiences. It aired on Toonami, too, so there's gotta be a poser or old man or two.
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May 18, 2018 19:52
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I'm willing to give this a chance actually. It has actual animation. And the 2011 series was so loving miserable that something in the opposite direction of being cute and fun is actually really appealing.
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I guess it could be fun, but I don't really like the angle it's going at. It doesn't look like it has much ambition beyond just doing what other shows are already doing just with the star power of a half-forgotten 80s IP. They look like they're aiming to be real dumb. And this is directly on the heels of the last attempt at a Thundercats revival failed. Not sure exactly why that happened there, I think maybe the show wound up too boring. Also I loving hate that guy's hair.
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Pakled posted:I don't think Thundercats is as beloved as Teen Titans, so the nostalgia goggles won't color peoples' opinions of this one as much, I think. Waffleman_ posted:Yeah, I'm banking on Thundercats predating most of the Dudes What Have Strong Opinions On Cartoons' experiences. Rassle posted:I see they've decided to take a big steaming dump on one of my favorite childhood cartoons in order to duplicate what they think is success with TTGo. "Yay!" This is a pretty amazing 3-post string
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So has CN aired anything new this week? I know they're doing a new TTG episode in two weeks, but this is starting to remind me when they only did new episode bombs for select weeks and then nothing but reruns back in 2015.
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Two things worth mentioning with regards to Thundercats: the 2011 Thundercats, Batman: Brave and the Bold, and Teen Titans Go share the same co-showrunner/head writer (Michael Jelenic) and the showrunner for the upcoming Thundercats is Victor Coutright, who served as a writer/boarder/character designer on Pickle and Peanut and created these shorts for CN a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Gtwye1bs4
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Shitenshi posted:So has CN aired anything new this week? I know they're doing a new TTG episode in two weeks, but this is starting to remind me when they only did new episode bombs for select weeks and then nothing but reruns back in 2015. Don't they (and the other networks like Nick and Disney) basically stop airing any new stuff during summer?
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Shitenshi posted:So has CN aired anything new this week? I know they're doing a new TTG episode in two weeks, but this is starting to remind me when they only did new episode bombs for select weeks and then nothing but reruns back in 2015. There are four new episodes of OK KO airing tomorrow
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TwoPair posted:Don't they (and the other networks like Nick and Disney) basically stop airing any new stuff during summer? CN has advertised new Steven Universe for the summer
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On its own taking the piss out of Thundercats (to say nothing of that whole pantheon of 80's buy all our playsets and toys cartoon) is a pretty solid idea. On the other hand oh boy am I really getting tired of this Ugly Super Deformed look.
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I don't really have any issues with the premise except that I don't get why Thundercats. Like, if they're gonna do something with Thundercats, they should seriously just keep trying to A:TLA it until something works. This is already facing the issue that it's... kind of just OK KO + TTG.
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ConanThe3rd posted:On the other hand oh boy am I really getting tired of this Ugly Super Deformed look. That art style looks like rear end, someone please stop whoever keeps trying to push it.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I don't really have any issues with the premise except that I don't get why Thundercats. Probably so they can have a lot of cat jokes AND fantasy setting jokes. Instant success formula for the internet age.
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Yardbomb posted:That art style looks like rear end, someone please stop whoever keeps trying to push it. It looks like someone threw together parts of the styles from Cartoon Network's other cartoons, like Adventure Time's noodle arms, Gumball's faces, and the circle eyes from OK KO and older animations like the Mr. Owl Tootsie Pop commercial, which are all right, but when they're blended together it's just a copycat mess
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Probably so they can have a lot of cat jokes AND fantasy setting jokes. Instant success formula for the internet age. I just feel like there's an insanely obvious angle for Thundercats and it's not this. The older reboot had the right idea, it just wasn't executed well enough and also got promoted like absolute poo poo.
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Yardbomb posted:That art style looks like rear end, someone please stop whoever keeps trying to push it. Hey, Adventure Time is ending soon, CN wants/needs another comedy action series with simple designs. So I guess what I'm saying is either blame Pen Ward or blame the tons of folks who fell in love with AT when it first debuted. LORD OF BOOTY posted:I just feel like there's an insanely obvious angle for Thundercats and it's not this. The older reboot had the right idea, it just wasn't executed well enough and also got promoted like absolute poo poo. I thought people really liked the recent reboot, it just failed anyway.
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TwoPair posted:I thought people really liked the recent reboot, it just failed anyway. I've heard that it apparently did really well, but the toys were super fragile and nobody bought them, which was enough to sink an otherwise well performing show.
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I'm willing to give this a chance actually. You take that back.  YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW!! 
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Its been ages so I forget, but I think the 2011 show had a rather incredible cinematic pilot written by the main producer. Then he was pulled for other projects, and they had other animation studios handle the rest of the episodes rather than the really pricey one they got for the pilot. After that it was just dread and wheel-spinning until its quiet death. https://twitter.com/Jpolgar1/status/997541096946270209 Jeremy Polgar's directing on the new one, and the intro looks sick as gently caress, so I'm game for a new action-y animated comedy. MorningMoon fucked around with this message at 02:08 on May 19, 2018 |
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Gaunab posted:That sounds like a toy problem rather than a show problem. To stupid big whigs, toy problems = show problems.
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All I know is, if they so much as look in the direction of SilverHawks, blood will rain down from the heavens and the streets will crunch with the splintered bones of CN Executives.
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Waffleman_ posted:Well, time to bunker up against Internet Cartoon Dudes, I guess Internet Cartoon Dudes or no, I don't think I can get behind Gumballcats This kind of makes that idea I remember pitched a long time ago where the Thundercats were all teens in a band together sound not so terrible. raditts fucked around with this message at 04:00 on May 19, 2018 |
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From what little I remember of the 2011 series, I think the characters ended up not being that interesting to follow? The thing that I remember the most is that when they had the reveal that their fantasy world of animal folk had the origin of being some kind of crashed alien prison ship, I was a little angry at the show for pissing around doing nothing for so long when they were sitting on that gem. But I guess when you're trying to do a straightforward dramatic show nowadays, there's the urge to play it slow and steady with your insane worldbuilding, as opposed to the 80s when they played fast and loose and basically just threw whatever insane stupid poo poo they had off the top of their heads into the mix.
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raditts posted:Internet Cartoon Dudes or no, I don't think I can get behind Gumballcats Gumball is already a cat so you'll have to find a new name. Rassle posted:All I know is, if they so much as look in the direction of SilverHawks, blood will rain down from the heavens and the streets will crunch with the splintered bones of CN Executives. Man I had to actually google that (as opposed to thundercats which people heap praise/nostalgia on so much I know character names without having seen an episode), I don't think you'll have a problem. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 04:56 on May 19, 2018 |
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