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I thought the Star VS ending was fine considering the creators probably wanted more time to flesh things out and set things up?  The biggest issues were that Mina wasn’t really threatening enough to be last boss material and the twist with Star’s mom was almost immediately dropped after it was introduced. It certainly wasn’t BAD though, particularly compared to how cartoons normally go out. *glances at Danny Phantom* At the very least it cleanly wrapped up its loose ends and ended on an emotionally satisfying note. Also: SO happy we didn’t get an Escaflowne ending. Old rear end anime fans will know what I mean. Chrungka posted:One of five gen:LOCK's main characters in openly genderfluid. She (at that moment) explicitly states she went through transition several times. In that sci-fi setting, seems like sex reassignment is "solved" problem. That sounds rad, I’ll check it out.
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I know right? I don't know where all this "poo poo the bed" stuff is coming from. Maybe it could've used one more episode for the denouement, but it was a pretty great ending as far as I'm concerned.
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TwoPair posted:I know right? I don't know where all this "poo poo the bed" stuff is coming from. turbo nerds mad about their favorite ship not making it in or something, probably
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TwoPair posted:I know right? I don't know where all this "poo poo the bed" stuff is coming from. Maybe it could've used one more episode for the denouement, but it was a pretty great ending as far as I'm concerned. Cartoon nerds are jealous over the kerfuffle over at Game of Thrones.
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Sorry for the weeks of non-productivity, guys. Running out of weed and burning out on your job because it's going to be ending in a month...well, it ain't great. We now return to your regularly scheduled weekend cartoon of anthropomorphic siblings in a sewer.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:turbo nerds mad about their favorite ship not making it in or something, probably Most of the anger seems to be towards Star destroying all magic, and Earth and Mewni getting merged
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drrockso20 posted:Most of the anger seems to be towards Star destroying all magic, and Earth and Mewni getting merged Yeah. "And then the magic went away." endings ALWAYS get really really hard push back from fans. Especially because like the last half of the shows was like, a kinda clumsy storyline about oppression and colonization and at the last possible second they decided "oh magic was the problem." and just kinda hope you forget about all the magical people who had lives and personalities and families and whole episodes of screentime dedicated to them all just got Thanos snapped away. edit: Like I understand WHY it happened. You can't really just like find the cure for racism or something in the ending. They needed something they can conveniently interact with and be a problem with a solution so you can tie things up in a neat bow. Whitenoise Poster fucked around with this message at 04:21 on May 20, 2019 |
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Yeah, the more I think about it the destroying all magic twist would have worked a lot better if the show hadn’t given every spell an adorable personality. RIP spider in a top hat.
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Whitenoise Poster posted:Star vs was interesting to watch from the outside. Mewberty was the first hit of popularity the show got, then slowly grew until season 2 when it exploded in popularity by a lot. It especially got popular over in lgbt tumblr specifically around a certain headcannon/theory that Marco was supposed to be read as a trans girl fueled by the whole Princess Marco thing being handled really respectfully.
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Season 3 was the best one, it had Eclipsa before she was saddled with a trashfire of a kingdom. It was also where most of the intrigue started up. The show clearly didn't have any long-term idea for where it was going, which made it all weird and unstable and kinda underwhelming with its story arcs, but it also gave the show a real edge of unpredictability, including how confusing the final twists were. It was a real mixed bag. It was an alright ride though. A net positive. From an in-world perspective, it's pretty apocalyptic. Much of the old order is destroyed, but it sucked before anyways? Also some magical creatures are unharmed and others are 100% dead and murdered. Real arbitrary what counts as magic and what doesn't. edit: Also Milo Murphy is back and it's pretty darn great. SlothfulCobra fucked around with this message at 04:55 on May 20, 2019 |
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May 20, 2019 04:50
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Yeah, over on /co/ people have been calling her worse than Thanos
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SlothfulCobra posted:edit: Also Milo Murphy is back and it's pretty darn great. Said bear also murdered Recurring Racoon.
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drrockso20 posted:Yeah, over on /co/ people have been calling her worse than Thanos Oh please. She murdered, like, a mid-sized country’s worth of people at worst.
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readingatwork posted:Oh please. She murdered, like, a mid-sized country’s worth of people at worst. Well magic is supposed to be multiversal in nature, so not necessarily
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Yeah but like, a ton of creatures/stuff you might think of as "pure magic" weren't gone. The pony heads still float, the pigeons still talked, Tom was around and could maybe do his rocket stuff? The only explicit deaths/poofs are Glossaryck and the Magic High Commission and they were dicks and/or accepted their fate freely. And the spells are probably around in some way or form. They survived the wand (and almost all magic) dying twice, they're probably fine in their little pocket dimension. Or they have a new place on the new hybrid planet. Anybody claiming mass genocide is trying to make the show's ending dark for the sake of making a children's show ending dark... which is probably ultimately so they can go make listicles about the top 10 ways Star was wrong or whatever.
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Glossaryck said he'd die, but then at the end he did a weird thing and maybe he's just floating out in space or some junk. The only explicit deaths are Omnitraxus and most of Rhombulus. It can also be construed that the few hundred years' worth of spells are dead, or their pocket dimension still exists unmoored in the multiverse? But does the multiverse still exist if the underlying powers that supposedly governed it is gone? And does it really count as murder to eliminate what is essentially a probability space? And Heckapoo said pretty straightforwardly that she might die, and that sucks because she was cool. But it's hopeless to evaluate it in "real" terms because that's not what it's meant to be. What you gotta evaluate it in is dumb bullshit emotional terms, in which case, it's mostly bad because it's not the right bullshit. Star and Marco got their happy ending, but nobody else did. Or at least it didn't feel happy enough. We've got no assurance for futures (or continued existence?) of most of the characters we've come to care about aside from one teen romance, so I sure hope that's what you cared about.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Or at least it didn't feel happy enough. We've got no assurance for futures (or continued existence?) of most of the characters we've come to care about But we kind of did? I mean they showed Kelly off doing her thing, both the royal families made peace, Ponyhead and Tom and every other injured magical creature is gonna live. I'm sure there's a laundry list of other side characters that didn't show up but I think the point of the scene was kinda clear showing that everybody's gonna be okay. I mean they didn't show them on the new merged planet and they didn't do some 20 years later flash forward but they showed that for the most part everything went okay SlothfulCobra posted:aside from one teen romance, so I sure hope that's what you cared about. Well they're the main characters... so yeah, it kind of is? I don't begrudge you for looking for something more, no ending is ever gonna please everybody, but the end of like every story like this pretty much ignores a lot of non-main characters and the world and leaves a lot of open-ended questions. I don't care any more about what what the long-term effects of the blending of Earth and Mewni will be any more than I care about how the Fire Nation will rebuild after Avatar or exactly how gem society is going to reform on Steven Universe (I recognize that's not all the way over but I mean it might as well be, pretty much everyone's character arc is done). It's a Happily Ever After™ for a Disney princess, the worries of what's next is the realm of bad straight-to-DVD sequels. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 07:08 on May 20, 2019 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:
Well. There's Heckapoo, but when asked about it, she just kind of shrugged. She's probably lived a million life times, over a million years. I kinda feel like Omnitraxus and Rhombulus were basically the old guards of magic, and often had a Might Makes Right philosophy that was often used by the old Queens. And when one did something the magic counsel didn't like, they hid it away, and picked a new lineage of queens they could control.
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Star Vs was dead to me when they did Jackie dirty
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CN announces two new shows; I Love You Mao Mao (produced by Titmouse, created by Titmouse animator/OK KO boarder Parker Simmons), whose first ep was just put up on the app as a sneak peak, and Tig 'n' Seek (created by former Uncle Grandpa boarder/Rick and Morty designer Myke Chillian), a retool of that Tiggle Winks pilot from a while back. https://twitter.com/codaanim/status/1130482923537338368 Digamma-F-Wau fucked around with this message at 16:52 on May 20, 2019 |
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I like art style and character design. Definitely keeping an eye on it cause I'm curious how it will develop. The main character reminds of Batman from the Lego Movies.
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Oh wow, dropping a show like this with no prior promotion is an interesting move. Yeah, I like the art and it has potential.
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Pakled posted:Oh wow, dropping a show like this with no prior promotion is an interesting move. Might be another attempt to go hard on the App, but even then, idk. Also the second season of Milo Murphy's law seems to have ended and idk if there's been any word regarding more or if it's being taken out back quietly.
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:CN announces two new shows; I Love You Mao Mao (produced by Titmouse, created by Titmouse animator/OK KO boarder Parker Simmons), whose first ep was just put up on the app as a sneak peak, and Tig 'n' Seek (created by former Uncle Grandpa boarder/Rick and Morty designer Myke Chillian), a retool of that Tiggle Winks pilot from a while back. Their player isn't picked up by my video downloader extension in Chrome so it's worthless to me.
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Ariza posted:Their player isn't picked up by my video downloader extension in Chrome so it's worthless to me. I'm Canadian.
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Xelkelvos posted:Might be another attempt to go hard on the App, but even then, idk. I hope it gets another season. The finale was a perfect end for the second season, but didn't feel special enough to be a finale for the entire series. The show's pretty solid and I really like how the status quo keeps changing and characters develop in small ways. I did  a bit when there was a kiss in the finale, and it wasn't between Cavendish and Dakota.
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kidcoelacanth posted:Star Vs was dead to me when they did Jackie dirty She did come back briefly in Season 4. It's not much, but it does give some decent closure to her character.
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Okay, wow, Mao Mao is incredibly cute and funny.
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Some old shorts are on the creators youtube page. And they're very good: Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6fjvokSmw How To Draw MaoMao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBjrqBaHE78 How To Draw Adorabat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn818ZCzY2Q How To Draw Bearclops (He Used to be a Polar Bear) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2EVnb3ziDE Fancy Hat! fucked around with this message at 03:12 on May 21, 2019 |
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There was a full short that was made a few years back, but it was only screened at the annual titmouse 5 second night screening and never fully released.
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In a random bit of The Owl House news, Dana Terrace revealed a new character in a charity stream yesterday: https://twitter.com/TheMysteryofGF/status/1131036114289135616 Looking forward to seeing how this shapes up now that we're closer to release. It feels like this was maybe announced a bit too early but I suppose they weren't anticipating a delay into 2020 by last year's February.
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We finally got cable, so now I can watch DuckTales. I guess until the 5/30, at least. The pilot was pretty good, but I really think the second episode is much better. It's just packed to the gills with jokes. Digging the vulture capitalists in episode 3.
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Beachcomber posted:We finally got cable, so now I can watch DuckTales. I guess until the 5/30, at least. DuckTales starts pretty good and ramps up in quality very quickly over the course of the series. Definitely one of my favorite cartoons on right now.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:DuckTales starts pretty good and ramps up in quality very quickly over the course of the series. Definitely one of my favorite cartoons on right now. Episode 4 and this is literally The Warriors. Also, the captions for the title changed from ponytails to phony tales. It was definitely ponytails on episode 2. Edit: the amulet was kind of a giveaway but I'd basically forgotten about it and then gently caress. Edit 2: episode 8 and Webby continues to be the absolute best. Beachcomber fucked around with this message at 05:50 on May 24, 2019 |
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Great news, Duckheads! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3830337
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Sockser posted:Great news, Duckheads! Was there a specific post or...?
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I think they were not-so-subtly trying to tell the DuckTales recapper to post there instead which is... fair. From what I've seen, general show chat discussion is fine here, but more longform stuff is more appropriate for a show-specific thread, if it exists.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyiBdccfNkg Lindsay Ellis made a great video about something I've complained a lot about in the past: why you see so many big name movie stars doing animated films. I'm not opposed to the idea of having celebrities do animated VOs, but as Lindsay brilliantly explains, when studios hire people like that, they seem to mainly do it for recognition and star power, with very little thought going into whether said celebrities actually do a good job fitting or fulfilling the characters they're portraying. Dreamworks in particular, is like the worst offender on this issue. Furthermore, there are a ton of super talented career voice actors that would do many of these roles infinitely more justice, but they get passed over cause they're not household names. And that's pretty hosed up. Mr Interweb fucked around with this message at 02:35 on May 25, 2019 |
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The only recent Disney princess to be voiced by a professional voice actor is Kida (Cree Summer). I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, there are some great animated films like Spider-Verse and Megamind, and The Lego Movie that really work because of the cast. As much as I love the va's that get most of their work in animated shows, I'd have a really hard time arguing with any of the casting in the three movies I mentioned (Tina Fey in Megamind is a little weak, I guess).
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