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JT Smiley posted:Just binged Infinity Train to day and all I can say is gently caress Simon! I can't remember the last time a show has made me hate a character this much. Definitely not looking forward to his eventual redemption. I think Simon's gonna go the same way like Amelia where he'll be broken down and be sent away or flee on his own, but his final fate may be unknown while we get to see Grace either exit or start her path to exiting. And if we do see Grace actually leave the train, we might get to see what happens to someone who spends more than a token amount of time on the Train
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Sharkopath posted:Now watch Amphibia!! Tempting
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Boba Pearl posted:Is Owl House this good? What about that show about the cat? They're both very different shows tonally. I would describe Owl House as being fairly similar to Gravity Falls, and while I don't watch Mao Mao, my understanding is that it's a very lighthearted, episodic show. I can't really think of any cartoons that have had the weighty themes and emotional gut punches that Infinity Train pulls. Maybe Steven Universe comes close sometimes?
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Oh poo poo, I just realized: Amity is stuck at home with a broken leg. Amity is stuck at home with a broken leg. Which means there are two possibilities here: 1. The cat's out of the bag to her parents wrt the shift in her social circle. 2. She's now having to actively lie to them to keep up the facade, or at least feed them half truths. ...I guess there's also the extra heartbreaking option 3: The Blights are so disinterested in their daughter's wellbeing that they haven't even bothered to ask about her leg.
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Cattail Prophet posted:Oh poo poo, I just realized: Amity is stuck at home with a broken leg. I figure the Blight Twins will be ratting her out if it suits/amuses them at some point. I mean, next season, since obviously the one ep. we have left is going to be pretty busy.
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Aug 24, 2020 16:33
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"Amity, how did you break your leg?" "Uh, I fell down some stairs?" "Fell down some stairs?" "Uh, fell down some stairs while putting a Kick Me sign on Willow's back as befits my status as a Blight?" "Ah, yes, that's my girl!"
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So apparently a live action Powerpuff Girls show is being made for the CW, Craig McCracken would be rolling in his grave except he's still alive
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Aug 24, 2020 21:51
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drrockso20 posted:So apparently a live action Powerpuff Girls show is being made for the CW, Craig McCracken would be rolling in his grave except he's still alive I dislike this greatly!
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Madurai posted:I figure the Blight Twins will be ratting her out if it suits/amuses them at some point. I mean, next season, since obviously the one ep. we have left is going to be pretty busy. The twins seem to like Luz well enough, at least as an interesting curiosity. And Willow is no longer weak, so it might not really matter anymore.
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drrockso20 posted:So apparently a live action Powerpuff Girls show is being made for the CW, Craig McCracken would be rolling in his grave except he's still alive If they aren't still bizarre mutants with gigantic eyes and no fingers then it will be a betrayal of the highest sort.
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drrockso20 posted:So apparently a live action Powerpuff Girls show is being made for the CW, Craig McCracken would be rolling in his grave except he's still alive "In the updated version of the series, the titular superheroes are now disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?"
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Senerio posted:I'm dreading the CW take on Him. It's going to read 100% drag queen and I could see it going either way.
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If the Gang Green Gang shows up, I hope Ace talks about his time as the bassist for the Gorillaz.
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Proof: https://deadline.com/2020/08/the-powerpuff-girls-live-action-series-diablo-cody-heather-regnier-greg-berlanti-the-cw-1203021883/amp/ This sounds like it’s going to be terrible (much like the other attempts to revamp the franchise such as the Japanese created Powerpuff Girls Z and the recent cartoon) but I am kind of curious how the hell they’re going to pull half the stuff in the series off in live action.
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Larryb posted:much like the other attempts to revamp the franchise such as the Japanese created Powerpuff Girls Z It's a fascinating thing at the very least. Extreme Japanese Spider-man energy.
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Funky Valentine posted:I thought this was an urban legend for years and years until the dub showed up. I saw the subbed version just recently, it’s watchable for the most part but it didn’t really capture the spirit of the original that well in my opinion. Speaking of which, how was the dub? Did they get back any of the actors from the original series?
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The problem with PPGZ is that when they asked Craig McCracken how to handle it he told them to make it as different from the original as possible, which resulted in Z being the blandest and most by the book Magical Girl series to have ever been made in the history of Anime that does absolutely nothing right, there's a reason they never bothered to bring it to the US in any form whatsoever even though it did decently well in Japan, it would do as well as a lead balloon here
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drrockso20 posted:The problem with PPGZ is that when they asked Craig McCracken how to handle it he told them to make it as different from the original as possible, which resulted in Z being the blandest and most by the book Magical Girl series to have ever been made in the history of Anime that does absolutely nothing right, there's a reason they never bothered to bring it to the US in any form whatsoever even though it did decently well in Japan, it would do as well as a lead balloon here But they did? An English dub does exist apparently. Also why did Craig specifically tell them to make it as different as possible from the original?
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Beachcomber posted:The twins seem to like Luz well enough, at least as an interesting curiosity. And Willow is no longer weak, so it might not really matter anymore. This presumes that Willow being "weak" was ever actually the problem, and not just a convenient lie that the Blights tell themselves to justify their classism. Agreed that it doesn't really fit the twins' MO, though. If anything, I think they'd be more than happy to run interference for Amity, assuming they can all get on the same page and trust that the others are acting in good faith (admittedly a big if).
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Larryb posted:But they did? An English dub does exist apparently. If I recall properly that dub is one of those lovely one's they make for places like Singapore and the Philippines, and wasn't meant for Western consumption Also I have no idea why, I guess he didn't want it being mistaken for the original or something, there's prototype designs for Z floating around the internet that show that their initial ideas were much closer to the original show's style
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drrockso20 posted:If I recall properly that dub is one of those lovely one's they make for places like Singapore and the Philippines, and wasn't meant for Western consumption I think there’s also an episode of Z later on where they even crossover with the original show. But yeah, the final result is a comedy focused magical girl show that kind of fails on both counts. Larryb fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Aug 25, 2020 |
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Aug 25, 2020 01:40
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Larryb posted:Proof: https://deadline.com/2020/08/the-powerpuff-girls-live-action-series-diablo-cody-heather-regnier-greg-berlanti-the-cw-1203021883/amp/ I felt my soul leave my body reading that announcement, somebody just shoot me now. I feel simultaneously ancient and mad and just tired, so so tired. Larryb posted:Also why did Craig specifically tell them to make it as different as possible from the original? I imagine it's because if it was too similar there's no point when you could just dub the original in Japanese, plus because the original had only wrapped a year prior. Obviously not a perfect comparison, but it'd be like if there was an announcement that there was gonna be a new version of (googles top anime of 2019) My Hero Academia (ignore for the purposes of this argument the fact that MHA is still ongoing) only re-done here and put on Disney XD or something, and there would basically be zero changes aside from animation style. There's hardly a point unless you change something. So, if that story is true, I think the reason he'd want it to be different is simply so it could justify its existence by changing things a little. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Aug 25, 2020 |
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Also the original cartoon WAS dubbed into Japanese and was apparently super popular over there (which is probably why they wanted to do their own version in the first place).
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Larryb posted:Proof: https://deadline.com/2020/08/the-powerpuff-girls-live-action-series-diablo-cody-heather-regnier-greg-berlanti-the-cw-1203021883/amp/ It's just in development right? There's a decent chance it'll fall apart before anything comes of it. Anyway new episodes of Craig of the Creek started today and will go though this week.
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Wouldn’t the powepuff girls be in their 30s now if they were 7 in 1995?
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The original cartoon had an episode making clear their thoughts on an aged-up sequel, I think. Or possibly just taking the piss out of fanfic. The real Japanese take on Powerpuff Girls is Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt. Which mind you is mostly because it riffs on American cartoons in general, and was inspired by Gainax on a trip to America and seeing Drawn Together while drunk in a hotel room. Oh, and on The Owl House: don't see why Willow's leg has to be a big deal, all she has to say is she got injured playing sports and she's being completely truthful. Which given the nature of Boiling Isles sports, probably just has her parents glad she still has the leg. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Aug 25, 2020 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Wouldn’t the powepuff girls be in their 30s now if they were 7 in 1995? Thanks to a very subtle blink and miss crossover with The Gorillaz that happens in the movie, officially they were created around 2001*, also they're born at 5 not 7 so you're a bit off *cause Gorillaz happens in real time, this also lines up with how old Ace appears to be when he joined the band a couple years ago as Murdoc's replacement for an album(which would be neat if that gets brought up in this new show) Ghost Leviathan posted:The original cartoon had an episode making clear their thoughts on an aged-up sequel, I think. Or possibly just taking the piss out of fanfic. Mostly them taking the piss out of common fanfic tropes, ultimately this led to City of Clipsville being a bad episode even by the standards of that era of the show
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So the finale of Infinity Train is out and my two no spoiler takes are that they really needed either an extended episode or an extra one to explain some things and wow they uh didn’t hold back here 
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My thoughts on those last two episodes: Hey! Ho! Whoa
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Sure is a lot of death and attempted murder on this Infinity Train!
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Aug 27, 2020 16:51
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That's about how I expected the last two episodes to go, but, still, yeesh. If there is a fourth season, I expect we'll learn something about the ghom, the roach monsters. The one that ate Simon's lifeforce projected an image on it's side and then exploded. Very strange.
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Bobulus posted:That's about how I expected the last two episodes to go, but, still, yeesh. So far there are no plans for a forth season, I think.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaePu0-fZ4o
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Look at the like/dislike ratio on that video. Fuckin' scumbags downvoting. EDIT: On a silly nerdy note, would there actually be "black people" in their animal-person universe? Okay, I'm done.
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thelaughingman posted:So far there are no plans for a forth season, I think. It's up in the air atm. The restructuring in ATT/WB/etc. probably being part of it.
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JazzFlight posted:
Brain is considered black...also Mrs. McGrady too? Brain celebrates Kwanzaa and his cousin Cheikh is from Senegal. https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/In_My_Africa Also they did this episode. Basically, Brain is canonically a black...bear? As a black person, I am very confused by it but alright then.
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I'm bored at work right now and kinda want to watch the last two episodes of infinity train, but I feelike it's gonna be way too heavy to watch in public. Last time I watched I woke my wife up yelling at the TV.
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Aug 27, 2020 20:52
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Joe Ruby, one of the creators of Scooby Doo has died. 
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ThermoPhysical posted:Brain is considered black...also Mrs. McGrady too? Brain celebrates Kwanzaa and his cousin Cheikh is from Senegal. Brain is most famously voiced by disgusting white supremacist Steven Crowder lmao. Although he was no longer with the show by then.
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