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The 7th Guest posted:aaron ehasz is literally the creator and head writer of the show lol Ah right. Actually I forget, is it confirmed now that he will no longer be involved in the remainder of the show? Also how many seasons is the show supposed to be in total?
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The 7th Guest posted:amphibia is ending Is it? Granted, I haven't been keeping up with the show as much as I'd like to, but I know it's been renewed through Season 3 at least.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Is it? Granted, I haven't been keeping up with the show as much as I'd like to, but I know it's been renewed through Season 3 at least.
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Larryb posted:Ah right. Actually I forget, is it confirmed now that he will no longer be involved in the remainder of the show? He's still involved and the show is getting 7 or 8 seasons total iirc.
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Mokinokaro posted:He's still involved and the show is getting 7 or 8 seasons total iirc. Ah. So did the allegations turn out to be false then or what?
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Larryb posted:Ah. So did the allegations turn out to be false then or what?
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The 7th Guest posted:it turns out that working for an offshoot of the notoriously sexist company Riot Games means facing no consequences Well that sucks. I did like the show though so I’m kind of torn at the moment, we’ll see how it goes I guess.
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I'd say I wouldn't count Tangled as like "prestige-animation". It was pretty heavily episodic, even though a few episodes each season carried enough drama to make you nearly forget that. The songs were drat good though, and I really want to see somebody try to follow that up. I think part of the issue is that there's not really a lot of companies making cartoons, so if you get depressed over Disney's arbitrary three-season rule, Nickelodeon's mostly abandoned the field (although Rise of TMNT was real good), and you're sort of just left with Netflix and Cartoon Network/HBO Max, and I think the latter is still in a bit of a slump from having frozen plans while the merger was in question. Netflix has like five million projects in the works, but they're kinda split and it's hard to think of them as ongoing because they get dumped onto the platform all at once and then you get an unclear wait for the next season.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I'd say I wouldn't count Tangled as like "prestige-animation". It was pretty heavily episodic, even though a few episodes each season carried enough drama to make you nearly forget that. The songs were drat good though, and I really want to see somebody try to follow that up. I would say Tangled is prestige like 30 Rock and Arrested Development were prestige. The have overarching and recurring plotlines interspersed with episodic plots. We are ending a big era of prestige cartoons whichh more strongly serialized plots but interspersed with the same episodic elements as above. (Though I'd say it started with AtLA and not Adventure Time). But part of the end of that era is because of the shifting towards Streaming and refocusing on what works for the new medium and the new generation. Owl House is still running though production of S2 I believe so that's still kicking but remember that this also conincides with Covid basically eviscerating the entertainment industry so we may still be in that first era, just at a lull due to real life gumming up the works.
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What is the animated kid show equivalent to the Sopranos? Discuss. (Obviously it’s Gumball) Edit: No, wait. It’s Steven Universe. It wasn’t the first prestige cartoon but it was one of the most influential early ones. It features family drama, mental problems, and the main character has a body count. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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readingatwork posted:What is the animated kid show equivalent to the Sopranos? Discuss. Recess
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The 7th Guest posted:in a reddit AMA Braly confirmed season 3 is the final season I honestly kind of expected that: Disney has almost always plotted their animated series within the traditional 65 episode framework for syndication, which usually leads to shows lasting for less than five seasons. This has held true even for their more recent works: Gravity Falls ran for 2 seasons (Though this was largely the decision of Alex Hirsch, I think it was the plan for the get-go for the series to only run for 3 seasons), Wander Over Yonder ran for 2, Star Vs the Forces of Evil for 4, and Ducktales for 3. With the rate the story's been going, three seasons seems about right to wrap up the plot threads they've introduced, and I'm kind of cool with that? I love the hell out of Amphibia and I'm rather have three seasons that are really good instead of ten seasons that are mostly meh. The 7th Guest posted:uhh sonic prime lol I mean, I thought Sonic Boom had some pretty good moments, though I think the quality of this new Sonic series is going to depend heavily on which of the various tones the series has taken over the years they're going to adhere to. Any time they try to do SERIOUS PLOT STUFF FOR SERIOUS HEDGEHOGS with Sonic it just doesn't end up working (yes that includes Sonic SATAM, that show sucked fight me irl!) KingKalamari fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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i laugh because it's by the same team that did the CG Megaman cartoon from 2 years ago
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KingKalamari posted:I honestly kind of expected that: Disney has almost always plotted their animated series within the traditional 65 episode framework for syndication, which usually leads to shows lasting for less than five seasons. This has held true even for their more recent works: Gravity Falls ran for 2 seasons (Though this was largely the decision of Alex Hirsch, I think it was the plan for the get-go for the series to only run for 3 seasons), Wander Over Yonder ran for 2, Star Vs the Forces of Evil for 4, and Ducktales for 3. With the rate the story's been going, three seasons seems about right to wrap up the plot threads they've introduced, and I'm kind of cool with that? I love the hell out of Amphibia and I'm rather have three seasons that are really good instead of ten seasons that are mostly meh. Not to mention while going past the 65 episodes/3 seasons limit has worked in the past for them(Kim Possible and Phineas & Ferb both going for 4 seasons) it's also blown up in their faces fairly recently too(both Star Wars Rebels and Star Vs got 4 seasons and both underperformed during their respective final seasons), so not surprising that they're switching back to a safer format
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The 7th Guest posted:i laugh because it's by the same team that did the CG Megaman cartoon from 2 years ago I really kinda-but-not-really wanna give this one a go because at some point I saw it got a comic book set after the show ended and it was grimdark as hell (Megaman doesn't trust Light anymore, starts remembering how he was a tool of war that Light used to kill a ton of robots during a war. The prototype, Namagem, waxing poetic about what it means to live) and I wanna know if that's something they were slowly building towards like so many cartoons nowadays with fun episodic stuff and deep lore in the back, or if they just decided to go that way in the comic for shits and giggles.
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Rand Brittain posted:Fillmore. 
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Filmore! owned. Loved the silence of the lambs parody and investigating the canadian school's illegal substance problem :P
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Elliot from Earth continues to be good. Up to episode 9 now and it’s fallen into a very Hitchhiker’s Guide sort of feel, which I don’t hate.
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The_Doctor posted:Elliot from Earth continues to be good. Up to episode 9 now and it’s fallen into a very Hitchhiker’s Guide sort of feel, which I don’t hate. Yeah, as a choice of atmosphere, it's mostly harmless.
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I’m two episodes into the new Infinity Train, and I’m impressed with it so far. They put dust pops on it like it’s period cell animation, which I don’t think they did for the other seasons. Niki Yang also does some incidental voices that all sound like BMO.
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ConanThe3rd posted:Yeah, as a choice of atmosphere, it's mostly harmless. Boooooo
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Owen Dennis, creator of Infinity Train, is holding an AMA right now https://old.reddit.com/r/InfinityTrain/comments/mrrwrm/i_am_owen_dennis_creator_of_infinity_train_on/
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I’m two episodes into the new Infinity Train, and I’m impressed with it so far. They put dust pops on it like it’s period cell animation, which I don’t think they did for the other seasons. Niki Yang also does some incidental voices that all sound like BMO. i watched season 3 yesterday there's film grain on there too
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My favorite part of Infinity Train Book 4 is in episode 1 when the main characters circle Buffalo, NY on a map and shout "New York City!!!" because let me tell you, I've lived in both and even NYC folk have no idea where Buffalo is in relation to their own city
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KingKalamari posted:I mean, I thought Sonic Boom had some pretty good moments, though I think the quality of this new Sonic series is going to depend heavily on which of the various tones the series has taken over the years they're going to adhere to. Any time they try to do SERIOUS PLOT STUFF FOR SERIOUS HEDGEHOGS with Sonic it just doesn't end up working (yes that includes Sonic SATAM, that show sucked fight me irl!) Someone asked one of the man of action guys on twitter where the tone of the new show would be compared to the other cartoons they've made and the response was it's more in the range of Generator Rex So probably serious-ish, with a mix of lighter episodic stuff and maybe an overarching plot?
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The 7th Guest posted:aaron ehasz is literally the creator and head writer of the show lol what happened? they made a big stink over him and then just quietly swept everything under the rug and pretended nothing happened? Geo Fixer posted:One theory I have about why the Snyderverse dc movies have been not the most successful is that we already have the best possible adaptation of these characters on screen already. JL/JLU is an excellent show and the DCAU has still not been matched in sheer quality by any superhero show since. yeah, it's definitely the best incarnation of that particular franchise, by far. on the other hand, something that's not as enjoyable that i decided to watch: x-men evolution since i got disney+ i came across this completely by accident, and decided to give it another shot. and this is a show that imo is pretty difficult to watch. i didn't really like it as a kid, and thought i may appreciate it more after all these years, but nope. which is kind of a shame cause the show has a lot going for it: really good animation, a talented voice cast, decent music (though the theme sucks). but yeah, still not feeling it. and that's mainly due to two reasons: angsty high school drama bullshit, and the dialogue. oh good lord, especially the dialogue in this show is so awful. it makes almost every character so damned insufferable. this is dbz "mondo cool!" level of cringe most of the time. it's 50 year old dudes trying to write how they think teenagers sound. dunno if i should stick with it. i did hear that it gets better once they move away from the high school hijinks, so...we'll see how that plays out, i guess.
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I remember Mystique and her interactions with Rogue and Nightcrawler being the highlights of that show, because she'd try and help them at times, or at least get them to acknowledge her as their mother, and they'd have mixed feelings because while she technically is correct she still leads a group of idiots called the "Brotherhood of Evil Mutants". I liked when Rogue accidentally touched her and ended up becoming a bunch of the main cast as her power-thieving and her mother's shapeshifting interacted with each other in an unstable mess.
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It had some neat bits, but most of the show bounced off of me because it was going heavily in the teen angst direction, and that's never really been my thing.
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The 7th Guest posted:i laugh because it's by the same team that did the CG Megaman cartoon from 2 years ago It's honestly not bad, it improves a lot after some early episodes. Like it improved a lot for me, when I learned that Capcom asked Man of Action to do their own thing and not just copy the games.
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VibrantPareidolia posted:Someone asked one of the man of action guys on twitter where the tone of the new show would be compared to the other cartoons they've made and the response was it's more in the range of Generator Rex I hope it's not like Generator Rex, I'd like to actually remember it 
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Geo Fixer posted:One theory I have about why the Snyderverse dc movies have been not the most successful is that we already have the best possible adaptation of these characters on screen already. JL/JLU is an excellent show and the DCAU has still not been matched in sheer quality by any superhero show since. I've always believed that if you took the first three episodes of Superman TAS and added an extra hour of material and live auctioned it, you'd EASILY clear $700 to $800 million at the box office and set the stage for an awesome EU. Sadly that's not what happened.
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thanks alot assbag posted:My favorite part of Infinity Train Book 4 is in episode 1 when the main characters circle Buffalo, NY on a map and shout "New York City!!!" They do end up where they point to on the map at least. It's no Buffalo but Utica
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I just finished the new season. I really liked it. It seems like some minor elements are setup for the fifth season that’s now cancelled, but every season has something like that. I don’t see how Infinity Train is less kid-friendly than something like Adventure Time, which got real weird and all about people’s issues, to the point where it can’t get two more production seasons, but I guess times change.
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selected quotes from the AMAquote:We wrote an Infinity Train movie. It was season 5. They passed on it though because they thought it didn't have a child entry point. The show is over and no one is working on making anymore of it. I'd love to make more, but it's not what Cartoon Network wants to make right now.
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That's a real shame. It'd be nice if HBO Max reconsidered and picked it up independent of CN
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Yeah, I'm bummed too. This season teased at some really cool Amelia/One-One stuff that I'd love to see more of, and that's just thinking about the show's lore. The show's writing team overall showed that they know how to make engaging character arcs, and letting them play out over the course of 10 episodes before moving on to new characters. I can't think of any other shows where they let a character's story finish completely before moving on to the next character to focus on. It's a cool idea overall, and it sucks that it has to die because it's not kid-friendly enough?
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thanks alot assbag posted:Yeah, I'm bummed too. This season teased at some really cool Amelia/One-One stuff that I'd love to see more of, and that's just thinking about the show's lore. The show's writing team overall showed that they know how to make engaging character arcs, and letting them play out over the course of 10 episodes before moving on to new characters. I can't think of any other shows where they let a character's story finish completely before moving on to the next character to focus on. It's a cool idea overall, and it sucks that it has to die because it's not kid-friendly enough? It's not super professional to get paid to make a kids show and then to deliver an episode where someone's face melts off. I'm all about the art, man, but I can see their point here. HBO Max should definitely pick the show up.
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Apparently the show was being made for HBO Max in the first place, and the only reason why it aired on CN at all was because of HBO Max's launch being delayed
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doomrider7 posted:I've always believed that if you took the first three episodes of Superman TAS and added an extra hour of material and live auctioned it, you'd EASILY clear $700 to $800 million at the box office and set the stage for an awesome EU. Sadly that's not what happened. I would've much preferred a live action adaptation of World's Finest over Batman v Superman.
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