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May 20, 2021 06:27
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SlothfulCobra posted:I guess maybe it could just be because if you're swapping the race of a character for a new series, odds are you don't wanna make a big thing about it or imagine much about how the character's new race would impact their life, so you'd do it for some side character or background character. Possibly one that was already distinct from the rest of the cast by having a different color hair. Almost assuredly this is it.
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May 20, 2021 08:20
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Holy poo poo the new adventure time special
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May 20, 2021 09:25
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drrockso20 posted:If I recall correctly the titular robot is barely even in the show too, like it's brutally obvious that the people making it had just taken their own unrelated sci-fi concept and made just the bare minimum amount of changes and lip service so they could call it a Voltron show S1 is basically a completely different show. It's pretty decent all around, aside from just sort of meandering for the last 2 seasons to wrap everything up.
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May 20, 2021 10:35
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Just started the latest AT special and saw Jmoyns has a story credit and I am already losing it
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May 20, 2021 12:10
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Speaking of, they are trying to diversify their demographics beyond "Teen Titans fans" with a new preschool block, and this whole take two years to make a cartoon can really bite people in the rear end:
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May 20, 2021 12:59
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Escobarbarian posted:Just started the latest AT special and saw Jmoyns has a story credit and I am already losing it Finished. I cried. It’s amazing
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May 20, 2021 13:04
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drrockso20 posted:If I recall correctly the titular robot is barely even in the show too, like it's brutally obvious that the people making it had just taken their own unrelated sci-fi concept and made just the bare minimum amount of changes and lip service so they could call it a Voltron show Just how the fanbase wanted it.
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May 20, 2021 15:13
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new Adventure Time reduced me to a sobbing wreck, 10/10
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May 20, 2021 15:30
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The Nu Voltron shipping wars were unusually intense and it really started to drag on the crew from what I understand.
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May 20, 2021 16:10
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Did the series get a proper ending at least? And assuming it was a reboot, how much of the original Go Lion story wound up being retained?
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May 20, 2021 16:33
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Larryb posted:Did the series get a proper ending at least? And assuming it was a reboot, how much of the original Go Lion story wound up being retained? Yea. It was a reboot, yup. Never seen Go Lion or the original voltron, so idk.
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May 20, 2021 16:58
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MorningMoon posted:Yea. It’s on Crunchyroll if you’re curious. By 80’s anime standards it’s actually pretty decent overall (though I will warn you that the uncut Japanese version can get super dark and violent at times and the ending was kind of a wet fart in my opinion).
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May 20, 2021 17:08
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The OP will also get stuck in your head.
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May 20, 2021 17:35
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:Holy poo poo the new adventure time special It’s incredible. Satisfying in every way. I like how they keep adding tiny touches to leave parts of the world open beyond what we’re able to see, like Simon, Marceline, and Bubblegum not being in the deadworld despite the Bubblegum thing inside the castle, and Jake’s death and Finn’s life being huge open questions despite small hints. Really, this is an excellent complement to the series finale, giving us a sense of closure for Finn and Jake’s relationship while the series finale is more like the last day of school, with a sense that what we experienced is changing into something else, but with a clear future that’s wide-open.
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May 21, 2021 03:47
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:It’s incredible. Satisfying in every way. I like how they keep adding tiny touches to leave parts of the world open beyond what we’re able to see, like Simon, Marceline, and Bubblegum not being in the deadworld despite the Bubblegum thing inside the castle, and Jake’s death and Finn’s life being huge open questions despite small hints. We've seen what ends up happening to a few of those characters, haven't we? In one of the Grayble episodes. That and this episode's vision of the Bubblegum Lich thing.
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May 21, 2021 04:48
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New season of high school musical delivers, although the villain seems a bit underbaked. Which is realistic, it’s very hard to be a fellow student and have any sort of power beyond squealing.
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May 21, 2021 18:05
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Open Source Idiom posted:That and this episode's vision of the Bubblegum Lich thing. That was a flashback all the way to the season 2 finale
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May 21, 2021 18:28
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:That was a flashback all the way to the season 2 finale Huh. I've not seen a lot of the early seasons. Cool.
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May 21, 2021 19:03
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Man that AT special reduced me to tears and I love and miss this show so much. Just the sheer creativity. Wow.
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May 21, 2021 19:10
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Open Source Idiom posted:We've seen what ends up happening to a few of those characters, haven't we? In one of the Grayble episodes. Kinda-sorta. We see the distant future of the Candy Kingdom, but not PB herself. There was a cameo of a savage-looking bearded thing that appeared to be Simon after completely losing himself to the crown, but the series finale revealed that was actually Gunter. And I don't think we got any clue of what became of Marceline in that episode. Also yeah the AT special was great.
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May 21, 2021 19:13
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Pakled posted:Kinda-sorta. We see the distant future of the Candy Kingdom, but not PB herself. There was a cameo of a savage-looking bearded thing that appeared to be Simon after completely losing himself to the crown, but the series finale revealed that was actually Gunter. And I don't think we got any clue of what became of Marceline in that episode. I was assuming the crystallized PB we saw behind PepBut wasn't a statue.
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May 21, 2021 19:57
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The_Doctor posted:The black/ginger thing is a racist talking point that the right wing like to bring up as white erasure. Saying it's white erasure is a racist talking point but saying that it happens weirdly often is just an accurate observation MonsterEnvy posted:Character designs from the new Superman The small girl is April O'Neil from Rise of the TMNT. She later becomes a reporter after hanging out with all these other reporters
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May 21, 2021 20:50
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Also is it me or does that fashion already look dated? The whole ankles and big coats over tight clothing thing was early 2010s. We're past that now
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May 21, 2021 20:57
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They could dress like it was the 80s, shoulder pads and all, and I would be fine with it if they give me a non cynical Superman.
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May 21, 2021 21:17
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Twibbit posted:They could dress like it was the 80s, shoulder pads and all, and I would be fine with it if they give me a non cynical Superman. 
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May 21, 2021 21:21
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Jimmy has bisexual pant cuffs.
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May 21, 2021 22:09
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The_Doctor posted:Jimmy has bisexual pant cuffs. Hmm, seems my farm kid overwrote my Bi in that one. Also this is the first I heard of that one O.o I mean I knew about the not knowing how to use a chair properly but pants cuffs is new to me.
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May 21, 2021 22:34
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MorningMoon posted:Yeah, that's probably the ideal stopping point. My ramble on the show's issues: It also kind of loses focus when they kill off Zarkon at the start of season 5, and the series kind of flounders without a concrete Big Bad to fight against. Speaking of: Has anybody noticed how killing off the main villain midway through a show has kind of been a thing over the past decade or so? Voltron did it, Star Vs. The Forces of Evil did it, BBC's Sherlock did it...It never seems to go well, so I'm kind of baffled why so many shows choose to do it. Is it an outgrowth of the relatively recent popularity of that "The villain gets captured midway through the movie but that was all part of his grand master plan!" schtick that The Dark Knight popularized or is there something else that inspired its rise in popularity? Dog King posted:Also is it me or does that fashion already look dated? The whole ankles and big coats over tight clothing thing was early 2010s. We're past that now I mean, Jimmy's always been kind of a huge dweebus and walking fashion disaster, so this seems entirely in-line with the character. I hope that they also carry over the fact that he's been an inexplicable weirdness magnet even before he met Superman! It's actually weird, because "A lighthearted sitcom that focuses on the staff of the daily planet and Clark's civilian life over his life as Superman" is a show concept I've been half-jokingly talking about on forums for years... KingKalamari fucked around with this message at 02:12 on May 22, 2021 |
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May 22, 2021 02:08
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KingKalamari posted:It's actually weird, because "A lighthearted sitcom that focuses on the staff of the daily planet and Clark's civilian life over his life as Superman" is a show concept I've been half-jokingly talking about on forums for years... Lois and Clark?
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May 22, 2021 03:08
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Has Clark Kent ever been interesting?
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May 22, 2021 03:21
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Alan_Shore posted:Has Clark Kent ever been interesting? Watch Superman and Lois.
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May 22, 2021 03:26
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Giving a character red hair used to be shorthand for presenting them as Irish, which very much used to be a minority group. Nowadays Irish people aren't thought of in the same way, so making a redheaded character black works to achieve a similar effect.
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May 22, 2021 04:56
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Lois and Clark? Yeah, the 90s Lois and Clark was goofy as hell but in a really fun way, even the terrible christmas special with the evil toymaker trying to ruin christmas had some fun moments, and it had some strong moments with the other primary characters, like when Lex Luthor saves Lois from a minor criminal while superman is busy elsewhere and gets to enjoy the look on his face when he arrives and Lois exclaims "Superman! Lex saved me!" The minor characters like the Kents had stuff to do as well, like an episode had a subplot where Pa Kent finds a nude painting of his wife and thinks she's having an affair (and the actual situation, that she's started taking an art class because she's bored of wasting her old age doing nothing on a farm is super cute.). I also loved the episode with the time traveller who claims (it's possible he's deliberately trolling her) that Lois goes down in history, as the stupidest woman who ever lived because she never figured out Clark's secret despite it just being a pair of glasses.
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May 22, 2021 05:52
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Alan_Shore posted:Has Clark Kent ever been interesting? Always has been. And I am tired of pretending he isn't, or however that meme goes.
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May 22, 2021 06:52
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BioEnchanted posted:I also loved the episode with the time traveller who claims (it's possible he's deliberately trolling her) that Lois goes down in history, as the stupidest woman who ever lived because she never figured out Clark's secret despite it just being a pair of glasses. Tempus was such a great character.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Nov7vSkmU
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May 22, 2021 07:48
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I think in general time gimmick characters are always fun. Like Temple Fugate in Batman TAS and (his variation in Arrow), who initially appears as a hyper-punctual timing obsessive and is able to fight Batman to a stand still because he knows exactly how long it takes him to throw a punch and he just need to not be there anymore, and then in his second episode he has a time manipulation device that in the first scene of the episode he's just using to troll the auction secretary before doing the actual crime. Also Dr Kronos from The Mask Cartoon, who always had very elaborate and fun plans, and funny ways of defeating her, like in one episode she traps stanley in a Time loop for 30 minutes, and every time he loops, it results in a new Kronos showing up as she is using a sideeffect to basically clone herself so she can break time and become a goddess, and it ends with the Mask trapping HER in a 10 second time loop where he's eternally pummelling her with a grandfather clock. BioEnchanted fucked around with this message at 08:39 on May 22, 2021 |
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May 22, 2021 08:36
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Similarly Professor Paradox was pretty consistently the best aspect of the Alien Force/Ultimate Alien portions of the original Ben 10 continuity
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May 22, 2021 08:51
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Let's not forget a darker example - the guy from the Teen Titans show that accidentally thrust Starfire into a future where she disappeared because of being thrust into the future suddenly, leaving the team without a very important member and emotionally ruining them for years due to the shock.
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May 22, 2021 08:54
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Anyone else watched Jurassic Park Camp Cretaceous? it was pretty decent! And I’m glad the kids finally got off the island
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May 22, 2021 10:55
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