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honestly it reads as a "if you go on strike, you'll just make things worse" or "strikes are just about making things inconvenient and not about something deeper" than anything, like it's all just a petty nuisance that should have just been solved by going back to the way things are. there could have been a lesson about making each other's jobs easier by changing their daily behaviors, so the trash isn't so gross or that there's just less of it each week, etc. so he can be justified at his disgust and annoyance, but carry that into solving a fundamental problem.
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I've known about the hygiene thing for a while, like that it got so bad the studio had to send him home to clean himself because it was becoming a problem for the people working there. From the accounts of those I know, it was not a pleasant working environment, and if you're a showrunner that's a really fukken bad example to set. And this isn't something I learned recently, it was poo poo I learned around the release of that final season. Neeksy fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jun 18, 2022 |
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The 7th Guest posted:danny phantom's biggest problem is it uses the same animation timing and mickey-moused music as fairly oddparents, so nothing has any weight. if danny is hit by a monster, he comedically slams into a wall, sits still for a second, then slides down with a descending musical riff. which conveys you're not supposed to take any of it seriously, so the action has no stakes to it. it's like the futurama episode where zoidberg's uncle is shouting "why isn't anyone throwing any pies??" granted i only watched the first season, but that was enough to turn me off from it, when there were existing action shows with way better action choreography, cinematography, scoring and, well even comedy (the JLU episode with Flash/Lex swapping bodies was very good). like avatar and danny phantom were airing on the network at the same time, and ATLA of course trumps it on all fronts. oh man this is almost exactly the same critique I made when the show aired, and I'm so glad to not be alone another funny thing about phantom is that they hired on stephen silver to do the character designs and then just instead forced him to draw in hartman's flat loving style.
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Jun 28, 2022 05:12
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I think it's Shinsha, but yeah, they animated a lot of the stuff that people ended up remembering fondly, like the good episodes of Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, DuckTales, etc. and random stuff like Heathcliff and Inspector Gadget were also TMS. If you remember the lovely animated Tiny Toons, those were done by the Pup Named Scooby Doo studio, Kennedy I think?
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Jul 1, 2022 08:42
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Mister Beeg posted:Yeah, the director in question had a "animation has to be wacky at all times" attitude, which might be why he was drawn to Kennedy's output when he was working on the show. Ah the same thinking that made Princess and the Frog so difficult to watch.
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Jul 1, 2022 20:58
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To be fair they wrote that the rest of the audience "takes off" instead of "leaves" or "exits". So if you directly translate "take off" one of the definitions that would likely show up is for airplanes.
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Jul 3, 2022 00:50
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yeah compressing all the other jobs like layout and key animator into the storyboard position has had no terrible consequences whatsoever!
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Dawgstar posted:I put that down to his co-showrunner whose name escapes me but had a lot of sitcom experience. I think even with Seinfeld. That's Steven Silver, I believe. He was also the designer for Danny Phantom but they went "nah just draw in Butch's Style instead" so they completely wasted the opportunity.
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Also aren't there, like, older sisters? Why is -he- the one that has to manage them? It's really weirdly paternalistic when you think about it.
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From my readings of these, it feels like the show wants to be both a standard childrens' show but also wants to do some adult animated sitcom stuff which ends up contrasting a lot in terms of tone and general appropriateness. A show that is from a kid's POV and ALSO newspaper-comic blandness as its ultimate aspiration is probably not the place for that kind of thing. It's not Regular Show or Gumball which were far more self-aware metacomedies that bridge the gap between kid and adult sensibilities.
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Jul 7, 2022 07:44
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so bleach probably is gonna start sucking as soon as it abandons its premise entirely for the pseudo-tournament-arc of the soul society everything, creating one of the worst afterlife premises i've seen.
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Bloo was one of the most unlikeable characters I have encountered in a show that somehow didn't seem to understand that he was unlikeable.
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Xelkelvos posted:You could probably extend that to all sitcom families really. The best ones are those that, even if they'll dump or mock on each other throughout a given episode, if someone else comes in to do the same thing, they're prepared to go scorched earth to defend their family. The family in Malcom in the Middle and the Bundies of Married...with Children come to mind. Bob's Burgers went so far as to spell that out verbally in a fairly early-on episode.
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Jul 16, 2022 22:48
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i honestly barely remember that much romance between buster and babs, they did a pretty good job of letting babs have her own desires and whims outside of being in a relationship
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Yet another show with a problematic creator.
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He was fired pretty quickly, and the kinder sensibilities were done in SPITE of him, who originally described the main character with the r-word.
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Jul 30, 2022 01:28
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It was all those things! It was quite a fukken debacle! He had to be escorted from the studio and everything.
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Jul 30, 2022 01:47
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don't worry she still has that green eggs and ham thing that didn't credit the animators on it
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I AM GRANDO posted:It’s the best streaming service. They’re driving it into the ground for no reason. there's reasons, but they're all terrible and about extracting wealth by amortizing assets.
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Hey Dude showing up was the sign to change the channel for me as a kid.
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The audio does not feel finalized, but the animation looks a lot better now
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IShallRiseAgain posted:The sensible thing to do, is that if you want a property to be a tax write-off, you need to let it enter public domain, but nobody is going to let that happen because they will still want to cling onto IPs they will never use. They can still put the IPs in their asset pile while still doing the amortization scheme on the movies and series within them. So on paper they get to keep the property value even though they bulldozed the home and salted the earth.
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I hate how they animated his butt-wiggle via just a horizontal transformation, you can see how it just stretches the laces on his shoes from the distortion
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I liked Gravity Falls quite a lot, but I can't go back to it since I know too much about its production and I get sad.
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Yvonmukluk posted:I've decided to do one a day so I reach to the end at the end of summer as planned. Let the words fall where they may! He defecated in his office and it got bad enough he had to be sent home for hygiene issues, and from what I had heard from a friend in production it wasn't exactly a fun time for all of them either. I also had a former classmate who worked on it that I had a falling out with over their kinda elitist attitude towards people struggling in the industry at the time, but that's more of a personal spoilage there.
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Aug 22, 2022 21:40
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Venture Bros. is helped that it's a distinct genre parody of a very specific show, there's not a lot for people to question because for a lot of those kinds of shows, there was never actually any origin story or development. The audience can just accept "this is just how things are" for a while before the writers have to start filling in poo poo on their own. Having to establish that kind of thing from scratch without using the framing of an existing structure is a bit more challenging.
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and this is coming after the other layoffs at adult swim and such
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When I was a kid, I didn't really like the kid-oriented sitcoms because they always felt like the kind of show that characters in tv shows and movies would be watching on their tvs, so I wonder just how much of common culture amongst my generation and the next I selected myself out of, and thus these retrospectives kinda fill in some gaps.
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Honestly the romantic relationship writing in Avatar has never really been all that good, and feels like most of it is the audience filling in the blanks themselves.
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KittyEmpress posted:The answer for why/how all air nomads were benders is in the prequel stuff. And yeah, it's that their pure and spiritual society and way of living made it so that they were closer to the spirits, and thus all of their children were born benders. So it's still inborn and someone cannot become a bender if not born one, and the incidence of such is tied to a specific set of cultural practices that are not available to most people?
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mycot posted:Look if you're itching for Problematic power systems then nothing is as bad as The Incredibles There's a reason I hate superheroes as a genre – it's stuffed full of things like The Incredibles.
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mycot posted:The superhero genre would have been greatly improved if this were true I would vastly prefer my stories not written by libertarians.
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Mr Interweb posted:you know what was especially insulting about korra? it would have been one thing if the show stopped at like one or two seasons, because then you could at least justify the show being bad cause it was rushed and had a limited amount of time to tell the story. The kind of rendering environment for a film is different than the kind you'd use for television, and thus you have to adjust your designs and styles accordingly. You're not going to spend all that computer server crunch time for 300 minutes of content vs 120. You also have a different way of rigging things, as a lot of stuff is custom-made for the purposes of a scene or environment. Additionally your TV and film divisions are not the same people who worked on the film, those people are either all on the current feature projects, or have been sloughed off because the production of the film version ended years before the TV versions were planned.
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For the movie, the rest of the southern tribe was non-white actors except for the main characters who were white; it was laughably poor execution.
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I mean, saying they're doing it for ratings doesn't, like, undo that they chose to do that.
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The baby plucky episode was quoted a ton when I was a kid, and adults around me found it charming because, well, small kids do that. They get obsessed with flushing stuff.
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Every single review I've watched all has the phrase "Who is this for?". Every. Single. One. The other thing that shows up is that Mindy Kaling has some really hosed up issues around her own race, with some referring to her as a 'pick me'.
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Captain Oblivious posted:To this day the very mention of Wait Til Your Father Gets Home is enough to make me feel reflexive disappointment and/or dread When Family Guy first came out, I thought it was a remake of that show, and nobody understood what I was even referring to.
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don't forget kid's next door, an extremely paranoid universe where all adults are out to get you along with an existential ticking clock.
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