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Vampire Panties posted:
Oh yeah I know, that’s a great page and they do a good sendup of it.
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roomtone posted:i dunno, sorry, i'm drunk. i'll come back in the morning and either explain or take my comments back. Hell yeah 
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The season doesn't really have a strong plot throughline, imo. However, it's thematic throughline is pretty strong and clear. Everyone, from physical gods to alien experiments to wayward strangers to the simplest, lowliest humans, is looking deep inside themselves after their life was turned on its head and going "so who am I, really?"
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The Bee posted:The season doesn't really have a strong plot throughline, imo. However, it's thematic throughline is pretty strong and clear. Everyone, from physical gods to alien experiments to wayward strangers to the simplest, lowliest humans, is looking deep inside themselves after their life was turned on its head and going "so who am I, really?" I just feel like that's most shows, in the same way most shows are about (either literal or found) family. And, as you say, it doesn't actually absolve the show of having a weak narrative structure -- as opposed to the previous season, which also trucked in themes of identity.
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Tonight is Adult Swim's annual April Fools event. Last year previewed upcoming stuff and did AI gags. I hope it's good.
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gently caress, I missed the start of it. Have they been doing Smiling Friends?
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MJeff posted:gently caress, I missed the start of it. Have they been doing Smiling Friends? Yeah, a few season 1 eps redone with various types of puppets, plus a new episode from season 2 about an old video game character from some long-forgotten PS1 franchise falling on hard times in 2024. Guy is nothing but pixilated polygons with "clothes" textured onto his body. It rules.
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I. M. Gei posted:Yeah, a few season 1 eps redone with various types of puppets, plus a new episode from season 2 about an old video game character from some long-forgotten PS1 franchise falling on hard times in 2024. Guy is nothing but pixilated polygons with "clothes" textured onto his body. It rules. gaaaaaaah I'm so pissed I missed that, it looks like the season won't start for real until next month. I hope they put the season 2 episode on Max at least.
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MJeff posted:gaaaaaaah I'm so pissed I missed that, it looks like the season won't start for real until next month. I hope they put the season 2 episode on Max at least. they put them up on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFtKlgFpfd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGoLnyMHnD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNs83FK0zB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIb0SL4Dih4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sOcyFXXLHg
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repiv posted:they put them up on youtube lol they got erica lindbeck to play herself.
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dirTy brown waTer
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today's intro to Delicious in Dungeon kicks rear end
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Spiteski posted:So I'm watching scavengers reign and the art style is really evocative of a concept artist I stumbled across a few years back that I can't find again. Hoping someone might have seen it and know who I'm talking about. Goddamn I found it! It was less monstrous then I was remembering, but it was TRIBAL from Darren Bartley
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Spiteski posted:Goddamn I found it! I just started reading this thread since I finished watching scavengers reign. That guy's art is so very cool. Love it.
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lmfao this Gilbert Gottfried episode of Royal Crackers.
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Turpitude posted:today's intro to Delicious in Dungeon kicks rear end  I dont even know why I'm hooked on this show I dont usually like anime and the premise is weird as gently caress
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Vampire Panties posted:
It's because, anime or not, delicious in dungeon whips rear end
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Turpitude posted:today's intro to Delicious in Dungeon kicks rear end I preferred the original one.
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Vandar posted:This looks neat, so I'll bite. Why did they do Primal parodies? My dream for the Simpsons is for them to go all in on these kinds of alternate interpretations. Like when they let couch gags get wild but whole episodes.
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Royal Crackers owns. Binged the first season and laughed a lot. It's one of those shows with very specific references and observations outside the typical wheelhouse for even this kind of thing, like the Ram Dass joke, or the terrorist Mormors Knafeh. Love that poo poo.
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Vandar posted:This looks neat, so I'll bite. Why did they do Primal parodies? I read somewhere that they changed how Simpsons episodes are written, it used to be the whole writers room and now its one or two writers who shepherd an episode, which is more how cartoons like Adventure Time operated. The benefit of that is you get more out there episodes that are the product of a couple of writers interests, instead of a homogenized but consistent product. I'll take the individual approach after so many season of a consistently mediocre product.
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Ccs posted:I read somewhere that they changed how Simpsons episodes are written, it used to be the whole writers room and now its one or two writers who shepherd an episode, which is more how cartoons like Adventure Time operated. The benefit of that is you get more out there episodes that are the product of a couple of writers interests, instead of a homogenized but consistent product. It changes nothing. If I want to watch Primal, I'll just watch primal, not some lovely Simpson themed version of Primal. Its also not something new. They did the same poo poo with Game of Thrones and Death Note, and I'm sure a bunch of other media. There is no redemption for Simpsons. Even if somebody did something cool, it'd probably be way better without using the corpse of The Simpsons. Its just a waste of effort to do it via The Simpsons.
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Ccs posted:I read somewhere that they changed how Simpsons episodes are written, it used to be the whole writers room and now its one or two writers who shepherd an episode, which is more how cartoons like Adventure Time operated. The benefit of that is you get more out there episodes that are the product of a couple of writers interests, instead of a homogenized but consistent product. It also helps that Al Jean is no longer the sole showrunner which he was from season 13 to 31 (so basically all of the bad years.)
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Khanstant posted:My dream for the Simpsons is for them to go all in on these kinds of alternate interpretations. Like when they let couch gags get wild but whole episodes. My dream for the Simpsons is for it to end.
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No way, at the very least it deserves to outlive all of Seth McFarlanes cartoons.
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Family Guy is basically pre-made for TikTok and Twitter, I don't think it'll die until microblogging itself ends.
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Well, the story I read was that the switch in how they handle their writers room means there's a bigger difference than ever between good and bad episodes. For a few seasons it was rare to see anything above a 7/10 on imdb. Then Season 33 and 34 had a few episodes above an 8, but along with that season 34 also had the most episode below a 6/10 in the series history. But season 35 is back to mostly 6/10s, with the occasional 7/10. So i suppose its still squarely in the "eh, I guess" territory.
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Khanstant posted:No way, at the very least it deserves to outlive all of Seth McFarlanes cartoons. American Dad's been solid for at least as long as the Simpsons' good seasons and hasn't really showed any signs of declining in the last couple years. Family Guy had a good run before it was uncancelled but any time I've tried to watch a more recent episode of that it's just too mean spirited and not particularly funny to me, though.
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Khanstant posted:No way, at the very least it deserves to outlive all of Seth McFarlanes cartoons. There are more good seasons of American Dad than there were good seasons of The Simpsons.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:It changes nothing. If I want to watch Primal, I'll just watch primal, not some lovely Simpson themed version of Primal. Its also not something new. They did the same poo poo with Game of Thrones and Death Note, and I'm sure a bunch of other media. There is no redemption for Simpsons. Even if somebody did something cool, it'd probably be way better without using the corpse of The Simpsons. Its just a waste of effort to do it via The Simpsons. It's not as if they're straight 1:1 versions. They parodies same as what The Simpsons has always done. It's not supposed to be a replacement any more than Robot Chicken or Phineas and Ferb or Family Guy replaces Star Wars because each of them did parodies on that. If you don't like parodies, just say so.
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The Simpsons parodies aren't usually very interesting for the most part so maybe the problem is not the idea of parody and more that they lost their touch and the superficiality of it is too much to be funny.
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There's parody and then there's the point where it's just a cartoon short with Simpsons theming that doesn't add anything.
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IT would be fun to see Primal with a woman cast as Spear.
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I don't think the Simpsons can or really should recover from their Elon Musk episode since that demonstrated that the show's bullshit detector was gone and thus their ability to satirize or speak truth was compromised.
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Neeksy posted:I don't think the Simpsons can or really should recover from their Elon Musk episode since that demonstrated that the show's bullshit detector was gone and thus their ability to satirize or speak truth was compromised. Yeah, a lot of people fail to realize that early Simpsons was good because Matt Groening was a bitter socialist who had sincere contempt for both America and it's institutions (especially the nuclear family, which sitcoms normally treated as sacrosanct). All of that perspective is long since gone now though, so what we're left with is some very mild surface-level critiques of obvious targets with an underlying worldview that ultimately supports and reinforces the systems of power the show was originally created to undermine. It's really sad to see.
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The characters just don't work in the modern world anymore. They're all archetypes of the 50s - 80s that were pretty anachronistic by the time the early 2000s rolled around, and now it's like watching someone try to make the Flintstones culturally relevant again. Just let it die.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:The characters just don't work in the modern world anymore. They're all archetypes of the 50s - 80s that were pretty anachronistic by the time the early 2000s rolled around, and now it's like watching someone try to make the Flintstones culturally relevant again. Just let it die. This is how I feel about a lot of legacy characters / stories. Superman runs into this a lot, or at least the Daily Planet supporting cast do.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:it's like watching someone try to make the Flintstones culturally relevant again. the 2016 flintstones comic is actually shockingly good at this.
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That is true, but it's also a far cry from the original cartoons. That's really the only way The Simpsons could be relevant again, to wait 50 years then do a full reboot (also like Jellystone did).
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I watched "A Serious Flanders" last night and had a really good time with it. The biggest advantage the Simpsons has right now is that their characters are so well-established that you can tell really efficient genre stories with them in limited runtimes. This is how things like The Shinning worked so well. I think "shallow 7 minute parody of a specific pop cultural artifact" is a dead end, but middle-form genre pastiche could be a really healthy venue, especially as an incubator for animators and writers. It's also important to remember that The Simpsons is one of the only animated programs to be produced under WGA Guild conditions. If it went away, it'd be a huge setback for labor in the industry.
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