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Wouldn’t bother with From unless you’re too into Lost-types. Everything takes forever to happen and every character is lame except the sheriff and colony house matron.
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Jul 26, 2023 13:38
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Jul 26, 2023 16:20
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Jul 26, 2023 16:43
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Internet Old One posted:Disenchanted looks like it should be awesome. Everything is there except humor yeah that was basically my take. about halfway through the first season i was already feeling like it was dragging because there were entire episodes devoted to the theme of "no really, Bean is an incredibly bad human being despite the fact that she's having a struggle that you, the viewer, can probably identify with" and i'm practically shouting at the screen to throw a loving pie already if you want to be a drama then be a drama, i could get down with an animated drama. but if you're gonna call yourself a comedy tell a loving joke
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Jul 26, 2023 18:56
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Disenchantment spent multiple seasons worldbuilding at a frenetic pace while running multiple concurrent plot threads - with the occasional joke - and none of it ever really paid off. Futurama built half its world in its intro tbh. It’s simple and has no words but it’s probably one of the best “this is the shows setting and tone” intros for a show that doesn’t involve just explaining the shows premise through song/rap
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Jul 26, 2023 19:40
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"Back in the day" I hoped that they'd (Hollywood) make a Futurama video game in the same style as that one good Simpsons 3D game (PS2 & OG Xbox -- it was sorta like a more linear GTA) Like you would do deliveries in the Planet Express ship and they'd just lampshade that "Good news everyone, we've lost our Free Flying License and must now restrict ourselves to space lanes and sky highways" so all the cars would be spacecraft instead, and the locations you get out would be the different alien systems. You could add vehicle combat, rival "Mom" delivery vehicles, shooter sequences on foot, etc. Never happened though. Thanks Obama!
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Jul 27, 2023 06:17
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Too many "lol canceled show returning?" jokes in the first ep otherwise yep, it was Futurama
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Jul 27, 2023 06:26
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mmmm posted:"Back in the day" I hoped that they'd (Hollywood) make a Futurama video game in the same style as that one good Simpsons 3D game (PS2 & OG Xbox -- it was sorta like a more linear GTA) you mean something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5MliascY_Q
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Jul 27, 2023 09:37
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Billy West is 71 years old
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Jul 27, 2023 09:45
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Has anyone said "Newturama" yet?
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Jul 27, 2023 11:40
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"Futurepeat."
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Jul 27, 2023 11:56
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TK8325 posted:you mean something like this? ok I just found out that the internet is granting me wishes. another thread was giving me Bill Paxton portraits, but this is just ridiculous I'm going to go to the Caves of Qud thread and ask them to make me a Battletech game. You guys are the best.
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Jul 28, 2023 05:02
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the new episode was surprisingly good
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Aug 5, 2023 22:07
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We finished From. It was ok I guess. Don't let me forget to cancel MGM+ please
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Aug 5, 2023 22:09
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Smugworth posted:We finished From. It was ok I guess. Don't let me forget to cancel MGM+ please just pirate everything
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Aug 5, 2023 22:12
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So far the tone of the new Futurama has been a lot closer to original run Futurama than the Comedy Central era. This is a good thing. The jokes aren't great yet, but there is at least an attempt to make it work. I'll keep watching for now, we'll see if the quality stays in the watchable range.
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Aug 5, 2023 23:04
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Aug 6, 2023 01:41
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So far it's been alright. The first episode was pretty well done, the second seemed to have a lot of revisits and explanations of things that happened previously, which was never a thing that they really did, so I'm guessing they got told to "make it really clear if you're a new viewer". I'm optimistic tho. Also I really like Disenchantment. Different vibe for sure, but nice to see the crew do different things. Last part is out September 1st, and that's it. They've said it was a story they wanted to do, wrap it up, and then do another project and honestly I'm for that. Regardless of how you might feel about Disenchantment itself I think it's hard to argue against new ideas and shows that tell a story and are done, rather than running forever, usually into the ground, or being constant revivals and reboots of old shows.
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Aug 6, 2023 01:50
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I'm rewatching the original run and man a lot of the humor is very outdated. Olestra jokes. Jokes about the 1970s (bc at that point it was only ~20 years ago and we were mid-70s fever). Everyone watches cable TV! It feels so quaint and old-fashioned. Absolutely retro future. Fry and Leela's romance doesn't really hold up, even with all the 'sweet' heartachey episodes about it - over the arc of the series, Futurama is somewhat of a romcom and it's got all the same problems as that genre. (All of Amy Wongs parents, with Billy West doing a really bad Chinese accent, does NOT hold up) StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Aug 6, 2023 |
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Aug 6, 2023 02:04
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Disenchantment seems to get a lot of hate but I really enjoy it. A lot of people wanted a new Futurama from it but that's never what it was. The marketing was not very good at setting the correct expectations, I don't think anyone expected a half-serious half-joke fantasy worldbuilding show from Groening in general, and it doesn't help that the people promoting it also panicked and only sold the part they thought would sell (the jokes). So viewers came in expecting jokes and left angry that wasn't what it was about. It's got a lot of little pieces that only fit together over time and there's still quite a few unresolved mysteries about the world itself. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Aug 6, 2023 |
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Aug 6, 2023 02:08
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StrangersInTheNight posted:(All of Amy Wongs parents, with Billy West doing a really bad Chinese accent, does NOT hold up) They have an actual Asian person doing her father's voice now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodor_Chin
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Aug 6, 2023 02:26
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i didnt mind disenchantment and found it kind of refreshing to watch a show like this that was more than just rapid fire jokes hell its been long enough, i'm gonna give it a rewatch
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Aug 6, 2023 02:38
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Bean is an unmarried queer princess who is permitted to remain single rather than marry and produce an heir for the kingdom. That's been enough to keep me around but I get it might not be everyone's cup of tea. Spoilers for 3rd season but this scene is cute and romantic IMO https://youtu.be/fqcG28tOaTk I personally think her time with Moira was real, not a dream as Bean keeps wondering, and that the Mermaid Kingdom is going to have a major part in helping save Dreamland. The love song Moira sings is also a song of allegiance in war. Dreamland and the mermaids will have an alliance which will come into play, and it will be an alliance she only would've been able to make through love, which justifies her refusing to marry for political reasons while bringing her role as royalty full circle. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Aug 6, 2023 |
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Aug 6, 2023 02:49
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Bean is an unmarried queer princess who is permitted to remain single rather than marry and produce an heir for the kingdom. I am excited for the ending this fall
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Aug 6, 2023 02:55
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Billy West is 71 years old It's weird to watch Futurama and realize that all the voices he does on the show are just the old ones he would do for different characters on the Howard Stern Show.
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Aug 6, 2023 03:06
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Junk posted:i didnt mind disenchantment and found it kind of refreshing to watch a show like this that was more than just rapid fire jokes so im supposed to watch this and not expect it to be very funny? like this is fantasy anime done in simpsons style? I’m kidding but I’ll rewatch some of it like this and see.
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Aug 6, 2023 03:34
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Jose Oquendo posted:It's weird to watch Futurama and realize that all the voices he does on the show are just the old ones he would do for different characters on the Howard Stern Show. Stimpy sobbing was the Jackie laugh
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Aug 6, 2023 03:39
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Ralph Hurley posted:Stimpy sobbing was the Jackie laugh Yup and his Stimpy voice is just Larry Fine. There's a new documentary about Jackie that just dropped. Billy West is one of the people interviewed for it. Good poo poo. Also, they do talk about the Jackie Puppet and holy hell when Billy starts doing the puppet voice, I laughed just as hard as the first time I heard that stuff.
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Aug 6, 2023 03:41
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Saalkin posted:It got a little hmm sound when something is funny but not that funny whatever that's called. we call that SALTS : "Smiled a little, then stopped"
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Internet Old One posted:like this is fantasy anime done in simpsons style? This is actually probably the closest description to what it is I've heard so far, yeah.
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Aug 6, 2023 03:49
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i haven't watch the Beavis and Butthead reboot yet. Heard good things, tho. Anyone?
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Aug 6, 2023 03:57
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blight rhino posted:i haven't watch the Beavis and Butthead reboot yet. Heard good things, tho. Anyone? It's so loving good.
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Aug 6, 2023 04:02
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Jose Oquendo posted:It's so loving good. i like and subscribe to this comment
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Aug 6, 2023 04:35
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blight rhino posted:i haven't watch the Beavis and Butthead reboot yet. Heard good things, tho. Anyone? it's excellent there's an episode where Beavis gets to hang out with FIRE! and it's extremely funny
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Aug 6, 2023 04:42
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I'm rewatching the original run and man a lot of the humor is very outdated. Olestra jokes. Jokes about the 1970s (bc at that point it was only ~20 years ago and we were mid-70s fever). disenchantment is not a good show though, will die on that hill. even if you want to relieve it from the comedy joke expectations the storytelling is immensely slow and ploddingly ineffective for the vast majority of the episodes. the occasional good one is more like a decent episode rather than one that will knock you out so it's a big yawner imho. on a side note, i do not think relieving it from comedy joke expectations is reasonable when one of the first people we see in the first episode is setting in a barrel selling "me flavored water". the show is a comedy that doesn't tell jokes.
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Aug 6, 2023 04:59
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MrQwerty posted:it's excellent that episode sucked imo. every other episode is great though, especially aged-up beavis & butthead
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Aug 6, 2023 05:01
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Disenchantment is far less than the sum of its parts. Wasted great vocal performances, a good setting, good animation, forgot to write jokes.
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Aug 6, 2023 05:13
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Horace Kinch posted:aged-up beavis & butthead them waving at the girls from their car after they got it out of impound was also very funny
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blight rhino posted:i haven't watch the Beavis and Butthead reboot yet. Heard good things, tho. Anyone? It’s the best animated show of the last decade and it’s not close.
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