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Whipcracks are the most inoffensive of the show's notable ticks, but that doesn't mean they aren't annoying once you notice that it won't stop using that sound effect throughout any episode.
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:It's either that, or they bring back 5 hours of Johnny Test. This is some serious Sophie's Choice poo poo right here. I mean, I guess if those are your only two choices, you pick the cartoons that are actually good... but can't they mix it up a little? It's seems like only in like the last decade or so that TV stations have been shy about airing anything that's older than a couple of years. Even TV Land, the channel that was supposed to be dedicated to all the tinseltown poo poo that was too outdated for Nick At Nite, barely shows any actual old stuff anymore, and Boomerang has pretty much disowned anything not made in the last decade since their rebranding. raditts fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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Sep 19, 2015 00:08
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I thought the whip sound effects were (part of) a cost-saving measure. "We're not actually going to animate things moving, so we'll just pretend everything is moving really quickly."
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Sep 19, 2015 00:53
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raditts posted:This is some serious Sophie's Choice poo poo right here. Yeah, it's weird that they're not airing any adventure time or regular show at the moment and they're running we bare bears into the ground. I like the show but there's only like 11 episodes of it.
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Sep 19, 2015 01:02
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Y-Hat posted:Throughout the show's run, Rocko's Modern Life used that weird sound effect whenever Rocko walked. The difference is that it was actually, ya know, good. Also Dee Dee from Dexter's Lab inexplicably making squishy wet sounds with every footstep.
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Sep 19, 2015 01:06
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Was talking to a friend and somehow the subject of Generator Rex came up. I saw 2 or 3 random out of order episodes a while back and it seemed...decent. Been wanting to check it out proper. Worth a watch?
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Sep 21, 2015 07:57
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Mr Interweb posted:Been wanting to check it out proper. Worth a watch?
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Sep 21, 2015 10:42
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Wabbit is gonna be airing all week at five.
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Sep 21, 2015 11:02
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Mr Interweb posted:Was talking to a friend and somehow the subject of Generator Rex came up. I saw 2 or 3 random out of order episodes a while back and it seemed...decent. It was a lot like the original Ben 10 in tone, so if you liked that you'll probably enjoy Generator Rex. I remember that they didn't air the last episode during the show's run; I don't know if it was ever released. I do remember being really pissed about that, but that's more of a Cartoon Network issue than anything to do with the series.
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Sep 21, 2015 11:10
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Glaucus atlanticus posted:It was a lot like the original Ben 10 in tone, so if you liked that you'll probably enjoy Generator Rex. I remember that they didn't air the last episode during the show's run; I don't know if it was ever released. I do remember being really pissed about that, but that's more of a Cartoon Network issue than anything to do with the series.
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Sep 21, 2015 12:34
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Gaunab posted:Wabbit is gonna be airing all week at five. I saw a new commercial for it that said every week day at 5 so I guess they're airing it both here and boomerang but the main channel gets it first?
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Sep 21, 2015 18:15
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Generator Rex is really bad. It takes a bunch of really cool ideas and character designs and does gently caress all with them for three seasons.
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Sep 21, 2015 18:26
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Basically Ben10 without the excuse of being a goofy show for kids.
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Sep 21, 2015 19:49
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Wow, 4 shorts for one episode? How many did they make for one season of Wabbit?
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Sep 21, 2015 22:20
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Wabbit seems kind of...not good.
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Sep 21, 2015 22:22
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I liked it. I don't like the trend of uglifying cartoons while making them artistically simpler, but it wasn't too bad in this case. I saw some commercials for that upcoming new Scooby Doo show though, and god drat is that show loving ugly. Crabtree posted:Wow, 4 shorts for one episode? How many did they make for one season of Wabbit? They'll probably start airing it in different configurations of 15 minute blocks, like they do with pretty much every CN show these days.
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Sep 21, 2015 23:33
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I at least liked the bank heist one, but it looks like Wabbit and Be Cool Scooby Doo are following a new animation tone that I hope stays with them. I'm probably going to give less slack to Scooby Doo because it ain't loving Mystery Inc.
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Sep 21, 2015 23:55
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I dunno, the whole thing had it's heart in the right place but it just felt like a sort of limp imitation of the classic cartoons with some modern flair just sort of thrown in wherever. It reminded me a lot of the last Tom and Jerry reboot (except it was better than that because I can't stand Tom and Jerry in general).
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Sep 22, 2015 00:40
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I liked it. I like the two shorts per 15 minutes; they lasted just long enough. The only thing I'm worried about is the focus of Bugs. I'd like to see more of the other classic Looney Tunes characters.
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Sep 22, 2015 00:52
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gently caress Scooby Doo.
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axleblaze posted:I dunno, the whole thing had it's heart in the right place but it just felt like a sort of limp imitation of the classic cartoons with some modern flair just sort of thrown in wherever. It reminded me a lot of the last Tom and Jerry reboot (except it was better than that because I can't stand Tom and Jerry in general). I never really liked Tom and Jerry that much either, but I feel like it's one of those properties that's pretty much done. I mean, the entire premise hinges on gratuitous violence, and a lot of cartoons have cut down on violence in general. You can't get a lot of mileage out of that, especially with silent protagonists. And after you start making them talk, well then they're just Sylvester and Tweety but a mouse. A shame to hear that Wabbit was mediocre though. Maybe Looney Tunes was just lightning in a bottle, a product of its time destined to never be revived.
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I think the weirdest part of the new Tom and Jerry is that I think I saw like 3 or 4 seperate episodes where it Tom and Jerry in a wierdo noir plot.
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raditts posted:It's seems like only in like the last decade or so that TV stations have been shy about airing anything that's older than a couple of years. Even TV Land, the channel that was supposed to be dedicated to all the tinseltown poo poo that was too outdated for Nick At Nite, barely shows any actual old stuff anymore, and Boomerang has pretty much disowned anything not made in the last decade since their rebranding. I'd say this is a bad thing, but with streaming TV services, there's really no reason to get too worked up over it.
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Sep 22, 2015 09:15
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Y-Hat posted:It used to be that cable networks appealed to niche audiences and did it well. Nah, they never did. Very few cable channels made a profit, that's why bundling was and is so rampant. What you're seeing right now is a collapse of the traditional cable market (where channels = $$$) and reorganizing so that content is what gets revenue. The ability (and expectation ) to play things on demand is also a major game changer
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Y-Hat posted:It used to be that cable networks appealed to niche audiences and did it well. Nowadays, thanks to the power of rebranding and the compulsive need to appeal to as wide of a swath of an audience as possible, the programming on History Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, MTV, VH1, Syfy, Spike, TV Land etc. wouldn't feel out of place if you put them on channels other than the one that they currently air on. I'm not talking about the channels breaking theme to be as generically appealing as possible because that's been going on since the early 2000s if not before, I'm taking about how you can't even see reruns of older stuff that used to air on a given channel anymore, which seems like a more recent thing.
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I am amazed that CN plays TTG and WBB on repeat so much. I haven't seen them air an episode of Adventure Time in months. Do they even make episodes for AT anymore? I could've sworn it was their most recognized show. Does this have something to do with ratings? Like how adult swim airs those abominable McFarlane shows 90% of the time instead of good stuff like Metalocalypse? I remember TTG somehow having super high ratings despite being average as hell most of the time.
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The Skeleton King posted:I am amazed that CN plays TTG and WBB on repeat so much. I haven't seen them air an episode of Adventure Time in months. Do they even make episodes for AT anymore? I could've sworn it was their most recognized show. Adventure Time is a senior citizen now by Cartoon Network standards, if that dipshit who introduced the live action block a few years ago and imposed the 52-episode limit was still in charge they probably would have killed it off by now. They're probably pushing it aside in favor of younger, more attractive shows.
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Klaus88 posted:gently caress Scooby Doo. There's something grotesque about the animation. It looks kind of like Alex Hirsch, but wrong and terrible also.
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The Skeleton King posted:I am amazed that CN plays TTG and WBB on repeat so much. I haven't seen them air an episode of Adventure Time in months. Do they even make episodes for AT anymore? I could've sworn it was their most recognized show. TTG is by far their bast-rated show, yeah. WBB gets decent ratings, though the decision to air it so much seems odd to me since there are only thirteen 11-minute episodes out so far. At least with TTG there are over 100 episodes, but with how often WBB airs on some days, they're playing nearly a third of the series in one day.
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Jack Gladney posted:There's something grotesque about the animation. It looks kind of like Alex Hirsch, but wrong and terrible also. Yeah, it looks like what a parody of Scooby Doo would look like on some other, better cartoon.
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In terms of Star vs The Forces of Evil Toffee seems like a weird character, especially in the season finale. I dislike using fanfic terms but he seemed like an evil version of a "Marty Sue" or some other kind of author insert character who comes into a story, does everything right (because he has all available knowledge about the story and setting) and makes the normal protagonists irrelevant. In the end it seems like Toffee has achieved exactly what he set out to achieve despite the spanish unicorn ex machina. It just seemed like a weird note on which to end a season.
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johntfs posted:In terms of Star vs The Forces of Evil Toffee seems like a weird character, especially in the season finale. I dislike using fanfic terms but he seemed like an evil version of a "Marty Sue" or some other kind of author insert character who comes into a story, does everything right (because he has all available knowledge about the story and setting) and makes the normal protagonists irrelevant. In the end it seems like Toffee has achieved exactly what he set out to achieve despite the spanish unicorn ex machina. It just seemed like a weird note on which to end a season. Italian unicorn. And I don't think it was so weird a note to end the season on. From the beginning, Toffee was hinted at being a lot more dangerous than Ludo. The reveal that he had goals opposed to those of Ludo and the hints that he's not finished yet confirms him as a bad guy to be scared of. To have Toffee beaten just he's come into power would have felt weirder, I think.
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That Scooby doo cartoon looks like CAD. Didn't know Buckley was in the cartoon business now. >B^U
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Velma looks almost exactly like Meg Griffon.
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raditts posted:I'm not talking about the channels breaking theme to be as generically appealing as possible because that's been going on since the early 2000s if not before, I'm taking about how you can't even see reruns of older stuff that used to air on a given channel anymore, which seems like a more recent thing.
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The Skeleton King posted:That Scooby doo cartoon looks like CAD. Didn't know Buckley was in the cartoon business now. I thought it was the bastard off spring of Family Guy and Go Animate.
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johntfs posted:In terms of Star vs The Forces of Evil Toffee seems like a weird character, especially in the season finale. I dislike using fanfic terms but he seemed like an evil version of a "Marty Sue" or some other kind of author insert character who comes into a story, does everything right (because he has all available knowledge about the story and setting) and makes the normal protagonists irrelevant. In the end it seems like Toffee has achieved exactly what he set out to achieve despite the spanish unicorn ex machina. It just seemed like a weird note on which to end a season. The season finale of Star Vs. The Force of Evil would have been a lot better had it been animated by Mercury Filmworks, rather than Toon City. I could tell there was something epic trying to break out, but it was held back by the low framerate, lackluster effects and poor "acting" (for lack of a better word) from the characters. The drop in quality between Party Bus and Mewberty was really jarring and something I picked up on right away. I've been consistently disappointed with the second half of the season. If they don't change studios for season 2 (will there even be a season 2?) I don't think I'll be back. I had such high hopes for this show 
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johntfs posted:In the end it seems like Toffee has achieved exactly what he set out to achieve despite the spanish unicorn ex machina.  Italian.
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I don't know what it is about We Bare Bears that feels so artificial, but it comes off as someone attempting to create a safe mixture of Steven Universe and Gumball without going too far into either grand narrative or wacky every day world. Maybe it'd feel less forced when they actually push out a season or two to show every day.
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How does not copying what's popular make it more forced?
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