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It won't be Real Animorphs if it isn't vigorously peppered with Peak 90s isms like calling Rachel "Xena, Warrior Princess" and referring to the Sega Genesis Jake owns while calling bad guys freakazoids. And no, I don't mean make it a Stranger Things-esqe 90s period nostalgia trip, I mean set it in the 2020s and keep all the 90s stuff like some strange alt-reality where we never aged out of this (aka our own reality.)
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I've never read it, but aren't there enough Animorphs books that that, combined with their length, would make them a much better TV series than movie?
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Jun 20, 2020 21:38
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The animorphs TV show was bad though.
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The only good Animorphs content is Little Tunny's Barf drawing https://twitter.com/itslittletunny/status/1154514643030806529?s=20 
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Jamie Faith posted:Speaking of 90s nostalgia, they just announced they're doing a live-action Animorphs movie.
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The Animorphs book covers freaked me out as a kid
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Casey Finnigan posted:The Animorphs book covers freaked me out as a kid Especially the early ones, christ almighty
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Last year LGR tracked down the software the (second) original cover artist used to make them and demonstrated it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRLi0VWdNIg EDIT: Also, live right now, Kyle Kallgren and some of his associates are putting on a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCBdmJv5kag Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jun 20, 2020 |
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Jun 20, 2020 22:28
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Animorphs is super anti-imperialism, pro LGBT rights, pro environmentalism. Animorphs rules.
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Captain Invictus posted:Ah good, I'm sure it will be just as good as the power rangers revival movie that movie ruled, sorry
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DoctorWhat posted:that movie ruled, sorry Loved it
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Also it’s not quite the same because like. Power Rangers still exists. Kids watch the new tv shows. At the very least, Samurai was very popular with the kids in... the early 2010s... I’m getting old.
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hopeandjoy posted:Also it’s not quite the same because like. Power Rangers still exists. Kids watch the new tv shows. was it. i mostly move on from cartoons by 2020 outside some occasional stuff. than again, i was an edgy dumbass than so i wouldnt know poo poo.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:was it. i mostly move on from cartoons by 2020 outside some occasional stuff. than again, i was an edgy dumbass than so i wouldnt know poo poo. According to Wikipedia, when it was airing in 2012, there were an average of 2 million regular viewers. I have no idea how the newest seasons are doing, ratings wise, but it’s at least popular enough that Nickelodeon has announced the name of the 2021 new series and which Super Sentai season it’s based on. And personally as a late 90s kid (born 1996), I would watch Power Rangers when it was owned by Disney and airing on Toon Disney/Jetix pretty regularly, both the currently airing seasons and the reruns of the original series. The movie was absolutely geared towards 90s nostalgia but unlike Animorphs, Power Rangers is also a current kid’s franchise with young fans. hopeandjoy fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jun 20, 2020 |
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Junpei Hyde posted:Loved it I also loved it!
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hopeandjoy posted:According to Wikipedia, when it was airing in 2012, there were an average of 2 million regular viewers. Yeah, I think PR is doing fine right now. What I've heard is that Super Sentai in Japan isn't doing so hot right now, but that was from a few months ago
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Nuns with Guns posted:It won't be Real Animorphs if it isn't vigorously peppered with Peak 90s isms like calling Rachel "Xena, Warrior Princess" and referring to the Sega Genesis Jake owns while calling bad guys freakazoids. If you have your average adult screenwriter do it there’s a chance they’ll do it and think it’s still current anyway.
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Man, Samurai was such a loving awful season. They just did a straight adaptation of Shinkenger, but horseshit instead of excellent.
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Jacob Geller talks about his fascination with rollercoasters and Rollercoaster Tycoon. https://youtu.be/K4VLPThmBoI Spoiler for the first 10 seconds of the video: had to do a double take on that content warning
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Jacob Geller is the best in the business right now, especially considering the frequency and consistency of his output.
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DoctorWhat posted:Man, Samurai was such a loving awful season. They just did a straight adaptation of Shinkenger, but horseshit instead of excellent. It was, but it captured a new generation. Especially since it was on a major kids network instead of being hidden away in a side kids network.
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New Best of the Worst! Mike and Rich compete to uuh do something involving bad movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuS8ek6OM44&list=PLJ_TJFLc25JR3VZ7Xe-cmt4k3bMKBZ5Tm&index=2&t=0s
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Jamie Faith posted:New Best of the Worst! Mike and Rich compete to uuh do something involving bad movies was Rich's first pick necessary 
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tudabee posted:was Rich's first pick necessary Yeah...poo poo I should have put a trigger warning!  sorry about that
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Jamie Faith posted:Yeah...poo poo I should have put a trigger warning! Oh, I didn't think of that either! My was directed at them, not youFor those who haven't clicked, Rich Evans has to find a film in their collection with, and I quote, "depiction of rape on the cover." He has to struggle with doing so for several minutes and give Mike a dollar before they let him pick something else. tudabee fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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Poparena's latest episode of Nick Knacks is up, and while it's topically about the Shari Show, it's more a mini-biopic on Shari Lewis, the creator of Lambchop (of Lambchop's Play-Along fame), and how she's slowly disappearing from everyone's memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIYjOjLdopA&t=0s I thought it was a bit depressing. She deserves to be remembered.
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Arist posted:My Hero Academia's critiques of hero society feel bizarrely weak. Like, the entire Gentle arc is about how the villain feels railroaded by circumstance, losing everything due to naivete and innocent mistakes. He's completely sympathetic... but then when he gets captured there's a scene implying he gets a second chance and gets recruited. There's just no teeth. Have you read the side manga, it's like, infinitely better than BNHA. Vigilantes I think it's called?
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Shinji2015 posted:Poparena's latest episode of Nick Knacks is up, and while it's topically about the Shari Show, it's more a mini-biopic on Shari Lewis, the creator of Lambchop (of Lambchop's Play-Along fame), and how she's slowly disappearing from everyone's memory: So does Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dress Up,) but sadly they both disappeared into memory holes not long after they passed. Man I haven't watched the video but I thought Lewis' daughter had taken up the Lamb Chop mantle but due to rights issues she's only allowed to use the character for live shows. DreamWorks has the tv and movie rights. She really wants to return Lamb Chop to TV and I really hope she can one day. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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Shinji2015 posted:Poparena's latest episode of Nick Knacks is up, and while it's topically about the Shari Show, it's more a mini-biopic on Shari Lewis, the creator of Lambchop (of Lambchop's Play-Along fame), and how she's slowly disappearing from everyone's memory: this was a really good look at a super interesting woman who i only knew because "this is the song that doesn't end*" is lodged in the recesses of my brain from watching Lamb Chop's as a kid *(yes it goes on and on, my friends)
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Mokinokaro posted:So does Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dress Up,) but sadly they both disappeared into memory holes not long after they passed. Lewis's daughter is mentioned to be the new voice of Lamb Chop, but I might have missed it if Poparena said anything about rights issues; he mostly lamented that the character's been missing on TV since Shari's death. Homora Gaykemi posted:this was a really good look at a super interesting woman who i only knew because "this is the song that doesn't end*" is lodged in the recesses of my brain from watching Lamb Chop's as a kid Same. When I started the video, I went, "hey, she looks familiar," and it took a couple of minutes for the name to click.
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DoctorWhat posted:Jacob Geller is the best in the business right now, especially considering the frequency and consistency of his output. The rate at which he can be compelling macabre about stuff is quite impressive
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One thing that's amazing about Shari Lewis is that all of her puppet voices are both distinctively her yet unique enough to give them their own characters.
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LegalEagle talks about police reform. Excellent video. I was a little apprehensive looking at the title, since a few of his recent videos have felt a little hyperbolic, but he approaches the subject in a very reasonable and practical way. Police reform is one subject that should in theory get support from lots of different points on the political spectrum besides the left, since many on the moderate right and libertarian side of things aren’t exactly keen on the idea of government enforcers going around terrorizing private citizens. I’m not sure there’s going to be any lasting change as a result of all this, since the most powerful force in politics is inertia, but hey, bringing attention to the issue can’t hurt.
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It's a fairly milquetoast video overall, but it's handy to get a good sense for where liberals are in terms of police abolition. Some of it is stuff that we've tried and can say fairly confidently doesn't work, but the ability to have a further conversation is clearly there and that's encouraging.
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Left wing people want the police abolished, right wing people want the police to be even more fascist. It's only the pathetic centrist liberal quibbling over reform.
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it feels like whenever anyone talks about 'community policing' and 'neighborhood watch groups' as police 'reform' options they should be forced to disclaimer it with 'Trayvon Martin was murdered by a neighborhood watch wannabe cop freak who's still just hangin out signing skittles bags for other white supremacists'
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The only meaningful reform from which all others must follow is that when a cop murders someone they go to prison forever. Because at this point the primary reason people become cops is to get away with murder.
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tudabee posted:Oh, I didn't think of that either! My i found it sorta darkly funny because half of those lovely movies they watch for that show lean heavily on rape for titilation/other poo poo and they have talked about how hosed up that those movies do that
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Bakeneko posted:Police reform is one subject that should in theory get support from lots of different points on the political spectrum besides the left, since many on the moderate right and libertarian side of things aren’t exactly keen on the idea of government enforcers going around terrorizing private citizens. I’m not sure there’s going to be any lasting change as a result of all this, since the most powerful force in politics is inertia, but hey, bringing attention to the issue can’t hurt. At least in the United States context, this is not true in practice. Generally white conservatives view police as kindred spirits and vice-versa. Hence the Bundy family entering into an armed standoff against BLM (Bureau of Land Management) agents and getting off with a shockingly lenient sentence. Whereas people who film police brutality end up dying of "suicide" a few months/years down the line in a burnt out car. US police are pretty close to a straight-up violent white supremacist gang at this point, frankly.
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Casey Finnigan posted:At least in the United States context, this is not true in practice. Generally white conservatives view police as kindred spirits and vice-versa. Hence the Bundy family entering into an armed standoff against BLM (Bureau of Land Management) agents and getting off with a shockingly lenient sentence. Yeah, the authoritarian right that's entrenched in the U.S. is its own twisted, hypocritical thing. They talk a lot about how the country was born from revolution against a corrupt government but when push comes to shove they'll support corruption so long as it benefits them.
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