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Good news: Primal is getting a second season. Bad News: Venture Bros. is getting cancelled
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Sep 8, 2020 00:51
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Oh, canceled canceled? I thought it was a "next season is the last" thing. I guess now I can finally watch the whole series. Kinda fell out after season 3.
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Sep 8, 2020 01:08
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TwoPair posted:Oh, canceled canceled? I thought it was a "next season is the last" thing. Kind of sucks, the months long delay in the reveal means they probably didn't find any other company to produce the final season. Some of the S1/2 material definitely didn't help; I'm pretty sure even the creators have admitted it aged extremely poorly. Kind of the problem with a active show 16 years later that did a lot of "edgy" humor. pentyne fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Sep 8, 2020 13:26
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They had written a fair amount of what would have been season 8 before the cancellation came down
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Sep 8, 2020 16:16
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What did they do between creating seasons, because that seems like a lot of downtime.
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Sep 8, 2020 17:55
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The_Doctor posted:What did they do between creating seasons, because that seems like a lot of downtime. Basically create the season, from what I understand it was a 2-person team and all that downtime was just a lot of preparing
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Sep 8, 2020 18:03
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one of the creators ended up moving from NYC to LA for television work. the other guy's health fell out from under him and he was paralyzed for a while, but he's been recovering some. both of them were generally busy with other creative work and a show as well crafted as venture bros takes a long time to write on any other network they'd have been forced to write faster with less quality to produce more content, or they'd have been canceled long ago. my theory for why they made 7 seasons in 17 years and were able to keep coming back was because the guy who created and ran adult swim was a big fan of the show, even getting a cameo where he was murdered by the OSI on a golf course. but that guy retired so venture bros didn't have a powerful patron anymore. that and adult swim, owned by cartoon network, owned by warner entertainment, is now owned by at&t, and there's been a giant shakeup in terms of streamlining media production. a show as weird and rare as venture brothers was doomed
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Sep 8, 2020 18:22
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Didn't Jackson Publick do some writing for the new Tick series?
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Sep 8, 2020 18:28
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cartoons123 posted:Basically create the season, from what I understand it was a 2-person team and all that downtime was just a lot of preparing They've said in the past making a season burns them out a bit so they like to take a step back and work on other stuff to let the creative juices replenish/can stomach thinking about the characters again/have a story worth telling.
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Sep 8, 2020 19:05
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God damnit! 2020's body count just keeps rising. Hopefully somebody like HBO Max will pick up the rights and do a final season at some point. cartoons123 posted:Basically create the season, from what I understand it was a 2-person team and all that downtime was just a lot of preparing It's also my understanding that VB is something of a side-project they do in-between other work.
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Sep 8, 2020 19:35
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It's also a tiny as gently caress team that tries to be quality on a budget so it takes a lot of time to make it work.
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Sep 8, 2020 22:46
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There's some noise on Twitter that HBO Max is in talk to pick up the series and future seasons. Hasn't been officially confirmed at this point though.
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Sep 8, 2020 22:52
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Warbird posted:There's some noise on Twitter that HBO Max is in talk to pick up the series and future seasons. Hasn't been officially confirmed at this point though. Makes sense since The Boondocks was picked up for HBO Max.
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Sep 9, 2020 01:42
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Yeah HBO Max has been picking up a lot of Cartoon Network shows, only makes sense they'd branch further into Adult Swim.
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Sep 9, 2020 02:06
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https://twitter.com/C_A_P_/status/1305273998452961280 Looks like the Ren and Stimpy show got shelveo. Probably due to massive backlash
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Sep 14, 2020 15:17
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I got around to watching that Harvey Birdman Attourney General special. Is it bad or am I crazy?
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Sep 14, 2020 16:52
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Warbird posted:I got around to watching that Harvey Birdman Attourney General special. Is it bad or am I crazy? The cracks were visible in the final season but yeah it was kinda weak.
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Sep 14, 2020 22:34
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S2 of Tigtone continues to be completely hilarious. Especially the second episode this week "Tigtone and the Demon Maze" where Tigtone is placed in a maze where he is not allowed to kill anyone.
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Sep 22, 2020 02:06
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The insane energy and brutal stupidity of Tigtone is something else man. The ending of the third episode with Helpy getting some kissy action with those disturbing fuzz things while Tigtone looks on disapprovingly ... just sublime. It's hard to describe why the show is so good but it slays me.
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Sep 29, 2020 11:36
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Tigtone is blocked in the country I'm in, and it makes me sad. 
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Sep 29, 2020 12:12
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Something I've been wondering about season 2. In the premiere KingQueen said that Prince Lavender was secretly the son of Amothedeus but I'm wondering if he isn't actually the son of Lord Festus. Mainly because when his powers manifested he didn't get the traditional beard and robes (like Tigtone did when he became a wizard) but instead wears something similar to Lord Festus' clothes.
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Sep 29, 2020 12:48
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It seems Ducktales is back from its hiatus. It’s still very good, but you all know that. I do really appreciate that in the latest episode one of the characters acknowledges the inherent weirdness and existential horror that is there being regular rear end birds, more specifically ducks, in this world. It’s just a quick little gag that isn’t called our specifically, but I appreciates it more for it.
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Sep 29, 2020 17:50
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That reminds me of a Spongebob joke where a building was on fire and a character says "wait, aren't we under water?" And then the fire goes out.
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Sep 29, 2020 22:42
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Or extremely similar to this Gumball joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVlOwGRJGUI
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Sep 30, 2020 01:51
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What’s better is that the joke isn’t necessarily a joke from a character perspective as the person being progressively freaked out is not a native of the duck world and isn’t a bird person.
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Sep 30, 2020 19:40
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I guess it's weird in the same way an alien would be confused to see us next to a monkey.
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Sep 30, 2020 21:46
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Warbird posted:It seems Ducktales is back from its hiatus. It’s still very good, but you all know that. Btw, there's a Ducktales thread
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Oct 1, 2020 10:42
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Primal’s back and still fuckin rad as hell
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Oct 5, 2020 20:04
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Escobarbarian posted:Primal’s back and still fuckin rad as hell Hell yeah. I cannot wait for next week's episode.
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Oct 6, 2020 02:35
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Escobarbarian posted:Primal’s back and still fuckin rad as hell Dude made gawt dayum brass knucks out if bugs lmao
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Oct 6, 2020 06:37
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Primal fuckin rules. Those are my complex thoughts on the matter.
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Oct 6, 2020 13:09
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I am 100% onboard with Caveman & T-rex VS Spooky Celtic Pagan Cult.
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Oct 7, 2020 20:11
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Hell yeah. I cannot wait for next week's episode. I think next week’s episode is the one that aired back on April Fool’s Day? It’s listed as episode 7 on Wiki and my tracker app anyway.
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Oct 7, 2020 20:17
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Escobarbarian posted:I think next week’s episode is the one that aired back on April Fool’s Day? It’s listed as episode 7 on Wiki and my tracker app anyway. Yeah, it's the zombie one. It's a good episode.
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Oct 8, 2020 02:01
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Man, that Star Trek show just kinda was like "season done" at episode 10.
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Oct 10, 2020 23:39
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Anora posted:Man, that Star Trek show just kinda was like "season done" at episode 10. Is it worth sticking with it? I like Rick & Morty, I like Star Trek. I didn't necessarily like them mashed up together... EDIT: vvvvv Gotcha. It's just that the first episode was SO very R&M (tons of slapstick violence and edgy gags) that I was groaning from the wasted potential of having a real Star Trek show (aside from The Orville). Unlike R&M though, I didn't laugh at any of the jokes. I'm hoping it was just a bad premiere. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Oct 11, 2020 |
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Oct 11, 2020 00:57
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JazzFlight posted:I gave it a shot watching one episode and was turned off. It's not Rick & Morty, by the end of the first season a great number of us think it's the best Trek since DS9 seriously.
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Oct 11, 2020 01:06
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socialsecurity posted:It's not Rick & Morty, by the end of the first season a great number of us think it's the best Trek since DS9 seriously. Because of stuff like the Orion space pirate joke? Sorry, I've only seen the ascension episode, but when I read the Star Trek thread and see stuff like that suggested to be the show's high points, then it just sounds like fanwank tbh.
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Oct 11, 2020 01:24
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Open Source Idiom posted:Because of stuff like the Orion space pirate joke? It sounds like you are already looking for reasons to dislike it so yes you should avoid it.
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Oct 11, 2020 01:26
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socialsecurity posted:It sounds like you are already looking for reasons to dislike it so yes you should avoid it. Unfortunately not. I have noticed that I've been getting angrier about stuff recently, I dunno, maybe it's a corona thing. Or maybe I'm just incredibly bad at being forthright, or communicating in general. Who the gently caress knows. I don't really watch a lot of Star Trek, and what I've enjoyed hasn't really matched up with the dominant feelings of the thread on this forum, the few times I've dipped into it. I liked, mostly, the first season of Disco. Disliked, mostly, the second. Didn't really like The Orville, which I found kitsch and trad. I dislike it when shows -- or media generally -- basically eats itself alive. I enjoy things when they're trying to do something new and different, and I respect ambition, and what I think of as complexity. Which is, of course, subjective. Would I like this show?
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