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The new Adventure Time special, Distant Lands: Obsidian, is pretty good. While the story is about Marceline and Bonnie trying to save the Glass Kingdom from a giant monster the special jumps around in time, exploring stuff that was only hinted at before.
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I miss Adventure Time and its gleeful weirdness so much. Easily a top 10 tv show for me.
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I gave it a good shot and just couldn’t hang, just not my thing. Disappointing too because it seems like everyone else loved it.
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swickles posted:I need some help TV Goons. I am spending a lot of time with my parents and need some show recommendations. The biggest hang up is my step dad, as he likes very very few comedies. We just finished Ted Lasso, which how could anyone not like. Since he usually watches police/detective/spy procedurals, I thought we would try Patriot, but after 3 episodes it just doesn't grab him (he says its slow, and I plan to finish it myself later). Shows he has seen and liked: Homeland, The Americans, Blue Bloods (is over 70, so a given), the various NCIS's and CSI's, Bones, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, Bosch, Billions, Goliath, Suits, Barry (which surprised me but was happy to watch it with them!) etc. Any other shows along those lines would be greatly appreciated. Also, despite never liking anything sci fi, he actually loves The Mandolorian (although it may be literally the only Star Wars material he has ever seen) and he liked the Expanse. Since you already mentioned they saw Justified: Person of Interest BANSHEE (lots of sex and nudity, which some Boomer parents may disapprove of) The Wire Stumptown (just cancelled after one season) Lethal Weapon (the show; surprisingly fun and good) Prison Break The Shield 24
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zoux posted:I gave it a good shot and just couldn’t hang, just not my thing. Disappointing too because it seems like everyone else loved it. Ugh. You're being you again.
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swickles posted:I need some help TV Goons. I am spending a lot of time with my parents and need some show recommendations. The biggest hang up is my step dad, as he likes very very few comedies. We just finished Ted Lasso, which how could anyone not like. Since he usually watches police/detective/spy procedurals, I thought we would try Patriot, but after 3 episodes it just doesn't grab him (he says its slow, and I plan to finish it myself later). Shows he has seen and liked: Homeland, The Americans, Blue Bloods (is over 70, so a given), the various NCIS's and CSI's, Bones, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, Bosch, Billions, Goliath, Suits, Barry (which surprised me but was happy to watch it with them!) etc. Any other shows along those lines would be greatly appreciated. Also, despite never liking anything sci fi, he actually loves The Mandolorian (although it may be literally the only Star Wars material he has ever seen) and he liked the Expanse. Does he enjoy baseball? Brockmire might be good
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zoux posted:I gave it a good shot and just couldn’t hang, just not my thing. Disappointing too because it seems like everyone else loved it. fwiw early Adventure Time is very much like “wacky kids cartoon” that happens to have really good designs and stuff, it’s only in season 3 I’d say that it really starts to get super good and then by the end of season 4 it’s loving brilliant
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Adventure Time gets good as soon as tree trunks eats the crystal apple and vanishes
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I honestly think seasons 5-6 of AT are the pinnacle of Western animation for kids, they’re just so fantastic
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The United States posted:Adventure Time gets good as soon as tree trunks eats the crystal apple and vanishes It's the show's first good episode, sure, but I'd say it takes a while for the show to become that consistently good. I can look back at that first season and enjoy the episodes now that I didn't enjoy before, but it's the stuff from later seasons that won me over. Escobarbarian posted:I honestly think seasons 5-6 of AT are the pinnacle of Western animation for kids, they’re just so fantastic They're really, really good, though I think Steven Universe is sometimes better, if overly mawkish at times. If SU didn't have that final season, I don't think it'd be half the show it is.
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SU is definitely top-tier and I like it a bunch, but AT's setting and humor just place it on a whole other level for me.
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The animaniacs intro is a nice mix of the original and new stuff ('The trolls will say we're so passé, but we did meta first') e: lol they're explaining the sound effect references in the subtitles Watermelon Daiquiri fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Nov 20, 2020 |
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Adventure time got huge "red in the face" laughs from me from characters just saying the wildest or most horribly inappropriate things. Like when Jake deadpan tells a dying gnome "You should just let go, man" and shrugs.
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I liked Adventure Time for different reasons than the rest of this thread; I loved the first few seasons for their fun, light, silly irreverence, but as soon as the creators got really into their own lore and started leaning hard into to their fandom it lost me. That's not to say it's bad, but just that it ended up not being a show for me.
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Most of my experience with Adventure Time was the 6 weeks I lived in an extended stay hotel, and a couple weeks here and there over the next 2 years travelling for work. I enjoyed it but never felt like really seeking it out later. I much preferred Regular Show, the Amazing World of Gumball, and toward the end of that stint, Stephen Universe, over Adventure time 
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Rhyno posted:Ugh. You're being you again. Judicious and thoughtful even in critique? Why thank you 
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NOW IT'S WORSE SEE A DOCTOR
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feedmyleg posted:I liked Adventure Time for different reasons than the rest of this thread; I loved the first few seasons for their fun, light, silly irreverence, but as soon as the creators got really into their own lore and started leaning hard into to their fandom it lost me. That's not to say it's bad, but just that it ended up not being a show for me. I was gonna say that kind of show always loses me, but Venture Brothers is seriously into its own lore and it’s one of my favorites. For some reason it works for me there but it absolutely turns me off from most shows.
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Same. When VB started layering in its character traumas it felt organic to me, and true to its tone and world. But when AT started doing it, it felt like it was suddenly taking a very silly thing very seriously. Suddenly that wacky Ice King character has a deeply tragic backstory I'm supposed to care about that doesn't match what came before at all? Complete tonal whiplash. Rick and Morty turned me off with that, too.
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Some of the worst people I've ever known were waaaaay too into Adventure Time so I feel a little dirty whenever i defend it as a good show.
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I loved Adventure Time all the way through but I did take a huge break from it in the middle. The episode with Finn wearing the Jake Suit and voluntarily jumping into the volcano is still one of the greatest things ever written.
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https://twitter.com/TheAVClub/status/1329868626690654209?s=20
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There better be a follow up tweet announcing a spinoff show with Thunder and Lightning. BL’s one of my favorite cw shows. Them cancelling before they can get to s6 is lame as hell. Dude just joined the superfriends barely a year ago too.
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They have a Painkiller spinoff in the works.
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Well that sucks. But at least they can plan for a proper ending now.
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That HBO The Last of Us show got a series order: https://pressroom.warnermedia.com/us/media-release/hbo-gives-series-order-last-us-craig-mazin-and-neil-druckmann-write-and-executive
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So Naughty Dog has Last of Us and Nathan Drake adaptations coming. When is Crash Bandicoot?
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Mu Zeta posted:So Naughty Dog has Last of Us and Nathan Drake adaptations coming. When is Crash Bandicoot? Jak cinematic universe when???
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Mu Zeta posted:So Naughty Dog has Last of Us and Nathan Drake adaptations coming. When is Crash Bandicoot? There were rumors of a cgi Crash movie in the planning stages awhile back but nothing has been officially announced.
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Escobarbarian posted:fwiw early Adventure Time is very much like “wacky kids cartoon” that happens to have really good designs and stuff, it’s only in season 3 I’d say that it really starts to get super good and then by the end of season 4 it’s loving brilliant I think the difference in quality is because Finn actually grows up during the series. He starts as a tween dealing with tween issues, but as he gets older he actually matures, and the show does too. By the end he's almost an adult and dealing with some heavy stuff like his deadbeat dad. One of the first things that really made me notice the show was dealing with real-life issues (at least metaphorically) was the early arc with Flame Princess. Her fire burns him and his tears put her fire out, so they can't stop hurting each other. They're super into each other, but the relationship can't work because they're incompatible and bad for each other. I was like "holy poo poo, this kids show is addressing what a toxic adult relationship is like."
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The Good Lord Bird is extremely good.
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Andrew Cuomo is getting an Emmy award for his Covid briefings on TV. It feels like giving someone an award just for showing up and doing their job.
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Mu Zeta posted:It feels like giving someone an award just for showing up and doing their job. So you're saying it's an Emmy?
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Mu Zeta posted:Andrew Cuomo is getting an Emmy award for his Covid briefings on TV. It feels like giving someone an award just for showing up and doing their job. Bruceski posted:So you're saying it's an Emmy?
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Oh my god Big Sky is poo poo.
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Here's a better Montana themed film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO10s_HK6d0
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We now know what the price was for HBO Max on FireTv. HBO as an amazon channel is going away. https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-video-channels-hbo-044630697.html
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I just grabbed a subscription to boomerang specifically for Courage the Cowardly Dog. Jesus the Tower of Dr Zalost is a doozy. It’s as good as I remembered back when I was a depressed-rear end middle schooler. Dr Zalost isn’t the villain in the episode. His depression is.
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bull3964 posted:We now know what the price was for HBO Max on FireTv. HBO as an amazon channel is going away. I got "free" hbo max as a result of my hbo sub on prime, just log into max via my Amazon login. Wouldn't shock me if max just replaces it
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Oh my god Big Sky is poo poo. I wasn't hoping for something Twin Peaks-y, even though I knew it would be bland and dumbed down by comparison. I had no idea how dumbed down Big Sky would actually be. Every character is an obnoxious and stupid person who does the dumbest thing in every situation. I totally predicted the ending of the pilot, too.
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