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The_Doctor posted:So I finished watching Avatar:TLA tonight. Man, what a ride. I’m glad I finally watched it all from beginning to end. Now what do I do...? Korra, I guess? Don't watch Korra, the people who say its gets better for season 3/4 are the people who decided to keep on watching the series despite how terrible season 1 and 2 were. Its like people who say current Simpsons isn't so bad anymore.
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I still love that one of the Scooby movies was just a musical for no reason.
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# ? Dec 10, 2018 03:24 |
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I watched Korra at 1.5-2x speed. It has a lot of interesting ideas that take too long to not ever totally come together. Toph's daughter rules.
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# ? Dec 10, 2018 03:43 |
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The_Doctor posted:So I finished watching Avatar:TLA tonight. Man, what a ride. I’m glad I finally watched it all from beginning to end. Now what do I do...? Korra, I guess? I'd recommend Johnny Test. It starts off a bit rough but really picks up after a while and becomes genuinely great. I highly recommend it if you're looking for something to binge for a few hours. Oh! But don't skip any of the early episodes as there are several important developments later on that won't make sense without context. Just start on episode one and keep on watching until it starts getting good. You'll know when you get there!
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# ? Dec 10, 2018 03:57 |
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Korra season 1 except the last two episodes is good. Season 2 is bad but has a great two parter in the middle that you shouldn't miss. Seasons 3 and 4 are uniformly good, though they don't live up to ATLA. Ignore that guy up there who said otherwise.
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# ? Dec 10, 2018 04:37 |
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Johnny Test is less a TV show and more some kind of Pavlovian conditioning mechanism designed to get you to cringe every time you hear a whip crack.
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Argue posted:Korra season 1 except the last two episodes is good. Season 2 is bad but has a great two parter in the middle that you shouldn't miss. Seasons 3 and 4 are uniformly good, though they don't live up to ATLA. Ignore that guy up there who said otherwise. This is correct, though I like all of season 1 riiiiiiiight up until, like, the half of the last episode. Season 3 I think is the best one, though four is good as well. It never hits the highs ATLA did, but maaaaan season 3 is drat close. Season 2.... ugh. The villian is dumb, the plot is dumb, the characters all act like idiots, the animation in the first half of the season is mediocre-to-bad, and worst of all you can't just skip it.
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# ? Dec 10, 2018 05:18 |
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Every season starts strong and makes you feel like it's going to be good, but gets side-tracked on worthless subplots that don't go anywhere or really bland drama that's mostly a setup for wacky gimmick fights. The worldbuilding all ends up shallow or contradictory, and nothing seems like it follows any meaningful rules. Korra never seems like she learns or improves, and it starts to get uncomfortable just how much the show beats her up. There are some fun bits and pieces, but they're lost in a sea of poor planning and badly orchestrated plot. Somehow the writers both had too much and too little runtime for the story that they wanted to tell. The show largely mistakes blandness for maturity in both writing and art style. I also have a suspicion that a lot of the difference comes from how there's a big difference in the crew from one show to the next that you can see on IMDB, but I don't really know enough about the industry to say much about that.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I've been putting on Scooby movies in the background, and they're great for something you don't really need to pay attention, because you look for a little bit, and something insane is happening like Velma trying to kill everybody by driving off a cliff. Yeah the original Scooby-Doo series is pretty fun
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asecondduck posted:This is correct, though I like all of season 1 riiiiiiiight up until, like, the half of the last episode. Season 3 I think is the best one, though four is good as well. Honestly the only good parts of Season 2 are Varrick, Eska, Tenzin's family, and the Avatar Wan story arc, otherwise you're pretty safe to skip it and not miss all that much. Also, I realize that they originally didn't plan on Korra lasting more than a season and had to scramble to come up with something but for some reason the title character suddenly takes a massive step backwards in character development at the start of the season and basically has to learn the same lesson twice, it's weird. But otherwise Season 1 is decent for the most part and the last two are genuinely good pretty much the whole way through. It's not as good as ATLA but I liked the show well enough overall (it also has one of my favorite clip show episodes in any series). Larryb fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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Also season 2 has Bolin going from, "slightly goofy boy next door type" to "horny idiot clown", a characterisation from which he never really recovers. Also, it completely sells Korra down the river as a character and has all her character moments focus on how reasonable, smart Mako is always right and Korra is ruining both their relationship and her own life with her stupid wilful woman-ness.
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# ? Dec 10, 2018 14:12 |
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readingatwork posted:I'd recommend Johnny Test. It starts off a bit rough but really picks up after a while and becomes genuinely great. I highly recommend it if you're looking for something to binge for a few hours. You're a sadist. Here's a deep cut if you're looking for a fun fantasy series: "Dofus: the treasures of kerub" it's a prequel to "Wakfu", but more slice of lifey and with better animation. I strongly recomend watching it (and Wakfu) in the original french with subtitles. Edit: SlothfulCobra posted:I've been putting on Scooby movies in the background, and they're great for something you don't really need to pay attention, because you look for a little bit, and something insane is happening like Velma trying to kill everybody by driving off a cliff. Okay, this clip convinced me I need to watch the rest of this movie ASAP. Thank you. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:You're a sadist. All the voices sound ...off?
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# ? Dec 10, 2018 15:31 |
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readingatwork posted:I'd recommend Johnny Test. It starts off a bit rough but really picks up after a while and becomes genuinely great. I highly recommend it if you're looking for something to binge for a few hours.
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Beachcomber posted:All the voices sound ...off? In the scooby doo clip? Probably because the voice actors have been auto-tuned, I doubt any of them are regular singers.
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SardonicTyrant posted:I have found it. The internet's most evil post. Space Cadet Omoly posted:You're a sadist. quote:Here's a deep cut if you're looking for a fun fantasy series: Dofus is (for real) really good and I highly recommend it. The movie that serves as a sequel is also genuinely amazing and I enjoyed it more than most big budget theatrical CGI movies made in the past few years. You definitely need to get the french version though since the English dub is a bit... terrible. Which is too bad because I think the Wakfu franchise as a whole would do really well in the states with better localization. Side rant: gently caress you Vrv get the french sub of Dofus up on your site!
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readingatwork posted:Dofus is (for real) really good and I highly recommend it. The movie that serves as a sequel is also genuinely amazing and I enjoyed it more than most big budget theatrical CGI movies made in the past few years. You definitely need to get the french version though since the English dub is a bit... terrible. Which is too bad because I think the Wakfu franchise as a whole would do really well in the states with better localization. The Dofus movie is, no joke, one of my favorite films of all time. I really hope a sequel comes out at some point (I mean it's called "book one" which in implies there must be more books at some point, right?)
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readingatwork posted:I'd recommend Johnny Test. It starts off a bit rough but really picks up after a while and becomes genuinely great. I highly recommend it if you're looking for something to binge for a few hours. Ah, so this is the animation equivalent of telling people to read Avengers #200
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Scrap Dragon posted:Ah, so this is the animation equivalent of telling people to read Avengers #200 Huh have no idea what this mean better googl
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https://twitter.com/rachmeetsworld/status/1072285313513357312 First screens from Netflix's Carmen Sandiego.
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 01:43 |
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Kinda reminds me of the Progressive Auto Insurance Company cartoon commercials. Are there any details to the plot?
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 01:52 |
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In this one, Carmen is a heroic figure who steals from VILE to give back to the rightful owners, but finds herself running afoul of ACME as well.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:In the scooby doo clip? Probably because the voice actors have been auto-tuned, I doubt any of them are regular singers. Could also just be them getting singers to step in for the VAs. I'm 99% sure I've never heard Frank Welker sing. Bark, growl, slobber, gibber and whimper, yes; sing, no.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/rachmeetsworld/status/1072285313513357312 Doesn't look bad, but does it: 1. Teach kids history/geography 2. Feature people being called "gumshoe" This is important.
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Beachcomber posted:All the voices sound ...off? It sounds like the video is slightly sped up or pitched up or something
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:It sounds like the video is slightly sped up or pitched up or something That's not uncommon in Youtube clips to fool the algorithms that spot copyrighted material.
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Waffleman_ posted:In this one, Carmen is a heroic figure who steals from VILE to give back to the rightful owners, but finds herself running afoul of ACME as well. Aw what? That's kind of lame. I gotta be honest, I prefer the over the top "I put my face on the moon just because I loving could" super villain Carmen San Diego who does whatever she wants instead of this Robin Hood nonsense.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Aw what? That's kind of lame. It would be worth it if she still has the attitude and it lets the show spend more time with her than with a couple of generic teenagers. Either way, the show should still secretly be about teaching kids geography.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/rachmeetsworld/status/1072285313513357312 These pictures don't make me horny at all HOW DARE NETFLIX RUIN MY CHILDHOOD!!1!
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Beachcomber posted:All the voices sound ...off? This is because the only ones who are actually singing are Daphne and Shaggy. Grey Griffin and Matthew Lillard can sing so they're using them as Daphne and Shaggy's singing voices respectively. Velma and Fred (Mindy Cohn and Frank Welker) aren't singing so they're using sound-alikes (Bets Malone and Jim Wise).
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 05:30 |
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ConanThe3rd posted:If this is the Watership Down thing I mind Netflix talking 'bout a while back, I'd temper your expectations. regardless of what Netflix has said, there's casting for El-Ahrairah and for the Black Rabbit of Inle, and that story's probably the absolute most horrifying and hosed up thing in the entire book, especially in context. (for the unaware, throughout the book you get little stories about the rabbits' folk hero/trickster god, El-Ahrairah. eventually, poo poo gets dark in the "real" world, and as a psych-up, one of the rabbits insistently asks to hear the story I'm talking about before they go on a dangerous and potentially suicidal task. the other rabbits are super loving hesitant, but Dandelion eventually gives in. as it turns out, the story is about when another animal ruler, King Darzin, decided to try and commit genocide against the rabbits, and El-Ahrairah couldn't do a drat thing about it on his own. so he goes down to the underworld to talk to, basically, the Rabbit Grim Reaper [the aforementioned Black Rabbit] and try to offer up his own life in exchange for the other rabbits'. Black Rabbit says hell no. El-Ahrairah tries to trick the Black Rabbit into helping, as is El-Ahrairah's usual way, but ends up just annoying the poo poo out of the Black Rabbit and getting horribly mutilated. eventually, with his whiskers, ear and tail torn off of his body and still trying to convince the Black Rabbit, the Black Rabbit just eventually goes "alright, dude, jesus gently caress, the soldiers are gone, now go away.") if the series is adapting that story, it's a pretty loving safe bet that this is a warts-and-all adaptation of the book, and that the showrunners' statements about it being lighter than the movie are more in regards to the movie being a relentless parade of misery that excises all the happy stuff from the book. e: like, the 1972 movie genuinely is a lot more violent and depressing than the book; the events are broadly the same, but there's more to space them out in the book, and the dark elements are handled somewhat differently.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Doesn't look bad, but does it: I request, nay demand, it features the younger sister of Bone Queef (Bone like what's in the dumpster behind Buffalo Wild Wings and Queef like a Pussy Fart).
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/rachmeetsworld/status/1072285313513357312
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 06:29 |
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Is Carmen meant to look like a teenager? Could be an origin story thing going on. (I think some games have backstory where she's a former ACME agent?)
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 07:15 |
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I was the biggest loving map nerd as a kid so I loved everything Carmen Sandiego and so I'm excited to see what they do with it now.
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 07:22 |
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She's got some big ol eyebrows on her. Kinda funny when she isn't wearing the hat to play off it. Glad that they didn't mess with the costume. You can't really improve on that.
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 07:39 |
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As long as they get Rockapella for the theme tune, it’ll all be ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1EIUP8tvbE
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readingatwork posted:These pictures don't make me horny at all HOW DARE NETFLIX RUIN MY CHILDHOOD!!1! Don't worry. Even if you did not, someone got horny from this.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Aw what? That's kind of lame. Voting right now for the thread title: Carmen Sandiego: #ladycrimes SardonicTyrant fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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SardonicTyrant posted:Carmen Sandiego is a land of contrasts. Off-topic, but was this cliche recently (re)popularized by something, or did we all out-of-the-blue decide to mock it again?
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