So...its canon and yet not canon? Damn, that's some Schrodinger's Cat stuff right there.
[TV] The What Animation Are You Watching Thread 2!: The Sequel!
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It's non-canon...except for one thing which is not only canon, but also apparently a big deal. Honestly, I'm not shocked by Alex Hirsch doing this. Of course, it could turn out that it is completely non-canon and he is lying about the secret. He did mislead the Gravity Falls fan about the identity of the author of the journals, after all.
Finishing up SW Rebels s2, God these spinning lightsabers get dumber every time I see them. Fucking saber-copter.[DOUBLEPOST=1459464563,1459464256][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh, and you'd think the crew would know to look for those spy droids when the Inquisitors are around after them being an issue every time they fight.
Okay start-up to this season of Archer, can't wait for the millions of comments complaining that they'd prefer them to be doing proper spy stuff(me possibly included). But hey, as long as there's no "Outlaw Country" I think we're good.
Just in case anyone wanted to know, Animaniacs is now on Netflix.
Watched the first episode of Powerpuff Girls... I... kinda don't like it? It's nowhere as subversive as the original show, nor as funny. Kind of let down.
Yeah that's fair, I would be lying if I said it didn't lack the same kinda energy. Ironically I feel their higher animation budget works against it, the old show's limited animation style worked VERY well with the story, here it feels like its at a slower pace somehow.
BUT-its good enough for me to stick with it....even if it DOES feel like the modern equivalent of "New Doug".
The one they showed tonight was much better at least.
Very much so, also while Mojo got dispatched quickly it felt like a MUCH better villain intro than Princess....whose new voice really needs to grow on me. Its just...not annoying enough!
Also, they have said that the new Justice League show will be putting its focus on action sequences.
Which is fine, if they do it well. Samurai Jack lived and died by it's action sequences. But really, in the past 5 years they've cancelled...
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Made people interested in Blue Beetle, which is why he was pretty center in Young Justice. Cancelled for Beware the Batman)
- Beware the Batman (Great story, WB killed the show when the toys didn't sell... which of course they didn't, they hit the shelves a full year before the show!)
- Green Lantern (Fantastic story and characters, but doomed to cancellation. It was supposed to be tied into future GL movies and that movie BOMBED, sealing the show's fate before it even aired)
- Young Justice (Great show, killed because the executives didn't know how to sell toys to girls)
... and now they're focusing on Teen Titans GO! (which HAS grown on me, but I still wish it would go away) and the new JLA show. I just know that JLA is going to get the axe and I can even bring myself to care at this point.
Teen Titans Go averages out to being okay, I just wish the WHOLE series was absolutely good. Also a damned Ron Perlman cameo.
That's my problem with Teen Titans GO! too: it's just so uneven. Good episodes are REALLY good but bad episodes are absolutely TERRIBLE and there is no middle ground.
On the not terrible side, tonight's Powerpuff girls ep was...trippy as fuck. They knew what were doing with this episode, and I LOVED it.
On the Powerpuff girls: SLAPDASH TRANSGENDER METAPHOR! Seriously the ep was okay but...yeah that was a little forced.
Apparently CN not only lied about the 4th and fifth seasons of Steven Universe(its just season 3) but also Uncle Grandpa, which has stopped production. The last season will be split up into two seasons and will be spread out accordingly. Basically they are stock-piling episodes , and releasing them as slowly and irregularly as Steven Universe. And now I am going to wait for them to nix the Adventure Time movie, and reveal it to be 8 elleven minute episodes in a row that were never meant to be a movie, because at this point I don't expect anything less.
Apparently CN not only lied about the 4th and fifth seasons of Steven Universe(its just season 3) but also Uncle Grandpa, which has stopped production. The last season will be split up into two seasons and will be spread out accordingly. Basically they are stock-piling episodes , and releasing them as slowly and irregularly as Steven Universe. And now I am going to wait for them to nix the Adventure Time movie, and reveal it to be 8 elleven minute episodes in a row that were never meant to be a movie, because at this point I don't expect anything less.
I'm not seeing this reported anywhere. Link?
Until they "announced seasons 4-5", I completely forgot Uncle Grandpa was still on. I never see it in the line-up or advertised. I'm concerned about Steven Universe, but they just showed a bunch of sample toys at a recent toy fair, so maybe there's still hope. Then again, Gravity Falls had a toy line, too, but it was irrelevant, if Alex Hirsch really had an end in mind from the start.
See? NO-ONE IS SAFE! Also if CN was worried about Toy Sales they wouldn't have commissioned "Jazzware" to make them.BEHOLD THE FACE OF HORROR!
And apparently you need a friggin' stand so it can...well stand-LAME!
Gravity Falls was a case of Disney not knowing what to do with what it had. It was mostly successful with the 18-35 crowd and they don't buy toys or other junk... just mostly shirts and other stuff. Now Disney DID get on board with that crowd and put out that kind of stuff, but that didn't change the fact that Gravity Falls was basically eating up a time slot that was no longer selling it's toys. Gravity Falls was also pretty expensive... I mean, they had Paul Robertson do an ENTIRE episode's worth of pixel art for Rumble McSkirmish and then they did a CLAYMATION episode. It's not hard to see why this dog got put down, but kudos to Disney for letting them finish it out at least.
Anyway, Steven Universe has none of these problems. It sells tons of merch... it's got games and books and clothes and toys and... it has it all. It's likely that CN is just following the MLP:FiM model and releasing smaller seasons after the first. That's fine. But they need to let us know about this sort of stuff so we know what to expect. And for god's sake, stop Stevenbombing if we're only going to get 26 episodes a season unless we're getting one every other month.
So I just saw the first ep of "Brickleberry"...is this one of those shows that takes a while to pick up because...yeah that pilot ep did not give me confidence. Also I kept waiting for the Tosh bear to say "Where are all the Pecan Sandies?" because he's basically Roger from "American Dad".
I think I've seen maybe one episode of Brickleberry that I actually liked. Ugly Americans was so much better.
But if Alex Hirsch was telling the truth, and he did have a ending in place, Disney wasn't going to sink money into merchandising anyway. There's no reason to put out stuff for a show you won't be making more of. Also, they did an episode with "clay animation". Claymation is a trademark of Wil Vinton Studios, who didn't do the episode (to my knowledge).
Steven is STARTING to sell merchandise. It doesn't have a big presence in stores yet (though it has been showing up in places like Hot Topic)and most of it is only available online. As long as it can pull in it's ratings and more importantly, the new merch they're putting in stores sells well, then Steven should be in good shape. But I do agree; I'm less worried about the shortened seasons and more about what they're doing with them.[DOUBLEPOST=1460157894,1460157849][/DOUBLEPOST]Ugly Americans was waaaaay better than Brickleberry.
This I could tell off the bat, especially the first season of UA which RULED-season two dipped a little, still good, but I felt it dipped a little.
Here's a pretty solid roundup about how/why that latest Powerpuff Girls trans episode is complete trash: http://missrobo.com/post/142538585428/steponlegosforfun-jitterbugjive , if you're interested in that sort of thing.
Yeah...that's the exact reaction I'd expect from that episode. Agreed on that critic's ending too, that would've been better.
Tonight on "The Powerpuff Girls" we lose Ms. Bellum and gain...a bunch of admittedly lackluster Video game and fashion jokes....YUP-if the Unicorn ep didn't cement it, this ep did as being to the Powerpuff girls what "New Doug" was to Doug.
Tonight on Powerpuff Girls, much like their predecessors show an ANNOYING level of inconsistent super strength, possibly more so. ALSO-Blossom is literally afraid of germs now, so much so that she needed to make an energy glove just to fight the trash bot.
On the one hand one could say its not as bad as Teen Titans Go, but on the other hand one could say its worse. Mostly because whereas TTG admits its a rebooted version, this series has yet to say if its a secondary universe or a continuation.
On the one hand one could say its not as bad as Teen Titans Go, but on the other hand one could say its worse. Mostly because whereas TTG admits its a rebooted version, this series has yet to say if its a secondary universe or a continuation.