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the fucking socko bit is amazing and brutal
My personal favorite was White Woman's Instagram.
And of course, Welcome to the Internet, which as the YouTube comments aptly state, is like a villain's song, when the villain knows it's already won.
Could I interest you in everything, all of the time? A little bit of everything all of the time?
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So, I came across this last night in my youtube feed. And I have to tell you, this hit every single bit of nostalgia that light up the 5 year old me that still lives in some unknown corner of 38 year old me.
I was never much into the She-Ra remake on Netflix(The Voltron was better, fight me)but a He-Man remake that's being overseen by Kevin Smith with a Mark Hamill as Skeletor channeling his Joker real hard? And being animated by the same company that did the Castlevania series?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm all about this. I'm here for it.
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@testament said in Good TV:
So, I came across this last night in my youtube feed. And I have to tell you, this hit every single bit of nostalgia that light up the 5 year old me that still lives in some unknown corner of 38 year old me.
I was never much into the She-Ra remake on Netflix(The Voltron was better, fight me)but a He-Man remake that's being overseen by Kevin Smith with a Mark Hamill as Skeletor channeling his Joker real hard? And being animated by the same company that did the Castlevania series?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm all about this. I'm here for it.
Hot damn.
That song choice is banging too.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@testament said in Good TV:
So, I came across this last night in my youtube feed. And I have to tell you, this hit every single bit of nostalgia that light up the 5 year old me that still lives in some unknown corner of 38 year old me.
I was never much into the She-Ra remake on Netflix(The Voltron was better, fight me)but a He-Man remake that's being overseen by Kevin Smith with a Mark Hamill as Skeletor channeling his Joker real hard? And being animated by the same company that did the Castlevania series?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm all about this. I'm here for it.
Hot damn.
That song choice is banging too.
They had me at the first three (synthesizer) notes of Bonnie Tyler, yeah.
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I like the trailer, but I prefer remakes that put forward something different.
Banging trailer, but I also liked the trailer for the War for Cybertron series.
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@testament said in Good TV:
I was never much into the She-Ra remake on Netflix(The Voltron was better, fight me)
Voltron had moments. Moments that it mostly squandered, and ended with a splat.
ANYHOW.
That was still a fun trailer, really took me back! My brother had a lot of those toys so I inherited them by proxy when he outgrew them. I watched drips and drabs of the show, but it was pretty samey in tone (I mean, all cartoons were at the time, really), so I'm interested to see if this iteration will shake anything up or just be 'More, but with a higher budget.'
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@testament said in Good TV:
I was never much into the She-Ra remake on Netflix(The Voltron was better, fight me)
I mean taste is subjective and all that, it's okay to not like things, etc etc but also you're utterly wrong
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@wizz Mostly I couldn't stand the animation style. Just couldn't get past that.
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This is fair. If an artstyle doesn't jive, it's hard to get past. Gravity Falls come to mind, for me!
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Like Solstice sez. But you are missing out on an emotionally and narratively fulfilling show that cashes all the checks it writes in a way Voltron just couldn't, imho.
I am pumped for Masters of the Universe, tho.
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@wizz I admit my bias simply because I have more of an attachment to Voltron. I remember I was kid, couldn't be older than 5 or 6. My older brother had a friend that was a bandmate of his, and he'd come over and they'd practice. But he brought over his all metal(this is a big deal to me, because the plastic shit just wasn't as good) lion Voltron for me to play with. And boy did I play with it, though it was always hard to give back when he had to leave.
As for Masters of Universe, I know it's intentionally a continuation of the original series as opposed to a remark. So maybe less of a remake and more of a sequel. Either way, this seems like it's one of Kevin Smith's dream projects, so I'm all for it, which is fine, because in this instance I'd rather he be a produce than director.
Especially after Tusk. But I also feel like that movie was intentionally made to be just that insane. Like it's some kind of joke that I haven't quite figured out the punchline to.
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@testament said in Good TV:
Mostly I couldn't stand the animation style. Just couldn't get past that.
You're the second person to tell me this, and I still scratch my head about it. Mostly because I have never watched or not watched a show based on its animation style.
Like, my friend loved A:TLA and TLOK, but couldn't get into She-Ra based on the animation style, and here I am finding Castlevania distractingly absurd in its gory details but appreciating how it tickles my nostalgia vibes.
I honestly have never considered an animation style what makes a series watchable or not, but I also watched all of Exo-Squad and the 90s X-Men series.
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@ganymede Exo-Squad was a gem that was unappreciated in it's time. I always considered it the American version of the original Gundam. Tackling very hard theme around the cost of war.
Shame it never went further.
As for not animation styles not jiving, I dunno, the visual style I just don't find appealing to me, so there's a disconnect or disinterest for me. Whereas I love Castlevania because of my roots in loving the horror genre. And it has that certain touch of Evil Dead camp that really just tickles me.
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Has anyone else watched Trese on Netflix? Supernatural noir on the streets of Manila. Really good stuff, beautiful animation, great voice casting.
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@testament said in Good TV:
Exo-Squad was a gem that was unappreciated in it's time.
I concur wholeheartedly. I even watched the entire series recently on Peacock. But you have to admit that the animation was terrible, even for 90s standards. Were there ever a case of "I didn't watch this due to its animation style," this would be a classic example.
Which is why I brought it up. Lots of people, I think, didn't watch the new She-Ra due to its art and animation style. But they are missing out on a gem that is en masse underappreciated. This may be because the style is aimed towards a younger audience.
Even so, the lessons that are being taught to this younger audience are things that need to be reaffirmed again, and again, and again to adults. It's not as heavy-handed as The War for Cybertron: Siege's anti-Trumpian theme, but they are there.
- Gaslighting by friends.
- Abuse by parental figures.
- Deliberate alienation.
- Imposter Syndrome.
I don't often beg, but I really would beg you give it another chance. The show gets really good after the middle of the first season, where you finish the entire "getting to know you" episodes and begin the entire "now this is what's really going on" storyline. I hesitated to even show it to my girl because, well, I'm not sure how she would digest the dynamics (she's mildly on the spectrum to the point where she picks up way too much from what she observes).
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@testament said in Good TV:
But he brought over his all metal(this is a big deal to me, because the plastic shit just wasn't as good) lion Voltron for me to play with. And boy did I play with it, though it was always hard to give back when he had to leave.
I had the metal Voltron as a kid, and man - that was one of the best toys ever. I'm sad I got rid of it.
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@testament said in Good TV:
Especially after Tusk. But I also feel like that movie was intentionally made to be just that insane. Like it's some kind of joke that I haven't quite figured out the punchline to.
So I haven't been able to find it in the ten seconds of Google (on mobile @ work), but the joke is that there was a real classified ad Smith talked about in a podcast offering rent-free housing to anyone willing to spend a certain amount of time dressed up like a walrus, so the landlord could relive the time he spent shipwrecked on an island with only marine mammals for company.
I can't remember if the ad was confirmed fake or just presumed, but it was still bugfuck nuts enough that Smith spent a while speculating on what would happen to any poor bastard who answered the ad. And since it's Kevin Smith, his BS sessions can actually turn into feature-length horror/comedies.
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So, I finished watching Harley Quinn and I really hope they bring it back for another season or twelve.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede Season 3 is already in the works...and in the news, as DC apparently told the writers they couldn't have Batman going down on Catwoman...
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Well, I mean, if it's okay for Disney --
Anyhow, this news makes me:
