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@solstice I sympathize. I'm not into anime, but I'd much rather hear about how and why something I don't groove on is great and learn about the artists than hear about how it sucks.
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@solstice See, and I actually love anime. The artistic stylings used by most actual anime animators is pleasing to me. Its detailed and well-colored, the animation itself is smooth... its when I start seeing like... thick lines of the characters and then colors of the characters OUTSIDE THOSE THICKASS LINES and then they move but I can actually see the individual frames because they cheaped out on drawing the ACTUAL individual frames and really only did every 2nd or 3rd frame so the movement is choppy and uneven... it just... it bothers me SO MUCH.
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That's pretty often, then! It's very, very infrequent to animate on 1s. Those are usually reserved for the big, buttery-smooth action bits, because they take so long to accomplish. Hell, most action takes place on 2s. The only medium I think consistently animates on 1s is CG, because it's fixed framerate, and it's easy to generate tweens when you're just moving rigs. (Into the Spiderverse would be a good example of eschewing this in CG.)
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Titans Season 3 is coming out August 12.
Doom Patrol Season 3 is coming out September 23.
Young Justice Season 4 is coming out October 21.Excite.
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@too-old-for-this This may explain why I often find stills from anime beautiful, but not the show itself.
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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@il-volpe There are a lot of anime where the actual animation is almost seamless and its beautiful to watch. But then there are the ones where you can tell the budget wasn't enough to do the artwork justice. And it bothers my brain to see it.
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@too-old-for-this I think that I'm pretty much like most non-anime viewers in that the only stuff that's familiar to me is Studio Ghibli, where they got them production values high. Or it's 25+ years old, but at that time I kinda liked the jerky thing.
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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@il-volpe That's fine, I'm not super into anime, I just have some of them that I like and some that I can't watch.
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I get the "I don't like the art style" argument. Like, I want to watch the new He-Man cartoon just to piss off the chuds who are complaining that the show is RUINED FOREVER because He-Man (more like "She's The Man," amirite?) sold out to Hollywoke, but ugh, it's so hard for me to look at those promo clips and not see that commercial of the two dudes in the muscle suits dancing together in a bar.
Young Justice Season 4 is coming out October 21.
I'll be damned.
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@greenflashlight said in Good TV:
I get the "I don't like the art style" argument. Like, I want to watch the new He-Man cartoon just to piss off the chuds who are complaining that the show is RUINED FOREVER because He-Man (more like "She's The Man," amirite?) sold out to Hollywoke, but ugh, it's so hard for me to look at those promo clips and not see that commercial of the two dudes in the muscle suits dancing together in a bar.
Young Justice Season 4 is coming out October 21.
I'll be damned.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
"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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The Suicide Squad is so damn good! I love it! Perfect feeling, the amazing soundtrack! Anything that uses Carrol Band is a win in my book!
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I plan on seeing The Green Knight tonight. I have a low key love for Arthurian stories. So even knowing what the movie will be about, I'm still very interested in this particular take in this story.
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@testament Let us know what you think of it.
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@testament I want to see that so bad.
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@testament Agreed. Its no Sean Connery, but I want to see this take of the Green Knight quest as well, similarities and new interpretations even.
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I am also in the "I don't like the art style train.". I have passed over so many good western shows and anime. I will turn away a webcomic for the same reason.
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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I am also in the "I don't like the art style train.". I have passed over so many good western shows and anime. I will turn away a webcomic for the same reason.
Same. As a general rule, I much prefer live-action shows and movies to anything animated and while I do definitely watch some animated shows, an art style that I find visually jarring usually gets added to the "one less reason to watch this" pile.
Usually those exceptions are made for things done with CG or things with very high production values and I suspect that it's for the same reason I have difficulty playing first-person video games and struggle with 3D movies. It fucks with my depth perception in a way that makes it difficult for me to process what's happening spatially and I can only look at something like that for so long before it becomes overwhelming at best or actually gives me a headache at worst.
The same thing happens with my taste in fine art. I can sit and stare at a Caravaggio for an hour because I find the perspective fascinating. Plunk me down in front of a 13th century icon and my brain starts breaking it down into shapes that stop making a coherent whole pretty quickly.
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Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar to be a series. I can't wait.
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I want to like Titans. An R-rated version of Gotham is such a good fit and several of the cast members are good fits for the team. The first season was actually a lot of fun, it established the dynamics and had a pretty decent Deathstroke as its main villain.
This second season though really isn't doing it for me.
I think the main issue is the dialogue. There is something... off. I can't quite tell what it is but it's driving me crazy - there are pauses after everyone speaks as if they are all taking turns conversing in a completely unnatural way.
There are other issues. Jason Todd's actor is... not great. The plot is okay - it doesn't always make too much sense which kind of devalues the 'detective' part of the heroes' work but that's kind of expected in the genre. What I don't like is that it takes some huge risks early on (like what Batman does in episode 1) then just lets itself fall flat and stagnate for half a season.
There is also a real issue with the characters' power levels. Superboy and Starfire are a bit much if they are going to spend significant time fighting generic Gotham goons. Poor Beast Boy also doesn't get to freakin' do stuff since the special effects budget would need to blow up for that, so he resorts to generic kung-fu with glowy eyes.
