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[Thenomain]

Teen Titans Go!

Season One: All of the funny tropes you’d expect a show like this to cover. Fairly meta.

Season Two: Reaching further afield, less about superhero life and more about funny cartoon stuff, a bit more series relationship stuff. Very meta.

Season Three: Writers seem to be fumbling for things to cover, so it gets more meta. Five episodes of “stuck on a desert island” trope was good, but I think the writers were getting bored. Outrageously meta.

Season Four: So meta that it comes around again. The pinnacle of the evolution of the Chibi Starfire character.

Teen Titans Go! to the Movies: Apparently HBO has digital distribution rights on this right now, so I don’t know, but Movie Bob loved it so I’m looking forward to it.

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain

If you think Teen Titans Go! was outrageously meta, you clearly have not delved into Unikitty.

I love having kids.

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede

As long as it’s also GOOD.

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain

Dude, Unikitty is awesome.

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

@Thenomain

Dude, Unikitty is awesome.

You have yet to steer me wrong. Except that once.

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain

Dude, I've misled you ever?

Here's Unikitty's very accurate take on the law.

This is what every trial is like, honest.

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

@Thenomain

Dude, I've misled you ever?

Have you forgotten Dragon Age 2 so soon?

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain said in Good TV:

Have you forgotten Dragon Age 2 so soon?

You played that game on my recommendation?

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

@Thenomain said in Good TV:

Have you forgotten Dragon Age 2 so soon?

You played that game on my recommendation?

I replayed it because you said it was ssssooOOOOOO goooooood.

Answer: It's not.

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain said in Good TV:

I replayed it because you said it was ssssooOOOOOO goooooood.

Answer: It's not.

I must've mistook it for your mom.

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede

You thought my mom was good?

[Warma Sheen]

I started watching Legacies on Netflix and had no idea it was a Vampire Diaries spin off. I've never seen Vampire Diaries or any of its other spin offs, of which there are a few, apparently (and have never had any desire to). But as I'm watching this show that is not very good in terms of writing or story or anything resembling traditional entertainment, I find myself thinking:

"OMG, I finally understand WoD MUs/MUers..."

Its got a monster of the week.
The monsters usually come to the characters without having to be sought out because the characters are basically ignoring all the huge threats around them to spend time on far more mundane and inconsequential tasks, like finding someone to hook up with.
Its got teenage supers who are the most powerful things around despite other, older things just like them that certainly have to be out there.
The "bad guys" basically just stand around waiting to be killed by the "good guys" with pretty predictable results every week.
Its got cliques...
Despite the powers and the responsibilities the characters primary motivations are took up with and that drives most of the interactions.
Its got boring, uninspired dialogue and interactions wherein the characters try to be so insightful with each other, but just end up pointing out cliches and tropes in the most ham fisted way possible.
Most mortals are seemingly oblivious to the supernatural despite the characters tendencies to throw around magic every chance they get, even though they aren't supposed to.
The characters are always forgiven with little to no consequences for breaking those all important "no powerz" rules.
Cliques...
Its got "that one guy", the character that min maxed their sheet and plays the brooding badass loner who only breaks his eternal skulking to show up in every combat scene to steal the show, but wonders why none of the other characters don't like them.
Its got a guy who started out strong and dove into the plot, took a leadership position then stops logging on except for every once in a blue moon for no discernible reason, except that he got what he wanted so now is bored/boring.
Also, cliques...

And despite many of these being applicable to other shows, I've never seen one that has them all together in a way that is so MU*-like. These are just off the top of my head. Sorry if I'm late to the party. I'm sure someone else has noticed before but I never watched any of the Vampire Diary series and it kind of blew my mind that I was basically watching a live action WoD MU*.

It suddenly became so much more entertaining.

[Rinel]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

@Thenomain

Dude, I've misled you ever?

Here's Unikitty's very accurate take on the law.

This is what every trial is like, honest.

I feel like someone injected a combination of sugar and cocaine directly into the pink corners of my eyes after watching that.

[Arkandel]

@Warma-Sheen Now that you're one of us let's make a coterie on the next nWoD MUSH. I'll roll Chris Hemsworth as a Gangrel.

It'll be glorious for the six weeks the MUSH thrives before everyone stops logging on.

[Ganymede]

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

It'll be glorious for the six weeks the MUSH thrives before everyone stops logging on.

[Ganymede]

@Rinel said in Good TV:

I feel like someone injected a combination of sugar and cocaine directly into the pink corners of my eyes after watching that.

You say this as if it were a bad thing.

More meta, Thenomain.

[Arkandel]

Watchmen.

[Wretched]

@Arkandel Uunf

[Thenomain]

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

Watchmen.

Won’t be worth it until Moore complains how off message it is.

[surreality]

I have never been impressed by the recent Guardians of the Galaxy animated stuff. Until their last four episodes, apparently shown over the past two weeks.

Hello, tropetopia.

Hello, more shit that feels like my husband and or friends of ours wrote it one night on bar napkins and blacked out on the experience.

Hello, shin-kicking the fourth wall harder than Deadpool.

If you are a fan of animation in its various forms -- from old 8-bit video games to classic Disney films to claymation -- or have a weakness for the 'changing channels' trope, this is sincerely worth the hour and a half.

If your kids watch this show, watch those with them if you can. They will find it confusing and/or marginally entertaining, but you will probably laugh your ass off. My eyes are still red from the laugh-tears.

The only other rare bits of the show I've seen have not remotely impressed me, and it's not anything I watch normally. Having randomly caught this, though... this was worth pointing out and sharing with y'all.