You were so good in that ep!! The most detailed and insightful critique of SL I’ve ever heard.
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I’m mourning gemstone lately because they fired the guy who started out as Plur (kenstrom) and they are currently rotating NINE GMS around to do his job. we really did that doc at the best time possible the game has completely fallen apart
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Wow, dang! I’m glad we filmed when we did. On the whole, I think the series really benefitted from the particularly heightened state of online games around the pandemic.
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As Winter = snow anime go the recent Summit Of The Gods adaptation’s pretty good, could also for the 4th Urusei Yatsura Movie: Lum The Forever (the best one)
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I dunno how many episodes it’s supposed to be, but if Dragon Ball Daima is supposed to run more than 12 episodes or something, I gotta go ahead and tap out. The pace is glacial and it’s just so fucking boring.
At least the next day Ranma 1/2 airs, and is good.
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Sat down for 2 episodes of Arcane S2. This is an amazing visual feast that I just do not feel engaged by. I’m a lapsed League player of at least 12 years now so I’m the last person to need to be served or impressed to but I feel like I’d rather just keep the version in my head what a LoL story would be. Instead of wide sprawling fantasy I feel like I’m watching some HBO drama bait show that got produced by 90/00s era MTV. It’s asking me so hard to believe in some characters damage that is just not working for me.
This feels like the encroaching problem from Game of Thrones where show runners are try so hard to make fantasy but for people that don’t like fantasy. I had a more enjoyable time watching the DOTA cartoon on netflix that I have even less attachment to and know less of if anything on screen relates to that game but it functioned much better as a fantasy journey even if it might’ve escalated to far near the end. Arcane is putting so much effort on alot when all I want is to see some of my faves move around.
Any ways, I hope to see Fortiche get the chance to make their own thing with this tech sometime.
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That unaired episide of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur dropped online.
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I’m not actually going to watch that whole thing, and the whole situation is outrageous, but skipping around in that video, I’m continually impressed by how so many kids’ cartoons (including ones I’d never heard of until yesterday) genuinely look incredible these days. Like a few random seconds of this look more striking and interesting than any random few seconds of most Dreamworks features, imo.
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man, too bad that i only found out about this today (16th of November, 2024)
If you ever watched The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest back in 1996/1997 like I did, you might mostly remember it for its CGI sequences and the fact that the series would seem to switch between two different art styles (and voice casts) at random. It wasn’t until much later that I discovered that what is now commonly referred to as season 2 was created as an entirely different Jonny Quest show, ended up being folded into it.
In any case, I’m watching the series now, alternating between seasons, and I can’t say either version is fantastic: season 1 is janky as hell, its production being incredibly troubled. It’s easy to like, though: it’s trying a lot, and the fact that it was also being allowed to do a lot of things its contemporary American cartoons couldn’t or wouldn’t (Ezekiel Rage is actually pretty great) makes me somewhat sad that it wasn’t better or more successful.
Season 2, while more solid in its fundamentals and being all-around better-produced, is also harder to like on principle. While a lot of its instincts are solid (Questworld is indeed a terrible idea, and eschewing the fantastic in an adventure show to the extent the first season had is quite questionable), its ultimately a reactionary production, its creative ethos being “season 1 sucks because it wasn’t enough like the original cartoon”. This means, for example, that it undermines some of the first season’s attempts to not be as racist or sexist as the original cartoon: Hadji goes back to being voiced by a white man (Rob Paulsen?!) and original series yellow peril villain Dr. Zin makes a return. While it’s still doing things other cartoons couldn’t, there’s evidence the networks were starting to take notice, and on the whole the show feels like it’s aiming for an entirely different (younger) audience than it was originally. The best evidence for this is probably Bandit, who in season 1 was almost entirely absent, but in season 2 is not only there in most episodes doing all the expected cartoon dog stuff, but also more prominent and useful than Jessie. -_-
But yeah. I remember being really excited about this show when it was first being promoted, but the actual product didn’t stick with me, and revisiting it now, I can see why. That said, I still have a real soft spot for the intro, especially all of the Jessie-Bannon-on-a-horse stuff, which I really hope is from an actual episode.
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There is a very big chance I’ve been way too hyped about VR my whole life because of this show.
In general is a secret VERY FORMATIVE TIGRESS INFLUENCE and while I haven’t watched it years, it’s stuck in my head to some extent ever since. I even had the PC game, Cover up at Roswell back in the day!
But yeah the best part of the whole thing in 2024 is the theme song.
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wildly, paulsen is a holdover from the 80s reboot and 90s tv movies and in total he has the most screen hours as the character (he now regrets it!)
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Man, the second I saw that post that theme started blaring in my head
Genuinely thought the show was coolest thing in the world when I was 13, and it had a big impact on me, but I’ve barely thought aobut it in decades. Had no idea about this second season stuff (though I think I maybe never saw the second season? I don’t remember Bandit being in it at all)
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dang yeah I was compelled to tune in to this regularly with my brother and also only really remember that intro. maybe the first time I had the ambivalent feeling of being sold a Reboot since we also watched the original before/around that time and honestly that intro goes harder imo and is burned into my brain more gonna assume the intros to either are their best part
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I remember in vivid detail a few specific things from episodes of that show:
Hadji does the “meditate and slow your heart down” trick to convince some bad guys he’s dead
Johnny straps on some prosthetics that were intended to help people who couldn’t walk, which has the effect of basically giving him superhuman running speed but also jacks up his metabolism and makes him hungry all episode.
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new pendleton ward/jack pendarvis short/pilot/thing for those of you who don’t mind tweeness
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disappointed in Seraphim Call after sitting on it a few weeks. couldve been fun & odd. i hope there’s an OVA or something that does the “tie-in cartoon to a non-existent dating sim where each ep is a formal experiment inspired by its respective anime girl” thing while actually delivering on more than half its episodes (and not looking so cheap, but that’s less of an issue for me)
anyway heres the eps
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ep1 - pretty off-kilter for an introductory episode but unmemorable otherwise
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ep2 - whether the mix of creepy voyeurism nd starkness of dialogue created by this eps conceit is in any way interesting to u probably depends on ur personal generosity/tolerance for bullshit
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ep3 - bad ozu pastiche
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ep4 - pretty good. the temporal scrambling gets across not only an adolescent frenzied feeling but the way moments stretch out in the mind. ‘tomboy struggling to express her femininity’ is normal but the episode adds a coercive modern art provocateur/muse dynamic which like ep2, is icky but at least interesting to me. there is also this
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ep5+6
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ep7 - i love a tortured math metaphor… the time travel gets a brief technobabbly explanation but is still sort of magic realist in effect… nice poetic
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ep8 - dull thunderbirds pastiche
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ep9 - i like the idea of this ep’s protagonist not being its assigned anime girl, the ep’s visual gimmicks (the title cards, video screens) are one-note
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ep10 - dull
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ep11 - ‘monodrama episode’ is a cute idea but it’s so disconnected from the character in question that it feels even more nakedly gimmicky than usual
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ep12 - whatever
apparently this is mostly remembered in yuri circles? i found this on a dead utena forum
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