tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28687852091183255352024-03-26T17:44:54.133-05:00Critics 2DWe're not really virgins. But we act like it!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806447211825094264noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868785209118325535.post-56798116459380073772015-04-10T18:30:00.000-05:002015-12-04T20:13:50.734-06:00Feature Film Review: Persepolis<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are many ways to tell stories, and there are also plenty of ways and opportunities to refine the quality of a fictional tale. Refinement is a pesky and risky matter in non-fiction storytelling because you cannot take much liberties with your life story without being disingenuous, criticized and "found out" for doing so. Marjane Satrapi published her life story in comic form as <u>Persepolis</u>. I read the whole thing and really enjoyed the first half but due to the nature of her story, I found the second half disappointing and not as entertaining or enlightening. Since I found some of it unsatisfactory and since the story was already "solidified" as a book, I didn't think there would be much difference or changes made to the story's movie adaptation (co-directed by Mrs. Satrapi). I then read a comment on iMDb by a woman saying that the movie was worse than the graphic novel (in their opinion) and I fear I took that with too many grains of salt... by the time I watched the movie I feared and expected the same problems to plague the film which gave me hesitation to watch it. My expectations were proven wrong, however.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />The opening titles are a creative void with little floating worlds, black backgrounds, white pocketed islands in the dark. The titles stop and we are now in a world of colors: we see a shot of the exterior of an airport and then the insides of it with our main character and narrator Marjane drifting through it as if without much purpose; just another day of travelling. She is presented as awkward, misunderstood, distant from others and alone. We determine this to be the "present time", and Marjane begins reminiscing the past which suddenly transitions back into black and white.<br /><br />I feel that to review this movie is weird. Sometimes we review things to create conclusions and prove points and that is what I want to do. Other times we say what works and what didn't and it's all about opinions or the mechanics of the thing. The movie is really fun to watch while being very serious. There isn't much more to say about that without bringing up the story of Marjane and why one would want to watch this film. So let me tell you why you might be interested in this movie (via a <b>Plot Summery, with the essence of the story in bold)</b>: <b>It's about the life of an Iranian girl who grows up </b>in Iran and then is sent abroad to Europe due to the terrible war going on in Iran. Eventually becoming destitute and excruciatingly homesick, she ends up going back to Iran having grown, struggled and with a great gaining of experiences. She gains experience in Iran too but she realizes during more struggles that she cannot stay there despite the love of her family. The movie ends upon these reflections and returns to the present.<br /><br />When it comes to plot summery, I tend to avoid them like telemarketers. I like to dive into a story without any expectation or prior knowledge. If you read all of the previous paragraph it may not sound exciting but this is because I have simplified it very much. It is a simple story yes but with a lot of goodies and with wonderful animation and characters. It has a lot of love and hate and disappointments and hope that even a reader of the comic would enjoy as new and find fresh. The film goes through a lot of different subjects and life experiences that never bore the viewer. It leaves us constantly thinking about it while relating to our lives too.<br /><br />The film despite being called Persepolis (and the title isn't even mentioned in the film version) is the story Marjane told a second time and a better time too in my opinion. It takes great advantage of animation by making the characters so alive with their expressions and by enhancing the narrative with distinguishing animation in it's digressions. This enlivens the imagination and style while feeling realistic and very human (it is 2D animation after all). It made the movie end on a note more satisfying than the previous, without distorting reality or erasing failures... The comic was too much of an emotional roller coaster for you to "get something out of it" without being annoyed. The movie gave you emotions and delivered them, good and bad in a way that created a more definitive (and when I say this I mean better) narrative. Since Marjane directed it, I believe that while narrowing the content of her life story from the comic, she gave it the emotional treatment that makes a better story. This emotional treatment is enhanced by being artistically invigorating to look at, which helps us relate to life, makes it fun and but doesn't let us completely escape from it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a picture (mine) of the DVD art. The film is a reflection on Marjane's life. In this reflection told a second time, she the storyteller made something more powerful than before and let us reflect better too. In reflections we can discern life better, learn more and remember that our bittersweet past not only contributes to who we were but who we are now.<br /></span>Skimaskkasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844526518343055463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868785209118325535.post-21340657634744563572015-03-21T17:45:00.000-05:002015-03-21T17:45:11.566-05:00Metalocalypse season 5 is dead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're late to the game on this one (as usual) but there's no sense in denying it any further. After four seasons and a rock opera of incredibly bad ass proportions, it looks like <i>Metalocalypse</i> is coming to an abrupt halt. America's most brutal show will not receive a fifth season, and the news came from creator Brendon Small himself.</span><br />
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For those complaining about lack season 5. Was a network decision- I wanted to do it as a final big mini series. They said no. True story.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After an incredible and continuity laced fourth season being finished off with the unbelievably epic death metal opera</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Doomstar Requiem, </i>Adult Swim's series <i>Metalocalypse </i>looked like it was still going strong, ending on a cliff hanger relating to dark forces taking over Murderface's body. Not just that, but staff were already geared up and began pre-production for Season 5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to Small, the already planned out season was killed before it could even get off the ground. Cartoon Network and/or Adult Swim executives with a penchant for pop music, soft rock, and other more disgusting genres had just finished jerking off and renewing lesser shows when Brendon Small approached their desks with his magnum opus of a show. It was then that these masochist assholes brought down the banhammer on the season, ending the greatest show about death metal that ever existed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However there may be a tiny glimmer of hope, metal heads. The super gore and church burn-alicious soundtracks might not have to end completely now. Small apparently is still planning a way to fittingly end the series, even if Season 5 isn't happening. He even reassured his fans that it ain't over yet.</span><br />
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I won't leave MF hanging though... Don't worry...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You better not, Brendon. You've seen how crazy Dethklok fans can get. Don't force them to make their own content...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just when you thought the pools were closed for kids, the KND comes back to bust open the gates. After it's finale in 2008, <i>Kids Next Door </i>left kids around the world defenseless against adult tyranny. Turns out, they were just working behind the scenes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This animatic popped up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2aDok_CcQ&ab_channel=Morbidcrab" target="_blank">several hours ago</a> randomly by user Morbidcrab. At first it seems as though this could simply be a fan animation, but as it goes on, you can tell that this is something more official. All original characters voices are spot on and the style is too consistent, so this seems to be an official animatic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This could maybe be a fan production with some very good fan VAs, but then you go to series creator Tom Warburton's <a href="http://warburtonlabs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> and can find <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7CQDsDG4gHS-2GhP08b04JjD2SgUe2yTURSvuo5GXZwKjgoUBU0yZPjMnEsOHjq1_Hj_-DVAOepykVkO-kHRr1vP8ZLep0pHmXtoJp8fEGD67l9iQi36ZpYuCm8Cm_4Nb1vvxasbnw/s1600/Photo+Nov+04,+7+22+04+PM.jpg" target="_blank">this sketch</a> that matches the animatic design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well it looks pretty damn sketchy. There's more information from different searches, so I wonder what happens when I type in "GALACTIC"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When it happens, you're met with this. The message reads "Stop the G:KND" and gives a countdown of days, hours, minutes, and seconds. To what you might ask? When looking aroun the site's <a href="http://www.rainbowmonkeys.com/js/ext.js" target="_blank">text entry file</a>, we can see that the count down on top is leading to (depending on your time zone) midnight of April 1st, thirteen days from writing this article. And that's STILL not how far the rabbit hole goes. Do you see this ugly thing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">Turns out that this is numbuh vine. And numbuh vine has a </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009128884942" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;" target="_blank">facebook account</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">. Created on February 7th and a member of the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/showuporgrowup/?pnref=lhc" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;" target="_blank">KND facebook group</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">, this facebook account also gives an astonishing amount of clues and messages too, all leading to the same thing: April 1st.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alright, so there's two possibilities here. Since the Cartoon Network media release had no mention of an official series actually premiering this year, this either an elaborate plan leading up to an official announcement about a new series in the works OR just a huge "fuck you" to fans. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">However, I think the former has more ground thanks to this entry in the G:KND index.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806447211825094264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868785209118325535.post-62436812916442942832015-03-09T10:08:00.003-05:002015-03-09T10:08:50.269-05:00Oh look, we have 10,000 views<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since the Hub is dead, Disney is focused on four more <i>Frozen </i>sequels, and Nickelodeon is doing something with <i>Spongebob</i> we guess, it looks like Cartoon Network is the last place we can nit pick. While we <a href="http://critics2d.blogspot.com/2015/02/steven-universe-crossover-episode-with.html#more" target="_blank">already covered a certain crossover that seemed like the worst announcement</a> earlier, we didn't get to take an in-depth look at everything released today. So what looks promising? What looks horrendous? Why should you care?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />For the children, dear reader. For them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grab a chair, take a seat, and prepare yourself. <a href="http://deadline.com/2015/02/cartoon-network-upfront-powerpuff-girls-adventure-time-1201376480/" target="_blank">Cartoon Network's recent 2015-2016 programming reveal</a> gave us a lot to complain about on the internet. New miniseries, movie, plots, revivals, and shows are making their way on to the network. What we're left with is the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">New seasons of the best shows Cartoon Network has to offer are on their way as we speak. <i>Adventure Time </i>will be entering its 7th season, <i>The Amazing World of Gumball </i>will be entering its 4th, <i>Steven Universe </i>will get its 2nd 52 episode stent, and <i>Clarence</i> despite losing creator and main character voice Skyler Page will also be returning with its 2nd season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also up for renewal is the anything but <i>Regular Show, </i>not only with a 7th season but also a made-for-TV movie. Simply titled <i>Regular Show: The Movie,</i> it's a long form special that will revolve around the main characters accidentally creating a “Timenado,” then having to go back in time and battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe — and their friendship. While the show has been known to have issues with pacing, it will be interesting to see what the crew will do with all the extra time allotted for a TV movie, and it's certainly a project to look forward to. Also if they don't get Christopher Lloyd to make a cameo as Doc Brown it will be a huge missed opportunity for J.G. Quintel to add an '80s reference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aside from old shows getting renewed, let's talk about an even older show getting yet another reboot. After their original 6 seasons, movie, 2 anniversary specials, and Anime spin-off that shall not be named, <i>The Powerpuff Girls </i>will yet again be getting a new spin in the upcoming 2016 launch. Obviously coming with a different crew, it's interesting to see the series go against the wishes of its creator, who opted to end the series because he didn't want to ruin its appeal. Regardless, we'll be looking forward to return of some pint-sized crime fighters, and with Executive Producer Nick Jennings of <i>Adventure Time </i>fame it's sure to at least be worth a watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course not every announcement is going to come with good news. Shows I'm sure some of us stayed up hoping would fade away have unfortunately clawed their way back in to the light. The occasionally funny but not worth the effort <i>Sonic Boom </i>will be getting a 2nd season, the neverending story of animal abuse gets to go on to its thousandth season in <i>Pokémon the Series: XY, Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu</i> will be returning with its 4th season, and the dimwit himself, <i>Uncle Grandpa, </i>will be returning with a 2nd season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do you like Care Bears? Of course not, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3eQtqImGo" target="_blank">no one did</a>. Although it looks like someone is trying to catch that huggable magic with <i>We Bare Bears. </i>Why is it bad? Here, how about you read this description: "A '<u>comedy'</u> about <u>three bear siblings</u>, named Grizzly, Panda and <u>Ice Bear</u>. Each episode follows their <u>awkward attempts</u> at assimilating into human society, whether they’re looking for food, <u>trying to make human friends</u>, or <u>scheming to become internet famous</u>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While there may have been some disappointments, there were also some decisions so infuriating you wanted to <strike>punch Christina Miller in the puss</strike> never mind, someone on Tumblr will probably get their Tampons in a twist over a joke like that and send me death threats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So there you have it, Cartoon Network's 2015-2016 programming looked at and wrapped up in a nice little tear stained bow. Overall, I think there's far more good here to work with than there is bad, and I'm excited to see some of the more interesting entries here. Who knows, maybe even a few of the things I thought were bad will turn out good. Except <i>Teen Titans Go!, </i>we all know that's going to remain horrendous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yep, so one of the most annoying characters in a show that has nothing to do with the canon of the Steven Universe...universe will be coming to play an essential part in a huge character building moment. Because fuck you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Storm Gardens animations sure seem to think he has one, seeing as their latest project <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_fCpEATUKw" target="_blank">Hitler's Magical Mustache</a> </i>came out recently and in their email claimed it to be "a comedy/fantasy animation that is similar humor to southpark [sic], regular show and the simpsons." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As it would turn out, they weren't lying. <i>HMM </i>is in fact similar to all those shows listed. Unfortunately, it's not in the way you'd initially think. So for the sake of this article, let's look at what you'd be hoping to be compared to in those shows and how it actually is here.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"My greatest dream is a world without jews." - Lauren Faust <3</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you'd want an animation to be positively compared to South Park, you'd expect it to be smart, witty, and have a good edge to its comedy while never being afraid to tackle more genuine or lighter subjects. An animation would want to be like <i>South Park </i>in it's believable dialogue and sharp, consistent writing. Now while <i>HMM </i>tackles an insane and offensive topic like <i>South Park </i>always does, its similarity is more similar in the way <i>South Park </i>was originally poorly designed and animated, which isn't good, especially since <i>South Park </i>did that on purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In fact, it's somehow below the dirty animating from the earlier seasons of <i>South Park, </i>looking cheaper than what ever the Candians are animating these days, and trust me that's not a good thing at all. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However I can look past bad animation from online projects, after all you have to sympathize with a lack of a team or a budget. So long as the other aspects are good, it can be overlooked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you'd want an animation to be positively compared to <i>Regular Show</i>, you'd want to find similarities and great visuals, a great handle on pop culture, creative cameos, and great settings. An animation would want the same bat-shit craziness and humor. This animation is insane on many levels, but not written quite as well at all. While <i>HMM </i>at least doesn't have terribly written and forced relationship scenarios like <i>Regular Show, </i>it has bland characters who could use a well written set-up. In fact, maybe the whole thing would have been better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Could I be cool with a fucking bizarre anthropomorphic cat-banana wielding scissors kidnapping Hitler and shaving his mustache, which all turns out to be orchestrated by Anne Frank so she can put the mustache hair in her diary, have the banana cat pants the guards, and fly off in to the night to her attic? Of course I could, I do drugs. However you have to make it work, and here it just doesn't. It starts off with Hitler being pissed at not finding Anne Frank and then <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>BOOM</b></span>, <b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">cat</span>-<span style="color: #f1c232;">banana</span></span></b>. Poorly drawn cat-banana. Which I'll admit his entrance was so bizarre it got a shock laugh out of me, but besides that nothing works here due to the lack of any set up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you'd want an animation to be positively compared to <i>The Simpsons</i>, the characters should be incredibly likable and realistic, but filled with wit and sarcasm. An animation would want the same great environment, cast, writing, and even designs that are simple but not crude. <i>HMM </i>unfortunately does not have the sort of budget, crew, or time behind it to come close, becoming what is assumed to be an acid-fueled Flash project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you wan to see what three shows this most resembles, check out memorable shows such as <i>Angela Anaconda, The Three Friends and Jerry, </i>and <i>Kappa Mikey. </i>To be fair, I think <i>HMM</i> is better than any of those titles, but the production cost, themes, and general style seem right on par with them. Ugly designs, inappropriate themes, and lacking animation match up respectively.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So does this mean that mean I want the Storm Gardens crew to jump off a cliff in the same way I want Teletoon Canada to? Of course not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Look Storm Gardens, you're a young animation 'company'. You're around the level where people like OneyNG and Stamper were when they were first starting out on Newgrounds. It's important to remember the one fact every person producing content needs to know, and that's that your first projects are going to suck. Badly. This goes for drawings, films, stories, or really any entertainment medium. Do not be discouraged by your suckiness, revel in it and learn from it. So don't take these harsh words too personal, but be angered by them anyways. Call me a cunt and continue making your art. Your very, very confusing art.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806447211825094264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868785209118325535.post-28358718205450086902015-01-21T20:35:00.001-06:002015-01-21T20:35:32.315-06:00Help me (and others) win a Shorty Award for absolutely no reason<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As if award shows for over glorified movie stars wasn't enough, now they're doing one for social media. So screw it, if we're going to do this, I want in because reasons. I'm nominated for #blogger, <a href="http://shortyawards.com/mlpcritic?category=blogger" target="_blank">so vote for me here</a>! Matter of fact, who else do I give my support to...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, I have become a sell out. Yes, I have no shame. But for all the right reasons, which include pissing off everyone else. So won't you join the good fight? Nominate me and everyone else listed below to finally make your parents proud, even if they're dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MLPcritic (me!) for the blogger category</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My other place of business, Horse News, is #2 in the weird category! Make it number one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With the completion of his novel, M.A. Larson is eligible for a Shorty Award in "Author"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Queen of bronies and other fanboys, Tara Strong, is up for voice actress. So vote for Harley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some of my favorite shows should be nominated. So here are some random ones for no reason.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://shortyawards.com/southpark?category=tvshow">http://shortyawards.com/southpark?category=tvshow</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://shortyawards.com/mylittlepony?category=tvshow">http://shortyawards.com/mylittlepony?category=tvshow</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also I'm personally voting for Animated James for Artist for the same reason you should vote for me. Because fuck it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what are you waiting for? DO IT. DO IT NOW. FOR ALL OF THEM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806447211825094264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868785209118325535.post-29551331292634547882014-11-15T12:00:00.000-06:002014-11-15T12:00:02.972-06:00Nostalgia Trip: Cartoon Network Groovies Vol. 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week on Nostalgia Trip I brought you a second helping of Cartoon Groovies with all the <i>Powerpuff </i>goodness you could handle. This week, keeping with the theme of our Groovies collection, we'll be taking a look at the videos that were based around the brainiac boy with beats. I'm talking of course of the <i>Dexter's Lab </i>Groovies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember when Dee-Dee and Dexter turned in to '60s anime characters? Yeah me neither. For whatever reason the show that was the most Hip-Hop centered with its groovies decided a parody of old style anime accompanied the soft rock style of <i>They Might Be Giants </i>was going to be cool. Maybe it was for the robots or maybe because the staff members wanted something new to spank it to, but this video is a hidden gem I didn't remember at all until I found it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, good raps about a white kid. Following in the trend that was always fun to see is Dexter's apparent lineage to hip-hop, sick beats, and dope tracks. And no other prime example exists that shows this more than the video that seemed like it was played every hour on the hour, <i>Back to the Lab again. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though this was brought to us during the...darker age of <i>Dexter's Lab</i>, we still get to enjoy all those fresh rhymes and robots and shit. Honestly it was one of the more iconic groovies out there. It just seemed Dexter got the best ones consistently. It's catchy, the verses work great, and the music video incorporates show elements as a collage of random crap. What else can I say except we're going back to the lab again. OH NO!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They got mother fucking Coolio up in this bitch. Seriously, that's how big and influential Cartoon Network got. They managed to get one of the biggest names in hip-hop (at the time) to come in to do a track for them. And it blew our little minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Arguably though, this is a really crappy Coolio song. It doesn't last long at all, it's simple even for his lyrics, and it just sounds phoned in. However the fact that Coolio actually performed on stage in from of all our favorite characters made it so we didn't care at all. The only thing we knew is that Coolio was in the cartoon world and making the Kanker sisters and Dee Dee piss themselves from screaming. Truly epic and unforgettable, even if the song really is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hawk-kawaii.tumblr.com/page/2" target="_blank">Matthew Shelley</a>, or <a href="http://supersketch1220.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">SuperSketch</a> as the internet knows him, is a REALLY hardcore <i>Ben 10</i> fan from Panama City. Yes, that Panama City, where at the very least they host an annual CreativeCon that he attends each year. Matt is no stranger to us at Critics2D either, having ghost written an article here before. He doesn't write for us anymore apparently, but don't hold it against him, neither does anyone else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And that concludes the SuperSketch showcase. Remember this isn't the artist's entire collection, so feel free to explore the links we left or be a dick and don't, because I'm not making anymore. If <b><u>YOU</u></b> would like your art to be displayed in a showcase so a dozen or so extra people can see it, please click the "Contact Us" button and shoot me an email. And for those on your phones, <a href="mailto:jimmyrustles1993@gmail.com" target="_blank">here</a>. Also please, as much as I love porn, it will not be displayed in a showcase. Unless you draw me as sexy as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The Powerpufff Girls </i>was originally created by Craig McCracken in an awful time known as the '90s, becoming a major trailblazer in the world of cartoon audiences, something modern bronies can trace back to as lineage. It lasted six seasons, a movie, two specials, and even an official anime. So just when you thought Rob Sorcher and the CN staff were coming back to form, they weren't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It may be old news, but we'd like to remind you that, yes, <i>The Powerpuff Girls</i> will be getting a reboot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Set for 2016, not too much is known about the upcoming series. The new animation direction hasn't been shown, nothing has come from Craig McCracken or past staff about it, hell, we don't even know if any of the same voice actors are coming back officially. Just a vague announcement. What we do know from articles is this statement from Cartoon Network executive and aspiring Calvin Klein model, Rob Sorcher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week I brought you the original Cartoon Network Groovies starring your favorite Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Except Scooby Doo. I didn't have Scooby Doo.<br /><br />So this week, I thought I bring in Groovies starring one of the best cartoons to ever grace the Network. And they also had some of the best Groovies. It's all about the Powerpuff Girls on this addition of Nostalgia Trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Love: It's pretty shitty. But damn if the Powerpuff Girls didn't try to make it look good and not complicated. And it was mostly done in song. While the show itself boasted a lot of songs that can easily get stuck in an 18 year old male's head and embarrass the living hell out of him (Lauren Faust, you have a habit of working on shows that do that), the Groovies that came from this show were always the most unique and fun. Japanese punk or British pop, they were unique and always interesting to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh Devo. We missed you. Well not the kids who watched this video, we had no clue who the hell you were. The '80s were weird. Our President looked like a mummy, the best music was made by a white black guy, and our biggest concern was trying to tear down a wall. Long after whipping people, Devo came back to bless us with a song about everyone's favorite Napoleon syndrome monkey, <strike>WatchMojo.com</strike> Mojo Jojo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was played constantly, I can easily remember coming home and seeing this. Then seeing it again. Then five more times. I didn't have friends, okay? Point is, it is catchy and strange as any Devo song. Rock, funky, strange, I mean shit it's about an evil genius monkey. And the band dresses like him. It's simply beautiful. Now all that's needed is a strong dose of LSD and this video on a 10 hour loop...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh Japanese girls, why do you make everything more interesting. If the Toonami anime blocks, <i>Pokemon</i>, <i>Teen Titans</i>, and <i>Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi</i> wasn't enough evidence of eastern culture's influence on the unsuspecting American youth, then you can certainly take this Groovie as evidence. Once again the <i>Powerpuff Girls </i>continue to get the most diverse and interesting videos and songs, this time with a Japanese punk girl band known as <i>Shonen Knife</i>. And they sound suspiciously like <i>The Ramones</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even if they are ripping off a legendary dead band, <i>Shonen Knife</i> makes a pretty kick ass song. <i>"Buttercup"</i> delivers a quick, loud, crunchy song. The video that accompany fits that tone: Fast and loud. The panels fly by before you know what's going on and the Japanese spelling just adds to the shows. I have no idea what's being said, even with the english lyrics, but I don't care. This is a song I can play full volume at the gym in my special made <i>Sailor Moon </i>workout shirt and official <i>My Little Pony </i>sweatpants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reminiscent of <i>The Monkees </i>or even some of <i>The</i> <i>Beatles</i> tracks, <i>The Apples in Stereo </i>came out with probably the funniest and most recognizable <i>Powerpuff Girl</i> Groovie, <i>Signal in the Sky. </i>Whiny and British songs seems to irritate the fish monster from the very first episode, because it tries to kill them constantly. And it is pure fun, certainly something incredibly strange to see on a network where there weren't allowed to be shows involving actual people. Until the CN dark ages but that's a long winded rant for another day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Signal in the Sky </i>was something crazy that mocked all the old monster movies like Godzilla or...other Godzilla movies. Destroying an entire cardboard and foam city, it's the exact dose of crazy, wacky, and destructive that gave little me a freaking smirk every time it came on. While the song isn't really amazing, it's just catchy enough to get stuck in your head and it just goes surprisingly well with massive destruction by fish monsters. And did you see the explosions? Thanks Michael Bay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ugh, the early '00s. Do you remember how awful it was? Buildings were blowing up and shit and if a song wasn't over processed white people stuff it was sexy black girl R&B. And the biggest trend was girl power. And we had super powered little girls. Then someone combined them. I'll be the first to admit that young me hated this Groovie, but now the older me can appreciate <strike>dem titties</strike> the great sound that really came from this track.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks to the modern standards and realization that this stuff may have been a touch insensitive, almost all have been banned from airing on American television. The interesting thing is that in some countries, more of this material is allowed to air, especially from Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes. No if you visit Thailand for something other than shemales and happen to see Bugs Bunny in black face, you have to remember that other parts of the world simply don't have America's touchy history with race relations, especially among black people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Considering the long lasting practice of African slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow laws, Lynchings, Minstrel Shows, and Cuba Gooding Jr.'s acting career are all far more associated with America, the context we share on the depictions is lost in translation in other parts of the world. Same would also go with the stereotypical Asian depictions and other races, in places not associated with American history or that have a dominate association with the race being portrayed, they are allowed to be shown because a lot of the offensive tones we know are not present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sounding suspiciously like Matt Stone and Trey Parker's band <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmBM8vpRMMQ" target="_blank">DVDA</a>, </i>the band <i>High School Jim </i>did the world a favor and made this great, loud punk ballad to their cartoon love, <i>Yogi Bear.</i> Another character ruined by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6nW6WxEev4" target="_blank">American cinema</a>, <i>Yogi Bear </i>hit the scene in 1958 on the <i>Huckleberry Hound show </i>and eventually got his own show in 1961. His popularity stuck around and it eventually led to the great Groovie.<br /><br />The video, once again, is just clips from the actual show. But <i>High School Jim </i>delivered a fun song that may have turned a few kids in to punk brats. It's different, it's not really singing and not really speaking, it's messy, and it's fun. Don't try to look up anything by the band though. You're, unfortunately, not going to find a thing. Seems that's what happens when your song gets played on a children's network. Well unless you're <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g4tS_etVq0" target="_blank">Will.I.AM.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While it's probably the least remembered name out of all the Groovies, it has one of the best videos. The song itself is mostly just a mash up of those weird old "How to survive an atom bomb by kissing your own ass under a desk" PSA's and a remixed version of the big band cartoon intro. A pretty good tune, but the video shines with the visuals. Strange cut out stop motion, weird designs and colors, and even early 3D modeled and animated tanks and villians. A visual treat that you won't easily forget, it can really only be topped by my all time favorite Groovie from the Hanna-Barbera era...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mother. Fucking. "<i>Jabberjaw"</i>. Often confused as a song by <i>The Neptunes, </i>the in-show band, the song was actually performed by the ska punk group <i>Pain. </i>Similar in style among names like <i>Reel Big Fish </i>or <i>Less than Jake</i>, <i>Pain </i>knows how to deliver horn laced, fast paced, loud punk rock in a way that inspires a party wherever it's heard. This song is no exception, as it has been a favorite of me and many since childhood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From the album of the same name, the <i>"Jabberjaw" </i>Groovie is instant CN nostalgia. The song is fun and even describes the entire show's cast. The video itself <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBrHf0I4IgY" target="_blank">updates all its members</a> to fit the music's style, hip and jazzy and all those other words young people use these days. Jumping out of a lunchbox, chasing villains, saving the girl, implying bestiality with a shark, there's just a ton going on. The show itself may be a blatant rehashing of <i>Scooby-Doo</i> (hell it's even mentioned in the song) but it's the best rehashing I've ever seen. Reboot <i>Jabberjaw</i>, and get <i>Reel Big Fish </i>to do the music for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The final stop on the first Nostalgia Trip is the medley of some the most beloved Hanna-Barbera characters and a single joke: the repeating backgrounds. And the band <i>Soul Coughing</i> delivers that joke perfectly in a song that has nothing to do with cartoons. Their song <i>"Circles"</i> is a great song with a great twangy guitar and a repetitive/hypnotic drum beat that's matched with equally repetitive lyrics. Similar to the vocal sound of <i>Rehab</i>, <i>Soul Coughing </i>is probably the only act that can be heard in two Groovies. The other being one <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k84-cRlwz7I" target="_blank">centered around older style black and white toons</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brought to the attention of <a href="http://archive.foolz.us/co/thread/64414128/" target="_blank">/co/ today</a>, this YouTube video posted by user Tyler Smith confirms the ship that every pervy middle aged man or Tumblr girl has been dying to have confirmed. Olivia Olson, VA for Marceline,<i> </i>was at a Barnes & Noble book signing event for the upcoming <i>Adventure Time Encyclopedia </i>and spilled the beans. While it's not clear who "he" is from the video, it is assumed by many a conspirator that it's series creator and sweater enthusiast Pendleton Ward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The story behind the two royal bad asses? Well basically it validates all that porn you accidentally find Googling the characters. Officially Marceline and PB have dated. Unfortunately do to the ignorant and small minded nature of foreigners (Thanks Obama!), it seems this can never be expressed on the air. However, there may be hopes in the future in comics or other books for this tidbit to be expressed officially.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now one would think that such a big reveal for a show would cause quite a stir in the fandom, I mean lesbian vampires and anthropomorphic royal bubblegum masses are now canon! Well it seems Adventure time fans, who I will from now refer to as Adventurers, aren't even phased. Like, at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seriously, for hardcore fans it's easy to see why this isn't a surprise at all. Hints of the relations ship are everywhere in previous episodes. The infamous shirt that PB wears as pajamas. Now for all my non-virgin readers, haven't you ever had an article of clothing you wear from a special someone? Maybe even as pajamas? Guess who else did that.<br /><br />Then there's little pictures like up above, moments between characters where it's basically spelled out, and even the comic series <i>Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens </i>about their adventures together. Alone. Take that Finn x PB shippers, fuck your headcanons!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The real questions for Adventurers now have to be what other pairings can the officially make? Will Ice King finally stop being a reborn virgin? Does LSP manufacture LSD? Will Lemongrab finally go the fuck away? While none of these questions can't officially be answered, I'm sure all the fans are dreaming of the answers when Season 7 of Adventure Time comes around.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From the guy who brought you those autistic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7CaXDaruojOVpKE-PY_qiN8rXZynYrM" target="_blank"><i>Sonic</i> and <i>My Little Pony</i> crossovers</a> and the far less polished series predecessor, <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NptxewobnL0" target="_blank">Seniors</a>, </i>all around swell weirdo James Barkley (aka <a href="http://www.animatedjames.com/" target="_blank">AnimatedJames</a>) brings us what his sure to be his Magnum Opus that will eventually be given three shorts and dropped for something basically the same, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmugxejn_U" target="_blank">C-Students</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In an attempt to improve upon his first attempt of an original animated series, AnimatedJames made C-Students, a slimmed down and cleaner cut animation that expanded on the original concept of <i>Seniors</i>. The story mostly follows our main three characters, Kevin, Penny, and, August, who are pretty much mixtures of the 7 characters from Seniors. Probably the most notable change actually comes with these characters. Their voices are much more clear and well acted and that's exactly what James was going for. In fact, the audio is much clearer than C-Students, save for maybe one or two characters but remember, internet cartoons aren't usually performed in a major network studio.<br /><br />So the audio is clear, but that doesn't mean characters are interesting. So how they stack up? While I could go in to the extra bullshit about the Blonde Bitch, sassy black teacher, or the pseudo macho gay Italian (which I should have been offended by because, you know, I'm a whop), I think we should just stick to making profiles for Kevin, Penny, and August.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kevin, the somehow British kid in an American high school, is a complete douche. That's about it. Oh, okay, there's more to him than that but that's the outstanding quality we get from him. A total slacker whose only conquest is to get laid (perfectly summing up the vast majority of people I met in high school), Kevin mostly pines for the touch of his vaginal clad equivalent Scarlet, who rejects him constantly and blah, blah, blah, it's actually pretty funny. I normally can't stand animated relationship quarrels like this but it really is played off for laughs and pays off well. The line about MTV for example:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kevin's a good friend and the sex and idiotic jokes simply ooze out of the guy. The oblivious cloud of hormones, british swagger, and blatant moments make the character, making up for any negative attributes you might find.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">August, voiced by the series creator himself, plays the straight man with a love for sarcasm. He keeps the group together and serves observer for the audience. For the most part he's a kind guy, really the heart out of the three. Honestly though, I can see why someone might find him more vanilla than every one else, after all he could have just as easily been a Mary Sue considering he's basically just James in disguise. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's not much to say, he's an established character with nothing incredibly excellent nor anything awful.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, this is what drives the characters along with a level head and just makes it more fun for viewers. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yes, he's average, but don't we need that to contrast with all the other shit going on?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And now we meet my favorite character, Penny. What you think she's my favorite because she's my waifu? You sick fuck, <strike>my waifu is Frankie Fost-</strike> Disregard that. Okay well, what do I like so much about this character? Well simply put, she's the one who brings a bit of emotion in to a cartoon that's mostly focused on the animated gags and bizarre humor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While everyone else is usually doing stuff like appearing out of other peoples' stomachs or having homoerotic fantasies (James, if you're reading this, thank you for that first one), Penny is the one dealing with a problem a lot of us have probably faced: Rejection. While it's initially played for laughs, she tries to keep fitting in, but her spirit is broken when she hears her getting mocked in the halls. This causes a break down and, yeah, it was very surprising to see James try something relatively emotional like this. It's personal, it's real, and it was one of my favorite elements of the cartoon.<br /><br />I'm rambling at this point but I really do enjoy Penny. While she steals good comedic lines, the emotional point really got me, which makes for an overall great character. I mean shit, she wanted to go to a Reel Big Fish concert! Who the fuck doesn't like Reel Big Fish? Heretics and North Koreans, that's who.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It starts with, as I've said, Kevin trying to get with Scarlet. This scene sets the tone immediately to tell you "Hey, this is some cartoon shit so get ready." Literally first scene is just Kevin pulling his best Looney Tune moves and it's a great starting point. From here, Kevin i shot down and August tries to talk sense in to him, basically by reiterating that Kevin has no shot at all with her, but he should act like a gentlemen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Cut to Penny's opening, conversing with Scarlet, Applebloom, and the cunt bunch who mock her offer to go see musical gods in action because apparently that's being a hipster. Again like I said, she's rejected by others and eventually brought to Kevin and August's group, which includes twins named Dom and Tom, and a lesbian named Nicole, whose daydream gives us...this moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So we cut to a classroom where stereotypical Italian dude #6942 causes sassy crazy black teacher to almost lose her cool, mainly because he want to know if she plays the tired trope of crazy teacher. And damn it, Ms. Delight (not fucking with you, that's her name) is hilarious. It may be a tired character idea, but I lose it when she's on screen. This really gets to play with the crazy setting this cartoon sets up with, considering we've ALL wanted to see a teacher do this to that one smart ass in class. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From here we get more recaps on what's going on. Lesbian looks, Student's not doing homework, Kevin's desperate attempts at getting back with Scarlet, it all leads to even more well timed animated humor. Yet again we get another good line from Kevin about the American hang up with the word "cunt" and it too is both funny and true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Soon we figure out where we get the name for the series, as August, Kevin, and then later we find Penny all getting C's on the project they turned in. We also get another scene from Mr Italian, but this time it turns out to be another sexy fantasy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alright well after that Penny then overhears the cunt bunch and responds in what becomes the emotional climax. And this was very surprising to see from James, who is known for the humor, so to see a real emotional moment a lot of people feel and have it be responded with real emotional responses you could find in high school was excellent. The monologue Penny gives, as well as the subsequent conversation is something that, not only girls in high school, but people from all walks of life can understand and relate to. We have trouble fitting in with the people we <i>want</i> to, but that can sometimes lead to the people we <i>need </i>to hang out with. The kind ones, the fun ones, the ones that share our interests. It's written great, it's true, and then the conflicting conclusions from Kevin and August both hold their own on just how confusing a solution to fitting in can be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shows like My Little Pony and, dare I say, South Park have some musical numbers, but they usually fit in to the premise and have a good segue leading in to it. To me it just seemed forced for no reason here. I think this could have played for more laughs with out the music, but alas, no.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Does this ruin the whole cartoon? Of course not. It's still a great piece of entertainment and the style is unique. I've watched it several times and with each viewing I've found something new that I enjoy. Final thoughts? I love the callbacks it gives to other shows, the style it has in terms of humor, and the writing is well done, especially for an internet cartoon. Keep the emotion, keep the characters, especially keep the cartoon humor, but step up a few of the actors' mic quality and any future musical moments need to be dropped immediately. Unless you can get Reel Big Fish. James, get Reel Big Fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While aimlessly surfing the web in a state of pre-summer vegetation today, I discovered an interesting piece of news from Cartoon Network. You see, with every show such as <i>Steven Universe</i>,<i> Spongebob, </i>or <i>Gravity Falls, </i>each has a test phase in the form of a short to give to the networks as a pitch, or a pilot. Yesterday, Cartoon Network apparently released two new shorts created by some of the staff from <i>Regular Show</i>, and each of them seems seems interesting, at least from first glance. But are they on board the same triumphant track as the emerging greats <i>Steven Universe</i> and <i>Clarence</i>? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With a something that seems like a mesh of <i>Downtown Abbey</i>, <i>Regular Show</i>, and a Sex Pistols Album, it's certainly a strange but wonderful mesh. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Overall, I really did enjoy <i>The Royals.</i> The characters worked well together and the comedy was somewhat genuine, though admittedly weak or cringy at a few points. And while most of the
character archetypes seem over used, they’re not overbearing and don’t really leave a bad taste in your mouth. Plus the art isn't too bad either, putting
most of the interest in the environment. Unfortunately it leaves the characters somewhat simple and lacking, but not to the point of being as bland as that girl you know who plays Clarinet. It seems like the kind of show I
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a bit confusing. Though it’s overtly medieval, it has a lot of recurring modern
themes that make it a bit confusing to understand as a fluid setting. Sure there's little things like the dialogue, but it needs to be modernized. The major problems are much more prevalent. For instance, they reference things like cell phone numbers, and in one scene Peter even manages to hit a satellite dish with a bow and arrow. Little things like that that just make it seem out of whack.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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friends getting out of school for summer break and having "adventures". On board for
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now you maybe a little bit too excited for this remake. Don't get me wrong, I'm very interested in what's new in Nowhere but there's some serious changes coming to your screen. For example, with the second <i>Powerpuff Girls</i> special, what was everyone's initial complaint from ONLY seeing previews? Why it's the crappy attempt to jump on the CG band wagon instead of using the style everyone loves. Nothing but an annoying way to get around making good content, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes the simplistic design of the original show is transformed in to even more basic CG. Now while I do think the CG is somewhat cheap, it some how works. Strange, right? I'm still raging over the <i>PPG special</i> for the animation but this just feels like it fits. This just seems like a perfect compliment to the show's style of different and strange, like they just made it straight from original drawings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But the animation won't be the only important part to a new <i>Courage</i> episode. Remember all the monsters that would freak you out a kid? Hell one of them WAS a CG monster and it was creepy as shit. There were also the Jew Movie zombies, the floating white head, and the tabl-<strike>OH GOD THE MEMORIES. NOT THE TABLET EPISODE NO. NO. PLEASE GOD, NOOOOOOO- </strike>sorry about that last one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />My only big hang up is that Eustace has a new voice actor, and if you watch the video you can tell it sounds nothing like the original. This only happened to the unfortunate death of Eustace's original voice actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933759/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm" target="_blank">Lionel G. Wilson</a>, who died less than a year after <i>Courage</i> ended it's run. While I don't know who the new voice actor is, I wish him well and hope he can live up to Mr. Wilson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>1) Only shows I've seen in my lifetime - </b>This basically means that Slimer from <i>Ghostbusters</i> and the Great Gazoo from <i>the Flinstones</i> won't be making an appearance today. I know there's a good number of annoying characters from older shows but I'm still catching up on them and don't know them well enough to know if they anger me more than what's already on the list</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2) No anime - </b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sorry /a/ssholes, but anime could have three of it's own lists so western animations were really the only ones I could stomach</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3) One character per show - </b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Again, for the sake of length and sanity, I had to add this. I went with which ever characters stood out as the worst of the worst of bad characters, even if some shows could have lists of their own.</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4) No annoying orange - </b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">come on, does this really count as a TV show anyways? It's a terrible internet series someone accidentally put on the air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Terribly written, Terribly designed, Terribly voiced, this character as well as the corresponding show was doomed from the start. Nickelodeon thankfully put the banhammer after two seasons and it's no wonder. I mean n</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">early every single character from the show could have appeared here, but the bizarre ring leader seemed like the better choice. Self centered, delusional, completely stupid, if Fanboy is a role model to children then I am willing to get a vasectomy.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> And what's with this trend of your main kid characters having to be fucking stupid? They all get F's and don't care about school, rather spending their time going to a 7/11 ripoff and drinking slurpee's. Shit it's no wonder everyone complains about this generation if these are the characters that represent them. And why are they superheroes? At what point was this established that they're superheroes? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If there was ever a bigger contrast of characters in an ensemble cast, I wouldn't believe you. In a great show filled with quirky and real characters that really made the series what it is, how did the main character's wife become so awful. A character who is completely full herself and believes she is much smarter than she actually is, Peggy was one of the few flaws in an otherwise amazing show that managed to hold it's quality well in to it's thirteenth and final season. She's always right, everyone is always wrong, especially her husband. So usually a Peggy episode involves her screwing something up horribly, throwing a hissy fit or going through something ridiculous, then going back to being terrible. What's worse is that I feel like she might have grown on me if when this attitude she carries around with her did back fire, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she would be a bit more humble or learn something. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What was Cartoon Network on when they approved this? In fact, how the hell did this get an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Grandpa#Accolades" target="_blank">emmy award nomination</a>? Though none of the other characters are really that bad (save for that damn fanny pack) Uncle Grandpa is unforgivable. With the exception of Regular Show, I move that no more show creators can voice their own main character unless their voice can be proven not to give people immediate autism. I can literally feel brain cells dying in my head every second this character is on screen. With a retarded voice that could put the offspring of Derpy and Patrick Star to shame, Uncle Grandpa is one of the worst characters to ever be produced by Cartoon Network. I mean Uncle Grandpa is loud, excruciatingly dumb, he has one of the most idiotic catch phrases ever (Which Cartoon Network apparently has an erection for because they plaster it EVERYWHERE), his reason for even having a show makes no sense, and I'm pretty sure he is the leader of of a giant incestuous prophecy. He is literally the Uncle and/or Grandpa of everyone ever. Think about that for a second. That's his whole character, if you can call it that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You know what, just chalk this one up as the entire cast because all of them are huge disappointments for what they've become. Seth MacFarlane has decided in recent years to completely ignore his talent and intelligence to keep making shitty cartoons. Family Guy, the Cleveland Show, and some new show about Mexicans. American Dad, I can live with, it's really the only one in his Universe I still enjoy. However, picking a prime example of everything wrong from these shows and all annoying characters in general comes from the Griffin family patriarch himself. Once an absent minded but still caring and loving family man who still managed to have a good head on his soldiers, Peter has become everything I hate in characters. He is nothing but a walking loud speaker and carries an annoying nasally voice that was made even worse after a <u>second cancellation</u>. Peter has become nothing but a prop to spit out useless cut away gag after useless cut away gag, unfunny pop culture references, and go through the same "lessons", ideas, and set ups over and over again. He continually makes his family situation worse and worse, a complete 180 from his original character. Don't worry though! He either gets better at the end of each episode and learns nothing, or he makes a funny edgy joke with no pay off. Or he can just take up dead air doing a useless boring set up that goes no where with no punchline. Or he can mention how he's literally mentally challenged so "it's okay he does all this". Or he can just fart in Meg's face for the thousandth time.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a> That being said this article is not for us to splash in the puddles of nostalgic spaghetti, no. We are here to look at the animated series as a whole and see how it developed and possibly for the future of the series. As most of you know Pokemon is a rather popular franchise based around a world of people and special creatures known as Pokemon which are like if you combined military weapons and real life animals so the most logical thing to do is create a competition where these Pokemon battle each other.<br />
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Pokemon as a franchise has a ton of branches but one very memorable branch on the tree was the anime. In this series we follow a <strike>cunt</strike> young boy named Ash Ketchum (Catch Them get it HA) as he journeys to become a Pokemon master with his new friends all the while foiling the plans of a evil organization called Team Rocket. (Spoiler: Ash sucks and never becomes a master)<br />
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As far as the show goes it started out fairly well besides the prick of a lead it had interesting characters, a fun story, and over all a very exciting word that you can't help but get sucked into so much in fact I almost watched the show religiously as a child.<br />
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One of my favorite things about the Pokemon franchise in general is how creative the makers are or were in each part of the Pokemon world. The games, manga, and show all had clever things or secrets that were put in by clever people that made the franchise that much more interesting.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>That being said the big question is has Pokemon as a series held up to today? Before we can answer that lets compare the old Pokemon to the new Pokemon. The old series was a intense bad ass adventure where each battle needed strategy and cunning to allow the scales of battle to lean in your direction, on top of the intense battles the characters of the story have to go through many hard tasks almost ending up dead on a few occasions but yet having many touching moments.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>Now lets look at Pokemon Black and White Adventures in <strike>sexuality</strike> Unova, This is a perfect example of a bad ass show dropping down to kindergarten level. The really toned this show down to fit kid audiences, everything about it screams for kids even the dialogue. No longer do the battles really on wit now the winner is usually just the person who believes in their Pokemon more. (Diglet use earthquake on Pigeot- Had No Affect, You Need To Believe In Yourself More) I also the characters are all as annoying as Ash if not more and you are not rooting for them to succeed but for them to die horribly but trust me that wont happen this is a kids show.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>Now based on this I would have to say no there is no more hope for the Pokemon franchise but yet there is one more shining beacon of hope that shines for these series, and that hope is The Pokemon Origins Movie.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>This movie does not follow Ash Ketchum but tells of the origins of the Pokemon Franchise based on the game and manga following Red the harbor of the lord and savior Helix Fossil.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>This movie is very good and I recommend for to get your black ass up to watch it. How does this spell hope for the show? Well I believe it show that the creators still have great potential in them that is yet to be seen but spell great things for the future of Pokemon and we were able to catch a glimpse of it through these great people looking back and touching their roots.<br />
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So for now no one knows whether Pokemon will last for ever but all we do know is it will always be with us in our hearts and in our rule 34 files.DrGuthriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17321995451952442940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868785209118325535.post-59279269150421872432014-04-08T01:05:00.004-05:002014-04-08T01:05:31.831-05:00Does Frozen deserve the hype?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it's funny with things just settling down and the number of "Let it Go" remakes uploaded to YouTube finally slowing, that I'm finally hearing a really awkward question after all the hype. Does Frozen deserve the hype?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First off, I don't hate this film. In fact I love it. I've seen it on multiple occasions, sung the songs, loved the art, it's just a great film. The real question here is does it deserve the hype surrounding it? With other amazing animated films out there that seemed to go unnoticed, is it fair that Frozen is now the highest grossing of all time?</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well I hate to not give you a straight forward answer, but it's both a yes and a no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now why 'yes'? Well it's obvious, isn't it? Disney finally made a film that had the old spark it once had, while maintaining a fresh look. With the Princess and the Frog (which, for the record, is highly under rated), then Tangled, and now Frozen, we are seeing the birth of what I consider a third Disney renaissance. A return to good movies and cash cow brands instead of what ever the hell Home on the Range was supposed to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I mean Frozen just had fucking everything, didn't it? The songs were different and took a different approach to how they worked. They were new, they weren't the same old Disney sound, they went out of what seems to be their comfort zone in music in some of the tracks. And Disney stepping out of their comfort zone is so great because it shows that such a tired old company still has magic left in it. Hell, they even broke the stigma of evil queens and made a queen character who is deep, has a past, and stays a good person at the end of the film. That's not Disney. That's brand new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See now's the part where you're probably going to send me an emotional <a href="mailto:jimmyrustles1993@yahoo.com" target="_blank">email</a>. The part where we talk about why this movie might not be deserving of the thousands upon thousands of YouTube videos and gushing fans (Though I will always be willing to accept the <a href="http://www.shadbase.com/chocolate-in-bed/" target="_blank">Rule</a><a href="http://www.shadbase.com/the-cold-never-bothered-me-anyway/" target="_blank"> 34</a>).<br /><br />First off, no, I'm not one of those <a href="http://thiscouldhavebeenfrozen.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr Tard Social Justice Warriors</a> that will bring up the idea that the film is racist, that's not what this is about. I'm talking about through it's content, it's company, and the sudden fan army, does frozen deserve it all? Frankly there are some strong points against it. Some say that the story seemed very generic, it was too short, the pacing was a bit off, but generally these are really the only complaints I hear or agree with about the film. I would have to say the story is relatively generic, though the characters' actions and some key points were very much unexpected, so I honestly can't argue much from this point.<br /><br />Well what about Disney itself? Why would this company mean Frozen might be overhyped? The proof is in the name. Disney. The name is so known I don't even have to explain to you who Walt Disney is, what Disney is or does, because you know! It's probably the most iconic studio name in animated and live-action films. So with a name like that, billions of dollars for mass advertising, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1x76DoACB8" target="_blank">a teaser</a> that warms every person's heart, and a story that has no Americanisms in it to keep it under the radar of the international market, it's no wonder that Frozen spread like wildfire. Disney is the king of trend setting and advertising, while any other films (even if they might be technically better) stood no chance. </span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After the opening title sequence of a dark, windy ocean it cuts to young Brendan chasing a goose with a group of Illuminators right behind him. After a series of B-lines and dashes throughout camps of the Abbey of Kells, Brendan and Co. finally catch the goose. As soon as they have hold of the goose they pull 4 feathers from it's behind for quills. Then Abbot Cellach, Brendan's uncle, walks up to the group ready to ruin all of the fun by requesting some plans for a section of the massive wall in progress surrounding Kells. </div>
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After Abbot Cellach tells Brendan to fetch the plans for the Wall, Brendan and Friends head to the Scriptorium, where all of the books and scripts of Kells are produced. In this scene the Brothers tell Brendan of the Book of Iona and the Island Iona, where the aforementioned book is being written. They tell him of Brother Aidan of Iona, a Master Illuminator who is working on the Book of Iona. </div>
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The film then switches over to a colorful scene of an extremely cartoonish perception of Brother Aidan as a young, /fit/ man working on the Book. After that, it switches over to Brendan's daydream of the Island of Iona being attacked by Vikings, or Northmen in the film, which turns out to be a vision of reality. One of the Brothers wakes Brendan, urging him to bring the plans to Abbot Cellach.</div>
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When Brendan reaches the tower steps and scales the tower in the middle of Kells, he reaches the Abbot's room. There are intricate illustrations of what seems to be blueprints of the wall around Kells, with a map of Kells drawn on the floor. There the Abbot scolds Brendan for being late and not following directions, but lets him off easy. The scolding is also interrupted by the sudden arrival of someone at the main gate, which Abbot Cellach suspects to be another refugee.</div>
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When Brendan arrives to the circle of Illuminators surrounding the newly arrived person to Kells, Abbot Cellach comes over to reveal that he is indeed Brother Aidan, and the other Brothers go apeshit, but subtly. They flood Aidan with questions, and little Brendan tries to gain his attention, but fails because child. But as they move to the Scriptorium, he manages to gain Brother Aidan's attention, and no other way could he have done that by asking, "Is that where you keep the Book?" In which everyone backs off from him, giving him some sort of worried look. Aidan passively shrugs off the question. </div>
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This is when he tasks him with helping to get berries for green ink, where the morning after he sneaks out beyond the wall, which is prohibited by Abbot Cellach. Almost as soon as he enters the deeper parts of the forest with Pangur Ban, Aidans stubborn cat, he almost gets his shit kicked in by a pack of black wolves. But after an ominous howl, a white wolf emerges as the pack of black wolves backs off back into the foggy woods. The white one begins to head towards the rock that Brendan managed to climb onto, and the first that comes to mind for him to get on his knees and <strike>suck it</strike> pray. In this moment, instead of a wolf's bite he is greeted by a young forest Faerie named Aisling (pronounced 'Ashling').</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For our first and more than likely last review considering how terrible this site is already, Critics 2D is taking a look at Cartoon Network's latest attempt to not fuck up their brand name, <b>"Clarence"</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From first glance, it's no wonder so many people immediately avert their eyes from this show. Cartoon Network, at least in recent years, has been known to destroy any hope of their shows futures through advertising. Whether it's too little of it so it will die out, too much exposure, over excitement and loudness, etc. You name it, CN has probably messed it up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So when this new show Clarence came on the scene with it's really simplistic design and absolutely cringe worthy lead character voice, it's no wonder so many people claimed it's just another Uncle Grandpa. Hell, I was one of them for a time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"This looks absolutely terrible. The designs are shit, the character is retarded, his friends are retarded, the stories will be replaced with fart jokes, and all hope is lost. Oh well, at least it's not My Little Pony."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well that's where most of you people went wrong. You never went out of your way to give it a chance. If you did, you'd be surprised to learn this show isn't that terrible. In fact, it's good. Not great, but good. What you don't believe me? Well shut the hell up and read further, you dingus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First off, my feelings about what everyone's initial problem are exactly the same as their's. I completely agree with the idea that these characters are really, really, really simplistic. Annoyingly so. They're just blown up simple shapes with spaghetti arms à la Adventure Time. I mean just look at this kid's head. Look at it. LOOK. LOOK I SAY.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This seems to be the direction a lot of new shows have been going recently. Similar/simple character designs with only slight variations from each other, focusing on making the environment more unique. Unfortunately though, the setting in the show is very simple as well. Basic sets with basic colors. To be fair though, this show isn't supposed to be an epic adventure tale or mystical environment. It's really just a classroom and coming of age comedy cartoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So with such simple designs, you'd think the animation it's paired with would be on par with <a href="http://i.imgur.com/PD3YYZC.png" target="_blank">lazy Canadian flash animation</a>, correct? Well surprisingly, the animation isn't that bad. In fact it's fairly well done. Oh it's not Disney or anything, but everything seems to move smoothly with very few faults. Which adds another surprising fact that this show is very slow paced for the most part, at least from how the pilot turned out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yeah, you wouldn't think that would you? From the way the ads portray it, it'll be another loud, annoying show that's all in your face with it's "Super cool" characters. Once you watch the pilot, however, it's a completely different feeling. Clarence seems to be a relatively quiet show, that let's it's characters' personality and actions bounce off of each other. Save for one part around the middle of the video, the show is pretty quiet and laid back, which is a nice thing to see CN do every now and then. We get to learn who the characters are and how they mesh together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that's where I'm on the fence. Are these characters good, or are they bad. Well to those characters given little screen time, really only there to progress the story, they work well. Moves everything along well and we even get a few sight gags out of it, but no one stands out too much. The real concern I had was with the main characters, in this case there's three of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first you meet is, of course, our title character. First off, yes, this voice is absolutely terrible. I mean this is the main reason people I know put it along side Uncle Grandpa. And, wouldn't you know it, the worst voice in the entire show is voice by it's creator, Skyler Page. Seriously, have you noticed this trend lately? Creators voicing their main characters? I mean we lucked out with J.G. Quintel voicing Mordecai, but seriously, this needs to stop now. <strike>(Reminder: Editorial on why show creators must not voice characters).</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aside from his voice, Clarence is a relatively good character. Loud and joyous with out the headaches you associate those qualities with, he has an infectious personality and ability to blindly see the good in any situation. Is he too stupid at times? It seems like it, but again, it's not to the extreme level of a character like Patrick Star. Just enough to cause problems and let you relate to some other idiot you know. And, in fairness, he redeems himself fairly well by being a good friend and just loving everyone, with out question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jeff. Jesus that's boring. Which ironically fits the character. While I don't have a strong hatred or anything for Jeff, I don't have strong admiration, either. Voiced by Sean Giambrone, he's a straight forward, clean cut, mega white kid who spends his time memorizing a rip-off of Jeopardy. Stereotypical, yes, but not every character in every show can be a gem can it? And, to his credit, Jeff is a nice person and does have a few funny quirks. He's clearly a germaphobe, carrying around a spray can of to disinfect unclean stuff around him like leather, kittens, or his wrists (and no, not for the reason you're thinking of you pervert). With his intelligence clearly above his peers, we also get to see how everyone react to it, to the point he doesn't know he's ever freaking them out. So yes, there's something to take away from a relatively forgettable character like him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our final character is Sumo and he's Beavis. Literally, if you know the character Beavis from MTV's Beavis and Butthead, you know who Sumo is. I mean he even has an eerily similar voice that's portrayed by VA superstar and racist transformer Tom Kenny (tough in the pilot he's voiced by Jason Marsden). He's hyper active, rock and roll loving, off the wall, willing to try anything...so yeah, a PG version of Beavis pretty much sums him up, and it works. Sumo is a fun character, he's nice and eager to be friends with Clarence and Jeff. He goes along with everything or makes his friends go along with him, and I can tell he's going to be the one to get them in to the most hi-jinks, if not Clarence himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So we know the characters, for the most part, mesh well. So how does the overall writing and concept hold? Well let's face it, a kid and his two friends is no new set up by any means. Trios of guy friends are probably the biggest show set up of all time. The writing however, knows what it's supposed to be, a comedy. The gags in this show surprised me around every turn. Clarence's random outbursts of happiness and affection, mystery Pinatas filled with mystery things, and just some good little sight gags. One of my favorite moments, <b>SPOILERS</b>, was when Clarence hands his teacher this special invitation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, all in all, will Clarence work on CN? Is it going to be a good show? More importantly, is your lazy ass going to watch the pilot episode below that I so graciously embedded for you to watch? Well to those first two, I think it is. The characters, aside from some seriously bad voicing, are fun. The writing has that early creativity that's nice to see, the animation is relatively nice, and with a new ad campaign maybe we can see Clarence doing well with it's run. It's no Steven Universe or Last Airbender, but the show does have a laid back likability that makes it hard to hate once you get past the design and lead voice. As an answer to that third question, seriously, watch the pilot below. You can get a lot more out of something by watching it first hand then letting some Horse guy type about it on the internet.</span><br />
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