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[Airbender] The legend of Korra: I am the solution.
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Bigger budget is why the movie was so much better than the series.
They also have directors and storyboard artists who know how to do action. Like for example, Lauren Montgomery, who directed this:
Live action cost scales perfectly with cel animation, after all.
It's an adapation of how the (previously) latest super girl came to earth.
Probably more to do with having fewer episodes.
I believe the season caps out at 14, or 13.
That means they could afford to pour about 50% more money into each episode, compared to the 20 episodes per each season Last Airbender.
FLCL had an entire show's budget condensed into 6 episodes, and the resulting animation was kind of impossible to beat for its time.
I would assume the amount of episodes are considered when a budget is decided.
I mean I'd expect all other things being equal a show with 20 episodes ordered and a show with 10 episodes ordered would receive a different budget.
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Ironic that's bought up in a thread with a female protagonist from an animated series. They changed the title from Supergirl to Apocalyse, will no longer do female solo projects and made Supergirl's picture on the cover less obvious specifically because the Wonder Woman animated film "failed" (despite outselling the recent Green Lantern animated film). WB could take a lesson from Nick on female lead projects.
TO be fair to WB the rule is now that nobody other then Batman and Superman get movies.
Green Lantern isn't being treated better then WW.
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True, but women were singled out first IIRC. And before that they were sidelined from live action films, as well.
Green Lantern got an animated series despite having a shitty, unsuccessful live action film. WW's lucky she got a solo animated film at all, never mind a more successful financial and critical one. Were Avatar: TLA a WB property I doubt LOK would have been greenlit.
True. Although I gotta tell you until the new 52 Wonder Woman arc I wouldn't be pushing for an animated series anyway.
She has a complex and somewhat mismatched backstory.
Sucks that I can't think of another DC Heroine that could possibly get a show.
You are wrong about the Green Lantern thing though I think. DC was expecting GL's movie to hit hard. It was the first outing for what was basically DC analogy to Marvel Studios. The movie was supposed to be their Ironman. The Animated Series probably was green-lit to capitalize on Green Lantern breaking out.
Similarly Green Lantern takes Superman's place in the first new JL comic. Him and Batman meeting up and finding other heroes.
There was an obvious GL push.
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My favorite comic version was Post-Crisis WW. I highly recommend Perez, Jiminez, Rucka and Simone's runs.
True. Consistency isn't WW's mythos thing. That said, there's no reason a cartoon couldn't pick the best parts like the Justice League and Young Justice series.
Manhunter might work. Birds of Prey, too.
Fair enough.
Did we even get an Oracle BatB episode? Because they did just about everything.
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But they failed to realize two problems.
1. Outside his fan base no one gives a shit about Hal Jordan and he's pretty boring, it's why his movie persona was tried to be move lively. Still failed. They should have tried John, Kyle or hell even Guy.
2. the GL concept as it is comic book wise is a very hard sale when pushed to other media. They expected the same lightning in a bottle with the comic. They crashed hard on that point.
Anyways back to the Korra stuff.
Been thinking of how Amon can do what he does and came up with a theory so going to spoiler tag it just in case:
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Characters or properties being high profile are a good thing to have but not the only reason a cartoon can succeed. Many successful cartoons, films and tv series never appeared in other media before. Korra did well and it's not to dependent on Avatar: TLA aside from the title. Ben 10 had no ties to anything and it's on its third or forth incarnation.
Not really. All they need to do is have the Joker shoot her or imply it. It's not really that much worse than Bruce Wayne's or Dick Grayson's origins.
No, Barbara was just Batgirl there I think. I don't remember Oracle ever appearing in any cartoon series yet.
LOK is definitely one of the best cartoon series right now. Very few come close to it in quality. Young Justice is the closest with Iron Man: Armored Adventures not far behind.
Hal can be a good character in the right hands. He's just incredibly easy to write being an arrogant asshole. That said, you're right the films shouldn't be monopolized by him alone. However, a benefit with using Hal is exploiting his mythos which is incredible. Though they could transplant that to the others.
The concept is fine. It's the execution where they failed. Had they made a GL film worthy of the hype it would have done much better IMO. You don't sell the franchise that's its the next Star Wars (which it could have been) and deliver a terrible movie. Thankfully the animated series is doing well on that front.
If Ty Lee showed up looking like one of those super old ladies from the beach episode.
I can't remember the last time I watched a show that made me grin from ear to ear during the entire thing.
Aang is totally the dude in the intro.
That was such a well-done realization of the effect of all the challenges and struggles which have faced her to date.
I'm guessing when Aang's spirit does make an appearance he's going to tell the story of the guy he dealt with in his day.
My wife asked why Korra animated better then Sozen's comit when I put it on right afterwards.
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It just wouldn't be them if they were all super serious, no matter how grave the threat is.
What if Amon
We have no evidence Aang threw in the spirit bending towel
And holy crap that wonder woman thing is a great fight scene, the supergirl vs darkside one is great too. Terrific animation, even if they kind of made superman a wuss
I personally doubt it but it wouldn't be unfeasible.
Asami? She's Amon, baby.
The "failure" of the Wonder Woman animated movie also led to Batgirl: Year One being shelved.
WB/DC have just treated the DCAU people pretty poorly in general. I'm really surprised the Lauren Montgomery is the only one who's fed up with their BS. Bruce Timm could probably get a lot more leverage if he threatened to leave and work for Marvel.
I think the Green Lantern animated series was greenlit before the movie flopped.
But yeah, the order at WB for DC DVD stuff is "all Batman/Superman/Justice League, all the time" now. Though they're allegedly making Flashpoint, so who knows.
At any rate, holy crap. The good stuff just keeps on coming.
Also, the use of the announcer for the "last time" stuff is brilliant, and pretty much the only time I've ever willingly sat through that instead of fast-forwarding it.
I mean, if these guys were that badass at fourteen, how scary are they going to be at forty? Woe betide any criminals who set up shop in Republic City.
Now the real question is, did Republic City actually have trials, or were arrested criminals simply forced to duel Toph for their freedom?