Jade Lamp: The Animated Series!

PiptheFair

the clone wars show was actually really good so long as the episode contained minimal or no Snips

Sterica

Seeing all the white dudes pop up as the lantern now is really weird.

I guess I watched too much Justice League.

Or maybe just enough.

Centipede Damascus

the best Lantern ever is still a white dude though

Antimatter

I still like John best.

Zonugal

Antimatter wrote:

I still like John best.

As do I.

Although I do adore Sinestro.

Garlic Bread

Antimatter

Zonugal wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

I still like John best.

As do I.

Although I do adore Sinestro.

god, Sinestro in that newest issue of GL

nearly dethroned John just for that one page

Centipede Damascus

Zonugal have you actually cosplayed as Sinestro yet

Bedigunz

Keith what is that from?

Campion

Futore wrote:

Campion wrote:

Also people wipe their butts with their left hand in Japan and that's gross if you're eating food left handed as the lefties will do.

so does this mean you're grossed out by people wiping with their right hand and eating with their right hand?

Well it's really not a North American thing. Still, I wipe left handed and also eat left handed. Both require the full use of my dexterity.

Garlic Bread

Bedigunz wrote: »

Keith what is that from?

Young Justice

I love that costume so much

Garlic Bread

They've also had Hal and John on it



plus Alan Scott in a flashback



Kyle hasn't shown up but honestly I wouldn't be surprised. They've been putting everybody in this show

Centipede Damascus

the thing that's surprised me the most about Young Justice so far is that they have Zatara in it

I'm a little sad that Robin in it is apparently Dick and not Tim for some weird reason though

Zonugal

Centipede Damascus wrote:

Zonugal have you actually cosplayed as Sinestro yet

Not yet but I think I'll actually have funds to pull it off.

Chimera

The character design and CGI is painful to look at. The fact that in some shots Hal's shoulders look wider than he is tall and the lack of detail in the surroundings is pretty off putting. This looks worse than Clone Wars in regards to backgrounds and I am not sure if the character design is just as bad or maybe slightly better.

This seems pretty campy and forced to... even for a children show. I am not setting too high of hopes on this show and really feel I could miss it entirely with no notice of it having come and gone from programming history.

...Besides, no one makes green look as good as I do! >:3

Antimatter

hey chimera can I get opinions from you about transformers prime since we're talkin' modern CGI

personally, I think some of the animation is too smooth, the character design isn't the best, and the plots are occasionally boring

fight scenes own bones though

Garlic Bread

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

the thing that's surprised me the most about Young Justice so far is that they have Zatara in it

I'm a little sad that Robin in it is apparently Dick and not Tim for some weird reason though

Dick is Robin and Wally is Kid Flash because they're all just starting out (although Dick is the youngest but has been doing it the longest)

Centipede Damascus

whoa did I just see Stephanie Brown in this episode of Young Justice

Chimera

Antimatter wrote:

hey chimera can I get opinions from you about transformers prime since we're talkin' modern CGI

personally, I think some of the animation is too smooth, the character design isn't the best, and the plots are occasionally boring

fight scenes own bones though

While I do like the texturing, particle effects, and most of the backdrops the character design is to big of a mesh from the movies and that horrid animated series that had the Indian professor who's daughter was really a transformer.

Some of the transformers have pretty decent character designs (like RC) but most are a bit annoying. The humans are too basic in my opinion.

I do like how much more mature the series feels, it seems they took this incarnation of the Transformers universe more serious. Bumblebee really should be able to talk though. That is INCREDIBLY annoying.

RoyceSraphim

Transformers Prime make me tingle because the Decepticon shock troops in vehicle remind me of bad guys from some other show. I think Speed Racer.

Antimatter

Chimera wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

hey chimera can I get opinions from you about transformers prime since we're talkin' modern CGI

personally, I think some of the animation is too smooth, the character design isn't the best, and the plots are occasionally boring

fight scenes own bones though

While I do like the texturing, particle effects, and most of the backdrops the character design is to big of a mesh from the movies and that horrid animated series that had the Indian professor who's daughter was really a transformer.

Some of the transformers have pretty decent character designs (like RC) but most are a bit annoying. The humans are too basic in my opinion.

I do like how much more mature the series feels, it seems they took this incarnation of the Transformers universe more serious. Bumblebee really should be able to talk though. That is INCREDIBLY annoying.

DID YOU FUCKING KNOCK TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED

A POX ON YOUR HOUSE

Chimera

Antimatter wrote:

Chimera wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

hey chimera can I get opinions from you about transformers prime since we're talkin' modern CGI

personally, I think some of the animation is too smooth, the character design isn't the best, and the plots are occasionally boring

fight scenes own bones though

While I do like the texturing, particle effects, and most of the backdrops the character design is to big of a mesh from the movies and that horrid animated series that had the Indian professor who's daughter was really a transformer.

Some of the transformers have pretty decent character designs (like RC) but most are a bit annoying. The humans are too basic in my opinion.

I do like how much more mature the series feels, it seems they took this incarnation of the Transformers universe more serious. Bumblebee really should be able to talk though. That is INCREDIBLY annoying.

DID YOU FUCKING KNOCK TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED

A POX ON YOUR HOUSE

....we can't be friends anymore. You aren't allowed to use my wall outlets to recharge now. (That's something a robot would do right?)

Centipede Damascus

oh my goodness it's the Forever People

this is incredible

Antimatter

Chimera wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

Chimera wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

hey chimera can I get opinions from you about transformers prime since we're talkin' modern CGI

personally, I think some of the animation is too smooth, the character design isn't the best, and the plots are occasionally boring

fight scenes own bones though

While I do like the texturing, particle effects, and most of the backdrops the character design is to big of a mesh from the movies and that horrid animated series that had the Indian professor who's daughter was really a transformer.

Some of the transformers have pretty decent character designs (like RC) but most are a bit annoying. The humans are too basic in my opinion.

I do like how much more mature the series feels, it seems they took this incarnation of the Transformers universe more serious. Bumblebee really should be able to talk though. That is INCREDIBLY annoying.

DID YOU FUCKING KNOCK TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED

A POX ON YOUR HOUSE

....we can't be friends anymore. You aren't allowed to use my wall outlets to recharge now. (That's something a robot would do right?)

I'd actually stick my plug up you

Chimera

Antimatter wrote:

Chimera wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

Chimera wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

hey chimera can I get opinions from you about transformers prime since we're talkin' modern CGI

personally, I think some of the animation is too smooth, the character design isn't the best, and the plots are occasionally boring

fight scenes own bones though

While I do like the texturing, particle effects, and most of the backdrops the character design is to big of a mesh from the movies and that horrid animated series that had the Indian professor who's daughter was really a transformer.

Some of the transformers have pretty decent character designs (like RC) but most are a bit annoying. The humans are too basic in my opinion.

I do like how much more mature the series feels, it seems they took this incarnation of the Transformers universe more serious. Bumblebee really should be able to talk though. That is INCREDIBLY annoying.

DID YOU FUCKING KNOCK TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED

A POX ON YOUR HOUSE

....we can't be friends anymore. You aren't allowed to use my wall outlets to recharge now. (That's something a robot would do right?)

I'd actually stick my plug up you

Oh really now?! Kinky...

Bedigunz

Alan Scott and Guy Gardner fighting in Batman: Brave and the Bold was amazing.

Butler

"Mommy, how do the green and red lanterns tell each other apart?"

And rafts of young boys all over the country discover that they're colour-blind.

Zonugal

Butler wrote:

"Mommy, how do the green and red lanterns tell each other apart?"

And rafts of young boys all over the country discover that they're colour-blind.

Ideally it should be a cartoon to teach these children that they are inferior to their peers.

Goatmon

The Geek wrote:

The most offensive thing about Clone Wars is that they basically just copied the character design from Tartakovsky's version and just made them three dimensional. I mean yeah, it's all pretty much just caricatures of actual actors, but there is a pretty distinctive style to the drawn toon and the CG toon pretty much just lifts it. If you're gonna spit on the excellent work Tartakovsky did for Clone Wars and make something else to replace it, at least have the decency to come up with your own character models.

I'll drink to that.

What really pissed me off about the whole thing was he denied Tartakovsy's work as being canon.

It's leagues better than his shoddy imitation, but Lucas apparently thought he could do better. Knowing him, he probably thinks he has.

If nothing else, at least Tartakovsky's show won three emmys.

Butler

Does Lucas seriously have no-one around him to show him some tough love and tell him all his ideas are fucking shite?

Goatmon

Antimatter wrote:

Chimera wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

hey chimera can I get opinions from you about transformers prime since we're talkin' modern CGI

personally, I think some of the animation is too smooth, the character design isn't the best, and the plots are occasionally boring

fight scenes own bones though

While I do like the texturing, particle effects, and most of the backdrops the character design is to big of a mesh from the movies and that horrid animated series that had the Indian professor who's daughter was really a transformer.

Some of the transformers have pretty decent character designs (like RC) but most are a bit annoying. The humans are too basic in my opinion.

I do like how much more mature the series feels, it seems they took this incarnation of the Transformers universe more serious. Bumblebee really should be able to talk though. That is INCREDIBLY annoying.

DID YOU FUCKING KNOCK TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED

A POX ON YOUR HOUSE

It really wasn't all that great.

Wasn't terrible, but its timeslot pretty much demanded that it pander way more than I liked, and they had to cut down on the more blatant violence.

All in all, I wanted to get into it, but the animation was too inconsistent, and the whole show was just a little too wacky for me.

Goatmon

Butler wrote:

Does Lucas seriously have no-one around him to show him some tough love and tell him all his ideas are fucking shite?

This seems to be the problem in a nutshell.

In the first trilogy, he wasn't a super rich douche who could just ignore everyone who didn't agree with him. The newer movies suffer greatly because of this.

Also, here's something I just came across.

It's a fairly lengthy speech Lucas made, some twenty-something years ago. I think.

“My name is George Lucas. I am a writer, director, and producer of motion pictures and Chairman of the Board of Lucasfilm Ltd., a multi-faceted entertainment corporation.

I am not here today as a writer-director, or as a producer, or as the chairman of a corporation. I’ve come as a citizen of what I believe to be a great society that is in need of a moral anchor to help define and protect its intellectual and cultural heritage. It is not being protected.

The destruction of our film heritage, which is the focus of concern today, is only the tip of the iceberg. American law does not protect our painters, sculptors, recording artists, authors, or filmmakers from having their lifework distorted, and their reputation ruined. If something is not done now to clearly state the moral rights of artists, current and future technologies will alter, mutilate, and destroy for future generations the subtle human truths and highest human feeling that talented individuals within our society have created.

A copyright is held in trust by its owner until it ultimately reverts to public domain. American works of art belong to the American public; they are part of our cultural history.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society. The preservation of our cultural heritage may not seem to be as politically sensitive an issue as “when life begins” or “when it should be appropriately terminated,” but it is important because it goes to the heart of what sets mankind apart. Creative expression is at the core of our humanness. Art is a distinctly human endeavor. We must have respect for it if we are to have any respect for the human race.

These current defacements are just the beginning. Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tommorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with “fresher faces,” or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor’s lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new “original” negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires. The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. In order to reconstruct old negatives, many archivists have had to go to Eastern bloc countries where American films have been better preserved.

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.

There is nothing to stop American films, records, books, and paintings from being sold to a foreign entity or egotistical gangsters and having them change our cultural heritage to suit their personal taste.

I accuse the companies and groups, who say that American law is sufficient, of misleading the Congress and the People for their own economic self-interest.

I accuse the corporations, who oppose the moral rights of the artist, of being dishonest and insensitive to American cultural heritage and of being interested only in their quarterly bottom line, and not in the long-term interest of the Nation.

The public’s interest is ultimately dominant over all other interests. And the proof of that is that even a copyright law only permits the creators and their estate a limited amount of time to enjoy the economic fruits of that work.

There are those who say American law is sufficient. That’s an outrage! It’s not sufficient! If it were sufficient, why would I be here? Why would John Houston have been so studiously ignored when he protested the colorization of “The Maltese Falcon?” Why are films cut up and butchered?

Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

I hope you have the courage to lead America in acknowledging the importance of American art to the human race, and accord the proper protection for the creators of that art–as it is accorded them in much of the rest of the world communities.”

It's a lengthy speech in which Lucas, in response to the film studios of the time going back and revamping and messing with old movies, basically says "Quit fucking around with classic stuff. You're ruining it."

The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh George?

Zonugal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCjIjsZp_Y

Garlic Bread

Centipede Damascus wrote:

whoa did I just see Stephanie Brown in this episode of Young Justice

What episode? Where at?

Garlic Bread

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

oh my goodness it's the Forever People

this is incredible

The Forever People and the Super-Cycle are straight out of the comic series

I'm glad they're borrowing heavily from it while still doing a lot different

BugBoy

last night I dreamed I was hal jordan

except instead of a pilot I was a police officer on house arrest

then I spent a lot of time drinking soda and berating kyle rayner

it was a pretty good dream, as far as they go

Centipede Damascus

Keith wrote:

Centipede Damascus wrote:

whoa did I just see Stephanie Brown in this episode of Young Justice

What episode? Where at?

In "Failsafe", when you see what looks like a bunch of people hiding in the Batcave, the camera pans over to Alfred and there's two girls standing in front of him. One is taller, with red hair, and the other is a bit shorter, and is blonde.

Garlic Bread

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Keith wrote:

Centipede Damascus wrote:

whoa did I just see Stephanie Brown in this episode of Young Justice

What episode? Where at?

In "Failsafe", when you see what looks like a bunch of people hiding in the Batcave, the camera pans over to Alfred and there's two girls standing in front of him. One is taller, with red hair, and the other is a bit shorter, and is blonde.

That wasn't the Batcave, that was a stadium or something

And I don't think that's Stephanie Brown. It's probably either Wonder Girl or Arrowette, as they both went to a prep school in the comics. Although they couldn't use Cassie originally they said they got the rights later. But they've also said Arrowette will appear at some point

Brainleech

I watched it and thought at the end it's bascially going to be Hal Jordan's and Kilowog's interglactic road trip

Brainleech

In young Justice they also have an updated Wendy and Marvin from Super Freinds