The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
Penny Arcade - Comic - Adamant
Dog
Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
Penny Arcade - Comic - Adamant
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
Unknown User on
+2
Posts
(Edit: The tychpo has now been fixed.)
Other person a little later: "I watched that Last Airbender movie and it was awful. Why would you like that?"
Me: "Oh no......"
Same energy, really.
She responded, "yeah, the one guy is all like, 'I love you Padme'..."
Of course, the movie gave me my lifelong crush on Christina Ricci, so I can't complain that much.
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
Remember their family motto: "We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us"
There are more antagonists in the movies, so the family get to react more to adversity rather than just random neighbours turning up
The original original source is comic strips which were closer in tone to the 90s movie incarnation than the live action TV show.
Essentially it's all about the fun. If innocent people really died where would be the fun? So they don't. At least not obviously on screen. Thinks back to Pugsley's stop sign collection...
Whether you put that down to in universe supernatural curses etc or from a more meta side because it's all just a comic/show/film for light hearted entertainment and doesn't intend to be thought about that hard, is up to you.
I feel like "good" in entertainment is pretty... flexible. I mean, Luke Skywalker was a good kid, right? But he dropped a bomb that killed between hundreds of thousands and millions of regular Joes who were just working food service, janitorial, IT, etc. All the movie had to say about that was, "Great shot, kid!"
Look they didn't have any janitors or food service on the death star. It was mostly automated.
He did kill roughly 500,000 of those adorable mouse droids however.
Nightmare Before Christmas has plenty of lines that make the assertion "but we're not mean" quite hard to believe, unless you start bending over backwards trying to discern what death actually means in the land of Halloween.
That aspect always made it hard for me to take Harry Potter seriously too. They throw just enough jokes in there about Quidditch or various curriculum being deadly to students that when the story does become serious, I'm just not buying that the teachers have the best interests of the kids at heart.
But that tracks exactly with how people typically think of that sort of thing in the real world. If you destroy an enemy battleship, you're killing non-combatant cooks and medics, but few people focus on that. The Death Star had more personnel, but personally I don't think that changes the calculus on destroying enemy vessels.
War is awful. Destroying the Death Star was just as "good" as a lot of the decisions armies make in war.
People tend to not think of that kind of thing as light entertainment suitable for children, though.
Having recently rewatched the compilation movies of the original Gundam TV series, Japan would beg to differ.
Well, Japan has different cultural mores in general, so there's that. Much like how in Europe nudity isn't considered the horrible thing and on-screen violence isn't considered ho hum like in America.
But leaving aside that, it seems like you're implying "it's an anime" = "it's targeted at children". That's not generally the case in Japan. I'm not privy to how Gundam is marketed/targeted there, but anime has a much different place in their entertainment offerings than animated stuff here.
No, original Gundam was very definitely marketed to kids. I'm well aware that anime is just a medium and not any particular genre or demographic. I just thought it would be funny to bring up as a counterpoint, as that series really doesn't pull punches about what war is like.