Final Space wrapped up its 3rd season with an outrageous cliffhanger. Unfortunately, the series' future is in doubt, so this may actually be the end. I really hope it gets renewed. Such a weird and engaging series, it deserves to be finished properly.
That's disappointing to hear. The show gets compared to Farscape but sharing that aspect is a downer.
Don't talk to me about unresolved cliffhangers. I'm a fucking ReBoot fan.
Just to really twist the knife, there's the utterly fucking awful Reboot: The Guardian Code series that got made about ten years ago where somehow the CG part looks fucking worse than the original series, and they really really take a big shit on the setting by turning it into yet another fuckawful "kids know about a secret virtual world" piece of trash where the kids, obviously, have to go into the virtual space to fight digital whatever to save... stuff.
If they wanted a Code Lyoko remake, just do a Code Lyoko remake. Nowt wrong with that show.
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To make it even worse, it was even Mainframe that made the series (they also made the original series).
I can only hope that anybody who had put any heart into the original series was looooong since departed from the company. It would've bee heartbreaking to work on the excellent original show and then see it utterly gutted and devoured to be excreted into the form of that wretched newer series.
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Question from the peanut gallery: Why are they playing Ode to Joy, the EU anthem, when all this pure American shit is going on? Am I missing some sarcastic take?
Also, I might have become to woke, as I look at the line-up and think
"Yeah, but you were murdering those Indians and taking their lands, kind of insensitive to have them on the team "Rarr-Rarr USA".
Also, there was still full on slavery going on,
Ooh.. and after this, something called the Chinese exclusion act came into effect, meaning that girl is fighting for a country that literally kicked all of them out later."
Maybe I'm too jaded, but it just feels...wrong.
(BTW, I'm not here on a "ooh no, America Bad" rant, but it just looks weird to glorify exactly the opposite of what happened and going "Fuck Yeah! This is it!")
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I don't expect American creators to know what the EU anthem is, considering most Europeans don't know what it is either.
If they wanted a Code Lyoko remake, just do a Code Lyoko remake. Nowt wrong with that show.
Oh, it's so much pettier than that. ReBoot: The Guardian Code was an attempt by Mainframe Studios president Michael Hefferon to revive MP4orce, a show which had already failed once after he created it for his previous employer Berlin Animation Film. He spent twelve years working his way up the ranks of a company so he could skin a cult classic cartoon, drape its carcass over his pet project, and then name the new lead character after his son just to make it extra narcissistic.
This video goes into the details, if you want to suffer under the burden of cursed knowledge:
Question from the peanut gallery: Why are they playing Ode to Joy, the EU anthem, when all this pure American shit is going on? Am I missing some sarcastic take?
Also, I might have become to woke, as I look at the line-up and think
"Yeah, but you were murdering those Indians and taking their lands, kind of insensitive to have them on the team "Rarr-Rarr USA".
Also, there was still full on slavery going on,
Ooh.. and after this, something called the Chinese exclusion act came into effect, meaning that girl is fighting for a country that literally kicked all of them out later."
Maybe I'm too jaded, but it just feels...wrong.
(BTW, I'm not here on a "ooh no, America Bad" rant, but it just looks weird to glorify exactly the opposite of what happened and going "Fuck Yeah! This is it!")
Don't you think that's supposed to be part of the joke? It seems like what they're going for is the Revolutionary War filtered through the lens of Superfriends or G.I. Joe. Those types of Saturday morning cartoons would try to appear inclusive, even if it meant inventing new characters who weren't in the source material like Apache Chief, Samurai, or El Dorado. That's what the people behind this movie are referencing by reverse-whitewashing actual history. That also explains why Abraham Lincoln is there, 100 year early. It's a joke about how characters would sometimes get shoehorned into places they don't belong just because they have name-recognition.
Question from the peanut gallery: Why are they playing Ode to Joy, the EU anthem, when all this pure American shit is going on? Am I missing some sarcastic take?
Also, I might have become to woke, as I look at the line-up and think
"Yeah, but you were murdering those Indians and taking their lands, kind of insensitive to have them on the team "Rarr-Rarr USA".
Also, there was still full on slavery going on,
Ooh.. and after this, something called the Chinese exclusion act came into effect, meaning that girl is fighting for a country that literally kicked all of them out later."
Maybe I'm too jaded, but it just feels...wrong.
(BTW, I'm not here on a "ooh no, America Bad" rant, but it just looks weird to glorify exactly the opposite of what happened and going "Fuck Yeah! This is it!")
Don't you think that's supposed to be part of the joke? It seems like what they're going for is the Revolutionary War filtered through the lens of Superfriends or G.I. Joe. Those types of Saturday morning cartoons would try to appear inclusive, even if it meant inventing new characters who weren't in the source material like Apache Chief, Samurai, or El Dorado. That's what the people behind this movie are referencing by reverse-whitewashing actual history. That also explains why Abraham Lincoln is there, 100 year early. It's a joke about how characters would sometimes get shoehorned into places they don't belong just because they have name-recognition.
Yeah, I thought about that, but it doesn't really feel like it, but then again, it's a minute long trailer, so you could be 100% right.
This video goes into the details, if you want to suffer under the burden of cursed knowledge:
I don't.
Of all the umpteen ReBoot reboots that were attempted and then fell through, it adds extra sting that it was the fucking Guardian Code that wound up being the one that saw the light of day.
Season 3 ending is probably the best stopping point, unresolved Daemon plot aside.
This video goes into the details, if you want to suffer under the burden of cursed knowledge:
I don't.
Of all the umpteen ReBoot reboots that were attempted and then fell through, it adds extra sting that it was the fucking Guardian Code that wound up being the one that saw the light of day.
Season 3 ending is probably the best stopping point, unresolved Daemon plot aside.
I will say that Mike the TV as a literal televangelist complete with pompadeur was hilarious.
Season 4 had a lot of interesting ideas. Too many, considering how it ended.
Matrix and Enzo slowly figuring out their dynamic in a world where they both coexist.
The political unrest with the neo-virals.
Seeing a bunch of characters reBoot inside a game for the first time ever, including Hex, Hack & Slash, technically Megabyte.
Working on a way to reverse nullification and possibly even restore Lost Angles.
I wouldn't want to lose all that just because they couldn't stick the landing.
I'm now I'm realizing ReBoot season 4 is the Mass Effect 3 of television.
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Season 4 had a lot of interesting ideas. Too many, considering how it ended.
Matrix and Enzo slowly figuring out their dynamic in a world where they both coexist.
The political unrest with the neo-virals.
Seeing a bunch of characters reBoot inside a game for the first time ever, including Hex, Hack & Slash, technically Megabyte.
Working on a way to reverse nullification and possibly even restore Lost Angles.
I wouldn't want to lose all that just because they couldn't stick the landing.
I'm now I'm realizing ReBoot season 4 is the Mass Effect 3 of television.
Mass Effect 3 had the better part of a decade to come up with multiple endings that weren't a giant stinking planet-sized turd after all that effort.
ReBoot just didn't know it was going to end on S4 and got screwed, which had already happened once due to broadcaster bullshit and then I think internal Mainframe politics almost tanked it one or two other times.
But that's a series I would not at all mind seeing brought back. I definitely enjoyed the conceits of their digital world, plus the fact that there was absolutely zero interaction with or presence of humans outside games showing up. And for a kids show, the writing still holds up surprisingly well.
Has anyone else watched Luca yet? It was hardly the best Pixar movie, but not the worst. Somewhere between Onward and Soul in quality to me.
I think my main issue is that it felt overstuffed and also too flimsy? Like maybe if they took out the main antagonist or at least downplayed him, Ratatouille-style, they could have fleshed out the main protagonists some more.
I wonder if it would help if they went all out as a "coming out" story. Like, in the first act, I was like "...they have to know the context, right," but by the second act, it still sort of works, but less a gay romance and more a possibly unrequited love triangle.
You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
Has anyone else watched Luca yet? It was hardly the best Pixar movie, but not the worst. Somewhere between Onward and Soul in quality to me.
I think my main issue is that it felt overstuffed and also too flimsy? Like maybe if they took out the main antagonist or at least downplayed him, Ratatouille-style, they could have fleshed out the main protagonists some more.
I wonder if it would help if they went all out as a "coming out" story. Like, in the first act, I was like "...they have to know the context, right," but by the second act, it still sort of works, but less a gay romance and more a possibly unrequited love triangle.
Has anyone else watched Luca yet? It was hardly the best Pixar movie, but not the worst. Somewhere between Onward and Soul in quality to me.
I think my main issue is that it felt overstuffed and also too flimsy? Like maybe if they took out the main antagonist or at least downplayed him, Ratatouille-style, they could have fleshed out the main protagonists some more.
I wonder if it would help if they went all out as a "coming out" story. Like, in the first act, I was like "...they have to know the context, right," but by the second act, it still sort of works, but less a gay romance and more a possibly unrequited love triangle.
Now I'm curious as to your ranking.
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Pixar Rankings
Wall-E
Inside Out
Toy Story 3
Soul
The Incredibles
Coco
Toy Story 2
Ratatouille
Up
Luca
Toy Story 4
The Incredibles 2
Finding Dory
Monster's Inc
Finding Nemo
Toy Story
Brave
Onward
Monster's University
Bug's Life
The Good Dinosaur
Cars
Didn't Watch
Cars 2
Cars 3
It could possibly stand to see some revisions, admittedly.
You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
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It's amazing how far down the list you have to go before you start getting to the merely "ok" movies. Noting that I haven't seen onward or dinosaur, the cutoff is somewhere around Monster's U.
It's still really weird they named the sequel to the first movie Cars 3, skipping right over 2 in naming was a bold choice. :razz:
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The Good Dinosaur is a fine coming-of-age quasi-western with absurdly detailed and convincing nature backgrounds. A very simple movie, for good or ill.
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Even if this turns out terrible it's still magnificent.
That is definitely...a take on isekai.
My impression was that that's kinda the point
Horsies normally say "Nay", but test audience didn't connect with the character, so the went with something that would be more positive.
Oh, this show is absolutely someone tricking Netflix into funding their fetish.
That's disappointing to hear. The show gets compared to Farscape but sharing that aspect is a downer.
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Just to really twist the knife, there's the utterly fucking awful Reboot: The Guardian Code series that got made about ten years ago where somehow the CG part looks fucking worse than the original series, and they really really take a big shit on the setting by turning it into yet another fuckawful "kids know about a secret virtual world" piece of trash where the kids, obviously, have to go into the virtual space to fight digital whatever to save... stuff.
It is so very very bad.
I can only hope that anybody who had put any heart into the original series was looooong since departed from the company. It would've bee heartbreaking to work on the excellent original show and then see it utterly gutted and devoured to be excreted into the form of that wretched newer series.
Question from the peanut gallery: Why are they playing Ode to Joy, the EU anthem, when all this pure American shit is going on? Am I missing some sarcastic take?
Also, I might have become to woke, as I look at the line-up and think
"Yeah, but you were murdering those Indians and taking their lands, kind of insensitive to have them on the team "Rarr-Rarr USA".
Also, there was still full on slavery going on,
Ooh.. and after this, something called the Chinese exclusion act came into effect, meaning that girl is fighting for a country that literally kicked all of them out later."
Maybe I'm too jaded, but it just feels...wrong.
(BTW, I'm not here on a "ooh no, America Bad" rant, but it just looks weird to glorify exactly the opposite of what happened and going "Fuck Yeah! This is it!")
Oh, it's so much pettier than that. ReBoot: The Guardian Code was an attempt by Mainframe Studios president Michael Hefferon to revive MP4orce, a show which had already failed once after he created it for his previous employer Berlin Animation Film. He spent twelve years working his way up the ranks of a company so he could skin a cult classic cartoon, drape its carcass over his pet project, and then name the new lead character after his son just to make it extra narcissistic.
This video goes into the details, if you want to suffer under the burden of cursed knowledge:
That was great. People should watch it.
*Sad council of Europe noises*
Don't you think that's supposed to be part of the joke? It seems like what they're going for is the Revolutionary War filtered through the lens of Superfriends or G.I. Joe. Those types of Saturday morning cartoons would try to appear inclusive, even if it meant inventing new characters who weren't in the source material like Apache Chief, Samurai, or El Dorado. That's what the people behind this movie are referencing by reverse-whitewashing actual history. That also explains why Abraham Lincoln is there, 100 year early. It's a joke about how characters would sometimes get shoehorned into places they don't belong just because they have name-recognition.
Yeah, I thought about that, but it doesn't really feel like it, but then again, it's a minute long trailer, so you could be 100% right.
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Of all the umpteen ReBoot reboots that were attempted and then fell through, it adds extra sting that it was the fucking Guardian Code that wound up being the one that saw the light of day.
Season 3 ending is probably the best stopping point, unresolved Daemon plot aside.
I will say that Mike the TV as a literal televangelist complete with pompadeur was hilarious.
I wouldn't want to lose all that just because they couldn't stick the landing.
I'm now I'm realizing ReBoot season 4 is the Mass Effect 3 of television.
Mass Effect 3 had the better part of a decade to come up with multiple endings that weren't a giant stinking planet-sized turd after all that effort.
ReBoot just didn't know it was going to end on S4 and got screwed, which had already happened once due to broadcaster bullshit and then I think internal Mainframe politics almost tanked it one or two other times.
But that's a series I would not at all mind seeing brought back. I definitely enjoyed the conceits of their digital world, plus the fact that there was absolutely zero interaction with or presence of humans outside games showing up. And for a kids show, the writing still holds up surprisingly well.
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Apart from classic chipmunk noises, hopefully.
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I think that might still count as non-verbal.
I wonder if it would help if they went all out as a "coming out" story. Like, in the first act, I was like "...they have to know the context, right," but by the second act, it still sort of works, but less a gay romance and more a possibly unrequited love triangle.
Now I'm curious as to your ranking.
Oh noooo, not posting charts, that's the thing in life I don't like. How will I okayherewego
Wall-E
Inside Out
Toy Story 3
Soul
The Incredibles
Coco
Toy Story 2
Ratatouille
Up
Luca
Toy Story 4
The Incredibles 2
Finding Dory
Monster's Inc
Finding Nemo
Toy Story
Brave
Onward
Monster's University
Bug's Life
The Good Dinosaur
Cars
Didn't Watch
Cars 2
Cars 3
It could possibly stand to see some revisions, admittedly.
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It's still really weird they named the sequel to the first movie Cars 3, skipping right over 2 in naming was a bold choice. :razz: