Why don't you take a flying duck at the cartooooooooon! (Cartoons Thread)

graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
edited August 2007 in Graphic Violence
http://alpha.zeros2heroes.com/content/view/87/118/

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From the site:

You’ve seen it before: a big entertainment company trying to squeeze out a few more ducats from a classic and much-beloved story. They tart it up, modernize it, stick in a hip new sidekick, then parade the “new and improved” production in front of the fans… who are suitably disgusted.
Naturally, the production bombs and no one can seem to figure out why. But this time, it’s going to be different.
Rainmaker Entertainment is bringing back ReBoot. And they want you – the fans – to help them get it right.
New Writers, New Ideas
Rainmaker wanted to start with a clean slate and approach the story with no preconceptions. They reached out to five undiscovered writers who were looking for their break. These writers were teamed up with Rainmaker’s in-house artists and producers and told to come up with five completely new takes on the ReBoot world.

But only one idea will go into development. This is where you come in
Starting on July 26th, you’ll be able to read the stories, view the art and review every aspect of their pitch. And – if you’ve got what it takes – you can go head-to-head with the Rainmaker artists by submitting your own work.

Which pitch will be the winner? That’s not up to some high-priced suit at Rainmaker… it’s up to you. So get in there: mix it up with the producers, talk it up with other fans, and get behind the team whose idea is the future of ReBoot.
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Now I loved reboot every last bit of it even the really bad episodes. I have no taste so I just wanted to see shiny effects and heroic stuff. Although a lot of the humor was lame I still enjoyed it. None of these concepts really do it for me which is encouraging since I have such bad taste maybe what I don't like will prove to be a financial succees.

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    So...they gave a bunch of Fanfic writers jobs.

    And let them loose on the reboot franchise.

    Dear God, what has man created.

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Er


    I don't want to thread shit


    but couldn't this go in the Transformers/General Cartoon thread?

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Blankspace wrote: »
    Er


    I don't want to thread shit


    but couldn't this go in the Transformers/General Cartoon thread?


    No, I approve of this.

    Now if you want to make a general cartoon thread, be my guest.

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Blankspace wrote: »
    Er


    I don't want to thread shit


    but couldn't this go in the Transformers/General Cartoon thread?


    No, I approve of this.

    Now if you want to make a general cartoon thread, be my guest.
    We


    uh


    already have one.


    That's why I said it.

    EDIT: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=26240

    The title's still a bit wonky, but it evolved into a general cartoon thread.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Then maybe the wonky title of that almost month long dead thread should be changed, so people who aren't interested in the new Transformers or Spider-Man cartoons can join in on the fun.

    Uh.

    Okay?

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  • graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Then maybe the wonky title of that almost month long dead thread should be changed, so people who aren't interested in the new Transformers or Spider-Man cartoons can join in on the fun.

    Uh.

    Okay?

    Impenetrable Logic.

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Then maybe the wonky title of that almost month long dead thread should be changed, so people who aren't interested in the new Transformers or Spider-Man cartoons can join in on the fun.

    Uh.

    Okay?
    I'll get right on that as soon as I have mod powers.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur wrote: »
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Then maybe the wonky title of that almost month long dead thread should be changed, so people who aren't interested in the new Transformers or Spider-Man cartoons can join in on the fun.

    Uh.

    Okay?

    Impenetrable Logic.

    Isn't it funny how that works? Seriously.


    I really don't care for any of the teams designs. I'd really like to have the original style back, though obviously with an updated edge to it.

    Plus, I want Enzo, Bob and Dot back.

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  • graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    graizur wrote: »
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Then maybe the wonky title of that almost month long dead thread should be changed, so people who aren't interested in the new Transformers or Spider-Man cartoons can join in on the fun.

    Uh.

    Okay?

    Impenetrable Logic.

    Isn't it funny how that works? Seriously.


    I really don't care for any of the teams designs. I'd really like to have the original style back, though obviously with an updated edge to it.

    Plus, I want Enzo, Bob and Dot back.


    The last bit I saw was a movie I purchased that had some kind of cult leader program (female) I don't remember her name. Reboot was awesome IMO and the gap betwean series was the only reason I couldn't follow it. That black virus that combines Hex and Megabite into Gigabite was the end of one season and then the next season never came. I heard it was playing in canada but never got to see it again.

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  • NAND NORNAND NOR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    A few of those ideas sound like bad comic books. Can't we just have the same characters? Does everything need to be dark and edgy?

    And ... why bring in The User? Why bridge the gap and bring in humans? Half the fun of the User was that it seemingly omnipotent (from the perspective of the characters) it was also nameless and faceless.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
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    "Wait wait..they want to replace us with one of those asshats?"

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I never understood why people like Reboot.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Zeromus wrote: »
    I never understood why people like Reboot.

    Obviously people have different tastes than you.

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Zeromus wrote: »
    I never understood why people like Reboot.

    Obviously people have different tastes than you.

    And because it was a rad show.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Marathon wrote: »
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Zeromus wrote: »
    I never understood why people like Reboot.

    Obviously people have different tastes than you.

    And because it was a rad show.

    The premise pretty much was the most awesome-tastic thing ever.

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  • ReznikReznik Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I signed up for the site they have where you can view the pitches for the new show/s and rate them and such.. some of them are horrifically bad. The two best ones are passable/sort of OK, but it still ain't ReBoot.

    This saddens me.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    there. by my mandate, this is now the official CARTOONS thread.

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Zeromus wrote: »
    I never understood why people like Reboot.

    Obviously people have different tastes than you.

    What?

    No.

    No.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Good lord, how pathetically -generic- that stuff is, and insulting to the original show, as it has almost nothing to DO with it.

    Hey I know, let's make Dot an anime school girl, turn Enzo in to Robin ala Teen Titans in Harry Potter garb, and turn Bob into a cross between Hellboy and Lobo!

    Bleh.

    The whole point of Bob is that he's got an innocent personality but a vital duty. He's like Spider-Man or Speedball, not Batman or Wolverine. It's what makes his earnestness when in battle so meaningful; he has no battle lust.

    Dot? She's like the ultimate modern woman with a touch of neurotic behavior that Bob's carefree recklessness works against so perfectly. She's intelligent, daring, powerful, and influential, but is also a wonderful friend/mother/sister type, but needs to learn how to relax.

    Enzo? He's the innocent that Bob wishes he could be, and wants to be a badass like Bob has to be.

    That's pretty much CORE to the whole thing.

    Beyond that, you just need to restructure the jokes to be more net-oriented. Perhaps Mainframe gets integrated in to a Server or something, and they have to deal with spam and youtube and MMOs instead of the old school stuff.

    Physical updates? Geeze, they were the first CGI cartoon, you can easily just seriously upgrade the quality of the graphics and it'll look like a whole new thing. It'd be like Advent Children was for FF7.

    Bleh.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    well, why not write one yourself, then?

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Servo wrote: »
    well, why not write one yourself, then?

    I don't have nearly enough computer culture in my background to pull off that aspect of the show, and my sense of humor is really really bad.

    Otherwise it's tempting.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    there's always a million reasons not to do something


    as someone once said sometime

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    They're still open to submissions?

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Servo wrote: »
    there's always a million reasons not to do something

    Generally, not having the background to do something anything resembling justice is probably one of the better reasons.

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  • ReznikReznik Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    One of the guys who came up with ReBoot: Arrival is hanging out on probably the only active ReBoot fansite and taking suggestions. Apparently they're allowed to edit their pitches in a week or something, so he's trying to iron things out... it's the forum on rbcorner.com, if any of you feel like chiming in.

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    The Reboot 2.0 pitch is the only one that really stands out to me as worthwhile... Except for that concept art of Bob. Just... Just no.

    The rest are pretty bad.

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  • PowerslavePowerslave Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    The Reboot 2.0 pitch is the only one that really stands out to me as worthwhile... Except for that concept art of Bob. Just... Just no.

    The rest are pretty bad.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2007
    could you maybe make a post that has content other than adding color tags please

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  • graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    could you maybe make a post that has content other than adding color tags please

    I don't appreciate you adding curse words to my/this thread topic title.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Powerslave wrote: »
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    The Reboot 2.0 pitch is the only one that really stands out to me as worthwhile... Except for that concept art of Bob. Just... Just no.

    The rest are pretty bad.

    This? This needs to be repeated. Because it is so damned right.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur wrote: »
    could you maybe make a post that has content other than adding color tags please

    I don't appreciate you adding curse words to my/this thread topic title.

    well i don't appreciate you not reading any vonnegut


    edit- it was me not geebs, jeeze

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  • graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Servo wrote: »
    graizur wrote: »
    could you maybe make a post that has content other than adding color tags please

    I don't appreciate you adding curse words to my/this thread topic title.

    well i don't appreciate you not reading any vonnegut


    edit- it was me not geebs, jeeze

    vonnegut?

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  • Golden YakGolden Yak Burnished Bovine The sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Yeah, all of these ideas are powerfully bad. I love dreadlocked cyborg Bob. And by love, I mean hate.

    Maybe we should try to rally the art and writing boards to flood that site with better art and decent plot suggestions.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur wrote: »
    Servo wrote: »
    graizur wrote: »
    could you maybe make a post that has content other than adding color tags please

    I don't appreciate you adding curse words to my/this thread topic title.

    well i don't appreciate you not reading any vonnegut


    edit- it was me not geebs, jeeze

    vonnegut?

    vonnegut!

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur wrote: »
    Servo wrote: »
    graizur wrote: »
    could you maybe make a post that has content other than adding color tags please

    I don't appreciate you adding curse words to my/this thread topic title.

    well i don't appreciate you not reading any vonnegut


    edit- it was me not geebs, jeeze

    vonnegut?

    Get the fuck out right now. Don't even pack your things. We'll mail them to you.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    no we won't

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    shhhh

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    By mail he means eBay

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur totally had a post there.

    I saw it.

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I saw it too.

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