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Hard to believe that The Simpsons will reach 800 episodes close to next year.
 
That's honestly something to be expected from a cartoon show that's been running since 1989; It's just being bled dry for money, much like Spongebob, Fairly Odd Parents, The Loud House and other such cartoons that have been going on much longer than they should have.
 
The original run of the Fairly Oddparents died quite some time back but the A New Wish reboot was pretty good.
 
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The original run of the Fairly Oddparents died quite some time back but the A New Wish reboot was pretty good.
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Yeah, I was aware of that. I just named the OG Fairly Odd Parents series as an example because that one went on longer than it should have and was only being bled dry for money by the time it had lost its charm.
 
Honestly considering the latter years of The Fairly OddParents, I don't think you can even say it was being bled dry for money.

Like season 7 took a bit over THREE YEARS to air just 20 episodes, then season 8 aired in its entirety (of 6 episodes) WHILE SEASON 7 WAS STILL AIRING btw and somehow took from February to December 2011 to air 6 friggin episodes.

Then it took another two years from March 2013 to March 2015 to air the 26 episodes of season 9 and season 10 later got shoved to friggin Nicktoons Network for its second half and left to die.

That's not being bled dry for money, that's just a network not giving a damn. Bled try for money would be them not taking several years to air a single season.

Edit: I'm also pretty sure at one point the series just stopped airing reruns on the main Nickelodeon channel as well. Like before new episodes moved to Nicktoons. So the only way you could watch the show on TV was whenever they decided 'Oh yeah let's air a new Fairly OddParents episode' every few months or whatever.
 
I think Spongebob and The Loud House are still good but Fairly Oddparents I guess has been around too long. Simpsons and Family Guy and American Dad and all that I think have been around way too long and aren't even funny anymore hence the fact hardly anyone watches them anymore. Personally if Family Guy dies I'll be glad because I and surprisingly a lot of other people really don't appreciate its horrible portrayal and treatment of women and its racist caricatures and bigoted racial stereotypes especially towards blacks and probably other cultures and ethnicities too, though I wouldn't know about that last part because I don't watch it.
 
Like seriously I looked it up; I was surprised to find a lot of people are offended by Family Guy for all the above reasons and it's just controversial in general. I looked up Seth McFarlane and he's not a very nice guy to be honest; he's very sexist in general. Personally I'm disgusted with him for this. I've honestly always hated Family Guy and I always will. I especially don't like how the main character Peter Griffin himself treats women.
 
Seth MacFarlane has nothing to do with American Dad in terms of production and American Dad is actually legit hilarious and funny.

Also while I have a lot of issues with his shows, MacFarlane is not sexist what the fuck lmao. Sure he has his biases and issues but he's otherwise a fairly bog-standard social liberal.
 
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I looked up Seth McFarlane and he's not a very nice guy to be honest; he's very sexist in general.
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That's kinda surprising considering Seth McFarlane is a diehard Democrat according to some people, but maybe that's just a case of him being a diehard Democrat because his job depends on it.
 
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That's kinda surprising considering Seth McFarlane is a diehard Democrat according to some people, but maybe that's just a case of him being a diehard Democrat because his job depends on it.
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The only thing that shows up when you search 'Is Seth MacFarlane sexist' were some criticisms of jokes he did at the Oscars in 2013.
 
@Bibi Blocksberg Yeah, same for me too, but I still think he's sexist in general. How do you feel about the overall chauvinistic, misogynistic feel of the Family Guy show, Princess Viola? And how misogynistic its character is? I find it disgusting.
 
It's important to remember that Seth MacFarlane has basically checked out of Family Guy creatively basically forever ago.

You had him in 2011 admitting in an interview that part of him thinks the show should have already ended and that 'seven seasons is probably enough' (at the time, the show was premiering its 10th season).

Then you had his tirade in 2021 against Fox for their utter determination to hold onto Family Guy and Fox S&P going 'Oh Peter can't say 'goddamn' (presumably to avoid offending Christians who may find that offensive, as opposed to all the other content in Family Guy, which is a-okay???) all while being very critical of the stuff allowed to be spewed out on Fox News (not tryna get political but that is what he said) (Although his tirade against Fox was NOT a 'JUST END FAMILY GUY ALREADY' tired it was 'Goddamn I am sick and tired of Fox and all their BS, I wish this show could move to another network instead but they won't let their greedy mitts off this show'

And then just last year he said in an interview that he doesn't see any real reason to stop making Family Guy but specifically cited 'Well it still has an audience and people still enjoy it and it's a way for me to get more money I can donate to charities and causes I Care about'.

So like yeah, MacFarlane absolutely does not creatively care about Family Guy anymore, it's just a 'this is how I get money to donate and my popularity as creator one of Fox's longest running and most popular shows gives me the freedom to do what I actively want to do as well'.

Like, going away from cartoons for a minute here, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - 2014 documentary series that was a followup to the 1980 PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. MacFarlane was instrumental in getting Fox to actually picking that up. He used his financial clout from Family Guy (and the other shows he is involved in) to get Fox to air a friggin science documentary series in primetime.
 
@Bibi Blocksberg I mean to be honest, I probably was actually making unfair assumptions assuming that the content of his shows and how his characters acted in them towards women showed how McFarlane felt towards women, looking back on my earlier comments. People aren't even sure if the comments he made at the 2013 Oscars even proved that he was against women, given that some people think he was just making those comments to make the Oscars judges agree with him, and trying to show how bigoted THEY were. At the same time, though, I really don't like the things he said there, and I think they were kind of disgusting, regardless if he meant them or not, but especially if he DID mean them. So I guess this is a case of, from the scant evidence, we can't really know WHAT he thinks about that, and for all we know you might have evidence he isn't that way in which case I retract my statement and apologize.
 
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Having seen it for the first time last night: The Black Cauldron is totally fine as a movie.

It's far from being the worst film in the Disney Animated Canon like some might think because of the movie's reputation as 'the film that put the future of Disney animation in jeopardy' (for those unaware: The Black Cauldron reportedly cost Disney $44 million to make and was the most expensive animated film ever made at the time. It grossed $21 million at the box office and was infamously outgrossed by The Care Bears Movie - which grossed $34 million on a budget of between $2 and 4.5 million dollars, sources differ on how much it cost to make).

But also it's not some hidden masterpiece overlooked because of its reputation either.

It's just a perfectly decent animated film with some notable flaws, with the biggest flaw being that they tried to adapt two whole books into a single 80 minute movie, so lots of stuff goes completely unexplained because they just literally did not have the time.

If I had to rate it, I'd say it's a solid 7.5/10, y'know? Worth watching - especially if you wanna see something that feels very much unlike what you expect to come out of Disney- and you won't feel like you wasted your time, but it's also just 'Yeah it's a decent film' not 'OMG THIS IS A MASTERPIECE'.
 
Yesterday I bumped into some channels that have uploads of some of the older Mighty Magiswords web episodes. Not all of them can be purchased or streamed, so definitely a treat. This also included the original CN Anything set, which I had never seen before.
 
the 1971 animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol (directed by the late great Richard Williams) is lowkey one of the best adaptations of the Dickens novella and it's a shame how overlooked it is - especially considering it won an academy award for best animated short!

the fact that it's animated means it can do things that other adaptions can't (or just don't) do, like having easily the most accurate version of the ghost of christmas past (who is understandably the spirit that is most changed in adaptations because how in the hell do you expect to accurately adapt this to other mediums:
It was a strange figure—like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It wore a tunic of the purest white; and round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.

Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was not its strangest quality. For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away. And in the very wonder of this, it would be itself again; distinct and clear as ever.
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well i mean for this version they said 'fuck it' and just did it

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other adaptations: how in the hell do make the ghost of christmas past accurate? well it's too hard, let's just make it like a young girl or an angelic like woman

richard williams: oh so it's supposed to be some clearly inhuman thing that is constantly shifting in regards to how many limbs it has, is young and old at the same time, and many other things to very much tell readers 'this is not anything of this earth'? okay well that's what we're gonna do

only 25 minutes long and on tubi for free so it's a pretty quick thing to sit through, pretty impressive how it manages to succesfully adapt the story (even including some scenes often cut from other adaptations) in such a short runtime. do wish it were a bit longer though cuz that means some scenes are short like the scene of bob cratchit mourning tiny tim is like 2 seconds lmao

(also i think it's possibly the only adaptation of the novella to keep the subtitle 'being a ghost story of christmas')
 
I dislike that Star vs. The Forces of Evil decided the name for people from Mewni is Mewman, when it is all too easy to confuse "Mewman" for "human" in a show where humans are a major presence. Yeah, I know that know that part of the joke is that the visible differences between them are minor save for when its power up time for Mewmans (when it is power up time they get wings and six arms and stuff) but the gag isn't worth viewers feeling like they should double check if they heard "Mewman" or "human". While context helps in a lot of situations, such as how if an episode's setting is currently Mewni it is statistically more likely for the word in question to be "Mewman", there are episodes that take place in dimensions that are neither Earth nor Mewni where this strategy does not help.

EDIT: Oh my goodness is it like this just so that the show can write "crimes against Mewmanity", thus avoiding the classic fantasy worldbuilding speedbump of "humanity" being technically incorrect for non-human characters? It is not worth it. That is a very minor complaint compared to "the topic of this sentence is unclear"
 
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Wander over Yonder had to shorten its end tags, the animatics that play during the credits of its episodes, from 30 seconds to 15 seconds following the show's move from Disney Channel to Disney XD. I'm watching the show on Hulu now and I'm starting to feel like this change is basically negative value. In the short term, it presumably better fit Disney XD's scheduling. But in the long term, the show doesn't air on Disney XD anymore, so you'd only find it on its own by purchasing it or streaming it. Here, the end tags can be of an arbitrary length because there isn't other programming for it to bump up against, and if the staff of the show were willing to do 30 seconds then they could do 30 seconds. So, most modern viewers of Yonder Over Yonder are cheated out of 15 seconds of content because of the specific nuances of the time period it was produced in.

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https://crackmccraigen.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F104455238579

To contextualize it a little: The Gift is Wander over Yonder's holiday episode, with its premise being that title character Wander gives presents to every character he met over the show's first season. So in this endtag being cut, Captain Tim is left out from the episode, which makes the episode feel less complete.
 
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For a few weeks Capcom has been rereleasing the Mega Man Star Force anime on Youtube weekly (playlist) as part of a marketing campaign for the Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection. It's Mega Man but specifically within the double life superhero framework. My opinion on it is neutral to bad. I think the core pitch is functional, but
  • The show's pacing could be better.
    • For reference, the first transformation doesn't occur until halfway through episode 2.
  • There's a number of times the preview that runs before the episode gives away all of the episode's best scenes, so after actually watching the episode the viewer feels kind of cheated. Episode 7, Science Friction, is absolutely the worst of this.
    • Sometimes they get something good out of it by having the preview be more of a recap of the show thus far and narrated by a character.
    • Really, having both previews that run before episodes and previews that run after episodes is bizarre.
  • The main character's primary friend group all consist of people who he should hate for being bad people, so them being friends feels contrived. Usually, stories that put together characters who would initially dislike each other include some kind of force that requires them to be together, but Star Force's premise doesn't include a strong enough force.
  • Even among video game adaptations, its worldbuilding is really hokey. It really is an excuse to have a superpowered protagonist fight superpowered antagonists and have a bunch of low tier enemies to battle against between the antagonist scuffles.
    • The simplest one of these weird decisions to explain is how Battle Cards work. I think they are are supposed to be preloaded ways for regular people to dispel the virus enemies but inexplicably they represent real weapons like guns and bombs and swords that Mega Man can use while transformed. (Also, no other character uses Battle Cards this way, which makes it more arbitrary given Battle Cards seem to be mass produced.) Making Battle Cards work normally by shooting/exploding/cutting the viruses, so that Mega Man's abilities are merely improving them and not inexplicably different from the originals, would make more sense.
My question is why Mega Man: Fully Charged, the show putting Mega Man Classic into the mould of double life superheroics, didn't pull anything from Mega Man Star Force? There could be fun nods to Star Force like having an episode about aliens where the aliens are specifically the FMians from Star Force, or having a community organization like a local newspaper run by a Luna Platz-alike. They could even have aliens (not necessarily FMians) be the fake out origin for Mega Man, better hiding the real twist of Fully Charged. Nothing pulling the show from its Mega Man Classic focus, but they would have been neat pulls.
 
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