Censorship in Television

#41

I'm afraid I am.

Please don't be angry------we can still bond over our mutual fondness for Launchpad McQuack. That would be okay, wouldn't it?

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #42

you at least like the opening theme

you like that at least

right

#43

Couldn't hum it with a gun to my head. And I'm generally pretty good with music. Like, I could probably whistle a couple hundred teevee show themes on command. 'Talespin' ain't one of 'em. Never liked the show enough to get the theme in my head, here.

Don't get angry, now (*backs up, setting hand on kitchen-knife*), there's no reason to get upset (*finds handle of work-worn Louisville Slugger*), we're still homies, after all (*draws phaser, switches it from 'stun' to 'kill', then switches it to 'ultra-kill'*).

Deepfake · #44

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1604588, member: 17381"]Disney should ditch all them dumb baby shows and put on a three-hour block of Silly Symphonies and Goofy Sports and sh*t every day. Ma raised me on that garbage, and I turned out great.

[EDIT: ^If you say so.][/QUOTE]
Ah mate, I didn't mean to be disrespectful, I am used to people challenging my taste in way more belligerent ways so I probably only have ******** comebacks prepared when that's not what you lot deserve. Suffice to say that I think the colors are beautifully chosen, but the visual language and basic shapes of which the character art is mostly composed is somewhat intentionally subversive to the design principles that appeal to me. I think it's talking to me on a level/in a language that wasn't necessarily intended. If I made a lazy guess, I would say that the style is at least partly an attempt to differentiate from artistic norms, and while they succeed in that I don't really think it's necessarily for any visual purpose beyond the desire not to blend with the rest of television.

I never liked Talespin. Couldn't tell you why, might actually be decent, but I found the characters unpleasant and themes unrelatable as a kid. Of what I was exposed, mind you. I definitely didn't like the theme song.

#45

It really is cool, man---------you don't gotta explain yourself. Art is subjective, naturally. I'm fine with the art-style; you are not. One man's trash is another man's treasure, as the saying goes. And of course you'll appreciate that, while I value your opinions (and I truly do, because we're homies), at the end of the day, my own opinions got homefield advantage, right. Nature of the beast and all. Yeah.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #46

et tu ai

Deepfake · #47

Don't blame me, I gave it multiple chances and just kept seeing the same reruns somehow. Same with Naruto, fwiw. Somehow I caught it on tv 4 times. 4 times, same awful episode.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #48

Naruto has a lot of filler so there's a good chance you got stuck with something ****. Naruto is barely passable as it is though, filler or not.

Random User · #49

I dunno, even without the filler, Naruto is as standard as shonen gets.

Valigarmander · #50

[QUOTE="He Who is Without Skin, post: 1604587, member: 25415"]That's good, but the designs are still awful?[/QUOTE]
It actually does get better visually. The animation in the current season is simply amazing, just take a look.
[spoiler][MEDIA=youtube]NzxA6fT_I9U[/MEDIA][/spoiler]

Apollo the Just · #51

y'all come into my forum and **** on my naruto....

((ok, no actually, original Naruto is garbage, save like 3 episodes where they actually bothered giving a **** about animation. The Rock Lee vs. Gaara fight comes to mind as one of the exceptions. It wasn't until Shippuden came around that they actually produced anything that passes for a quality product lmao))

Also, as for Steven Universe, I watched the first episode and hated it. Thought it was pretty but Steven was obnoxious and it was just soooo ~LOL XD~ and i just. Nope. Thought it was fine for a kid's show but nothing I would really want to watch.

I think I binged more of it later, after like 15-ish episodes were out, because I was bored and sick. That's when I really started to like it. The episode that got me into the series was the first one with Stevonnie. It's a very calming, pretty, feel-good show and it was exactly what I needed at the time.

#52

Early advertising didn't do SU any favours. Decided to give it a try after kind of seeing it blow up online. Found it on digital cable-----first four episodes I saw were 35, 36, 37 and 38 (possibly the best four-episode stretch in S1). Knew I was a goner by the end of 'The Test', man.

United Nations · #53

Huh. I must be the only person who watched the first episode and fell in love. I mean, it throws you into the storyline, but I liked that. They had me at, "Cookie Cat--he left his family behind!"

#54

^I liked it when I got the chance to see it.

Apollo the Just · #55

I liked it okay, but I felt it got infinitely better from there.

Random User · #56

At first I thought it would be a sort of monster-of-the-day thing with nothing much deeper than that. Glad I was wrong.

DarkZero · #57

I recently caught up with all the SU episodes I missed (even though I watched them really out of order but thanks to Wikipedia I know what order they're supposed to go in) and I noticed that in the first 15 or so episodes, Steven is essentially immature to a fault. He's consistently putting himself and others into danger because he's not considering his actions and it's hard to watch as a result.

But I think once the show started developing more, Steven became one of my favorite characters on the show. Like he's still compassionate, and a little naive, but he's much more aware of the gravity of things and it makes him all the more interesting for it.