Well, IIRC the animated 3-D thingie will be based on Clone Wars, the animated show done by Genndy Tartakovsky (the guy who did Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack ). I thought CW was pretty good, as Tartakovsky had a fair amount of freedom in plots, characters, etc.
Some people juggle geese!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Apr 26, 2005 10:49:57 am PDT #8991 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
sumi - Apr 26, 2005 10:50:53 am PDT #8992 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
What does he mean by a 3-d thing? Some sort of claymation?
Nutty - Apr 26, 2005 10:51:15 am PDT #8993 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Clone Wars is all those 5-minute animated shorts I happen upon in the middle of something else on Cartoon Network, right? I've no idea what the plot is, but it looks to me like "Samurai Jack In Space" so I can't complain (yet). As with Jack, good use of music to set tone and pace.
tommyrot - Apr 26, 2005 10:51:35 am PDT #8994 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What does he mean by a 3-d thing? Some sort of claymation?
I think that means computer-generated, as opposed to traditional hand-drawn animation.
tommyrot - Apr 26, 2005 10:52:53 am PDT #8995 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Clone Wars is all those 5-minute animated shorts I happen upon in the middle of something else on Cartoon Network, right?
The first 20 chapters were all three minutes (except the last one was longer). There are also five more episodes that were about 12 minutes each IIRC.
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2005 10:53:12 am PDT #8996 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They should totally do it Harryhausen style. I'd watch that.
It's weird. People who really should know better keep trying to tell me I'm actually a SW fan. How many different ways can I say that a universe in which Jar Jar outlives Maul is not a universe in which I feel welcome? But it's such a huge geek tag -- dude, do Buffy and Lord of the Rings not suffice? Trek, for christ's sake. I'm so much more of a trekker than ... what to Star Wars fans call themselves?
Cashmere - Apr 26, 2005 10:53:48 am PDT #8997 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm hoping something shiny distracts him long enough for them to hire someone else to write/direct.
We should be so lucky. *sigh*
DavidS - Apr 26, 2005 10:54:57 am PDT #8998 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Some of the Clone Wars are full episodes not just five minute bumpers.
1000 Years of Solitude by Marquez
Is this like One Hundred Years of Solitude to the power of ten?
JZ - Apr 26, 2005 10:55:04 am PDT #8999 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It's just barely possible that a case could be made for some of Gloria Naylor being magical realism, if you wanted to get a Murrican in there -- in particular, Linden Hills (inspired by Dante's "Divine Comedy" -- probably the Inferno, but possibly a bit of Purgatorio as well) and Mama Day (inspired by "The Tempest," though not much survives except an island and a terrible storm and vast amounts of love). And possibly some Louise Erdrich, and definitely Mark Helprin.
-t - Apr 26, 2005 10:55:13 am PDT #9000 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I liked Clone Wars quite a bit. I, erm, have it on DVD (or the first 20 episodes, anyway). I don't get this 3-D concept, though.