Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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Good thing they had the best patter songs of the last forty years
The ice-cream truck on our street uses "Turkey in the Straw" as its godforsaken, tinny song blaring from the loudspeaker. And every time it comes down the street, I get earwormed with "Wakko's America." Damn those Animaniacs.
And I just earwormed myself with it just by posting about it.
Well played, Animaniacs. Well played.
Well played, Animaniacs. Well played.
Second-hand, even. Well played indeed.
I'm suffering through the opening narration for Mirror, Mirror. God, Keanu Reeves would be better.
It seemed literal to me. I was left wondering what the point of the movie was.
Except everything else he saw seemed pretty literal too. Like all the furniture suspended in midair because gravity stopped working. That was shot to seem pretty literal. And when his wife saw the storm at the end, she got rained on by the orange stuff he'd been seeing too. So I'm not convinced it was cut and dry that the ending was literal. Actually, as my roommate pointed out, interpreting it metaphorically actually makes the ending kind of a happy ending ( the wife and daughter accept that dad is crazy and begin to deal with that. The wife begins to understand the size of the problem, and even faced with something that catastrophic, her response is "Okay." ). My roommate first took it as literal as well, until I pointed out that there's a strong case to be made that it's not literal. I mean, we're given no cause for the final storm. Particularly the giant tsunami. If it's supposed to be literal, that's the end of the freakin' world right there.
If it's literal then it still works (for me), it's just much more depressing, because it's just a retelling of the Cassandra tale.
How much of modern American animation is done in Korea, though?
Some of the really low-end animation is done in-house using Adobe Flash, but virtually all of the animation has been done in Korea and Japan for at least the past 40 years.
So the stories are American, but the art is Asian?
Well, not entirely. Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra were animated in Korea, but the art and storyboarding and such is done stateside, I believe.