Anyway, as I mentioned in the voting thread, the new Korra episodes are a downgrade, animation-wise, from last seasons.
Emmett mentioned right away when he saw the new season: "The animation looks different."
I'm mostly concerned with Korra that they immediately went into inter-brother politics AGAIN after last season. Jesus Fucking Christ - as if nobody learned from the stupid exposition fest of the Star Wars prequels. They have horribly overthought their world and missed the story. Three episodes in and they were each less than memorable. I know they'll pull the story together eventually but this was a shit start.
ION, we're all anxiously awaiting the return of Gravity Falls which seems to have upped its game considerably with the season finale, going for a Big Arc Continuity that could vastly expand their storylines. With X-Files and Twin Peaks as our cautionary examples I hope they have a solid book on where they're going.
Also, I'm sad Rebecca Sugar left Adventure Time as I think she's close to heart of the show BUT I am really excited about her new show Steven Universe, AND the back half of this season of Adventure Time was still really strong with some very intriguing (and/or disturbing) shows.
I, too, was worried about how Rebecca Sugar leaving the show, but Adventure Time has been killing it lately, and The Vault would make my top five list.
and The Vault would make my top five list.
It was so good!
I really need to revisit this season. So many great eps and not just the ones I
expected
to be great
like Marcy and Simon, or Bad Little Boy. I really loved James Baxter, The Horse and Be More.
Has anyone else seen the web series RWBY?
I started watching it because someone on another forum linked to the "Red" trailer [link] which is incredibly well put-together visually and musically (Warning: Sort-of graphic violence. Lots of death and dismemberment, but it's very stylized.) which led me to the "White" trailer [link] which was almost as good (and less bloody). The other two trailers ("Black" and "Yellow") have some really cool fight scenes, but don't have much else going for them.
I was really excited about the series at first, but I'm personally finding it very hit or miss (and more-often miss) as it goes on. The animation and art is kind of laughably rough, but considering it's a group of people with retail animation software, it's kind of understandable. The director has a great hand and eye for action sequences (the fights at the beginning of the first episode are excellent) and at times it can be genuinely, hilariously funny, but most of the time it's just kind of there.
The sad thing is there's a lot of potential. Episode 8 [link] is almost consistently good and has some incredibly epic moments. But the three episodes since then have been really blah (and stupidly short. Like 3 minutes each, including opening and closing credits.)
I'm also finding myself liking some of the secondary characters (Nora and Pyrrha) a lot better than the primary four, which isn't helping.
AVClub goes into detail on what's wrong with the animation on Korra this season.
Pretty interesting.
Has anyone else seen the web series RWBY?
Nope, but now I'm going to check it out.
I feel invisible.
Did I skip your link? That's a skipping and skimming foul on me, Mr. Scola!
Last episode of
Attack on Titan
Season One is out. I assume it'll be on Crunchyroll in a week or so. Assuming they're just taking a break to let the manga get ahead, since it's ongoing.
The last shot feels like someone should make a Hannibal macro out of it.
So my son and I recently finished up all of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes after previously finishing Spectacular Spider-Man, both of which I think are near the top, if not the top, of Marvel's animated efforts.
I tried steering him back to Teen Titans (we were watching it before The Avengers became a huge thing and he insisted on wanting to watch A:EMH when he saw the listing on Netflix) and even offered giving Justice League a try, but he's very much on a Marvel kick right now and says he wants to watch "the Wolverine show" next (referring to "Wolverine and the X-men")
Has anyone watched it? I remember seeing a few episodes when it first aired, but I don't really remember much about it. At the moment I'm thinking of steering him toward X-men: Evolution (which I personally enjoyed) instead.
The airtime for Korra is moving from 7:00pm Eastern to 8:30pm, Fridays.
