I predict I will not remember enough to have any idea what is going on when it airs.
Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.
'Bring On The Night'
Animation 1: I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Drawn That Way
A thread to discuss television and online animation.
-t - Jan 05, 2016 8:55:59 am PST #660 of 1080
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
quester - Jan 06, 2016 6:42:15 pm PST #661 of 1080
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Our long national nightmare is almost over!
Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2016 11:39:36 am PST #662 of 1080
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
billytea - Jan 21, 2016 2:03:26 pm PST #663 of 1080
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Just before Christmas, I finally got around to borrowing Adventure Time from the library, see what all the fuss was about. Ryan's been watching it with me. We got through Seasons 1 and 2, and I was pretty impressed. Some fun stuff. Lumpy Space Princess was funny, and Billy (BILLY!) was hilarious. (I've since been periodically following Riyi around and singing "Who slayed an evil ocean? Who cast the Lich King down? MUMMY!!" She's not as apprciative of this as Ryan is.)
For Christmas Ryan got a box set of collections (Jake the Dad, The Suitor and REIGN OF GUNTERS). We're now partway through REIGN OF GUNTERS. (GUNTERS!)
...This might possibly be the most brilliant animated series I've seen. I don't recall another series as deft at pitching to kids and adults (and tweens, and teens) simultaneously.
Tom Scola - Jan 21, 2016 2:07:55 pm PST #664 of 1080
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
It gets WAY BETTER after season 2.
billytea - Jan 21, 2016 2:23:16 pm PST #665 of 1080
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It gets WAY BETTER after season 2.
That's exactly the impression I'm getting. Ryan's box set is mostly post-S2, and it's like they've set up this world and this cast, and now look what we can do with them. (The answer appears to be emotionally complex character development, some truly creepy and disturbing stuff that goes right over Ryan's head, and occasional wall-to-wall WTF. Oh, and hilarity, like Jake the Dad. "Look, fellas, there's never gonna be a perfect baby.")
In conclusion, my favourite character right now might be Beemo.
Tom Scola - Jan 21, 2016 2:39:43 pm PST #666 of 1080
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
DavidS - Jan 21, 2016 4:37:23 pm PST #667 of 1080
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yup, I am drinking my vodka-tonic from one of my several Adventure Time glasses.
::checks to look::
It is, in fact, BMO! BMO is the best! Yay BMO!
Polter-Cow - Jan 22, 2016 4:19:55 am PST #668 of 1080
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
This might possibly be the most brilliant animated series I've seen.
Haaaaaaaaave you seen Steven Universe?
Adventure Time is pretty great, though lately I feel like I'm watching more out of inertia than actual enjoyment.
BMO!!!
JZ - Jan 23, 2016 6:07:40 pm PST #669 of 1080
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Matilda and I got back a little while ago from this event at SF Sketchfest (got free tickets after Sketchfest offered comps to every ticketholder for the Galavant event after it ended up short two actors), and it was utterly wonderful. Matilda wore this shirt, and Tom Kenney admired it tremendously and said that he wished his 12-year-old daughter had come so that she and Matilda could talk Labyrinth trivia together. And Maria Bamford is lovely and quietly, snarkily funny, John DiMaggio is a terrifying energy ball (who may possibly have drowned her and the others out just a bit), and Kent Osborne, credited in the blurb as a voice actor, is actually mostly a writer and told many writerly stories about how the show is constructed and how the writers have worked out various characters' backstories.
It really should have been Hec seeing it with Matilda, but he is eyeball deep in deadlines and fretful project heads, so I escorted Matilda (but he signed a Lumpy Space King postcard for Hec, with the encouraging message: "Stay Frosty!").