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Awesome Cartoons Coming Up: Ponies, Korra, and TMNT
12 years ago
So I guess I'm going to gush some more about cartoons. Deal with it.
I've been a big animation fan my whole life, all 40+ years of it, and I can attest that this is the very best time to be a cartoon fan in North America than has ever been. There is so much quality stuff out there and coming up. I can't tell you what an amazing contrast the banquet of truly great cartoons of today is compared to the horrid barely-animated-written-by stoner-hacks wasteland of the era I grew up in(70s)
As I'm sure most who are reading this is aware, Hasbro released some animatics of Fourth Season MLP:FiM at SDCC and it looks like there might be some good stuff coming up when the new episodes start premiering November 23. There was a good song starring the Apples and Pinkie Pie, plus some stuff from a Scootaloo episode and what looked like a fantasy sequence with the Mane Six as superheroes. But the part that looked really interesting was an apparently flashback to the moment Luna became Nightmare Moon. I've been wanting very much to see more details of what exactly happened in the War Between The Sisters, and it looks like we're finally going to get some of that.
Now, I love me some magic technicolor equines, but what really has me excited is the new season of LEGEND OF KORRA starting in Spetmeber. Here's an official preview/trailer clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ftLm52V1y0
The animation looks gorgeous and the storyline sounds awesome--Korra is struggling to learn the spiritual side of being the Avatar, when angry spirits begin crossing over to the physical world to wreak havoc. The Two AVATAR series are both instant classic series, and the showcases the very best of what American TV animation can do. Korra is more sophisticated and savvy than 95% of live-action shows, and especially sf/f shows.
Anyway, watch it when it premieres! It is probably the one show that could win out against MLP if I had to choose between watching the two...but thankfully in this era fo digital downloads and youtube that's a choice I don't have to make. = )
Lastly, it looks like the first season of the new TMNT is going to be wrapping up with the next few episodes. I just discovered this one a few weeks ago, and its probably the best version of TMNT I've yet seen on-screen. They've much more sharply defined the turles' characters, and as such they've become much more interesting. Leonardo is more or less that same (I guess he's 'standard' turtle) but now Rafael is broader and rougher-looking, with cracks and gaps in his shell from all the scarps he's been in; Micahelangelo is small and wiry, still very much a clowner but genuinely funny this time around; Donatello is tall and gangly with a tooth gap and is just as much a sometimes awkward nerd as he is a tech wiz.
Also good is that Splinter and April got major overhauls. Splinter was now once a human transformed into a rat, with a much more eastern look to him. The best change is with April, the old version of whom I mostly disliked as she seemed little better than a Lois Lane clone, who is also a character I never really liked. Here, she's reimagined as a 15-year-old daughter of a scientist. After her dad is captured, the turtles take her in and Splinter begins training her as a ninja for her own protection. Now, its not perfect, she's gone from a cliche reporter gal to a kinda cliche spunky teenage gal, but its still very much a breath of fresh air at this point.
One of the most welcome (and surprisingly gosh-darn adorable) additions is Donatello's ongoing crush on April. I'm no shipper (except for my own characters, of course), but I really hope they go somewhere with it in the season finale, since its the one prominent subplot not having to do with Shredder or the Krang that's weaved its way through the season. Unlike say Spike's crush on Rarity in MLP, Donatello and April are about the same age and its something that can actually be carried forward. Not that I'm expecting anything hot or heavy from an general audience cartoon, but it would still be nice to see something like that reach a natural conclusion.
Anyway, good stuff on the cartoon horizon coming up. Can't wait. = )
I've been a big animation fan my whole life, all 40+ years of it, and I can attest that this is the very best time to be a cartoon fan in North America than has ever been. There is so much quality stuff out there and coming up. I can't tell you what an amazing contrast the banquet of truly great cartoons of today is compared to the horrid barely-animated-written-by stoner-hacks wasteland of the era I grew up in(70s)
As I'm sure most who are reading this is aware, Hasbro released some animatics of Fourth Season MLP:FiM at SDCC and it looks like there might be some good stuff coming up when the new episodes start premiering November 23. There was a good song starring the Apples and Pinkie Pie, plus some stuff from a Scootaloo episode and what looked like a fantasy sequence with the Mane Six as superheroes. But the part that looked really interesting was an apparently flashback to the moment Luna became Nightmare Moon. I've been wanting very much to see more details of what exactly happened in the War Between The Sisters, and it looks like we're finally going to get some of that.
Now, I love me some magic technicolor equines, but what really has me excited is the new season of LEGEND OF KORRA starting in Spetmeber. Here's an official preview/trailer clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ftLm52V1y0
The animation looks gorgeous and the storyline sounds awesome--Korra is struggling to learn the spiritual side of being the Avatar, when angry spirits begin crossing over to the physical world to wreak havoc. The Two AVATAR series are both instant classic series, and the showcases the very best of what American TV animation can do. Korra is more sophisticated and savvy than 95% of live-action shows, and especially sf/f shows.
Anyway, watch it when it premieres! It is probably the one show that could win out against MLP if I had to choose between watching the two...but thankfully in this era fo digital downloads and youtube that's a choice I don't have to make. = )
Lastly, it looks like the first season of the new TMNT is going to be wrapping up with the next few episodes. I just discovered this one a few weeks ago, and its probably the best version of TMNT I've yet seen on-screen. They've much more sharply defined the turles' characters, and as such they've become much more interesting. Leonardo is more or less that same (I guess he's 'standard' turtle) but now Rafael is broader and rougher-looking, with cracks and gaps in his shell from all the scarps he's been in; Micahelangelo is small and wiry, still very much a clowner but genuinely funny this time around; Donatello is tall and gangly with a tooth gap and is just as much a sometimes awkward nerd as he is a tech wiz.
Also good is that Splinter and April got major overhauls. Splinter was now once a human transformed into a rat, with a much more eastern look to him. The best change is with April, the old version of whom I mostly disliked as she seemed little better than a Lois Lane clone, who is also a character I never really liked. Here, she's reimagined as a 15-year-old daughter of a scientist. After her dad is captured, the turtles take her in and Splinter begins training her as a ninja for her own protection. Now, its not perfect, she's gone from a cliche reporter gal to a kinda cliche spunky teenage gal, but its still very much a breath of fresh air at this point.
One of the most welcome (and surprisingly gosh-darn adorable) additions is Donatello's ongoing crush on April. I'm no shipper (except for my own characters, of course), but I really hope they go somewhere with it in the season finale, since its the one prominent subplot not having to do with Shredder or the Krang that's weaved its way through the season. Unlike say Spike's crush on Rarity in MLP, Donatello and April are about the same age and its something that can actually be carried forward. Not that I'm expecting anything hot or heavy from an general audience cartoon, but it would still be nice to see something like that reach a natural conclusion.
Anyway, good stuff on the cartoon horizon coming up. Can't wait. = )
The setting is frankly sublime. It surpasses even the original setting which was truly brilliant in spite of the silliness and 80s-ness surrounding it. The characters are actually very well developed and it is clear that the show has shades of the 'Last Airbender' passion but with a world far more complex. I could honestly write paragraph upon paragraph about it but it is better to simply say "Go watch it'. It is on Youtube, it is on Toonami and if you like any of the shows listed above you will LOVE it.
IMHO.
thanks for tagging me Paul.
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