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At some point, I've just got to stop. (rantish)
14 years ago
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Because I'm bored at work and already sketched out some things, I felt like ranting again.
At some point, I just have to stop it... watching things, reading things I frankly do not like, but keep doing it out of habit.
Watching Family Guy:
I don't know why I kept watching Family Guy, honestly. I don't feel like looking up names right now, but frankly, the last episode I watched was where Bonnie and Lois went to France.
I never liked the Chicken fights, I never liked those weird Conway Twitty (forgive me for wrong name spelling) intersections... but the aforementioned episode had the balls to spend 3 minutes to show "the gayest music video ever". Not a segment, no, the full 3 minutes of David Bowie and Mick Jagger doing their collaboration song. That's effectively 10% of an episode that didn't require ANY creative input from the writing staff, at all.
So yeah, early Family Guy had some gems with their non-sequitors, but now I dropped it aside, just like I did with the Simpsons years ago. And yes, I know FG is basically a giant ripoff from the Simpsons to begin with. All of Seths other shows are pretty much the same, and why the fuck do you want to revive the Flintstones? WHY SETH! WHY!
Webcomics... Looking for Group
I already quit Sohmer's "Least I Could Do" series because of... well, I know it's a day-to-day gag strip, and I won't go throwing around the self-insert card here. But when the main character is such a giant man-child who has everything going well for him (high-paid job, screwing women by the dozen, and still have the time to be a total child when not making fun of everything he dislikes), I really can't like the character at all. Everything around him is there for his amusement.
Giving the main character his points of self-reflection/compassion/brilliance doesn't change the fact he's a total ass in my eyes.
Anyway, Looking for Group... Started out the same as a gag-per-strip, but quickly abandoned that for an attempt at epic. But you know what?
Doing nothing but day-to-day gag strips since LICD, the writing has NO FUCKING SENSE OF PACE! Events come and go as soon as they're introduced, dialogue is hack-and-eyed and stilted in the same way a Miller dialogue is written (short, trying to have something epic in it).
And then there's Richard. I'll probably catch some punches for this one, and while I do like Richard to some extend... I can't help but feel like he and LICD's Rayne are the same person. Constantly there to make fun of the situation, do something horrifying, but ultimately be doing GOOD things because that makes them OH SO CHARMING AND MISUNDERSTOOD!
I could rant about other things, but now it's time to go home :p
At some point, I just have to stop it... watching things, reading things I frankly do not like, but keep doing it out of habit.
Watching Family Guy:
I don't know why I kept watching Family Guy, honestly. I don't feel like looking up names right now, but frankly, the last episode I watched was where Bonnie and Lois went to France.
I never liked the Chicken fights, I never liked those weird Conway Twitty (forgive me for wrong name spelling) intersections... but the aforementioned episode had the balls to spend 3 minutes to show "the gayest music video ever". Not a segment, no, the full 3 minutes of David Bowie and Mick Jagger doing their collaboration song. That's effectively 10% of an episode that didn't require ANY creative input from the writing staff, at all.
So yeah, early Family Guy had some gems with their non-sequitors, but now I dropped it aside, just like I did with the Simpsons years ago. And yes, I know FG is basically a giant ripoff from the Simpsons to begin with. All of Seths other shows are pretty much the same, and why the fuck do you want to revive the Flintstones? WHY SETH! WHY!
Webcomics... Looking for Group
I already quit Sohmer's "Least I Could Do" series because of... well, I know it's a day-to-day gag strip, and I won't go throwing around the self-insert card here. But when the main character is such a giant man-child who has everything going well for him (high-paid job, screwing women by the dozen, and still have the time to be a total child when not making fun of everything he dislikes), I really can't like the character at all. Everything around him is there for his amusement.
Giving the main character his points of self-reflection/compassion/brilliance doesn't change the fact he's a total ass in my eyes.
Anyway, Looking for Group... Started out the same as a gag-per-strip, but quickly abandoned that for an attempt at epic. But you know what?
Doing nothing but day-to-day gag strips since LICD, the writing has NO FUCKING SENSE OF PACE! Events come and go as soon as they're introduced, dialogue is hack-and-eyed and stilted in the same way a Miller dialogue is written (short, trying to have something epic in it).
And then there's Richard. I'll probably catch some punches for this one, and while I do like Richard to some extend... I can't help but feel like he and LICD's Rayne are the same person. Constantly there to make fun of the situation, do something horrifying, but ultimately be doing GOOD things because that makes them OH SO CHARMING AND MISUNDERSTOOD!
I could rant about other things, but now it's time to go home :p
I've admittedly and I have always taken a lot of flack for it - I NEVER liked Family Guy. :p
I've always thought it was lowest common denominator.
Looking for Group I'm not sure I've ever seen, but the way you describe it makes me feel
almost lucky? For it to be popular as a web comic (I assume it is?) it must've had something
going for it - art?
The art was.. well, it's good, though the artist still goofs off at some points (disappearing midsections or strange laws of physics).
and suspect I must've been thinking of something else. I don't think I'd ever
seen it before or I saw it a long time ago when it was slightly less complicated.
Now... to figure out what comic I was thinking of. X3
I stopped watching it :|
most episodes are just random nonsense till halfway where the main plot finally arises, i think thats lazyness when the point of a show should have the plot laid out at the start
and iuno, i do laugh once an episode. just once, rarely twice. so they have A good joke sometimes ;D
The classic "Peter falls on knee and hisses for a minute straight"... it's so simple and crude, but you realize you probably would've done the exact same thing to let your surrounding know you hurt yourself :p.
But reflecting back on it.. nope, I don't know why I watched it beyond hoping for a good bit once in a while. Same with American Dad, Cleveland Show. Thought it might be worth a chuckle, nether of them did it for me.
While I like a few bits and pieces, it on the whole just isn't something I'd watch if there was anything else on [and Law & Order is always on.]
Guess it'll end up just like the rest to me, at some point :(
There's rumors of a second season of Firefly at least!
And if it IS true, then
Fillion's still doing the show Castle so
it may wind up have a whole new cast for all I know :C
as for looking for group. I liked it better whean richard was an undead bitter warlock.now its just standing still.
I really find his presence as comedic relief obnoxious at times, especially now that a big event happened.. he immediately barges in for some crummy jokes to kill the serious mood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtZ0SbWTrg&feature=related
Family guys tries to be funny by pushing in as many pop. culture references or ridiculous, random, and absurd events, but it fails so hard since most of the jokes are very very predictable. They keeps trying to repeat jokes, too, which makes it even worse. Or just use some funny (at least in their opinion) moment and loop it for 30-60 seconds. -_- Makes me want to punch the script writers. I can't believe that show is so well received. South park summed up FGs script writing pretty accurately...
And yeah, most web comics have this problem like the ones mentioned above. "Hey, look at me, I'm the comic relief, look at me saying/doing something very stupid/funny to lighten up the mood! Are you looking at me? LOOK AT ME DAMN IT."
And yeah, I guess some parts of Family Guy are lazily animated where they only have to change the eyes and mouths. What baffles me more is that some BBC report about Seth MacFarlane named him as Hollywood's highest-paid writer. That's... what?
Someone linked me to "least I could do" a good while back and honestly, I found it to be one of the most badly written comics on the web. It's repetitive to the nth degree. I haven't read looking for group so I've no idea about that one :O
As far as the LFG comic, I never really liked it, it was mildly entertaining for the first few stages, then they went borderline redonculous. 'Trying too damn hard' phase just like FG!
(Heck, I already had this with Animaniacs when I was a kid)
The recent thing with that.. Cale's brother as a king and whatnot, that one got me thinking how whack it had become. They had put so much tedious boring story between the event they flashed back towards (I didn't even know it was a flashback on the first page of said flashback, way to make a proper transition), I couldn't even remember what all that was about.
I read a lot of webcomic, mostly when i'm at work with nothing else to do. LFG isnt great by any means, but it's also not the worst. My favorites tend to update 1-3 times a week, with the rare exception of a couple of them that update about 5 times a week.