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« Reply #675 on: July 22, 2012, 10:06:00 pm »
Quote from: Frumple on July 22, 2012, 09:22:48 pm
Does make me suddenly wonder, though. Anyone know of any major western animation that just doesn't include music? Barring, maybe, stuff like an actual band on screen or something.
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« Reply #676 on: July 23, 2012, 04:06:23 am »
Is it normal to watch a scene like, 8 times over and over? I just can't get enough of Fred punching out a giant baby clown. Plus the music, the music~


Fuck you Cartoon Network for giving this show the most ridiculous release schedule ever. At least I know I'll get new Gravity Falls every week; you'll probably just delay Mystery Incorporated by a few months again, just for kicks.
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« Reply #677 on: July 23, 2012, 09:01:43 am »
Watched two more episodes of MLP with my daughter. Dammit, this show is better than it has a right to be.
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« Reply #678 on: July 23, 2012, 09:11:04 am »
Quote from: RedKing on July 23, 2012, 09:01:43 am
Watched two more episodes of MLP with my daughter. Dammit, this show is better than it has a right to be.
I've watched the entire first season of My Little Pony as my brother is a Brony. And the show is well, pretty good. It has good production value, it stories are well written, its well voice acted and the animation is fairly decent.

It far exceeds what you would expect from My Little Pony cartoon show, but is it an exceptional cartoon on its own? No.

And Luaren Fuast did make it so parents could sit down and watch the show with their little girls, and not want to kill themselves.
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« Reply #679 on: July 23, 2012, 09:33:38 am »
I think one of the things that I'm enjoying is that it's not "villain-based". I.e. the narrative tension is typically around some awkward situation that needs to be resolved rather than "stopping the bad guy" (other than the first two-parter). My daughter is a scaredy-cat, so it's refreshing to find a 'toon that doesn't send her hiding behind the couch at least once per episode. Also, when I realized they were doing a stylized Benny Hill routine in one episode (complete with reworked version of the music)...that's pretty endearing to my inner nerd.

On a related note, we've recently become fans of Shaun the Sheep and its preschool-oriented spinoff, Timmy Time. (from Aardman Studios, the folks behind Wallace & Gromit). Has a lot of the same appeal as Pingu in that it's not tied to any given language and it has all sorts of cultural tidbits that are good for our kids to learn.
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« Reply #680 on: July 23, 2012, 11:11:32 am »
Yeah, all my favorite episodes center around character tension. Take the sleepover episode; boring as hell in any other cartoon ever, made hilarious and awesome in this one due to two central characters almost at each other's throats the entire time, and in a very believable fashion.
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« Reply #681 on: July 23, 2012, 01:50:03 pm »
Quote from: RedKing on July 23, 2012, 09:01:43 am
Watched two more episodes of MLP with my daughter. Dammit, this show is better than it has a right to be.

It is odd when a show for children shows genuin quality.

I know when I watched Jem expecting terribleness and maybe it was at first... but it ended up actually being a bit deep.

THEN again I never seen MLP: Friendship is Magic. So for all I know it is terrible and people are playing a global conspiracy level plot on me.
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« Reply #682 on: July 23, 2012, 02:57:13 pm »
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« Reply #683 on: July 23, 2012, 04:03:04 pm »
Quote from: Sirus on July 23, 2012, 02:57:13 pm
Relevant to the MLP comments, and hilarious to boot.

The explanation for Bronies is that a lot of the attributes we attribute to male and adults (and male adults) are mostly fictional.

It is why Snow White while unquestionably for children now adays was in fact a lot more universal when it came out.

Mind you I still have not seen a single episode of MLP:FIS so I don't know. I know Sponge Bob Square Pants was apperantly very popular with adults.
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« Reply #684 on: July 23, 2012, 09:11:28 pm »
Arrg! Next episode of Gravity Falls got delayed until August 10th, according to the wiki.


Why can't anything I like stick to consistent schedules D:
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« Reply #685 on: July 23, 2012, 10:36:41 pm »
Bummer,

Anyway one thing I really like about Gravity Falls is the climax music in each episode, though episodes 4 and 5 were a bit quiet. (If at all.)

Personally my favorite climax music is episode 3.

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« Reply #686 on: July 24, 2012, 02:42:25 pm »
why did I start watching Gravity Falls

and why is it so great
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« Reply #687 on: July 24, 2012, 02:50:35 pm »
Because of Great animations, lovable caracters, and generally great plots.

Sorta the male counterpart to MLP.
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« Reply #688 on: July 24, 2012, 02:51:16 pm »
except not male
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« Reply #689 on: July 24, 2012, 02:55:24 pm »
It definitely seems like more of a gender neutral show. I'd say Adventure Time is the male counterpart to MLP.
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