Kaijudo does a very good job of making it not blatantly obvious that it's suppose to be advertising a card game.

Aren't there a lot of cartoons animated by Korean companies?

Picked up The Legend of Korra on DVD recently. Great show but definitely weaker than its predecessor. I can't help but wonder how much the additional episode ordering affected its production.

Also, Tenzin's kids are awesome.

Soooo they're doing a Simpsons and Family Guy crossover I hear

Yeah, that's, uh... The fans of the shows, um... Ideas, that uh, and the writers, um...

I just watched an episode of Azumanga Daioh, my brain can't discuss Western Animation just yet.
If you need me, I'll be watching an episode of Ed, Edd, n Eddy to reset.

Cool.
I'd pretend to be excited, but I think Family Guy is one of the worst cartoons ever.

Family Guy ran into the same problem as Simpsons, but they hit the problem seven seasons before Simpsons. It became to outlandish. To off-the-wall and far to politcal. The first couple seasons are great. But then they got renewed and meh. The Simpsons is the same way. The shows were somewhat grounded in reality. Yes, some were a little out there. But nothing like they have now.

Ironic how American Dad! started as Seth MacFarlane's political soapbox and now it's early political elements are pretty much gone.

I don't even care about it being too "Outlandish." It's a cartoon sitcom, thus they're not bound to the same "Rules" as other sitcoms. Characters can get hurt, situations can be more extreme, etc.
While Family Guy did need to tone down the gags (The mile a minute rapid fire gags rarely got laughs and the longer ones ran the risk of driving the joke into the ground before the gag finished. Oh, and the Conway Twitty bullshit was never funny. It physically pains me to see that, because it just makes me picture MacFarlane laughing in a chair, saying "Fox is paying me to literally do nothing for the next 5 minutes.")

No, where Family Guy lost me is in Brian. Brian changed from "The straight man who acted as Peter's foil/Voice of reason (Like Lisa)" to "Seth MacFarlane's personal soap box that lets him insert his views on politics, religion, and the world (Like Lisa)."
Where Simpsons's writers soon realized that Lisa was grating, MacFarlane never learned. He still makes Brian speak about his liberal agenda, about how Seth feels about current politics, about whatever issue was hot button 6 months ago.

I've been told that Brian partakes in more gags nowadays like the older episodes, but that doesn't change a thing. So Brian will do something silly. Doesn't help that 10 seconds later he'll be back standing atop his soapbox spouting and preaching.

I've been told to not let one character ruin my experience or fun with a show, but the issue is that, as the years went on, the rest of the characters have been flanderized as well. Peter went from "Lovable idiot" into "Retaded sociopath", Lois from "Unstable mother" to "Apathetic, sociopathic enabler" and etc etc. You can see the loss of FG's sense of self when, during an early season, Peter could say "I love you, Meg" with absolute sincerity, while a later season, Lois can't even utter it during Meg's birthday.
At the end of the day, no matter how wrong things could happen during the Simpsons, it still feels like this is a family. For Family Guy, it feels like you have to ask "Why are any of these characters putting up with everyone else?"

IN SHORT:
Brian is a bad character and ruins the show on every level.
Seth doesn't know the difference between being "Dark" and being "Mean-spirited."

The Road to episodes are still decent though. I didn't enjoy Vegas, but North Pole was good.

I'm sick to death of the "Road To" episodes.
This isn't my bitterness with Family Guy talking, either. I just don't think the Brian/Stewie dynamic ever worked, regardless of how often it's shoved in viewers' faces.

Here, let Avatar Korra bend away the bad comedy.

http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/comi...html?xid=LOKFB

:D

Holy crap. That was beautiful.

The music for that trailer was chillingly haunting. And I don't know why but it looks like Bryke really want to push the Waterbenders to be badasses in their own right. Waterbending looks gorgeous this time round.

I am legitimately sad that Kick Buttousky only got 2 seasons, it deserves more.

So I FINALLY got around to watching the first episode of Beware The Batman. And if I had one word to sum it up, it'd be: inconsistent.

Like take the actual content, it struck that weird balance that EMH did where at times it'd feel heavily censored and others not at all, sometimes in the same scene. Beware The Batman is allowed to use the d word, no people getting destroyed here, and people are allowed to get hurt and pop their dislocated shoulders back in place...on screen. But for a gun to work like a gun, it has to look like a Power Rangers blaster. It was really annoying because it made the tone of the episode feel all over the map.

Or take the visuals, some moments were absolutely gorgeous and there is a sense of detail to the animation in Beware that I don't think we've really seen before but the actual character designs are in my opinion, awful. Everyone looks like a daddy longlegs, with horrible gangly limbs with tiny torsos and heads. Plus I especially hated the unnecessary over cartoonifying like Alfred's ginormous chin or Bruce's botox lips.

Having such gangly limbs also made all the movement look really awkward and unnatural, and for a character like Batman, that is supposed to move with fluidity, it was really disappointing that he looked a bit like a spider when I turn the tap on at times.

Then there are the characters, I actually kinda like the new Alfred but...he isn't Alfred, I don't understand why they even kept the name. They've made entirely new villains for the show, so why not just make Bruce a new butler? I mean I know you have but you've still called him Alfred...

I LOVED the new villains, they obviously couldn't be quite as twisted as the writers wanted them to be given the limitations of children's animation but what we did have was really awesome.

I loved Brave and The Bold, but I'm really glad we're back to a nice dark Batman series. Batman is one of few heroes who can do the grimdark crap, make the most of it!

I loves me a redhead:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/46e911d44...gcuio1_500.gif

Checked out the second episode of Beware The Batman, I really like this show, it's almost like being in the 90s again with how much this show gets away with and how well written and realised it is. Makes me want to go back and watch TAS or The Batman.

The main reasoning behind the hole make the guns look like a power ranger blast was due to the killings and the insadent with a batman screening they were planing to have realistic guns in the show

Oh well in episode two Gordon's gun appears to be firing real bullets and looks more like a real gun, thank God.

I Really dislike the animation style, but I gotta say the team knows how to do fights. The show looks great in motion.

Overall, Beware the Bat is off to a great start I think. The first two episodes despite the flaws were pretty interesting, and I like the darker noir tone the series is going for. I'm going to be sticking with this and seeing where they end up going from here.

So anyone find a complete recording of the first episode of Korra season 2? :P I hate how they debuted it at SDCC and only gave the rest of us a brief teaser that's just given more questions... Like why Bolin is alone on the Fire Ferrets... It was much cooler when they debuted there then put it online not long after.

Just watched Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
It was alright.

It was an interesting take on the alternate universe story, and if I recall, it leads directly to the New 52 DC reboot a few years back, which could lead to a series of DC Animated movies with a set of continuity, like a movie version of the DCAU, which would be cool. For the movie itself, it was just alright. This is very much a comic story, and the pacing showed. Batman being a vigilante who despises the world, turning on a dime to Barry's words with no reason to believe him, Cyborg being the Presidential boy scout who breaks into a secret governmental bunker without second thought, and etc etc. It was just jarring, to say the least. That aside, it was otherwise pretty good.

The character designs were kind of bland. It honestly felt there were 3 designs in the movie total: Male, child, female, and Flashpoint Superman. Every man is a barrel chested titan, every woman a busty model. Additionally, some of the CG moments in the movie felt a little off. It's not bad, but it felt like the CG work was done using CG technology from 2008, with stiff and awkward models and movement.

However, most jarring is the gore. You see blood and broken limbs in the DC animated movies all the time, but you can't just step things up into decapitation without warning a brother. It's not extreme levels of gore (You're not going to see Elfen Lied levels of it), but it does seem like they got away with a lot more than previous movies.

So, in all: Decent story, 2 character designs, buckets of blood.

I guess... RWBY would be a more suited place to talk about in this thread even though, Monty views it as a Anime.

Anyways you guys should go check it out, or at least the trailers that's been out the past couple of months. 1st episode already aired last week.

Flashpoint-the reason its more gorey than before is because the ratings changed. Thanks to Spielberg. Long story short, when my fiance directed Wonder Woman, she had to remove A LOT of the action (and they weren't even gorey)...because it orignally got an R-rating. Sadly, unless you worked on it, no one else will ever get to see it (it was beatifully animated)...the finished animation is locked away, deep in Burbank WB archives.

Flash forward a few years, when we did Batman Year One, it got a PG rating...same with Justice League: Doom, and a bunch of the other DC DTVs. Same thing happened to flashpoint.Initial release was PG...but WB Home videos wanted a seperate rating from the TV shows and DVD releases...hence we upped the violence...thanks, Spielberg :/

AS for Flashpoints character designs...they were done by the same guy behind YJ..also it was animated by Studo 4ºC.

Sorry...you're gonna have to wait till September. Not our choice..we have quite a few episodes already in the can. As for story line, it'll be stronger this time, since now we have a set number of episodes. When Book 1 of Korra was made, the creators had no clue as to how many episodes they will get. AND there were no intentions of doing any additional seasons.

Book 1 did well, so Nick gave us the greenlight to do 3 more seasons.

Shame about what happened with the Wonder Woman movie...

And Spielberg is to blame? Huh. I find that surprisingly hilarious. :lol
I think the violence does fit the grittier and more chaotic story, but I do hope future DC movies (Like the upcoming JL: War, or whatever it's called) tones it back a bit. Sometimes it was just a little much.

And I'm still not a fan of the design direction in Flashpoint.

I thought the worst was the Death of Superman inspired movie, my God the gore in that was as ridiculous as it was gratuitous and it just looked so rubbish and stupid.

Then again weird choices seem to permeate DC's animated movie stuff, like the Superman VS The Elite movie where the story was made entirely for adults with animation seemingly marketed exclusively at four year olds.

The best DC Animated movie to me is still Under the Red Hood, I haven't found a movie that was quite as good as that yet.

I'm inclined to agree but only to a point, Red Hood is probably the best but still not truly great. For every DC Animated Movie with a great story, it seems to come packaged with terrible animation or vice versa. And even 'great' dc animated movie stories either fall flat, rely heavily on fan baiting or are contrived and cheaply written.

Well...there's only so much we can do. Especially with the budget we have.

So I checked out Superman: Unbound today, I say if you watch a Superman movie at all this year, make it Man of Steel, not this.

In many senses Unbound had the better Superman and it was a stroke of genius to have him pair up with Supergirl but it's actually come the day where the live action movie had the better action sequences, Unbound was a damn ugly movie. Plus it's weird, Unbound managed to feel almost like it had no story at all and yet crammed way too much in.

The characters were fun but it was pretty bad.

I don't know what it is about animated Superman movies, but a lot of them are really just eh. Superman Doomsday was…okay I guess but still a majority of them aren't really that great.

Blasphemy in my House. DC makes excellent animation. Except Teen Titans Go, that show is just crap.

I think the only time I really loved Superman is the animated movies was the surprise battle with Darkseid... at the end of I think, Apocalypse? That shit was dank.

You mean this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLGRkYYmJgQ

Yeah S*** got pretty intense.

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

Yeah that one! The first time I watched the movie I so didn't see it coming and it was EPIC! Best surprise ever.

Having you here is awesome. Just wanted to let you know. ;)

Thanks for the info though. I'm not really upset, just more anxious. Which I'd say is actually a good thing haha.