Scott Pilgrim Netflix Animated Series - Animated by Science SARU

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I'm one of those late millennials that borders on zoomer so I wasn't really prime age for Scott Pilgrim but I did see the movie once it hit DVD and remember thinking it was okay. It is funny to see how much it was an ill omen of things to come, and I wonder how much the feeling is going to change seeing anything SP related when it was basically the trend setter for every horrible societal change to come.

If it's faithful I could see it be entertaining but the copium has always been that Ramona and Scott are horrible people and that's intentional, but there is no way Netflix, in the year of our Lord 2023, is going to allow a female protagonist to be portrayed as anything other than perfect.
 
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Every dude I knew who was into Scott Pilgrim in the 00s was an overweight nerd. The kind of nerd that thought a girl talking to them about videogames = flirting. Still looks like basic bitch indie garbage at it's finest.
Boston Brand said:
It will never not be funny a bunch of hipsters upheld a C-tier Canadian harem manga as a work of art because it occasionally referenced indie rock and video games.
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Every word of this is so true, I actually belly laughed. Bless you.

I'll stick to harem animes, thanks. At least there's bouncing boobies.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Damn, sounds gay. I'm glad I saw the Expendables twice in the theater instead.
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I've never seen the film, so I was talking about the comic. Despite how I talked about it, I don't remember thinking it was awful or even bad, but I haven't read it in over a decade so it might be worse if I read it again now. My description of it as "today's Rick and Morty" was more about how it couldn't really be made in today's culture war poisoned culture, because I know that everything involving the plot about Scott literally having to fight his e-girl love interest's past body count would be memed to hell and back.
 
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As much as I like The Expendables it's also pretty gay. Take this from a man who watched 300 multiple times in theaters.
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I also saw 300 several times and got the graphic novel.
 

I sort of did a double-take at the voice and had to check to confirm that it's Michael Cera.
Idk...looks kinda plain and slow, but it's only a teaser and it might a better look than the spazzy lolrandom shit that the movie overdosed on. Might give it a shot, but not expecting much.
 
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This is just amazing.

The animation is quite crappy and, as it's been said, despite being quite progressive and proto-woke for its time, there is absolutely no way their representation of non-whites and non-heterosexuals is going to satisfy what would be its current target audience.

They would have to rewrite so much.

But, by the looks of it, they didn't (Or they did and they just made a close adaptation of specific moments for the trailer so that they could draw in old millenials) but if they did, it won't work anyway.

To begin with, the protagonist himself, while always a pathetic, nigh-sociopathic white manchild cuck, was portrayed in a manner sympathetic enough that it will not be deemed acceptable for the hate he's likely to receive.

Conversely, as it's been mentioned, Ramona in the original comics (less so in the movie) was idealized without really concealing her shitty personality. No way Netflix and the audience they have cultivated will have this.

I might evilly watch this trainwreck, though.
 
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Ewan McGregor said:
The animation is quite crappy and, as it's been said, despite being quite progressive and proto-woke for its time, there is absolutely no way their representation of non-whites and non-heterosexuals is going to satisfy what would be its current target audience.
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That's Science Saru for you. They hire animators from all over and go out of their way for things to look stylized while not looking completely "anime" in style. It will be different and the creator has backtracked about how poorly some of the plot has aged and he even mentioned he's rewriting it for the current year crowd:
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That's Science Saru for you. They hire animators from all over and go out of their way for things to look stylized while not looking completely "anime" in style. It will be different and the creator has backtracked about how poorly some of the plot has aged and he even mentioned he's rewriting it for the current year crowd:
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damn, spoke too soon.
 
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The Token Ethnic said:
That's Science Saru for you. They hire animators from all over and go out of their way for things to look stylized while not looking completely "anime" in style. It will be different and the creator has backtracked about how poorly some of the plot has aged and he even mentioned he's rewriting it for the current year crowd:
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This is going to be amazing!

A woke retelling of Scott Pilgrim is just something that will give us copious amounts of milk

It's just this sort of lightning in a bottle kind of stuff, like when the Conservapedia people took upon themselves to rewrite the Bible because it wasn't 'christian' enough.
 
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It's just this sort of lightning in a bottle kind of stuff, like when the Conservapedia people took upon themselves to rewrite the Bible because it wasn't 'christian' enough.
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I'm sorry, what? Thinking about this with zero context I can maybe see some conservatives "re-writing" one of those modern American-English translations of the Bible (those modern ones tend to push more left-leaning political messages than Christian doctrine). However I would not be surprised if they tried to re-write a King James version or something...
 
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naaaaiiiiillllll!!! said:
I'm sorry, what? Thinking about this with zero context I can maybe see some conservatives "re-writing" one of those modern American-English translations of the Bible (those modern ones tend to push more left-leaning political messages than Christian doctrine). However I would not be surprised if they tried to re-write a King James version or something...
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Here's in their own words

Beware that liberal agent provocateurs might have infiltrated the project to make it look silly.
 
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