Scott Pilgrim Netflix Animated Series - Animated by Science SARU

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It kinda captured the comics perfectly... its almost scary how naturally it all fit together.

I never watched the movie but I did read through the comic books. They pretty much nailed every character... I think a lot of people dont get how little actually happens in scott pilgrim.

They play up the homos a lot but its Netflix. It's weird how much of a focus they get but even then it's done in the way the universe would portray them.

Really liked Goose's ending. Might watch a second season but it's a show you skip over parts to the characters you are actually interested in.
 
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Whiskey said:
It kinda captured the comics perfectly... its almost scary how naturally it all fit together.

I never watched the movie but I did read through the comic books. They pretty much nailed every character... I think a lot of people dont get how little actually happens in scott pilgrim.

They play up the homos a lot but its Netflix. It's weird how much of a focus they get but even then it's done in the way the universe would portray them.

Really liked Goose's ending. Might watch a second season but it's a show you skip over parts to the characters you are actually interested in.
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I agree with pretty much everything but the "skip over parts to the characters you're interested in" thing given how there's several jokes tied to offhand references or mentions of shit that have payoff several episodes afterwards. The whole "season" is about as long as a several hour length movie and can easily be finished in one sitting. I would have said it was intended to be one if it weren't for the fact the title card animations existed.

The played up homo shit is also treated mainly as a gag to show how characters aren't gay after "trying it" in one part or a running joke about the vegan being extremely unstable and unloyal horny bastard. It's very unlike like most netflix shit that contains gay stuff where they shove a super serious lecturing segment about shit or reddit karma farm webcomic "wholesome" moments in. I'm surprised they were allowed to do that in the eternal current year hellscape that is today's media industry.


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Clown world works in mysterious ways. Reminds me on how Friends and Seinfeld are oh so offensive to current year faggots when the first one was milketoast as fuck and the second though a bit meaner, nothing to drop your pearls about.
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The funniest shit I've seen the kind of people that have hopped on are the people that get super fucking angry and call Scott a Pedo over the Knives situation when the literal fucking joke right out the gate is how it's a one sided crush thing and how pathetic and pedoey it came across for him to be enabling her so he could feel less lonely. These offended people will also usually hypocritically gush about how Knives and some adult female character would be a great lesbian couple as if them being lesbians somehow nullifies the fact she's a fucking teenage kid and the other characters are all in their 20s and 30s.
 
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Whiskey said:
It kinda captured the comics perfectly... its almost scary how naturally it all fit together.

I never watched the movie but I did read through the comic books. They pretty much nailed every character... I think a lot of people dont get how little actually happens in scott pilgrim.

They play up the homos a lot but its Netflix. It's weird how much of a focus they get but even then it's done in the way the universe would portray them.

Really liked Goose's ending. Might watch a second season but it's a show you skip over parts to the characters you are actually interested in.
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It's kind of funny how Wallace becomes so much worse without Scott's influence. It's the little things. I went in super skeptical about the twist, but ended up quite enjoying the show on the whole.

Shame that it doesn't seem like there's going to be a second season. (Source)
 
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It's kind of funny how Wallace becomes so much worse without Scott's influence. It's the little things. I went in super skeptical about the twist, but ended up quite enjoying the show on the whole.

Shame that it doesn't seem like there's going to be a second season. (Source)
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Then why the fuck tease us at the end like that?
 
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I remember when my sister showed me the trailer, thinking I would be interested in it cause I'm a huge animation buff. I knew about the graphic novels and movie in passing, as I was too young when both came out. But I have a general idea what the premise is about. Haven't seen the show yet, and debating on whether or not I should check it out.

From reading about it on here, it sounds very confusing and convoluted, and I can't tell if that's just because it's being summarized or if it actually is that way in the show. Does it focus soley on Ramona and her character, or does Scott get some spotlight as the protagonist as well? Do you need to read the source material ahead to understand it better and enjoy it more, or can it stand on it's own? Is the pacing alright, cause it does feel like 8 episodes would not be enough to tell a complete story.

I just don't want to waste my time on it if there's nothing to be enjoyed about it.
 
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Do you need to read the source material ahead to understand it better and enjoy it more, or can it stand on it's own? Is the pacing alright, cause it does feel like 8 episodes would not be enough to tell a complete story.
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From everything that has been said, you should probably read the graphic novel first or else you won't understand anything going on.
 
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Finished it yesterday with a friend, we both liked it a lot. I didn't mind the gay shit in that one episode because I just interpreted it as the writers calling vegans gay and Wallace isn't really a PC interpretation of a homo, he's kind of what we all know homos are actually like.
Idk shit about the comics so I can't compare but I like how pretty much every major character and even some minor ones had a character arc and ton of personality put into them so they all ended up pretty fleshed out by the end. I'll concede that nobody likes a bait and switch and it's kind of a bullshit thing to do but I don't think that makes something inherently bad. Metal Gear Solid 2 pulled that shit over 20 years ago and though a ton of people were initially pissed off we wanted Snake but instead got Raiden, we still love it and are still memeing about Metal Gear Revengeance to this day.
 
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I wonder if people wouldn't have been so mad if the show was called something else. When your title has the main character from all previous iterations, people expect it to be about the main character.
 
It’s funny to me how Old Scott is the villian and doesn’t get to improve of change, but the main villain of the entire comic series who was freezing women and was the one responsible for everything that happened on the original story gets to walk away scot free and even gets to be happy.

But Scott stays old and alone because reasons, I guess.
 
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So I admit I have not watched this show. Give me the lowdown.... is it just an adaptation of the comics or is it something else entirely?
 
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It’s funny to me how Old Scott is the villian and doesn’t get to improve of change, but the main villain of the entire comic series who was freezing women and was the one responsible for everything that happened on the original story gets to walk away scot free and even gets to be happy.
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Maybe Matt freed them and made them employees?

By the way from the AI cover thread
Was Julie's name a reference to the Bobby Sherman song?
 
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Nothing to do with the new show itself (I thought it wasnt very good and wasnt what people actually wanted), But I really fucking hate when they sequel bait some shit, then they go to ask if there is any plans for a second season and Brian lee O'hackfraud just goes "erm uhhhh no plans". Just stop doing that shit already.
 
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I just watched the whole thing too, and I thought it was pretty good. It’s a fun alternate story, despite how scummy it is that they didn’t advertise it as such. It offers the most likable version of Ramona by far, and she’s actually regretful about how poorly she treated her past exes, with Gideon being the sole exception. The exes as a whole are also much more endearing, especially Gideon and Lucas. And there’s a healthy amount of callbacks to both the comic and movie. Even a song from the game returns at one point.

My two biggest complaints are the absurd abundance of gay shit, and the final battle. Seriously, the amount of inexplicable gayness makes Stephen suddenly deciding he’s gay in the comics look tame in comparison (ironically, he’s not explicitly gay in the show, while Kim now becomes bisexual in the epilogue). And Todd suddenly going full flaming homo is funny, but… come on, tone it down. I like that he goes full anti-vegan after being rejected by Wallace though, seeing him proudly eat a turkey leg and put a pound of butter on his popcorn is funny. Beyond that, future and present Ramona merging to become Super Ramona is dumb. Not in a Mary Sue sort of way, I just mean it’s a really dumb way to end the conflict. The vegan police in the comics was also dumb, but it was at least funny-dumb and foreshadowed in advance. And having Future Scott be the only character who doesn’t get a happy ending also feels scummy since he’s technically the Scott from the comics while the present one is an alternate Scott.

But overall, better than I expected, given how terrible this thread said it was. I rewatched a clip from the movie after this and it’s amazing how unlikable that Ramona is compared to this one. I didn’t think anything of the live action neon-colored hair at the time, but now it feels like a warning of things to come.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
It’s funny to me how Old Scott is the villian and doesn’t get to improve of change, but the main villain of the entire comic series who was freezing women and was the one responsible for everything that happened on the original story gets to walk away scot free and even gets to be happy.

But Scott stays old and alone because reasons, I guess.
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The big comedic reveal that scott never got divorced from ramona but they both just were overthinking shit after some nebulous stressing occured well over a decade into their marriage. It's also implied somewhat through a small one off bit of goofy dialogue from oldER scott that Old/Older scott fucking with time caused some back to the future-esque shit where things gradually changed a bit in the future which kinda made him more unhinged due to his memory going fucky as it updated from him messing with the past.

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Nothing to do with the new show itself (I thought it wasnt very good and wasnt what people actually wanted), But I really fucking hate when they sequel bait some shit, then they go to ask if there is any plans for a second season and Brian lee O'hackfraud just goes "erm uhhhh no plans". Just stop doing that shit already.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the sequel bait was a requirement by Netflix themselves. Going by the interviews I've seen with O'malley Netflix wanted him to redo/rewrite the entirety of the fucking comic script instead of just letting people use the original thing as a reference or something as well which led to shit being the way it is because nobody in their right mind would want to rewrite every fucking bit of story and dialogue with "updates for modern audiences!" Mildly Hoping at least a season 2 happens and doesn't get fucked by netflix meddling further with the "modern audience!!!!" shit but I got a feeling since nobody involved seems to plan or want to do a season 2 even if it does happen it's gonna end up like everything else netflix did that shit with.
 
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