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I read the book as a teen, decided that unicorns are evil in it, then spent years being bombarded with how-this-movie-is-great in horse girl circles...still can not bring myself to watch it.
That's a real interesting take on the Unicorn in how she views the world. In that regard, you could say her becoming a human for a time, which essentually gave her a soul, was her redemption arc and why she couldn't be with her kind anymore.
 
This really reminds me of those cartoons you would see in GTA IV and V's TV channels that were clearly meant to make fun of specific political groups of people, but without any self-awareness or being funny
I know I'm a few pages late to the party but I feel that even that's a bit of misconception. Since for bad as Rockstar has gotten since the houser brothers left and the company went down the dei path when it came to hiring staff they at least still put effort into the fake shows they made for gta 4 and 5.



 
to interrupt the mediocre capeshit sperging for a bit - one of the local theatesr had 2 80s animated fantasy flicks as a double feature - both of which I've seen before -
The Last Unicorn is great and the book is even better. Peter S. Beagle is God.
 
The Last Unicorn is great and the book is even better. Peter S. Beagle is God.
The entire story is a meta fairy tale done right. It knows its a fairy tale, but does it in a way that isn't spiteful or one of those "hurr durr, this dumb so u dumb for liking it". It expands on the reasons why people love fairy tales and why they're timeless.
 
The entire story is a meta fairy tale done right. It knows its a fairy tale, but does it in a way that isn't spiteful or one of those "hurr durr, this dumb so u dumb for liking it". It expands on the reasons why people love fairy tales and why they're timeless.
Come to think of it, you can say this about all the other Rankin/Bass shit. So many absolute classics came out of that collaboration.

I used to watch these things every Christmas. This is one of the best pair of villain songs ever.

(It's the Heatmiser/Coldmiser songs.)
 
it's so funny to me because twitter was outraged at Primos briefly and then when it comes out theyre defending it. they are bought and sold by a marketing team
what's so delicious about this is they legit ruined the legacy of clone high. now there will never be another revival. at least futurama didnt fuck up SO bad that it ensured the Hulu reboot wouldnt happen
 
The Last Unicorn is amazing and the book ages very well. I have entirely different takes and opinions on the novel after re-read as an adult, it grows with your experiences. Molly Grue really became a stand out and her introduction to the Unicorn made me tear up, when as a kid I couldn't understand why anyone would be upset to meet one.

The film is just fun, and the art is truly stunning. It's fun to show it to people who have no idea what it's about.
 
Paul Dini mocked all fucking dorks like me and it lands so well. It helps that The Brave and the Bold is in the Top 3 of best Batman cartoons. Like that show won me over so quickly.
Currently bing watching through that show is another reminder for me of how the writing was in western animated shows prior to the mid 2010s. One episode opened with Batman teaming up with the ghost of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, who drives a modern Sherman tank.
 
Currently bing watching through that show is another reminder for me of how the writing was in western animated shows prior to the mid 2010s. One episode opened with Batman teaming up with the ghost of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, who drives a modern Sherman tank.
Brave and the Bold feels like a last hurrah of Cartoon Network, at least that was the last CN show (excluding Adult Swim) I was tuning into regularly.

I loved how it did references but with the caveat that the show wasn't just made for trivia nerds. Only the Bat-Mite episodes break the 4th Wall and pull out fanservice and that made them special. Beyond that I find it to be a ton of fun just to see what utterly obscure DC character was the guest of the episode and learn that it was a character decades ago. I think they also had a lot of restraint in not just throwing the obvious references or jokes nerds like me would expect, like I don't think Batman ever wound up doing the Adam West Batusi dance which you would expect from a show being a direct send up to Adam West's Batman.

I never got the critical acclaim the Spider-Man: Spiderverse movies got because I think Brave and the Bold did it better.
 
Something definitely happened during the production of this show where they just decided to not even try.
Super late, but meant to respond to this.

Yes, the production of Caped Crusader definitely go F'd. The show was slated as a CN original alongside Adult Swim's Superman. At some point they sold production off to Amazon, likely because the show got on Zazlav's radar as a potential tax write-off, but managed to miss. I would assume Warner already sent one-to-many projects to hell for tax write-offs and was now having issues with lawsuits filed against them, hence why it even aired.

Don't count on the show lasting. MAWS is also doing well, and they have already slashed the budget and episode count to half. WB selling the series to Amazon shows a large lack of faith. Plus Gunn is rebooting DC, including animation, so all projects are being dissolved to make way for his DCU.

Would be surprised if the show gets another season, even more surprised if the season isn't even cheaper in terms of animation.
 
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I thought both of those shows were good, what's wrong with them?

I'm not a fan of the griminess of Beyond. I don't think it's aged very well, as it's got a very turn-of-the-millennium picture of the future. I also don't like what it did to Bruce Wayne, and how it torpedoed any positive direction the future Justice League series could go in for him because of its setting.

Static Shock is just kind of boring, and was clearly aimed at a younger audience.
 
what's so delicious about this is they legit ruined the legacy of clone high. now there will never be another revival. at least futurama didnt fuck up SO bad that it ensured the Hulu reboot wouldnt happen
The legacy the Clone High reboot will have is just the same as the Boondocks Season 4 where both will not be talked about compared to the series glory days
 
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