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Chromeo said:
When it's used to show a character the path they're on leads to that crappy outcome, like the early flash-forward episodes of The Simpsons having Bart be a loser while Lisa was the president, it's interesting and provides something to challenge the character. When it's a sequel series and the character we cared so much about turns out to be a loser despite all their growth or positive attributes, it's like a slap in the face to people who gave a shit.
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The only time this trope has ever worked is with Cobra Kai, and I swear it's like everyone else is trying to copy it without understanding what made Cobra Kai S1 so great. The point of Cobra Kai is that the villain of the original movie, the shithead bully, is the loser with no skills living hand-to-mouth. The hero from the movies owns a car dealership, has a beautiful wife, and kids he loves. But we take the time to see not just how Johnny got to that point in life, but how the student-teacher relationship parallels a father-son relationship, enriching both people, improving the life of the kid and our stupid loser protagonist.
Idiots see Cobra Kai and its modest success and say "people want to see characters from 80's franchises as washed-up retarded losers."
 
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Watched the whole first season of Wander Over Yonder. I'm hoping that if I watch enough AT/Steven Universe-adjacent /co/ shows, I'll finally find a show that /co/ has zero criticisms of and doesn't betray them.
 
Trollblade69 said:
Watched the whole first season of Wander Over Yonder. I'm hoping that if I watch enough AT/Steven Universe-adjacent /co/ shows, I'll finally find a show that /co/ has zero criticisms of and doesn't betray them.
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Only one I can think of is Over the Garden Wall. To be fair, it's random on any given day if you're going to get positive threads or negative threads over there.
 
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starborn427614 said:
Only one I can think of is Over the Garden Wall. To be fair, it's random on any given day if you're going to get positive threads or negative threads over there.
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I've already seen OTGW, though. Plus it's only 10 episodes and I'm looking for a long-running anime that /co/ won't criticize, like Star Vs or Adventure Time.
 
Trianon said:
"We'll shake expectations by making the geeky girl with glasses have a SUPERMODEL MAKEOVER when she takes her glasses OFF! Print it!"
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also at least for me, it´s stupid and kinda mysoginistic to make Gretchen a generic model, like bruh, she was super intelligent and capable, why not make her a NASA scientist or something?
A Grey Cat said:
The show that got both Tom Jones ans megadeth...peak looney tunes.
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OOOOOOOF, that Megadeth episode was solid gold
vomitusdeux said:
I draw the line at a minecraft movie. I mean yeah I love minecraft I'm a fucking autist. But a movie? Why does it need one? It's not like there's some great depth to the game that needs covering.
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also, it´s really something that fans want? I´m sure they prefer better updates than a movie, also, why do that when all the community creates amazing animations, series and fan-sagas with lore and everything?
 
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Commander X said:
The old pilot for Corolla's Mr. Birchum from 2011 is on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/birchum-pilot

Still not good, but not as egregious as the Daily Wire show, it's got that "this darn political correctness, let me tell ya" style of joking but it doesn't feel as overblown as the culture war infused current series.
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Probably because political correctness wasn't a Paramount part of everyday life back in 2011...even mainstream animation mocked it.
 
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Finished Wander Over Yonder. Pat ending, but nothing wrong. Show got obnoxious for a while when it couldn't see Dominator as anything but a female from The Battle Royale to My Fair Hatey, and they never really got a hang of her personality beyond "jerk". Otherwise it's an inoffensive also-ran that's still not as good as Star or AT.
 
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Trollblade69 said:
Watched the whole first season of Wander Over Yonder. I'm hoping that if I watch enough AT/Steven Universe-adjacent /co/ shows, I'll finally find a show that /co/ has zero criticisms of and doesn't betray them.
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What about that one other show Craig McCracken did recently, Kid Cosmic?
 
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Papa Meat (MeatCanyon) takes on simps.

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