so apparently Ben 10 Omniverse ends sometime this month, and they're not planning on continuing the series in any way.
That's a little sad, I never followed Omniverse but I was pretty big into the first three Ben 10 series, and it's disappointing to see the franchise go out on what's been pretty universally described as a low note.
so apparently Ben 10 Omniverse ends sometime this month, and they're not planning on continuing the series in any way.
That's a little sad, I never followed Omniverse but I was pretty big into the first three Ben 10 series, and it's disappointing to see the franchise go out on what's been pretty universally described as a low note.
so apparently Ben 10 Omniverse ends sometime this month, and they're not planning on continuing the series in any way.
That's a little sad, I never followed Omniverse but I was pretty big into the first three Ben 10 series, and it's disappointing to see the franchise go out on what's been pretty universally described as a low note.
As someone who watched the first show and a half, I'm not a fan of seeing it go out like this. It was never super-excellent, but it was generally competent for a kids' adventure show.
Still, I understand mercy killings as well. Sometimes, things shouldn't live for so long. The Simpsons, Spongebob, Teen Titans (tell me that the last season was superior to season four, I dare you) Axel in KH2 (whose life was extended specifically because of fan outcry). Should have ended when they had the chance.
you know some future Cartoon Network regime will dig Ben 10 back up when the time comes to find nostalgic 2000s IP to exploit
I feel like that's a fate more suited for stuff like regular show.
no one's out there digging up Johnny Quest, you know?
Ben 10 is one of the only Cartoon Network properties ever to have achieved any significant merchandising/licensing footprint (at least to my recollection). So goes the executive thinking, when 2000s nostalgia gets big, why not give it another go?
Also, Jonny Quest is 50 years old and owned by WB, who generally doesn't care about any Hanna-Barbera IP that's not Scooby-Doo. Which I think is a shame...
I saw a few episodes of Johnny Quest a couple years ago and it was legitimately one of the worst things I've ever watched.
The world is missing nothing by it's lack of revival.
I haven't seen it in ages, but it does get held up by people who think it's one of Hanna-Barbera's magnum opuses, so I'd like to give it another go.
I was referring to H-B IP of that vintage in general. WB hasn't been kind to Hanna-Barbera ever since they gained ownership of it; I hear that while it was still going, the WB people sneered on it as inferior to their own TV animation studio, and I think WB buried the H-B characters on purpose. The old regime did; anyone succeeding them just plain doesn't seem to know what to do with them.
I saw a few episodes of Johnny Quest a couple years ago and it was legitimately one of the worst things I've ever watched.
The world is missing nothing by it's lack of revival.
I haven't seen it in ages, but it does get held up by people who think it's one of Hanna-Barbera's magnum opuses, so I'd like to give it another go.
I was referring to H-B IP of that vintage in general. WB hasn't been kind to Hanna-Barbera ever since they gained ownership of it; I hear that while it was still going, the WB people sneered on it as inferior to their own TV animation studio, and I think WB buried the H-B characters on purpose. The old regime did; anyone succeeding them just plain doesn't seem to know what to do with them.
Frankly I think that's just because there's not a lot to many of those characters. What do you do with Ricochet Rabbit in 2014 for example?
Some there's potential for but it'd require essentially reestablishing interest in an entire, mostly dead genre, and that's not usually practical.
As for Johnny Quest I'd argue Scooby Doo, and if I remember its ownership correctly, Top Cat, are both better HB properties.
I saw a few episodes of Johnny Quest a couple years ago and it was legitimately one of the worst things I've ever watched.
The world is missing nothing by it's lack of revival.
I haven't seen it in ages, but it does get held up by people who think it's one of Hanna-Barbera's magnum opuses, so I'd like to give it another go.
I was referring to H-B IP of that vintage in general. WB hasn't been kind to Hanna-Barbera ever since they gained ownership of it; I hear that while it was still going, the WB people sneered on it as inferior to their own TV animation studio, and I think WB buried the H-B characters on purpose. The old regime did; anyone succeeding them just plain doesn't seem to know what to do with them.
Frankly I think that's just because there's not a lot to many of those characters. What do you do with Ricochet Rabbit in 2014 for example?
Some there's potential for but it'd require essentially reestablishing interest in an entire, mostly dead genre, and that's not usually practical.
As for Johnny Quest I'd argue Scooby Doo, and if I remember its ownership correctly, Top Cat, are both better HB properties.
Ricochet is hardly the most iconic or interesting H-B character. It would be more productive to do something with Yogi, or Huck, or Quick Draw, or the Flintstones, or even Jinks.
Top Cat has always been owned by H-B outright, and is thus owned by WB now too.
I saw a few episodes of Johnny Quest a couple years ago and it was legitimately one of the worst things I've ever watched.
The world is missing nothing by it's lack of revival.
I haven't seen it in ages, but it does get held up by people who think it's one of Hanna-Barbera's magnum opuses, so I'd like to give it another go.
I was referring to H-B IP of that vintage in general. WB hasn't been kind to Hanna-Barbera ever since they gained ownership of it; I hear that while it was still going, the WB people sneered on it as inferior to their own TV animation studio, and I think WB buried the H-B characters on purpose. The old regime did; anyone succeeding them just plain doesn't seem to know what to do with them.
Frankly I think that's just because there's not a lot to many of those characters. What do you do with Ricochet Rabbit in 2014 for example?
Some there's potential for but it'd require essentially reestablishing interest in an entire, mostly dead genre, and that's not usually practical.
As for Johnny Quest I'd argue Scooby Doo, and if I remember its ownership correctly, Top Cat, are both better HB properties.
Ricochet is hardly the most iconic or interesting H-B character. It would be more productive to do something with Yogi, or Huck, or Quick Draw, or the Flintstones, or even Jinks.
Top Cat has always been owned by H-B outright, and is thus owned by WB now too.
Four of those five are in the same boat though. What do you do with those characters that's actually interesting and not just self-parody?
The Flintstones have enough--for lack of any better term--pop cultural cred that you could probably start making Flintstones animated movies and no one would bat an eye.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I don't know, I just think the characters from the Huck/Quick Draw/Yogi shows (except for Yakky Doodle and Hokey Wolf) have that something that the ones from the Magilla Gorilla show (including Ricochet) lack. Magilla and its companion show, Peter Potamus, seem to represent something of a turning point for H-B - they're very obviously not much more than mere product. People have always given H-B flak out of a belief that they reduced cartoons to a cheap commodity, but it seems to have taken until Magilla/Potamus for that belief to really amount to anything. And excepting Breezly and Sneezly, those shows are still better than the hellfire they spewed out in the '70s and '80s (much of which has mercifully been buried, but still seems to taint them).
I am not denying that much of their earlier work had a certain character to it, it's just that it's a character that's very of-its-time, and it's hard to make that work in the modern day.
Another example of that would be the invasion story literary genre. The most famous example nowadays is probably War of The Worlds, but there used to be an entire industry of books whose entire plot was "Real Country A invades Real Country B And Gets Its Ass Kicked". Sometimes stuff is just too embedded in the time period it was made in to really translate well further down the line.
the end of one of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games
this one young adult novel i can't recall the name of but it had so many tearjerker moments like i cried 3 times even though it wasn't actually very good
basically it's gotta be not overly complicated and poke at my soft spot for bittersweet nostalgia
Cantus for Benjamin Britten has never made me cry because i try to avoid listening to it as to not wear it out, so i never actually end up listening to it when im in a mood where it could really grab me and slam my head into the ground a few times like i know it would
ALSO FUCK I FORGOT KNEE PLAY 5
i listened to that on repeat and bawled for like an hour solid after me and bunny broke up tbh
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(this is what I do in case of splitting headache, usually helps)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
but if you do want to cry from poetry again then going to read 'tortoise, swan' by mark doty is a good bet
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moya by gy!be
the fucking freaky seagram murals