Recent content by Alph

Yeah but those are comedy shows. And a G1 Transformers comedy show with recycled animation could work great. But for a more dramatic series they'd really need to go the X-men 97 route and make all new animation.

Given that the first two films came out in the late 90s, I feel like they should have featured some random obscure Beast Wars figure who never appeared in the Beast Wars cartoon, like Snapper or Razorbeast.

Disappointed that this isn't a new animated movie set after the original Transformers cartoon.

I want this more than anything (as in, I want these kinds of shows to be something that actually happens on a consistent, long lasting basis), but it really does seem like adult scifi animation always dies if doesn't bombard people with wacky gags, bathos, and meta humor.

I think some people just can't let go of the comics and view adaptations with fresh eyes. We see it all the time with the MCU too, people get their panties in a bunch whenever the writers go too far in a different direction (and inversely theyll embrace even the dumbest stuff from the comics as...

I feel like fashion changes a lot more slowly ever since the internet age. At least, I'm never able to tell the difference between the clothing styles in any shows set in or after the 90s. They all just look like "normal clothes" to me, whereas anything from before that looks retro.

Disney Plus has become my main lately, but I still use Netflix sometimes. Only other streaming service I ever used was Amazon Prime to watch Invincible (and The Boys and The Tick, but those weren't animated), however that was just during the free trial period so I didn't vote for it. I wish...

I think a lot of it has to do with parents' mindset when it comes to movies versus TV shows. For whatever reason, parents tend to have more relaxed standards when it comes to what content they'll let their kids watch in a movie versus what they'll approve of in a TV show. Like when I was a kid...

A greater focus on continuity and story arcs is a big one. Writers don't have to worry about networks airing episodes out of order anymore, and new viewers are always able to start right from the beginning of the show, and viewers can watch episodes in quicker succession than they used to.

It's a shame we can't at least somehow use NFTs as a way to trick rich people into helping others. Like maybe give away free cancer treatment to kids or free food to starving people or pay for some poor kid's college fund as a free bonus with each $100,000 worth of digital memes or crappy...

NFTs exist for one purpose and one purpose only: to give wealthy people something to flex their monetary muscle with. Rich people need to have that feeling that they can afford something other people can't get. But with the rise of infinitely reproducable digital media, rich people are being...

That sounds to me like a PSA style episode. Those tend to have a different standard when it comes to censorship. For instance, Gargoyles and Static Shock both had episodes where someone gets shot by accident when someone was handling a gun. Normally bullets never manage to hit anyone in those...

The animation still looks fine to me. I think it's your brain that just doesn't jive with it anymore.

I feel like these examples, and others like them, are pretty much by design. Lots of animated action shows start off more episodic, with overarching narrative elements sprinkled in, and then become much more continuity-heavy and story-arc focused (and often much darker) as time goes on. Episodic...

I'm not passing judgement on which one is better or worse. I'm just pointing out the difference in approach.