Transformers: Dark of the Moon

[Fordel]

That show was a lot of fun in general, worth watching on youtube on a rainy day or something certainly.


What was this thread about again? 

[Ratman_tf]

[UnSub]

And Americans beat everything.

Especially Truth and Justice if they refuse to cooperate.

[WindupAtheist]

That show was a lot of fun in general, worth watching on youtube on a rainy day or something certainly.


What was this thread about again?  

I think it should be about how Teen Titans was far better than most of the "DC Animated Universe" Super Serious Business stuff. Sometimes you just wanna see Malcolm McDowell get kicked in the face after trying to turn America back into a colony with a ray gun that makes people British, and not be expected to give a crap about the cameo appearance of obscure late-sixties DC superhero Ombudsman Extraordinary or what the fuck ever.

[HaemishM]

You, sir, are no geek. 

[WindupAtheist]

Dude I am level 100 geek. I just didn't spec Comic Book.

[Lakov_Sanite]

You fucked up your talent tree, I looked and I saw some ranks in she-ra. No one cares if hor-dak was skeletors mentor, he is still stupid!

[Ratman_tf]

That show was a lot of fun in general, worth watching on youtube on a rainy day or something certainly.


What was this thread about again?  

I think it should be about how Teen Titans was far better than most of the "DC Animated Universe" Super Serious Business stuff. Sometimes you just wanna see Malcolm McDowell get kicked in the face after trying to turn America back into a colony with a ray gun that makes people British, and not be expected to give a crap about the cameo appearance of obscure late-sixties DC superhero Ombudsman Extraordinary or what the fuck ever.

Eh. TT was fun for a larf, but it was way too animu for prolonged viewing. :3 And then they try to do something semi-serious like the Terra story and it all goes to hell.

[WindupAtheist]

You fucked up your talent tree, I looked and I saw some ranks in she-ra. No one cares if hor-dak was skeletors mentor, he is still stupid!

I didn't spec Warhammer in the Neckbeard tree so I had the points left over! Quit judging me you elitist poopsock!

Eh. TT was fun for a larf, but it was way too animu for prolonged viewing. :3 And then they try to do something semi-serious like the Terra story and it all goes to hell.

You shut your whore mouth.  

The serious episodes were fine, and the anime quirks were funny. Running with the whole "Woops guys I'm kinda the Antichrist!" Trigon storyline in a kid's show was pretty ballsy. The thing with TT is that it was basically a kid's show that wasn't afraid of decent writing, and which still managed to wink at adults with stuff like Control Freak. (A fat greasy internet nerd supervillain who ran around telling the heroes they were doing everything wrong. I loved that.) As opposed to stuff like JLU which always stank of being marketed directly at twentysomething neckbeards who know who Big Barda is and think comic books are Serious Business.

[Fordel]

Both made by the same dudes, that's why the writing was good.


But yea, TT was specifically made because the guys who made Batman, Superman, JLU had been doing that DCAU thing for like 20 years at that point, and wanted to break out of that.


While on the subject of all things DCAU, there's a new show, Young Justice that's basically a little mix of both. Though it still weighs more towards WUA's hated comic book nerd demographic then the lets be silly TT demographic. It's not part of the actual DCAU canon, its set on some alternate earth or whatever, I can never keep track of these things, need more ranks in Comic Lore :(


Worth watching, all over the youtubes again.

[HaemishM]

Young Justice is very worth watching. WUA won't like it because it does hit that neckbeardy demographic, but I think it's great. I couldn't stand Teen Titans myself - much too anime and silly.

[Merusk]

TT was one of my favorite cartoons of the last few years and while I enjoyed JLU, I did feel it was a little in to itself.   Like that guy at work who won't shut up about the awesome weekend he had analyzing the pitches at the baseball game because, hey he's pitched since he was 10 and knows what he's watching.   

[Fordel]

One thing I find, no matter the style of show, DC's cartoons always seems to be vastly superior to Marvels.


I just can't get into any of the marvel shows.

[SurfD]

Marvel does better movies, DC does better TV.  I think i can live with that balance.

[Fordel]

DC hasn't done many movies to begin with really.

[UnSub]

Marvel does better movies, DC does better TV. 

Don't make me break out the Justice League of America pilot! I'll do it! 

[K9]

Marvel does better movies, DC does better TV.  I think i can live with that balance.

Marvel make more movies than DC, they aren't necessarily better though. Marvel make a ton of terrible movies (all the fantastic four films, most of the x-men and spiderman films, the Punisher films, Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider).

[HaemishM]

I thought the Fantastic Four films were decent, and the X-Men and Spider-Man films were good (except the third of each franchise had serious problems). The rest, though - yeah, those sucked great big hairy monkey balls.

[K9]

I only liked the first X-men and Spiderman movie, I'll give marvel credit in that the Iron Man films were fantastic, and Thor was passable, and better than a lot of DC's fare (superman movies, catwoman...). That said, in terms of better or worse movies I'd say all the Nolan Batman films are still a league ahead of anything from Marvel, although you could argue that the two houses offer a different aesthetic.

I'm not sure what this has to do with Transformers though, except in the sense that they are all summer-blockbuster types of schlock.

[Sir T]

Transformers was a Marvel comic!  

   

[K9]

Ah, gotcha. I was not aware of that.

It doesn't really help the "Marvel make better movies" argument though 

[WindupAtheist]

The real story of this thread is Lakov's surprising knowledge of She-Ra lore. 

[01101010]

Transformers was a Marvel comic!  

 

Holy shit I still have this one series in storage.  

edit: corrected

[Lakov_Sanite]

The real story of this thread is Lakov's surprising knowledge of She-Ra lore. 

I was a he-man fan or rather, a skeletor one and felt burned as a child when he turned into second bannana just so they could sell a badly designed nemesis in hordak.

[Fordel]

Hordak had an army though!

[Lakov_Sanite]

Skeletor had Evilynn.

[Margalis]

TT was easily better than JLU. Justice League was already pretty bad, when it became Unlimited it got that much worse. It doesn't help that the concept of the Justice League has always been stupid - you have Superman on the same team as a woman who flies with wings and uses a mace. Really?

And in Justice League / JLU they STILL fell back on the old Superfriends shit of "well in this episode Superman is on a space vacation, that's why he doesn't just fix everything in two second!"

[Ginaz]

Why do I keep thinking that this thread will end up being more entertaining than the movie?

[Ironwood]

Skeletor had Evilynn.

We all had Evilynn.  Bitch loved to put out.

[WindupAtheist]

TT was easily better than JLU.

Also, oddly popular as fanfic material. I was just browsing the categories here by popularity and noticed that the TT cartoon has more stories written about it than Star Wars. Not some Star Wars cartoon, the movies. Of course both of them piled together don't have half as many entries as some silly-ass animes I've barely heard of, but whatever, those people are nuts.

Hey quit looking at me like that. I just can't help feeling a bizzare sort of admiration for the crazy prick who can crank out a half-million-plus words about... fucking... Xena Warrior Princess or some shit.

[Merusk]

Skeletor had Evilynn.

We all had Evilynn.  Bitch loved to put out.

And I won't have you judging her for that.  You took your turn.

[Slyfeind]

JL and JLU were amazing, for two reasons: 1. They constantly told the audience why Superman was on the same team as a chick with wings and a mace, sometimes several times per episode even, and 2. They didn't take themselves too seriously. TARDS. You all watched some stupid version of it, that was opposite of reality.

[Ratman_tf]

JLU was awesome because they'd have nutty scenes where a cowboy, a robot, a woman in a fishnet tuxedo outfit, and a martian would be fighting side by side against aliens or robots or demons or sometimes all three at once.

And the Question. He rocked.

[Johny Cee]

JLU was awesome because they'd have nutty scenes where a cowboy, a robot, a woman in a fishnet tuxedo outfit, and a martian would be fighting side by side against aliens or robots or demons or sometimes all three at once.

And the Question. He rocked.

Jeffrey Coombs, fuck yeah!

"The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister!"

[Fordel]

Also, oddly popular as fanfic material. I was just browsing the categories here by popularity and noticed that the TT cartoon has more stories written about it than Star Wars. Not some Star Wars cartoon, the movies. Of course both of them piled together don't have half as many entries as some silly-ass animes I've barely heard of, but whatever, those people are nuts.

How many of them are centered around Raven? She hits all the marks to set off the emo poetry gene in teens and pre-teens.