TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands.
To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.
I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.
I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.
I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all.
How long does peace negotiation last?
Because if the negotiations are short Bruce could bring a camera crew and take a tour through battlescared Romania to not only document the true effects of the war but also give Bruce first hand view of the brutality and devastation communism can bring.
Well @Magoose now that we have tried and enjoyed D&D can we buy TSR, Inc. (The editorial created by Gary Gygax to publish D&D)?
Because really, the amount of high quality fantasy Content through all the media fotms (films, TV Series, anime, cartoons...) that we could get from Forgotten Realms alone is truly staggering
Kind of like that except it doesn't invoke the image of a man who was ironically part of a group that wanted to establish a Catholic theocracy via terrorism.
Though I didn't think of V when I thought it up. I was just thinking about how to bring the story of Robin Hood to a more modern setting. And setting the famous rebel against an authoritarian regime seemed like a good idea.
Though I didn't think of V when I thought it up. I was just thinking about how to bring the story of Robin Hood to a more modern setting. And setting the famous rebel against an authoritarian regime seemed like a good idea.
You have hilarious timing, with Robyn Hood being out right now in Canada. Same premise, absolutely terrible show, but hilarious in how absolutely fucking shit it is. To build on this whole clown show, the Director is even named "Director X."
You have hilarious timing, with Robyn Hood being out right now in Canada. Same premise, absolutely terrible show, but hilarious in how absolutely fucking shit it is. To build on this whole clown show, the Director is even named "Director X."
I'm Canadian and the first time I even heard about it was when I read a post on Reddit mocking someone for being angry at it for it being "woke". The people on that post were mocking the show for being terrible. I looked it up Wikipedia. I got as far as the brief summary blurb at the top before agreeing. A freaking corporate "young and hip" retelling about a rapper and her freaking band taking on corruption? That sounds like grade-A trash. But that got me thinking about how to do a better modernized take on the legend.
All I'm going to say is that ironically I don't watch tv or much streaming anymore.
Mostly because 90% of it's trash and I can put out better stories sleep deprived then those hacks can. Mostly because people are invested in this, just like I am.
Though to be fair, I'm happy with just doing wish fulfillment and fun because it makes people happy and that fills me with joy.
You have hilarious timing, with Robyn Hood being out right now in Canada. Same premise, absolutely terrible show, but hilarious in how absolutely fucking shit it is. To build on this whole clown show, the Director is even named "Director X."
I was gonna say this as well. It's even clownier whrn the director is claiming that the show's failure was because of racism. There are racists who don't like the show, yes, but the reason for failure was because the show is boring and dumb.
Though I didn't think of V when I thought it up. I was just thinking about how to bring the story of Robin Hood to a more modern setting. And setting the famous rebel against an authoritarian regime seemed like a good idea.
Is this like an isekai of the actual Robin Hood into a fictional modern-day dystopia or just a modern retelling of Robin Hood? Because the former is a lot more interesting, in my opinion.
Mostly because 90% of it's trash and I can put out better stories sleep deprived then those hacks can. Mostly because people are invested in this, just like I am.
I was gonna say this as well. It's even clownier whrn the director is claiming that the show's failure was because of racism. There are racists who don't like the show, yes, but the reason for failure was because the show is boring and dumb.
I absolutely despise it when people who make half-assed movies and shows try to use bigotry as an excuse for their failure instead of their terrible writing. They act like we can't see when token moves for "diversity" are there seemingly to draw attention from the terrible writing.
Is this like an isekai of the actual Robin Hood into a fictional modern-day dystopia or just a modern retelling of Robin Hood? Because the former is a lot more interesting, in my opinion.
Slam Dunk when? Yeah I know it isn't made until the 90s, but if we ask around in Japan for a person planning to make a basketball manga, we could maybe make it early.
It could also be something to promote Carrie's basketball venture, as well as make Basketball popular in Japan. Even make the main character have Irish blood.
I was gonna say this as well. It's even clownier whrn the director is claiming that the show's failure was because of racism. There are racists who don't like the show, yes, but the reason for failure was because the show is boring and dumb.
The whole show is a farce. Director X is trying to say that this is a modern interprewtation of Robin Hood when it could be nothing farther from its source material. It's a show that glorifies and promotes anarchy and lawlessness painting them as the ultimate good, strawmans its characters to the point thy become caricatures, and don't even seem to understand that Robin Hood was fighting for a return to good government and law. His actions were never against the people, but against tax collectors, regaining the money they had stolen from them, literally.
Instead, here we have a girl (I'm not going to call that immature child a woman) who's clearly has never been taught right or wrong (and with a mother who believes that staying in a housing project is something good it does not surprise me) going into provate property, stealing from others, congratulate herself for "sticking it to the man", and then being surprised if the police begins chasing her.
100 monkeys in typewriters could spend 1,000 years just throwing their own poop at each other, occasionally hitting one of the keys, and it would still be better than what its being tried to be called TV now.
The whole show is a farce. Director X is trying to say that this is a modern interprewtation of Robin Hood when it could be nothing farther from its source material. It's a show that glorifies and promotes anarchy and lawlessness painting them as the ultimate good, strawmans its characters to the point thy become caricatures, and don't even seem to understand that Robin Hood was fighting for a return to good government and law. His actions were never against the people, but against tax collectors, regaining the money they had stolen from them, literally.
Instead, here we have a girl (I'm not going to call that immature child a woman) who's clearly has never been taught right or wrong (and with a mother who believes that staying in a housing project is something good it does not surprise me) going into provate property, stealing from others, congratulate herself for "sticking it to the man", and then being surprised if the police begins chasing her.
A Classical Tale - Season 2 Created By: Dave Allister
Directed By: John Musker and Ron Clements
Animation Studio: Dreamworks
Distribution: Public Broadcasting System
Original Release: June-September 1979
Though A Classical Tale had left its mark in PBS and animation alike, you'd honestly expected Dave to just...take a bit of a break after the first season. After all, you'd seen the load he had been working on with this new "Cyberpunk" genre that he'd been trying to build up with Mike Pondsmith. Creating an entire world, with its own history, characters and physics, along with the many disparate genres and even some deconstruction of others would take many nearly their entire time. Let alone his regular job as a writer and his responsibilities as a father and husband. Sometimes there's just not enough time, and with the constant need for input you'd just assumed that there would be a small sabbatical while the most pressing issues were worked on. That PBS, at the same time, did not expect you to give them another masterpiece in story and animation was a given as well, so you could be forgiven when you assumed that the next season would take longer than the original.
Well, you know what they say about assuming.
For Dave, if anything, this had become a work of passion, one that he was more than willing to sacrifice any and all free time that he might have had (though you still recall the small intervention you and Robert staged so that he would not neglect his family). That John and Ron had more time, and animators, to work with them thanks to the expansion was another point that made what happened next possible; thew working of a second season while nearly the rest of the staff worked on a new Animated Film. Once more managing to achieve levels of creativity that had not been seen save for the most recent spate of movies coming out of your current rivalry between the House of Mouse and DreamWorks themselves.
And yet...it was also so different; whereas the Classical Tales of the past season took a more classical Disney style of animation, mixed with the Greek myths and art from the Golden Age of Athens... this time they decided to experiment and in new and revolutionary ways; the art taking a more Raw, passionate, yet still clean and striking design. One that did not try to ape the Disney style, but repurpose it once more to an end; that of the Gods of the Norse, with proper Norse art, decorations, and style of its age, unburdened by any Christian influence. The desire was to teach the children of who and what the Norse were, how they imparted their lessons, the morality that said lessons teaches along with clear anecdotes that would help entertain at the same time. Taking the best in storytelling and animation skill from the previous season, and creating something wholly new for the next one.
And it shows with its introduction; gone is the elderly narrator with its books and a library, for instead each episode the viewer is found in a dark forest, finding a campfire with an old cloaked man, who welcomes them in and proceeds to tell them stories in the finest oral traditions of the Skalds of yore. Tales from both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda are told, with the different interpretations and cultural variations. Tales full of courage and wisdom, humor and foolhardiness; tales of the beginning of the Universe in the Ginnungagap, the primordial void, the war between the Vanir and the Aesir, the founding of Asgard and the war with the Jotuns. Yet beyond the tales of founding there are tales that just…humanize them as well (for lack of a better word), where Thor is usually seen as just one of the guys having fun, or Odin being kind of a big nerd just searching for more knowledge, or just Loki being the kind of trickster and mischievous little brother that just seems to do things to get attention.
The tales just seem to give this feeling of a family...a flawed, fallible and extremely human family that is, that knows each other, both the good and bad parts, and accepts each other nonetheless. It gives it a sense of relatability that the many a viewer can just see oneself in it. It's not without its moments of comedy, and it just makes it all the more fun to see how they get away from whatever trouble they got themselves into at the beginning. It's a whole deal different than what Marvel has been showing, that's for sure. You even got a nice letter by Stan Lee himself both praising your work, and mock grumbling about how many Thor fans are now demanding to include more stories where both he and Loki travel and get into all sort of trouble, but manage to work together to get out of.
That one threw you for a loop!
You were clearly astounded by the results, the art, and the overall research that went into making this real. For all that Norse mythology was the most well-known after the Greek one, there is no denying that the gap is a large one. not much survive in written form, and what does was written near a century or two after the entire region was Christianized. And for Dave, that was not enough. As much accurate sources would be needed, contacting specialists and researchers to double check and made sure that the recorded tale was as faithful as possible. It all translated into an amazing series that depicted the myths as accurately as possible, in a striking style, all with a musical accompaniment that takes from the traditional instruments of the Norse, and with a grandiose yet all too relatable cast.
And the audience loved it. Ratings showed a noticeable increase, more and more did it come into discussion, at points it seemed to be finally on the edge of becoming as popular as the flagship shows from PBS. There was actual fan mail being sent asking actual questions about the stories and tales that they had been told...and it was being criticized as hell by everyone and their family. Angry calls from parents, critics scolding how clearly "it was not meant for children", PBS being nervous of even airing it and asking if it was possible to tone it down a bit, there was even a news article about the direction that DreamWorks was taking if this was going to be the result...Just what the hell seems to have happened!?
...You say that, but you know the reason. You've known it since you saw the first episodes, but chose to believe it would be fine.
For despite how much the audience seem to love it, despite how much you can say the animation and stories are both original and beautiful...it does not change the fact that it is violent as hell! Jesus they certainly did not left anything to the imagination here, though at the very least they made sure not to show blood, guts or severed parts, they certainly took their cues from the old "Golden Age" cartoons and made sure to ramp it to eleven in some cases. Sure, you can admit to liking Tom and Jerry as a child, and Popeye is not something that has grown out of fashion, but growing up you can certainly see why hitting someone with a Hammer may be a bit too much.
And the Eddas certainly did not shy from showing as much violence as they could; Odin's impalement and sacrifice in Yggdrasil for seven days in order to gain the power of magic. The destruction of the Jotuns. Tyr losing a hand to Fenris, the wolf that will swallow the sun. Thor just killing any and all giant that he comes across (and killing and eating his own companion goat, only for it to resurrect the next night). And that's without even going into the Death of Balder and the one and one thousand different ways that Loki gets into trouble only to be either caught, beaten, or gruesomely punished.
Jesus! If you didn't know any better you'd be sure this is more like the covers for a Heavy Metal Album than for a PBS show!
And dear lord, what they did with Ragnarök...the entire story there is so destructive; Thor dies, Odin dies, Loki dies, the entire world is destroyed. And yet...from the ashes of destruction a new world emerges, an entire new land unspoiled by the sins of the old as Balder is revived and begins a new age of light, peace and love. You were surprised that after everything it ended in such a hopeful message. And even more when at the end the mysterious storyteller leaves, revealing himself to be Odin in disguise all along, recounting the previous tales of his past.
That was a mind twist alright. But overall, one that the entire audience seemed to love. In summary, the show has made a definitive splash as everyone, for good or ill, knows about it. The audience seem to love it and wants more, the critics hate it and don't want anything else to do with it. PBS is afraid to touch it, but has seen the numbers and is willing to try for a third season (it can't get more violent than the Norse, right?) and Mr. Rogers...is actually somewhat ambivalent? He does seem to like the stories, and can recognize the moral lessons that come with it, but he does disapprove of the violence that comes with the mythology, though he acknowledges it's part of history.
Well, at least he didn't hate it. And the Emmy's Award Ceremonies recognize that for as much violence the show may had, it did provide and educational service as all stories were as accurate as you could portray them. So, you're certainly getting some nominations there. Dave is once more ready to try for Season 3, Mike wants a stricter control this time around...and John and Ron want to let the new animators try at something new while they work on their movie. Hmm, not a bad idea, after all, this should allow them to further explore and test the talents of the new blood in DreamWorks.
