RobotRocker
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Location: Death Egg Zone
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 Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:48 pm |
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| haze wrote: |
when I was young I liked watching those really old Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoons they'd play on that Wienerville show. Clyde Crashcup was the true main character there. see I was a very old-school as a child, way ahead of my time.
| Wall of Beef wrote: |
The one thing I loved about the Batman cartoon, and ever the Superman cartoon, was that each episode was a single event.
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But I believe that Anime Series are/have ruining cartoons. |
I think you hit something on the head here. Many years ago I would've disagreed, but now that anime is everywhere on TV and even Western shows are being influenced, I totally agree.
All these hundred-episode series and most people don't even realize it's just copying a serialized comic book's pacing methods. with those, it doesn't even matter what a "season" is! action cartoons don't even need continuity in my opinion, and if it's a drama storyline it'd be nice to keep it to a tidy one season or something.
I've gotten kinda sick of people saying I should check out a boxset of a TV show or read a webcomic, but I "have to start from the very beginning, so you know all the story and characters and don't get lost!" So I decided, screw that, I'm gonna begin randomly in the middle and go out of order, and if I can't enjoy what I see on its own, then it's not worth it. maybe I'm dyslexic but I actually prefer series out of order, it becomes like a puzzle to figure it all out. |
Considering the fact you Refrenced Superman/Batman. Justice Leauge had a fantastic way of serialisng each episode yet keeping the episode event contained within the 22 minutes, particuarly in the later seasons by having an overarching plot drive the seasons main storyline, but only by each episodes events influincing it. The "Cadmus" story arc was perfect as the episodes save the last three of the arc would have seperate events in each episode, yet you could see the influence building towards the finale by events showing the increasing conflict but without de-raling the main episode plot to do this.
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