Monday, June 11, 2012

How to save American animation.

Now if were to talk about the problems with Japanese or Canadian animation we'd be here all freakin' DAY. But for now we will talk about our beautiful home country America, the birth-place of modern animation. And as it's birth-place it most likely is also the place where it's going to DIE seeing as how things are. As a fan of cartoons since I was a tot I know all that's right and what's wrong with the industry, and sweet mama-jamma do I know what's wrong. This isn't a top ten list, but more or less what I think of when I'm writing them down.

1.) STOP REHASHING 80S CARTOONS: We can't all be Lauren Faust all-right? Even the okay rehashes like the new Thundercats and Transformer Prime feel like they don't need to freakin' be here. And they shouldn't, because we should be relying on new ideas. I have gone on Youtube and Newgrounds enough times to know that there are good animators out there with actual style and new ideas. These are not the things we grew up with, these are things that corporations like to PRETEND that we grew up with.

Edit: TMNT is now an exception. Glad they didn't screw that up.

2.) Enough DC/Marvel: My-fucking-SATAN! How many damn Batman cartoons are we going to make? What can these new series do the 1990s series didn't accomplish? The only one that came close would be Batman the Brave and the Bold, but that show had a couple of down-notes too(need I remind you of how lame Catwoman was?) And Spiderman...UGGGGGGGGGGGGGH! IT'S ALL THE SAME! KID WITH SUPERPOWERS! IT'S-BEEN-DONE! Animating it a damn 3rd time isn't going to make it any better! The only exception to this is Young Justice(though their Joker was horrible).

3.) More GOOD Adult Swim shows: Now, I'm not saying the shows on Adult Swim aren't funny of course not. But good? FUCK NO! Their generally all the same, non-sequitor humor, lots of obligatory violence, etcetera etcetera(I apologize if I spelled that wrong, my spell-check is weird). We need more shows with actual PLOT! And I'm not talking about the stuff Fox throws away, no-one watches American Dad!! Stuff like Boondocks, Oblongs, Mission Hill, all good stuff like that. Sure MI and TO got cancelled and Boondocks takes forever to make(with their animation I don't know why) but it will get more ratings!

I got more but I'm tired. TO BE CONTINUED.

Hello my non-existant fan-base!

Man, lookin' at these posts I've made in High-school sure does bring back memories. To be fair the Dr. Forman Mills guy is actually okay, bit obsessed with his character but okay. Well, I'd like to tell you my non-existant fan-base what this blog is gonna be about. The name "Fishes!2" is based on a blog that for some reason got deleted and the name itself is based on my love of silly humor. Nowadays I'm more analytical in terms of criticism as well as stop saying things like "gay" in my posts. Lookin at these old posts I also seem to look like a psycho...that hadn't changed much. NYA-HA! I consider myself a geek of all trades, be it Marvel,DC,Shueisha, or Kodansha. Expect a lot of silly silly things from this blog.