And my thoughts are it's mostly fine. Mike Judge's Hank Hill voice is the exact same. Pamela Adlon did well on doing Bobby's voice, familiar but deeper and older. Peggy's voice was a little different but no big difference. Dale's voice was the most off. At some points it sounded stiff and robotic. Some of the characters brought back were interesting and Luanne, Lucky, and their kid weren't mentioned at all. Both of Hank's half-brothers were included. Dee Dee is included in the episode with GH.
The tone of the episodes felt like standard KOTH episodes but none stood anywhere near the best episodes of the series' original run. Hank is pretty much the same but he's not portrayed as strongly as before. There's more jokes at his expense and he's not shown to be as correct as he was shown to be in the original run.
There's quite a bit of swearing. Fucks were censored but shits and damns weren't. Definitely a change from before. Also there's a lot more sex. Bobby sleeps with two women and turns down a third. In one episode Peggy gets all horned up about Hank becoming a soccer ref, and they show the couple in the afterglow of sex like 3 times. It's nothing graphic it's just a little more blue than the first run.
So is it made for 'modern audiences'? Yeah, KOTH was always pretty normie centerist politically speaking, and this is to. There's a lot of jabs at the far left positions. Since Bobby is a chef at a fusion Japanese/German restaurant there are jokes about cultural appropriation and such. But even in that episode ends with a very centrist position of if you care enough about a culture to be authentic you aren't stealing it.
Episode 9 is the most political of the season. And it's about an Andrew Tate type guy running a boot camp to make men masculine. It's clearing a Tate pastiche, but they made one interesting change. They portray him as a Christian. The guy talks about the four F-bombs; Finances, Family, Faith, Fitness. So they make him an Andrew Tate knockoff but didn't have the chutzpah to make him muslim. The episode ends with the guy being bankrolled by his mom and Hank gives a speech about how great women are, and the guys just have to earn the chance to get one.
Overall if you enjoyed the original, you will probably enjoy this.
I saw a clip of the new Kahn voice actor, because the original was a white guy and you can't have white people VA non-whtie characters anymore. The one Laosian VA they could find sounds like a goddamn white guy, didn't even try to mimic the mannerisms of the character.
And he looked way different as well. The Wassonasons(sp) sounded white as well.
Who cares if he's less qualified?
He's Laotian.
THANKS, SUNGWON.
A shame about that guy. His skits are pretty funny and his voice acting is quite good. I believe I heard something about him already complaining about the policies he pushed for; like he made a shocked Pikachu face when suddenly studios were only allowing him to read for Asian characters and nothing else. So that's kind of sadly funny, at least.
Yeah, I used to love his videos. I admit he made the best video on the subject of clickbait that I've ever seen.
And then he revealed his true colors.
Shame.
Shame.
Was going to comment this. I even spent a couple seconds to try to find the clip again and failed. Sorry about that. Anyway, Kahn's voice is way off. Like, waaaaayyyyyyyy off. They should have absolutely kept the original voice actor like they did with Bobby (which was the correct choice). I did enjoy the original very much, so I'll probably check it out at some point. Thanks to Petey for the review.