The fact so many of these 20 year old shows have been brought back just highlights how incapable the current crop of showrunners are at creating something.
Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, who knows what else since I dont actually watch tv. The other current popular TV shows are Invincible and The Boys, both comic adaptations which still require using other existing material for inspiration, and while Invincible is vaguely following the source material, both are complete garbage.
Things Invincible has changed are,
Mark is now half Asian, because his mother is now Korean or something because of the VA. Thank goodness they also managed to get a real life non terrestrial alien to voice Nolan to keep this trend. Oh wait, they didn't so that, they got J K Simmons.
Mark's first girlfriend was blackwashed, which has hilarious consequences of her later being beaten up by her next bf.
Techjacket, the blue beetle character, was genderbent and also nerfed so badly even if the character was still a dude there would be complaints because at various points in the comic TJ effortlessly stomps the invading aliens. In the show the girl version gets turned into Yamcha.
Rexplode was made Hispanic, which also means Rudy is now Hispanic because he clones a body from Rex to use himself. Rudy in the comic literally ends up looking like a full haired Lex Luthor with bright orange hair, beard, and green eyes.
And all this is before getting onto the point about how bad the animation is, something a lot of adaptations suffer from now, like One Punch season 3 which was rightfully mocked for how bad things turned out.
Worse still you still have sycophants defending this because it still means getting a season every year.
Mark's first girlfriend in the show was some moody, bossy black bitch too, also race-swapped from the comics.
I read multiple reviews awhile back actually praising the animation in Invincible and just couldn't fucking believe it. There are some things you don't expect to really reinforce the consume-product / NPC issue, and that was one of them for me.
I haven't bothered with The Boys since they went full mask-off with the cartoonish Trump-Homelander comparisons and the literal nazi bitch, but I could feel it getting under my skin as early as S1.
I haven't bothered with The Boys since they went full mask-off with the cartoonish Trump-Homelander comparisons and the literal nazi bitch, but I could feel it getting under my skin as early as S1.
I stopped when it became impossible to ignore how it was an antifa footsoldier's fantasy. Full of gory violence without real purpose, lots of sexual degeneracy, the main bad guy being an allegory for whatever real life political figure is hated by the left, rampant nihilism, etc. The part where captain atom crawls into the dudes dickhole was the last straw for me.
Ennis' best work was, without a doubt, Transmetropolitan. It's based in Mega New York so there's tons of degeneracy but it's usually called out and mocked, not excused and celebrated.
The rest of his stuff is basically just gratuity; violence, sex, drugs, whatever, for it's own sake. He sometimes plays with interesting concepts (like Preacher) but doesn't seem to have the depth to do anything other than a superficial, "I'm 14 and this is deep" exploration and uninspired character drama.
This is something I'd like to see an explicitely non-woke remake/reimagining of. Take these concepts and characters and inject some real world experience into them to give them a bit of soul, something Ennis seems to lack.
The leaked Avatar: The Last Airbender movie - The entire original VA cast has been replaced by "ethnically sensitive" VAs. The blind Asian child is now voiced by a literal blind Asian bitch. I hate these fucking people.
There's loads of origninal programming if you care to look for it. Seeing the top 40 of TV will make you believe that everything is a reboot, but there's a lot of unique shows being produced.
A show about lesbian degenerates? Really? You use that as a counter-example for woke television?
I literally laughed out loud at this.
Worse yet is that you're proving my point that woke media is so pervasive that even people here will suggest what they consider to be lesser woke shows because of how pervasive it is.
It's a show about a soccer team being stranded and getting into a "lord of the flies" type survival. There is one lesbian couple, but it's not a central plot point at all (the "gayness" of it all)
I used it as an example of a show that isn't just a remake, because I was replying to the comment that spoke about that
True, lots of programming and lots of older stuff I’ve never seen which for a retro person like me is great. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I missed out on a ton of those shows alone due to not having access to the remote as often as I wanted. Although I saw an ad for yellowjackets and lgbt stuff isn’t my thing but when I had HBO I did see the first season of Barry and liked it
Oh man, the first season of Barry is great, but the rest of the show is awesome. It gets gritty and raw while still maintaining the humor.
As for Yellowjackets, the one gay relationship is a pretty minor element. Like, the two girls are dating, but there's not much more beyond that in terms of plot. It's just treated like a normal relationship.
The fact so many of these 20 year old shows have been brought back just highlights how incapable the current crop of showrunners are at creating something.
Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, who knows what else since I dont actually watch tv. The other current popular TV shows are Invincible and The Boys, both comic adaptations which still require using other existing material for inspiration, and while Invincible is vaguely following the source material, both are complete garbage.
Things Invincible has changed are,
Mark is now half Asian, because his mother is now Korean or something because of the VA. Thank goodness they also managed to get a real life non terrestrial alien to voice Nolan to keep this trend. Oh wait, they didn't so that, they got J K Simmons.
Mark's first girlfriend was blackwashed, which has hilarious consequences of her later being beaten up by her next bf.
Techjacket, the blue beetle character, was genderbent and also nerfed so badly even if the character was still a dude there would be complaints because at various points in the comic TJ effortlessly stomps the invading aliens. In the show the girl version gets turned into Yamcha.
Rexplode was made Hispanic, which also means Rudy is now Hispanic because he clones a body from Rex to use himself. Rudy in the comic literally ends up looking like a full haired Lex Luthor with bright orange hair, beard, and green eyes.
And all this is before getting onto the point about how bad the animation is, something a lot of adaptations suffer from now, like One Punch season 3 which was rightfully mocked for how bad things turned out.
Worse still you still have sycophants defending this because it still means getting a season every year.
Mark's first girlfriend in the show was some moody, bossy black bitch too, also race-swapped from the comics.
I read multiple reviews awhile back actually praising the animation in Invincible and just couldn't fucking believe it. There are some things you don't expect to really reinforce the consume-product / NPC issue, and that was one of them for me.
I haven't bothered with The Boys since they went full mask-off with the cartoonish Trump-Homelander comparisons and the literal nazi bitch, but I could feel it getting under my skin as early as S1.
I stopped when it became impossible to ignore how it was an antifa footsoldier's fantasy. Full of gory violence without real purpose, lots of sexual degeneracy, the main bad guy being an allegory for whatever real life political figure is hated by the left, rampant nihilism, etc. The part where captain atom crawls into the dudes dickhole was the last straw for me.
To be fair, the comic isn't much better.
Ennis' best work was, without a doubt, Transmetropolitan. It's based in Mega New York so there's tons of degeneracy but it's usually called out and mocked, not excused and celebrated.
The rest of his stuff is basically just gratuity; violence, sex, drugs, whatever, for it's own sake. He sometimes plays with interesting concepts (like Preacher) but doesn't seem to have the depth to do anything other than a superficial, "I'm 14 and this is deep" exploration and uninspired character drama.
This is something I'd like to see an explicitely non-woke remake/reimagining of. Take these concepts and characters and inject some real world experience into them to give them a bit of soul, something Ennis seems to lack.
put a chick in it and make her gay!
The leaked Avatar: The Last Airbender movie - The entire original VA cast has been replaced by "ethnically sensitive" VAs. The blind Asian child is now voiced by a literal blind Asian bitch. I hate these fucking people.
Reason why I recently got the first volume of the compendium
There's loads of origninal programming if you care to look for it. Seeing the top 40 of TV will make you believe that everything is a reboot, but there's a lot of unique shows being produced.
Maniac, Barry, Paradise, Severance, Yellowjackets, Shrinking, etc
Or, hear me out... anime.
Live action tv is so infested that it's not worth digging through the trash.
Anime is not my thing, personally. I prefer live action.
There are plenty of options available that I've enjoyed, including rewatches. Going through Breaking Bad again now
Better Call Saul made me hate Walt and Jesse.
A show about lesbian degenerates? Really? You use that as a counter-example for woke television?
I literally laughed out loud at this.
Worse yet is that you're proving my point that woke media is so pervasive that even people here will suggest what they consider to be lesser woke shows because of how pervasive it is.
It's a show about a soccer team being stranded and getting into a "lord of the flies" type survival. There is one lesbian couple, but it's not a central plot point at all (the "gayness" of it all)
I used it as an example of a show that isn't just a remake, because I was replying to the comment that spoke about that
That just highlights my point, since you could use the same excuse for Lionness, Pluribus or Arcane.
"It's not central to the plot"
That's the excuse I see every normie make for accepting more and more degeneracy.
As I said, it's so pervasive a lot of people just accept it and make excuses for it because of how normalised it is.
True, lots of programming and lots of older stuff I’ve never seen which for a retro person like me is great. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I missed out on a ton of those shows alone due to not having access to the remote as often as I wanted. Although I saw an ad for yellowjackets and lgbt stuff isn’t my thing but when I had HBO I did see the first season of Barry and liked it
Oh man, the first season of Barry is great, but the rest of the show is awesome. It gets gritty and raw while still maintaining the humor.
As for Yellowjackets, the one gay relationship is a pretty minor element. Like, the two girls are dating, but there's not much more beyond that in terms of plot. It's just treated like a normal relationship.
I have HBO Max now so I may just start Barry from the beginning. I’m also currently going through the original Outer Limits and and the 90s revival