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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Kojinka on October 25, 2006, 03:34:20 PM
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Do you know of any TV shows that had a good idea, but just didn't live up to your expectation?
The idea for American Dragon: Jake Long was great, but I don't really care for direction it took. I dunno, I was expecting something different. Not even the presence of mythical creatures and the concept of people being able to turn into dragons could turn me on.
Now if I were to make a cartoon about a person being able to morph into a dragon, I would've placed the setting in medeival times. The main character would be on the run from knights, and his/her best friends would be a fairy and a forest elf, who would travel with him. Oh, and it'd be drawn out anime.
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Freakshow. Come on, a comedy about a team of superhero circus freaks shouldn't be that hard to make, and yet, it hasn't lived up to its critical acclaim. I watched the show for a few episodes, but it's just not funny.
Happy Hour. Ok, what really won me over was that it was advertised as created by the producers of That 70's Show but it just does not have the same kind of humor. That's probably what killed it for me.
Runaway. Good concept, bad actors.
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I think most of the shows on Cartoon Network these days start out strong, but die out fast.
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Cartoon Network's best asset is the fact that it still plays classic shows. Also, it has marvelous voice actors. Just about every Metal Gear Solid Voice actor in on a CN show, like Paul Eiding (Coronel Campbel) is the grandfather on Ben Ten (an awful show, I only know this from the internet), and Grim (from Grim Adventure of Billy and Mandy) is voiced by the guy that voiced Grey Fox.
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Grim voiced Grey Fox? No idea, man.
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Sonic X: good show, decent plots, so called terrible dubbing.
Saturday Night Live: Honestly, I watched an episode from 2004, and I laughed maybe twice. They need a resurgence here in 2006 or they're in trouble.
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One Piece, Kirby and Sonic. All animes that had a chance, ruined by 4kids.
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The original Japanese versions of most of those shows were great.
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Yeah, it's 4Kids you hate, not those shows. If you were to give the fansubs a chance I'm sure you'll think a bit more positively on them.
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I was just commenting on Jman's post. I wasn't saying they were "Good ideas gone bad."
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I'd like to take back what I said about Freakshow. After it's move to Thursdays and after watching the last 3 episodes, I can safely say it is absolutely hilarious. It's too bad it'll prbably be axed at the end of the season. I guess it'll go in the pile of underrated shows, like The Critic.
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It STINKS.
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The only good shows on Cartoon Network are
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (kind of has a Ren and Stimpy feel to it.)
Ed Edd 'n' Eddy (really wacky humor in the style of Bob Camp meets Tex Avery)
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You forgot Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and COdename: Kids Next Door. That, and this is a topic for shows gone bad.
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You forgot Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and COdename: Kids Next Door.
Correct, objective good ftw!
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That, and this is a topic for shows gone bad.
He was saying that those were the only good ones. He implied that the rest were bad.
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Further clarification, this is a topic for TV shows that sounded like good ideas but had ultimately flawed execution.
The thing is, I know that kind of thing, I've seen it happen a thousand times, and yet I can't think of any specific examples. Probably because I don't like TV very much and I don't remember to watch a lot of new serieseses.
Come to think of it, You Don't Know Jack was good for its first episode, but by the second episode (which came on immediately after), every repeated joke was grating on my nerves.
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Eclipsed Moon is right on what this this topic is about, but I'd like to add that it's also for TV shows that sounded like good ideas, but failed to meet your expectations.
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If it failed to meet my* expectations, then the execution was flawed.
*Your
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I have another show to mention Dragon Slayers (or whatever). For me, any idea involving dragons is good. However, with that comes high expectations, and this cartoon ultimately fails. I saw one episode, and the dragon that they were fighting was very poorly executed. All it was was a giant chameleon. That's not a dragon! That's just a poor excuse for lack of originality!
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I expected Kappa Mikey to be a proper anime parody, but I just got a generic cartoon with generic humor coated in a crappily-exectuted "anime" art style.