7th March 2005, 7:24 PM
As GR mentioned, when you turn off the TV after adult swim and turn it back on in the morning, you get assaulted by it :D.
Duck Dodgers... Yes, it is good, and shows promise, but one thing I don't like is their climactic battle scenes. That is to say, they have actual good battle scenes, well good relative to standard toon stuff, and that's not exactly fitting... Showing Dodgers succesfully evading gunfire in a very effective way, though there are funny moments DURING it, isn't exactly in the spirit of Looney Toons.
Remember fight scenes in Looney Toons? If you don't, there's a reason. They were TOTALLY anticlimactic, ended in 2 seconds, and generally involved very Family Guy-esque INSTANTANEOUS events.
For example, in the old cartoon, try to recall a battle between Dodgers and Marvin. You may recall that Dodgers would ATTEMPT to make a threatening speech to the martian. The Martian would, VERY quickly, just instantly vaporize the duck. And he'd, very anticlimactically, just sorta walk off the screen. No chase scene, just a calm walk in frustration back to his ship. He didn't even hide.
I think you see where I'm getting at. Point is, I like the humor, but they could really help it if they reduced the combat scenes to anti-climactic affairs of instant pain with absolutely no sense of real combat situation at all.
Duck Dodgers... Yes, it is good, and shows promise, but one thing I don't like is their climactic battle scenes. That is to say, they have actual good battle scenes, well good relative to standard toon stuff, and that's not exactly fitting... Showing Dodgers succesfully evading gunfire in a very effective way, though there are funny moments DURING it, isn't exactly in the spirit of Looney Toons.
Remember fight scenes in Looney Toons? If you don't, there's a reason. They were TOTALLY anticlimactic, ended in 2 seconds, and generally involved very Family Guy-esque INSTANTANEOUS events.
For example, in the old cartoon, try to recall a battle between Dodgers and Marvin. You may recall that Dodgers would ATTEMPT to make a threatening speech to the martian. The Martian would, VERY quickly, just instantly vaporize the duck. And he'd, very anticlimactically, just sorta walk off the screen. No chase scene, just a calm walk in frustration back to his ship. He didn't even hide.
I think you see where I'm getting at. Point is, I like the humor, but they could really help it if they reduced the combat scenes to anti-climactic affairs of instant pain with absolutely no sense of real combat situation at all.
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