I’ve been unironically saying this for years. Cartoons and other media for kids used to be subversive. It always pitted kids against comically absurd adults, and the kids always won, which I thought was a good message along the lines of “don’t talk to strangers”
All cartoons now are just boot licking.
Paw patrol is such a meme by now, but everything people say about it is completely true. Whoever has creative control of it is a fascist, 100%. At best they’re a bootlicking “libertarian” AKA… a fascist
I watched the first twelve segments of season 1 just to see if it was as awful as people say. I suppose that some of the themes are vaguely neofascist, like tenderness being a joke and nearly everybody being too incompetent to solve problems theirselves (preventing problems is nowhere nearly as important as solving them), but so far the most disturbing thing that I’ve seen is how the writers repeatedly demonize seagulls. Otherwise, it feels like just another long toy commercial.
I should watch more episodes, but it’s hard to when the show is so boring. I’ve been playing the episodes at 1.5 speed, something that I don’t normally do when I’m watching fiction.
The movie they made involves a very clearly gay coded black woman with blue hair and cat eye glasses being so stupid that she accidentally burns down a police station.
At one point the villain zips through space leaving a trail that is literally just the trans pride flag.
In the show the black mayor is the character who is known for being a total, absolute moron, who is constantly saved from her incompetence by the independently wealthy entrepreneur child and his private police force.
burns down a police station.
Oh wow, I haven’t gotten that far yet but that is awful. It was unclear to me if the PAW Patrol was either a state agency or somebody’s private enterprise, but the latter makes more sense. Also, I did a little research and I found out that a white person provided Mayor Goodway’s voice for the first several seasons even though the character is black.
Yeah that kind of shit does not happen in an organization filled with normal ass people
Wait, what? Are there more than one Paw Patrol movies? Because that didn’t happen in the one I watched, the one where Humdinger becomes the mayor of Adventure City and causes a storm because he sucked up all the clouds.
For what it’s worth, there was some Musk criticism (Humdinger builds a loop-de-loop of train and calls it the Hyperloop and everyone thinks it’s stupid and it immediately breaks).
yep apparently 2 movies
Toy commercial is right - there’s so much emphasis put on their mechs and their transformations that it feels like an ad break every time they get in. And they all have variations too like when they’re in the jungle or the ocean, so that there are more toys to sell of course.
And I’m confident that Zuma and Skye were added as vehicles first and characters second because those two never do or say anything (Skye is the obligatory girl character and is girly, but Zuma the water rescue dog has 0 character traits).
It’s honestly work to try and make sure my kids aren’t subject to any copaganda in their TV shows for literal toddlers.
We were so hung up on whether Zootopia was turning a generation into furries, that we didn’t consider whether it was turning a generation into cop loving fascists
Didn’t we?
furries infiltrating the police: net good or bad?
Wasn’t that more or less entirely the discourse tho?
Good joke otherwise
I love how Robin Hood (in general, not just this version) has next to no real canon. It’s all just a hodgepodge of fanon that people have collectively decided to keep or abandon to suit their particular story.
Maid Marian is Hood’s love interest? Someone just added that later and everyone rolled with it. What is she like? Up to the author.
Shit is so much cooler when copyrights arent there to fuck it up.
fanon
Basically why I love fanfiction.
This story ends in a bummer? Well fuck that, now it’s a Bakery AU and everyone is trans and gay.
This is great except most Americans don’t know what a common is
That’s the REAL tragedy.
also watched it recently and i agree. my partner thinks it was suppressed because it had some messaging that was incompatible with peak Cold War
and yeah i guess that was an era where the best you could hope for is a benevolent monarch. no Free Yeomen Republics or anything to be seen
I was super surprised to see that critics pan it on rotten tomatoes 58%, my ass.
It’s kind of a mixed bag, I’ve noticed. Because on the one hand conservatives love the anti-tax messaging, but they hate the give to the poor messaging. So they don’t know what to do about it. Personally, I think that leftists have a lot learn from the story’s ability to transform criminals into heroes in the mind of the masses. If you haven’t seen Lucio, I very much recommend checking it out. Lucio Urtubia was behind the funding of a significant chunk of the leftist movements of the 20th century.
nope haven’t seen it but i will check it out! ty comrade
Welcome
Holy shit.
from the thumb you had me excited about a grimdark 3d disney robin hood remake starring voice actors Ashton Kutcher, Craig Robinson, Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Kristen Schaal, Ben Shapiro, Michael Jordan, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Lavell Crawford, and Mindy Kaling.
I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.
What could a “grimdark” Robinhood even be if it isn’t basically just
the movie?That one from 2018 where Robin Hood (here called “Rob”) is a Lord who gets drafted into the third crusade. It has a fight scene modelled on the Iraq war, including such highlights as a
machine gunarbalest nest.lol, that flick rocks! so many negative reviews from legacy media critics over anachronism, like they are all suddenly 12th century historians and find artistic license offensive to their dissertations on Mercian fashion or whatever-the-fuck. i thought it was a creative re-imagining that kept the important themes, punched up the action sequences spectacularly, and emphasized the modern parallels with a sledgehammer. aka: a great popcorn flick.
insurrectionary folk tales like robin hood last will last forever because they are for the people.
This fuckin rules I didn’t know this existed. Hilarious
Goddammit if that shoulder carried crew-operated ballista didn’t activate some neurons.
I refuse to believe that’s real hahaha holy shit.
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I hate.
