Winterfell, hoooooooooooooooo (you're gonna wanna fullscreen these. Trust me.)

[anagramofbrat]

Another day fighting the demons to the usual stalemate concludes. I suppose it's a good thing LJ's been up and down like a yo-yo today of all days, as I had no inclination to post anything.

Though I did have two moments of intense fangirly joy today. First caused by this:

GUH. Just... aslkjal;erhkjhgkjsdrhwekjhfghwds. I know we just finished being all wintery but by all means it can come right the hell back for this.

Then there was this:

Dear fates, they didn't fuck it up. In fact, I think they improved it. But no Panthro in the trailer? Boo. Oh and if you thought you heard a familiar voice in there, they brought back Larry Kenney to voice Lion-o's father, how fucking cool is that? But yeah, I'm cautiously excited about this, though there better not be hide nor hair of any goddamn robearburbles. Gah. Robearburbles.

So yeah, brb, being in my bunk forever and being all mad because between the above and The Borgias, which apparently started YESTERDAY AAAAAAAGH, I'm going to have to murder hobos for their sweet sweet cablemeats all damn year.


In other news, day four of no coffee. Mindsplitting headaches are done, I can probably stop the cup of tea in the morning, and other than an old ladyish need to retire at 11:30 and a bit of a lost feeling in the morning where my making coffee ritual went, I'm doing okay.

Comments

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Dear god.... Listen, people, the first two seasons of the BSG re-imagining aside, when one takes shitpile shows like Thundercats and remake them, they remain smelly heaps of dung. Put the embarrassing penis-sword down and get on with your life.

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

I kinda want head58's "it's not FOR you" icon right now, but I don't. I also already had the "okay, you don't like it. Others do. We're both allowed our opinion, so stop sucking all the enjoyment out of something I happen to really really like" conversation once in the past 24 hours, so I'm going to leave it at gently pointing out that you recently watched all the way through several seasons of a cartoon featuring a space vessel that looks like someone Frankensteined a 747 to the USS Intrepid, and finish with this:



tl;dr there's a polite way of saying you loathe something, and a douchey judgemental way. Guess which way yours was.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

...the comically exaggerated way?

No?

Sorry.

In truth, I really do loathe Thundercats. I watched at least half a dozen episodes back in the day, trying to give it a chance, but I found it to be soulless, charmless, crudely manipulative, dumb, and basically a toy commercial (like G I Joe or HeMan, which I also hated.) As a teenaged male nerd, I knew I was the target audience for the show, and I honestly felt insulted that the grownups who made this show thought so little of me.

Starblazers has many flaws that I missed when I was 11, which I just shake my head at now, but it had someone genuine at its emotional core that resonates still. I dunno, what's it say about me that I appreciate an attempt to symbolically/emotionally remake the Japanese into the heroes of world war 2 more than an expression of simple greed?

I still respect YOU, though, even if you still love, love, love the thunder, thunder, Thundercats! (Ho.)

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

It's funny that you say that, because everyone, including when I was younger, who hated Thundercats was male and all the rabid fans of it (and who actually pestered parents to buy the toys), myself included, were female. Way to miss the demographic there. Of course, I wonder if that had anything to do with how cartoon blocks were scheduled back in the day - I distinctly remember that they aired in New York with GI Joe first, followed by He-Man, She-Ra, then Thundercats and later Silverhawks (which I disliked but watched anyway). I can't imagine if you're aiming for the GIJoe/He-Man market with Thundercats why you would air it right after the girliest cartoon that ever was girly without involving a single Care Bear?

For the record, I didn't like GI Joe much, though I was fascinated by the action figures because they tended to have more joints than normal (HIS ELBOWS BENT, what the hell was that shit?), but was a big fan of He-Man/She-Ra. Really any show that had an easily yellable catchphrase on the playground was going to get me.

Respect is such a subjective, contextual thing, especially on the Internet, that I deeply question its actual existence. Some would say exceptions apply in the name of humor, but the older I get the more I realize that some forms of humor/argument are only possible when a certain lack of respect is present. This is not to say that I question the sincerity of your statement, nor to say that I am also not guilty of doing this myself in spades. I don't know, something I've been thinking about nebulously lately and this exchange plus the aforementioned argument I had with someone else has really brought it to the fore.

[harinezumi.livejournal.com]

The first one didn't load for me for some reason. The second one is making me nostalgia, hard. Pretty impressive animation too, was wondering if they were planning on doing a feature film.

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

here try this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/game-of-thrones-preview-trailer_n_844323.html see if it loads there.

[harinezumi.livejournal.com]

DO WANT!

Thank you!

[bellarisa.livejournal.com]

I do NOT like how Lion-O looks, he needs his mane, but otherwise it looks like it could be sufficiently full of awesome :)

Ignore the haters, whatever happened to them to make them nasty enough to poop on our childhoods is punishment enough.

Re: Thank you!

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, he's still kid lion-o (you'll remember kid lion-o had the same hairdo as Wily-Kit and was skinny and goofy-looking in the old series). All this footage seems to be just before the destruction of Thundera, so before that whole suspended animation accident that allowed him to grow up physically while the rest remained static. Be interesting to see how they treat that.

And really. I know it's not high shakespearean drama or anything and it did more than occasionally did wander into Severely Dumb (ROBEARBURBLES. Because Plun-darr needed Ewoks), but it was fun and occasionally badass and I enjoyed it a lot, so I'm kind of interested in seeing what the reboot does with the material.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I will admit, my inner cartoon-loving 8-year-old got one look at Cheetara and sighed happily. :D