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From various articles I've seen, the focus is on both kids and adults for this show. So adults with buying power are very much in the target audience.

…cutting female roles and paying women less on a show trying to be feminist is starting out fresh?

What I still don't understand is, if they're trying to make this reboot focus on girl power, why would they rehire every single cast member to play their characters except the female actresses? Jennifer Hale's the only returning actress to the series and apparently only voices one of her characters now. And it doesn't

Tom Kenny was the one who said that Craig gave it his blessing.

Awwww, no fun.

Why can't it just be the Mojo Jojo show?

The show looks like one long toy really blatant toy commercial. Everything got so softened to the point where it looks like this was just made to sell plush toys of all the characters. Like what, are girls gonna cut themselves on sharp edges? The Powerpuff Girls is a great show, but it's so obvious they're bringing it

They were promised parts in the reboot when they were doing the Dance Pantsed special two years ago. Tara said they agreed to be paid scale and everything if the project went through, but the network never reconnected with the original voice actresses. So it was probably about the marketability of younger actresses

Yeah, I didn't even -know- that the way Tweek and Craig make love could be a knee-jerk argument against liberals.

Nah, I totally agree. I just used "the left" as an example since an extreme was originally used and equated to "the right" and wanted to stay consistent.

But we're not relying solely on force and I never claimed we should. That would be ineffectual. Using force doesn't mean sending out troops and slaughtering people, it can mean defense too. It's just that you don't bring a feather to a knife fight. If you know someone's going to stab you, you don't assume that if you

Well… no. Xenophobia isn't the right's message. It's not an irrational fear of other culture's differences, it's knowing that there -are- differences.

Exactly what I thought too.

I tried explaining how I felt how this could be a response from Matt and Trey to that whole South Park community of fanartists and fanfic writers about how they misinterpret their characters for their romantic relationship fantasies. But I failed. I have only myself to blame (and possibly the shame that this is

I thought the songs were just a jab at the trope that some people do where they add moody songs in their fanfiction for dramatic effect/make playlists for pairings/just a stupid tropey romance thing where they start playing a song over scenes of characters crying themselves to sleep or looking depressed to make it

Interestingly enough, it's not a cost thing. The studio said it was a creative decision, and they've tried to replace the actresses before (when they made the PPG movie they tried replacing them with more well-known actresses before a deal was made and they were put back on the movie). So if it -was- for creative

It's David Rudman, who's also got Scooter down pat.

It was actually Love Shack! That would've been a great callback though.

Same here, I wanted to know a little more about #1. Although according to some sources I've seen online, the new girls allegedly sound just like the original voice actresses. Which is still really weird, because… why hire younger carbon copies when the original actresses were ready and willing to reprise their roles?

Late to the party, but glad that WOY's gonna be covered by the AV Club! I was surprised when it wasn't picked up for coverage when it first started, but I'm super glad it's getting some attention now.