I thought the designs were fitting the macabre elements of the story. They definitely weren't designed to be toy-etic.

I can't fault that, really. I'm so used to these generic plots now I kind of accept them as a given.

I recently saw Igor on The Hub randomly, and it's actually not bad. The voice work isn't good, but it's kind of a twisted take on a typical find-yourself plot, and it's actually a bit more morbid than Nightmare Before Christmas.

Saratoga was probably in the original script, but execs were all "People won't know that!" Which, who cares, it's a throwaway line anyway!

I, personally, resent my parents (well, my mom) for her utter crackdown on playing video games during weekdays during school, mainly because my brother and I were doing well in school, and it was a lot of preemptive fears on whether it was distracting us from schoolwork (this was before games became excessively…

Hi Murc!

Definitely in a 2nd Golden Age. The first Golden Age was the 90s, not only the stuff @zxcb:disqus named, but all of Kids WB, Disney Afternoon, Saturday morning cartoons, Nicktoons, the rise of CN's original cartoons, and TNT's airing of various Looney Toons shorts, when they were unedited.

Hoping this season is a step of the first one. The animation is spectacular, a step up from Nick's Kung Fu Panda and Penguins, but goddamn that first season was filled with Idiot Plots, various people not explaining basic information to solve easily solvable problems.

Dragons: Defenders of Berk is an extremely frustrating show. I've seen most of the first season and 90% of them are steeped in variations of the Idiot Plot (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…

The scary part is that this game was somehow better than GoW 3. Which isn't saying much.

Seth hasn't had creative input in Family Guy either since season 6, specifically when it REALLY started going downhill.

@avclub-5dc978b30969d0ba612c37bb0543eafb:disqus  @avclub-80bc853838cd47a7af0904d054d90cc4:disqus and @Carlton_Hungus:disqus answered fairly well, but I could add Community does a decent job as well.

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"Dads executive producer Seth MacFarlane traffics in ironic racism, but that works best in the animated sphere"

Love that you mentioned that it had a 90s-cartoon flair - that's exactly what I thought. It's more of a goofy premise than a grounded show, which is kind of an acquired taste but something that can work well enough. I enjoyed Wonder quite a bit, the first one more than the second. The gradual transformation Hater has,…

Goof Troop is the point where The Disney Afternoon starts to lose its touch. Oddly enough, it apparently had a 78 episode run.

I think the only point that I "got" Korra when she started distrusting her father for not telling her about his banishment. But yeah, overall she kinda has an attitude for attitude sake, and while that's part of the character, I think it's gotten too far out of hand in these episodes. You BARELY know your uncle, and…

Yeah, I have to admit I was disappointed they went down the "conflicting brothers" path again. At least, make them sisters or SOMETHING different. And I have to admit the "I have plans for you, Korra" line made my heart sink.

The problem with Korra Book 1 is that it doesn't really get to the meat of the story until, like, episode 5 or 6, after all those bending games. It's kinds like the Final Fantasy 8 of TV - nothing for an entire first disc, than BAM — it starts to get interesting right when you have to switch to disc two.