I Am Setsuna is a little disappointing in a similar, “this isn’t very fleshed out” kind of way. Yes, it uses the Chrono Trigger ATB system 2.0, but the environments are bland and repetitive, there’s little to no flair to anything, and none of the characters stand out in any way. So they got the technical parts of the…
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You should see the production value on those videos. They definitely aren’t your run of the mill, “we could only afford stock footage” compliance videos. There’s almost a dance number in the first one.
Fun fact: Mark Hamill narrates the compliance training at Disney. So if you ever wanted to hear Luke Skywalker explain how to protect confidential company information...well, there you go.
As an adult with no children, I thought it was solid. Had some great, child-friendly Louis C.K. going, and they straight up killed a character in the perfect example of comedic escalation. Also, the runner about the dead goose or duck or whatever it was that the rabbit kept referring to. So I laughed plenty, and it…
I’m waiting for the day they decide to nerf Torb. I’ve been wrecking entire teams’ shit with him, picking them off from Widowmaker range with primary fire and using the arc of those shots to hit enemies I can’t even see.
You didn’t deny the questions! Proof! And uhhh, I like to imagine life as a sitcom. It gets me through the day.
Do you guys have one of those weird, Alley McBeal type situations going on where there’s a unisex bathroom and everyone has entire conversations with each other from either side of the stall? Also, is it like one of those sexy workplace shows where everyone has slept with each other?
Oh yeah. Uhhh actually, in retrospect, I should have known something was up when I saw either Sebastian Stan or his stunt double with a green sleeve on his left arm. They had what looked liked everyone except Iron Man on set.
As someone with direct inside access to the big D, I can tell you that A) they're very strict with their NDAs and B) it was probably an employee only test screening. There were screenings of Civil War internally a couple months beforehand that were invite only, even within the company. On the plus side, my manager ran…
While there was a short anime made of it, it’s really more of a manga adaptation. She was also trained to be more of a bounty hunter at first, and then got into crazy hijinks with futuristic roller ball and then a weird government-type organization. So not quite an assassin.
Netflix has the reputation of being impossible to get a meeting with. I'm shopping it around to Disney and FoD, but it takes a while and lots of nagging to get responses back. I need an agent, goddammit!
I think they've had pretty good luck with that and Amy Schumer's show, which does make me wonder how those got through. Probably a cycle of them taking risks, getting burned and trying to now play it safe. But whatcha gonna do? He was nice enough to explain why it wasn't for them, and I told him I'd shoot him any…
A hard-boiled police procedural with 12 year old girls in the lead. The elevator pitch was "Like Hot Fuzz with 12 year old girls." The development guy I was working with liked the pitch and art I sent over, but gave the reasons above for why it wouldn't work for CC right now. They really just haven't had good luck…
I actually just pitched an animation idea to them, and the response I got was that A) their demo is 18-34 males and B) their most successful shows, animated or not, are "more grounded" and low concept. I took that to mean "stoner comedies are really working for us right now."
Y'know, the guy I talked to mentioned that it was an expensive style to animate, and reminded me that their most successful shows are A) based on shitty animation or B) stoner comedies.
Oh hey, I just assumed everyone already knew this was cancelled, so I didn't bother mentioning it after I heard from someone CC that it wouldn't be coming back.
I'll bet money on it being about Haruko coming back and older Naota not being pleased about it, much like Amarao apparently had experience with her from his youth. It's cyclical!
Oh, this can only end poorly. Half of what made FLCL what it was had to do with the musical cues, mixed with animators experimenting with techniques and the writing/directing staff saying "fuck it, let's get weird." Trying to remanufacture what made it work will be next to impossible.