Filmation and its cheapness got a particular drubbing from Yakko, Wakko, and Dot back in the classic Animaniacs series segment Back in Style. In it, the Warner Siblings are loaned out to various studios to make Plotz some quick cash, which tends to have them causing havoc in whatever show/studio they’re lent out to,…
True about it being a Dalek focused film, but still, Ian comes off as total comedic klutz who is lucky he wasn’t killed fifteen minutes after landing on Skaro, and Barbara doesn’t get much better characterization. Heck, Dr. Who and Susan get off lightly compared to the other two.
Oh, they are largely harmless and period goofy, though the first film does suffer from it does to Ian and Barbara, who resemble their counterparts less than Dr. Who or Susan do, which is something, and really do fit the term “In Name Only.”
Well, to be clear, I did say trend. Even if shared universes aren’t super-popular, that hasn’t stopped studios from trying to develop them. I suppose a better word might be fad, I guess.
You bring up an interesting point regarding Tabletop RPGs, because it does seem that a media like video games actually seems to have more scholastic examination and efforts at preservation going on there, whether official or unofficial. I do think it might be cultural bias in regards to RPGs, as there’s sort of a…
I wonder if some of this is in part due to a sort of internalized backlash against the rise of the blockbuster as part of post-1960's cinema focus. While the term has been in use since the 1940's, it really seems to come into existence as a descriptor of films that came out of the mold set by works like Jaws in the…
Which is ridiculous considering that animated films can have a load of talent involved. You’ve got writers, animators, concept artists, storyboardists, sound designers, voice actors, directors, editors, etc. A well done animated film can have nearly as many working on it as a live action film, sometimes for longer…
Probably because by and large, Tom Swift isn’t the cultural figure he once was, so studios don’t feel beholden to accurate portrayals (yes, there are books published, but how culturally recognizable is Swift in the larger sphere of pop culture.) Not to mention that if they went with a younger portrayal of Swift, then…
I’d say the options on doing a Bioshock film adaptation would be either to a.) make it a prequel about the rise and then eventual Civil war and fall of Rapture or b.) make it about a survivor/s who haven’t gone full Splicer whose story either occurs about the same time as Jacks or just a bit after.
I think there’s a bit about the DCEU that has a lot of hindsight involved the more one looks back. Maybe Warner didn’t have to plan out things perhaps like Marvel did, but still, a general framework to building to a larger cohesive whole might have been better than “let’s try and cash in on that sweet cinematic…
One idea could be that much as how in Captain America: The First Avenger we see that with the Super-Soldier Program beginning and ending with Rogers, led to the government sticking him in patriotic shows and movies rather than the front-lines at first, you could go with the idea that the JSA had their operations in…
An extract from yon potboiler AH.novel. Any historical inaccuracies are intended:
I assume it possibly has something to do with the way the DCEU internal chronology was set up back when Snyder was helming things, and so we had I think an internal idea that Superman was the first fully public “Superhero.” Batman was supposed to be the dark, urban legend vigilante that was known but never stepped out…
Guns of the Northmen - An Alternate History Novel.
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Star Wars also did it in the episode “Bounty Hunters” of the CGI Clone Wars show as well.
Turns out the Jurassic Park/World series is now going to turn to reality that whole fanon idea that “Flintstones and Jetsons takes place on the same Earth” in the future thing. The rich escape to the upper atmosphere as climate change and genetic engineering gone mad of unleashed dinosaurs rampages across the surface.…
Yeah, part of the problem is if it’s way too integral to the plot that the episode essentially revolves around the issue/technology being lampooned, and it can’t be separated from particular time and place. Like how jokes on “man, cellphones/mp3 players are so small” kind of tie tech tech jokes to the early 2000's…
To be somewhat fair, the first episode did showcase civilization getting destroyed and rebuilt a fair few times during Fry’s cryo-sleep, so it’s possible that due to having to rebuild, society goes in a pattern of technological and social rises and falls in the interim.
