(09-08-2023, 04:59 AM)Guest Wrote: [ -> ]Does anyone remember watching this? Yeah me neither. But itβs important because it was influential enough to receiveΒ a cartoon.
I actually remember both. God, what bleak, bleak times those were.
Quote:The series follows the Humanitarian Environmental (or Ecological, in "Area 51") Analysis Team (or HEAT for short), a research team led by Dr. Nick Tatopoulos (voiced by Ian Ziering) as they battle giant mutant monsters that frequently appear in the wake of the events depicted in the 1998 film Godzilla.
I remember watching it as a kid and enjoying it. But growing up changes you as I did not enjoy watching it this time. Hereβs a randomly picked episode:
Getting into it youβll notice the terrible backgrounds first. Then if youβerΒ still watching youβll be repulsed by the terrible dialogue, especially with regards to the main characters. The conversation doesnβt flow, itβs rather just a series of their quirky one-liners that fall in lineΒ with their characters. Also it felt like there was some kind of speech quota for each character, βthe niggerΒ has only said six zingers so far, make himΒ talk some more.β The music is terrible and felt lazily applied. The pace is also too fast, but I can ignore this because this episode was especially rushed, other episode actually do put in the time.Β
The only cool thing about this was the giant monster fighting, which is really all the show was made to be.Β
The biggest flaw with American cartoons is theirΒ episodic nature. Some shows willΒ have multiple writers writing each episode and thus it kind of gets hallowed out and the characters are reduced toΒ caricatures. Furthermore, these individual writers will often times add in aΒ terrible edifyingΒ messageΒ to give the episode substance. This particular episode doesnβt suffer from this but other do. The episodic formula is for cartoons like Tom and Jerry. There doesnβt need to be a story,Β but just creative animated violence. Godzilla The Animated Series may only be about epic monsters fighting, but the reoccurring characters make this set up akward. They should have just had Godzilla fighting other monsters on an island, this would have made more sense given its main appeal.
You know what the comments on being
episodic bring to mind? I just started watching The X Files again. I want to post about that at length somewhere later. But for now it just strikes me as an example of Americans doing tv
really damn right. Just completely leveraging the form of the medium in a way that plays off its nature. It's consistent and it's episodic in a way that feels typically American, but the production values are high and the whole thing just feels insanely high effort. Twin Peaks showed everyone that tv could be interesting. All it seemed to take was a bit of inspiration and some starting faith in a slightly weird premise that was taken seriously by its own people.Β
Two other shows come to mind now. You ever see the Men in Black cartoon? Feels similar to X Files and Godzilla in that it's episodic science fiction.
Was it any good? I don't remember. But I do remember watching it. What a striking intro. If the whole thing were as cool and high effort as this intro it'd probably be great. But I can imagine Americans would hate that (because it's cool and so "scary" and makes you a satanist or whatever) and so it's probably forced to be lame episode to episode.
But you know what isn't
forced to be lame but still is? Animation made now. You can say "fuck" and have people die, but America still can't compete with anime on any level.
Look at this. Uglier than the MiB intro (which is if anything trying to be ugly, just stylishly so), with annoying raped theatre kid voice acting, weird unappealing
'toon visual direction these productions insist on (copying anime while trying to look like they're not), the whole thing still feels juvenile despite the death and "fuck"s. The problem seems obvious to me, what it keeps coming back to is that anime is made by people who would be ostracised and brutalised one way or another in America. Twin Peaks and The X Files were little weirdo victories that were only short lived. As were things like Ren & Stimpy, Ed, Edd, n Eddy, and so on.
Some cool sigma who probably really liked Serial Experiments Lain was probably in charge of creating the Men in Black cartoon intro. What kind of person made 'Skull Island'? I imagine some kind of /co/brain with '
only racist towards japan' disease who thinks that they
like anime and Japan but also feels an overwhelming desire to
correct these things by making them gay. The correcting impulse is key. Start at something that works, a person, an idea, an image, whatever, then people willfully lead us away from what works every time.
Godzilla is Godzilla. He just works. How did he get his crew of retarded quipping nobody sidekicks? That's addition. Somebody looked at Godzilla and due to their own spiritual afflictions had to start
correcting. Back then it was weird American vulgar puritanism. Now it's raped theatre kid pastel stalinism. It keeps happening. There's always some kind of faggot trying to ruin everything because they are sick in their souls.