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 No.993398

Those armors look really bad.

 No.993405

I didn't even know the second season was made.


 No.993422

>>993398

I was with it in the first season, but the school stories really wore on me. I dropped it after seeing the first episode of the second season because I didn't want to see them destroy their tenuous lore in order to jerk off the love interest for a dozen episodes.


 No.993427

>>993398

i like the series, even if i haven't finnish season two. Toby needs some good character arc, and the armor of the girls looks fucking awful. I hope they make it good.


 No.993526

File: 010ed2c9de59815⋯.jpg (513.44 KB, 1595x1600, 319:320, ca797a9ec55f3318232220bf05….jpg)

A reminder of what this cartoon could have been.


 No.993580

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>993398

Nice Visionaries armor there.

>>993526

How many children's book cartoon adaptations have been butchered to be family friendly now? that last list had it reach a hundred.


 No.993606

>>993526

>that kid just hiding a boner with his laptop


 No.993624

>>993580

There's a list for that?


 No.993663

>>993422

Yeah, even though it's of those generic normal boy with a secret double life/monster of the week show I found it to be mindless fun like those old saturday morning cartoons. I dropped it when the love interest joined up. Claire is a perfect mary-sue who everyone loves and outdoes everyone in their respective talents. It was unbearable.


 No.993702

>>993526

Has there ever been any instance of 2D art (is this concept art? Or art from a book series?) actually matching the final product?


 No.993983

People still watch this?


 No.994007

File: 0fe09fee826e837⋯.jpg (294.48 KB, 800x1210, 80:121, trollhunters.jpg)

>>993702

Trollhunters is based on a book.


 No.994074

>>994007

God, why couldn't they use the same art style.


 No.994081

>>994074

To sell toys.


 No.994084

>>994074

That would require a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and worst of all effort.


 No.994199

>>994081

Of course.


 No.994434

>>994007

who's the fourth kid?


 No.994580

>>994434

His long lost uncle who was taken by trolls as a kid and for some reason hasn't aged since then.


 No.994603

>>994007

Because dreamworks cannot do into detailed.


 No.994620

File: e730aa2d33d4d98⋯.jpg (288.24 KB, 700x1034, 350:517, Trollhunters_Illo10_Murray….jpg)

>>993526

Also, besides the art there are major differences with the story

>Jim doesn’t grow up with his mother, but his father, who’s a paranoid wreck, desperately trying to protect his son after he watched his older brother being abducted by a troll when he himself was just 8 years old

>Jim's father has a career in software and is fat and bald (In the show, Jim taunted Steve about how Eli will be a billionaire in software while Steve will be fat and bald). Like Eli, Jim's father insists monsters are real and they kidnapped his missing brother Jack. He is not a billionaire, however, since his insecurities make him easily exploitable by his bosses.

>Jim’s first time in Trollmarket isn’t filled with wonder and amazement and shit. It's more like the beginning of Spirited Away instead: A kid running for his life in an unfamiliar place filled with monsters beyond his imagination chasing after him

>The beautiful Trollmarket in the cartoon, with crytals and color? It's an entire underground city out of mud, electrical wires, pipes, with sewage rivers and the garbage of the human world

>Trolls, in general, are horrifying. All of them. Even ARRRGH!!! and Blinky - especially them, actually, but I’ll get to that in a second. Every troll looks like it’s straight out of a horror movie, most of them walk around naked, gambling, alcohol and drug addiction are big with them and they’re not afraid to… ‘modify’ themselves like replacing their teeth with sewing needles for an example and some of them vomit up their entire inner structure to walk around as floating skin pillow cases (it does make using yourself as a bag to kidnap babies much easier though, gotta hand it to them), all the while spraying satanic symbols onto the houses of their victims to fuck with the humans

>Blinky is still a scholar who likes to hear himself talk A LOT. But that’s as far as the similarities go: He’s a tentacle monster wearing some sort of skirt made out of medals and has 8 eyes, all mounted on different stems, all of them blind

>ARRRGH!!! is still a behemoth, always fighting for what’s right. Just not as cute and fluffy. Looks most of the depictions of demons/devils: claws, fur, giant horns, rotten teeth, etc. Also, she was the one who took Gunmar’s eye here, taking a boulder to the head in return, impairing her speech. And no, that’s not a spelling error: ARRRGH!!! is a female, her full name being Johannah Mmmm ARRRGH!!! She still dies, tough. actually dies (as a hero on a bloody battlefield) and doesn't come back


 No.994621

File: e8e21a2c3576923⋯.jpg (216.52 KB, 862x1300, 431:650, 71uSp6N1vGL.jpg)

>>994620

>Speaking of Gunmar’s missing eye (The Eye of Malevolence): it’s not just a tiny crystal, ready to be put into the amulet. It’s a living, breathing thing as big as a basketball. It’s used to spy on him by ARRRGH!!! but it really hurts her and works vice versa as well

>The amulet itself doesn’t have any powers, besides being able to grant it’s wearer the ability to understand the troll language, since humans aren’t able to understand it otherwise, unless they learn it (for example, by spending 45 years underground with them, because you were kidnapped to be their champion when you were 13 and didn’t have any other choice)

>Forget about the 'For the Glory of Merlin, Daylight is mine to command!’ and don’t even think about 'For the Doom of Gunmar, Eclipse is mine to command!’. Instead, get used to this loser actually naming his two swords 'Claireblade’ and 'Cat #6’

>Jim is part of a long lineage of warriors. There are several of these families, who have been fighting trolls since the beginning of time basically and their warriors are called paladins. Yet, trolls and those humans fighting alongside each other is still rare, it hadn’t even happened yet until the first defeat of Gunmar in 1969. Jim is only the second human to fight with the trolls. Also, because of his bloodline, he’s naturally skilled at fighting, even enjoys

>The armored kid Paladin is Jack (Jim's lost uncle). His armor is not nice and shiny - it's made of metal trash, basically. He is descended from the Sturgeons, who were a notable family of Paladins. He was kidnapped by Blinky and AAARRRGH!!! 45 years prior to current events, and hasn't aged past 13 due to the magic of living with trolls.

>Toby is much more insecure in the book, and very aware of how 'undesirable' both he and Jim are as people

>There is no Strickler. Instead, there is Professor Lempke, curator of the San Bernardino history museum.

>Claire is a junk-food loving, punk-y Scotswoman turns out to be part of such a family as well. She also is obsessed with theater.

>Jim starts crying on his first mission - but that’s probably because he had to slash apart a changeling in the middle of transformation (no fancy, flashing lights, the body is built from the ground up, bones, muscles, flesh and everything, right before your eyes) and it sounded and looked like a human baby

>Steve’s a changeling

>By the end of it, the entire town knows about trolls and trollhunters

It's a little edgy but more interesting than what we got. If I got something wrong or missed something then that's because it's been awhile.


 No.994629

>>994007

>>993526

To be clear, del Toro's original idea was a live action tv series, but since it was too expensive he made it a book. The books adapted into a netflix series.

Of course it was going to have differences, I don't want to devil's advocate here , but budget and animation for tv and stream services are limited and won't match the details of an illustration in a children book.


 No.994960


 No.994972

>>994620

>>994621

In the right hands we could have had a good horror/action with some slice of life. Although I now understand why they toned it down it seems like a bit too much for kids.


 No.995001

>>994972

Fuck a series, id take a movie.


 No.995097

>>994629

Why does it always have to be a series?


 No.995146

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

It's worth noting that this is a 52 episode story, and season 1 was 26 episodes so this is the series finale season that will pave the way for the greater Tales of Arcadia universe.


 No.995195

>>994972

>>995001

>>995097

A proper comic adaption of the books could work.


 No.995199

>>995146

Oh boy, a spin-off for a series that didn't even really do that well in the first place.


 No.995236

>>995146

Who asked for this, the 17 people still interested in the show?


 No.995239

File: 7885f446e74b107⋯.jpg (138.34 KB, 800x1200, 2:3, talesofarcadia.jpg)

>>995236

I think it's a passion project for GDT or something.


 No.995395

>>995239

Good for him, I guess.


 No.996181

I don't know how to get clips off of twitter, so here's the clip that has the plot device for why Jim's voice has changed (his voice actor died)

https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/999420782177435648


 No.997054

File: c7d3e53fa26cd12⋯.webm (Spoiler Image, 3.78 MB, 720x405, 16:9, troll.webm)

Ouch, what a rough development.


 No.997057

>>997054

Does he actually stay like that?


 No.997059

File: b95eda733895e8e⋯.webm (Spoiler Image, 2.83 MB, 720x405, 16:9, goodbye.webm)

>>997057

Yes, with the world saved but the troll village lost he leaves with the trolls to help them find a new life.


 No.997074

File: 298e3eabbd61c14⋯.jpg (164.08 KB, 1024x496, 64:31, cover-1-1.jpg)

>>993526

That middle one on the bottom is just a red Great Unclean One.


 No.997083

File: f011f73db3e386d⋯.webm (Spoiler Image, 3.12 MB, 720x405, 16:9, strangers.webm)

>>995146

And we do!

You can see the alien ship crash land in the first episode and they have an entire episode to themselves before becoming minor characters for the rest of the series.

There's even a point in the big fight at the end where a random character demonstrates knowledge of trolls that implies he might secretly be a wizard.


 No.997170

Lot of weird narrative choices this season

>Draal dies in a pointless sacrifice

>No one cares except Jim who only mourns for like ten minutes

>Morgan le Fay is the real main villain not gunmar

>Waste a whole episode shilling for characters in the upcoming spinoff series

>After two seasons building up how important it is that Jim is human he has to drink a potion and become part troll forever

>He will now outlive all his loved ones, can no longer survive in sunlight, and is literally trapped in his armor unable to remove it

>Seriously he's trapped in the armor how is he going to go to the bathroom

>Angor rot gets a redemption arc but also a pointless death since Morgana is apparently immortal

>Fat kid cries out in dismay at angors death even though he didn't say shit about draal

>Claire loses her OP staff

>Merlin is fucking useless other than making the potion for Jim and the ugly armor for Fatboy and Claire

>Jim, claire, and all the other trolls except aaargh leave for new fucking jersey at the end

>Fucking new jersey

>Jim's mom shacks up with the changeling dude and they are left with hundreds of rescued infants to care for

>The welfare of all those infants is played as a joke

>all of gunmars soldiers are innocent trolls that weird forcibly changed into slaves to his will

>After his death they all crumble to dust instead of being restored to their original being

>Hundreds of trolls dead in this finale

>Humans of the town are now aware of the existence of trolls and are overall accepting to them

>For some reason trolls still have to leave for jersey

Overall I didn't like it the tone constantly shifted between dark and tee-hee this is still a kids show. The pacing is fucked they meander around way too much for the world ending stakes. draals death was treated way too casually and made the crew looked callous. They didn't milk it at all like aaargh's death in season 1. Merlin was useless and annoying he spends the last episode getting btfo by Morgana. Morgana herself was left alive to serve as sequel hook into the spin off shows. Whole season seems ill thought out and wasn't as satisfying. Also gotta love GDT shoving his blatant monster boy fetish in a fucking kids show. next show will probably have an open furfag character at this rate


 No.997177

>>994007

Are the books good at least lad?


 No.997188

>>997170

>Merlin is fucking useless other than making the potion for Jim and the ugly armor for Fatboy and Claire

Don't forget he undid Morgana's Eternal Night.


 No.997202

>>997188

I must have missed that as he was getting his ass stomped


 No.997212

File: 0a1d4f585e00d9c⋯.webm (Spoiler Image, 1.85 MB, 720x405, 16:9, draal.webm)

>>997170

Why does best boy Draal only exist to suffer.

Why couldn't he protect that smile.


 No.997224

>>997212

Legit he and angor rot were my favorites and they both went out with pointless self sacrifices. Draal's death didn't even get played for drama for more than a few minutes. The other characters barely reacted. Blinky and aaargh have known Draal hundreds of years and don't even react to his death? Its like the writers just killed him off cuz they were lazy and didn't know what to do with him.


 No.997313

If Jim's permanently stuck in his armor how are he and Claire going to get down?


 No.997497

First season was best


 No.998040

>>997497

None of the seasons were good.


 No.998070

File: ad65fb1bdc8941a⋯.webm (5.67 MB, 720x405, 16:9, vs gunmar army.webm)

>>998040

Well, at least it's got a big fight at the end.

That's all you can ask for from an action cartoon.


 No.998110

>>998040

The show mediocre at best and feels like something that would have come out last decade.


 No.998144

>>998110

Del toro really has a problem of being boring.


 No.998610

>>998070

The cgi is nice I guess, a little on the bland side.


 No.998786

>>997170

This whole series makes a lot of weird decisions.


 No.999568

I really appreciated what the series didn't do. A less intelligent show would have done things like hand waved Jim's transformation, 'Jim's dad is secretly related to trolls', 'Toby's parents died in circumstances involving trolls', etc.


 No.1009174

>>999568

Are you saying that I need a very high IQ to understand Trollhunters?


 No.1018393

bump


 No.1020363

i think it was mainly how it was written honestly, it would of been just like monster house if they done it right


 No.1021835

>>998144

Del Toro's barely even involved in the series. He's not the showrunner.


 No.1021920

there is like almost nothing to watch anymore and gave trollhunters a spin not the greatest kinda of want to see how the alien play a part in the series and then the ultimate end battle with wizards


 No.1030700

Didn't the main voice actor die or something?


 No.1030706

>>1030700

Yeah car crash killed him. They finished most of the recordings for season 2 beforehand already.




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