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 No.996022

 No.996024

YASSSSS SLAYKWEEN


 No.996037

I hate Groening's art and humor, so I'll pass.


 No.996042

Guess he needs a life raft now that Simpsons might actually die.


 No.996044

>More female characters looking and acting like men

Pass.


 No.996064

>>996022

Is this just more deconstruction of classic tropes with characters whose shortcomings and faults are exaggerated to the point of stale jackassery?

I'll give it a shot if it isn't


 No.996091

>The series takes place in the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland. It follows the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci.

It's trash.


 No.996095

>>996022

At least it's not Calarts style. That has to count for something, I guess.


 No.996096

>finally get a classic pointy-hatted scheming gobbo on tv

>Matt Groening

fuck off


 No.996097

Just what the cartoon world needs; another bitchy princess subverting the convention for the 148th time, at what point do we accept that the subversion is the convention? It's certainly the expectation.

>“Ultimately," says Matt Groening, "Disenchantment will be about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you."

This sounds insufferable already, it's just going to be typical 21st century middle class American problems wrapped up in a kitsch fantasy dressing.


 No.996099

>>996091

When will they learn? You can only subvert tropes so much before it ceases to be relatable .


 No.996105

>Princess Bean

hehe, I get that reference ;)


 No.996110

>elf Lisa and goblin Bart


 No.996117

>Matt Groening's Shrek

Also, that is the most goblin looking elf I had seen in my life.


 No.996135

File: 9b19f583cbe6177⋯.jpg (22.15 KB, 510x384, 85:64, barney.jpg)

>Hard drinking princess

It's a shame that isn't just Barney in drag.


 No.996153

>>996022

>Fantasy version of Futurama starring Lisa and Bart

>Elf looks like a goblin

This does not look promising at all.


 No.996162

>>996022

"Hey kids it's me. Matt Groening. I know what's cool these days. You all watch Adventure Time and all that magical CalArts stuff, right? And current Simpsons is hilarious, right? How about this: I take my unappealing, aged like milk style and put it into a fantasy universe. Awesome right? You'll watch my show. Please watch my show. Sigh. At least Trump will watch it."


 No.996163

>>996153

To quote a friend of mine "Please tell me this is fake."


 No.996164

>>996110

And princess will be "tries-to-be-edgy-but-doesn't-really-go-far-because-conservative-audience-also-is-a-Homer-ripoff" Bender type.


 No.996168

>guys what if we like, hold on now this is genius, what if we took the traditional feminine princess and made her this alcoholic, promiscuous uncouth warrior

the industry needs to die


 No.996173

>>996135

I'd watch a series about Barney adventuring through a generic magical fantasy land. I probably won't watch this, though.


 No.996180

>>996168

DUDE SUBVERTING EXPECTATIONS I DEEM TO BE CLICHE BECAUSE I'M A HIPSTER FUCK WHO CAN ONLY WARP AND NOT ACTUALLY CREATE LMAO


 No.996182

At this point I'm pretty sure that there are more "clever deconstructions" of western fantasy than there are straight-faced stories about men, elves, and dwarves going on dungeon-delving adventures. Why can't people enjoy fantasy stories that play it straight anymore?


 No.996188

>>996182

Because, ultimately, all this shit is just masturbatory and the same old vanilla stuff doesn't cut it when you've spent a night elbow deep in Taiwanese slave boyholes while making more lines disappear than a tool-assisted speedrun of Tetris.


 No.996200

How about we subvert the idea that princesses who act against the duties of their class deserve the privileges of being part of the ruling class? Or would that be a bit too on the nose for the current political climate?


 No.996202

>>996110

Don't see the lisa part but that is definitely goblin Bart. I was thinking Cleetus's wife but she has a more protruding mouth and lumpy nose (depending on the season you're looking at). It looks familiar and that is not because of the art style.


 No.996221

>isekai where Bart gets reincarnated as a goblin

Sounds boring.


 No.996223

File: be475c425faef34⋯.jpg (739.07 KB, 848x1313, 848:1313, PRINCELESS_PREVIEW_Page2.jpg)

The question is will it be worse than Princeless?


 No.996228

File: 08a1cfbf7b2e8da⋯.jpg (156.83 KB, 994x756, 71:54, 1487822319330.jpg)

>>996200

Brave was so telling of modern sensibilities

>Live without care because you were born into money and power

>Suddenly you have responsibilities and expectations

>Freak the hell out and throw a tantrum like someone half your age

>Risk open war and attempt to mindcontrol your own mother to weasel out of it

>After fucking everything up and causing needless danger, the world warps to fit your desires because you just wanted it that much


 No.996236

the expected subversion could be interesting if, and only if, she genuinely does want a prince to sweep her off her feet


 No.996242

I await the inevitable porn


 No.996261

>>996022

As much as i want to say that Matt Groening just got lucky with simpsons and futurama in accidentally hiring incredible good writers who understood how create a comidic yet heartfelt family and a group of friends with totally different personalities still coming together in a great way respectively, I may be not giving enough credit to Matt, he may geuinley understand his own shortcomings as a writer but understand how to spot a great one from a herd of hundred, then again, he's still in charge of the simpsons, so it's anyone's guess if this show would be good or not It's won't be, he's a washed up hack looking to add a few extra dimes to his kids trust fund


 No.996273

His art style is so fucking ugly. I hate American "adult" cartoons.


 No.996274

>>996242

Why would you want porn of the ugliest art style on the planet?


 No.996371

>>996223

>implying a prince would ever marry a nigger

Oh wait, that actually happened.


 No.996389

Is it just a general thing for morally ambiguous, nonchalant characters to be alcoholics?


 No.996396

>>996173

I honestly hate how every adult cartoon glorifies alcoholism and portrays it as an escape mechanism for the "deep" and "intellectual". I feel like the only current cartoon that does it right is Ballmasterzs . Only because it shows how heavy drinking has turned the main character into a fat slob that has ruined her sporting performance. Even then that show still glorifies it from time to time.


 No.996397

>>996261

>he's still in charge of the simpsons

That's actually Al Jean, Matt actually hates what the Simpsons has become but doesn't want to cancel it as it brings him sweet dosh


 No.996398

File: 58b6ef388573783⋯.png (287.49 KB, 723x705, 241:235, thongking.png)

The little black demon is adorable maybe


 No.996403

File: c5035eb7f8b9fd0⋯.jpg (56.73 KB, 919x720, 919:720, drunk despair.jpg)

>>996371

>Oh wait, that actually happened.

Is this what hitting rock bottom feels like?


 No.996405

The premise couldn't be less interesting.


 No.996426

File: 7cf339fe7d0662b⋯.gif (60.25 KB, 439x500, 439:500, 7cf339fe7d0662b13732b27da2….gif)

Fucking damnit.

I'm tired of ironic humor.

I'm tired of sarcasm.

I'm tired of deconstructions.

I'm tired of subversion.

I'm tired.


 No.996428

>>996064

But don't you like comedy? Those are FUNNY, anon. Why do you hate fun? xD


 No.996438

Everything is comedy these days. EVERYTHING.

That new film coming out? It's [Genre] + Comedy.

That new book you're looking forward to? [Genre] + Comedy.

New television show? Comedy

New game? Comedy

New album? Comedy

Abso-fucking-lutely everything being made is now a comedy in some form and it is utterly mind-numbing. We are all immersed in the same ocean of low-end background radiation "comedy" in order to keep everyone quiet. Comedians tell us that comedy is the highest form of art, that comedy is the ability to transfer emotion. This is nonsense, comedy is the very lowest, basest, form of art because laughter is universal. You don't need to understand comedy directly to laugh, you just need to see other people laughing, or hear them. Injecting comedy into absolutely everything has lowered the tone of media dramatically and most people can't even see it happening because, hey, everyone likes to laugh right? What's wrong with laughing? Man I must be such a stick in the mud amirite ladies? *laughtrack* Comedy is the death of creativity because the "Comedy" we are all being served is observational. It is only half a step above 20s slapstick. Jokes are funny. 90 minutes of people dressed in day-glo colors punching eachother while reeling off quips that are essentially fart jokes is perverse.

Honestly, I think people in charge of shit like that are just afraid to take anything seriously.


 No.996443

>>996438

I don't think I'd even call it actual comedy either, since The Three Stooges did all of it better. It's this weird mix of not wanting to be taken seriously while also taking a lot of effort to make sure you understand not to take them seriously. It's insincere and tryhard.


 No.996445

>>996438

Comedy is the only form of "entertainment" that these hacks can understand because they're so coddled that they don't want fictional characters to actually suffer.


 No.996453

>>996445

I take that back, it's not just suffering they can't handle it's any bad thing that has actual consequences.


 No.996464

File: cc930c68e3cc358⋯.jpg (22.82 KB, 400x288, 25:18, sleepwontfix.jpg)

>>996438

I don't think they're afraid of seriousness, so much as they're afraid of the consequences of seriousness, specifically in regards to criticism. As a creator, if someone says your work is shit, that's going to hurt more if it's work that you're deeply invested in and genuinely care about. Creators who are serious about their craft learn to deal with this. They learn to analyze critique, learn to discern between criticism which should be heeded and that which can be safely discarded. Most "creators" today are products of academic institutions which coddle them, and as a consequence serious criticism is an unknown and frightening thing to them when they arrive in the real world.

I'm convinced that this is a huge part of why post-modern/ironic/hipster/etc. creators gravitate toward comedy and "bad on purpose" creations. Comedy and irony are simply being used as convenient shields against criticism. Your project turns out well and people like it? You get to bask in the positive attention. Your project turns out shit and people tell you so? You get to claim that it's totally like that on purpose, and the detractors are just taking it too seriously.

TL;DR Serious creators understand that criticism and having their feelings hurt is a normal part of growing and improving. The hacks that dominate the entertainment field of today are more concerned with protecting their egos than with putting out a quality product.

>>996426

I feel you, anon. I am starved for sincerity in fiction.


 No.996470

>>996153

>Elf looks like a goblin

It's probably based on Harry Potter elves.


 No.996503

File: 41b5a08e95d0d3f⋯.jpg (21.08 KB, 545x600, 109:120, crusader shining.jpg)

>>996223

No, my liege! She's a blackamoor!


 No.996533

>>996398

First one could be horns on his chin or something but considering Groening's signature detail is overbites it's most likely the 2nd one


 No.996535

File: 9b41deef7266364⋯.png (123.05 KB, 594x319, 54:29, princeless.png)


 No.996536

>>996274

Some of the stuff of Lisa is pretty good.


 No.996570

>>996022

OH BOY I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE MY EXPECTATIONS OF FANTASY TROPES SUBVERTED VIA CHARACTERS ACTING LIKE IT'S THE MODERN DAY AND PRINCESSES BEING CAPABLE COMBATANTS

AGAIN


 No.996575

File: 92838d0d593838f⋯.jpg (33.79 KB, 720x480, 3:2, the Morcs.jpg)

Daily reminder that Bender's Game was breddy gudd.

And fuck the inevitable haters. I sometimes wonder if you guys aren't just on this board to complain like a common gutter-SJW.


 No.996580

>>996371

>>996403

It happened a while back when the current king of lichtenstein married the current queen of lichtenstein.


 No.996582

>>996575

That's the one where Leela had orgasms from violence, right?

They need to make an entire spin-off based on that singular premise.


 No.996630

>>996575

>Bender's Game was breddy good.

Yes, yes it was.

>And you're a SJW if you don't like it!

No Anon, I'm pretty sure you're just one of those chumps who can't mentally handle strangers on the internet not liking everything that you like.


 No.996636

>>996635

including the one where david cross played a planet-sized tentacle monster that raped everyone?


 No.996640

>>996639

Bender's Game was better


 No.996650

>>996575

>Daily reminder that Bender's Game was breddy gudd.

Bender's Game was the worst one of the four, and they were all pretty bad


 No.996669

>>996656

It's not like what you're saying is wrong, but I just didn't like the story for The Beast with a Billion Backs.

Bender's army of the damned was the only part I thought was fun.


 No.996675

>>996674

People would have to actually like it at firat for that to happen. This is really more of a stillborn we're dealing with than another zombie.


 No.996676

>>996675

at first*


 No.996680

>>996674

At least Comedy Central (of all people) had the decency to put Zombie Futurama down


 No.996710

Sucks for me. I had a similar idea for a show and now people would think I'm trying to copy Matt Groening.


 No.996717

>>996710

They would have thought you were copying Shrek anyway.


 No.996721

>>996710

>caring what people think

At least it gives you a good excuse to not bring your project to completion.


 No.996724

>>996710

What was your idea? Might as well tell us.


 No.996729

>>996710

Sounds like your idea was terrible then


 No.996732

>>996710

There was a period of 2 or 3 years where I'd think to myself "wow, would that idea be really stupid?" and then it actually happened consistently. Made me lose sleep.


 No.996746

So, it's basically Bart + Leela + Robot Devil

Could be worse.


 No.996765

>>996717

>>996721

>>996724

>>996729

Well it's not exactly the same, but it is a comedy with a fantasy setting. I have other ideas anyway. I will also be volunteering at a media conference in July which will be full of animators and writers freelance and otherwise so maybe I can get some advice or inspiration from there.

>>996732

It happened to me before, when I was in school. Years later Rise of the Guardians did my idea.


 No.996766

>>996765

Apologies for mini blog. I got a little carried away.


 No.996806

>>996022

I feel kind of bad for Matt Groening. I might not like modern Simpsons, but he has to be the Simpsons. He's sort of like a severely typecast actor at this point. Any project he does has to be "The Simpsons in $SETTING". Futurama was the "Simpsons in Space" and now we're getting the "Simpsons in Generic Genre Fantasy Land". He isn't even allowed to change the artstyle. Or worse yet, he can't. The Simpsons may be a zombie, but so is Groening's artisic career.


 No.996822

>>996806

>Futurama was the "Simpsons in Space"

Except that it wasn't anything like The Simpsons


 No.996840

>>996822

Not exactly, no. But it follows a very similar comedic format heavily dependent on parodic and satirical cultural references interspersed with more serious moments of generally interpersonal drama not dependent on an overarching series plot. It had a very similar feel, if you understand what I'm getting at. I'd bet quite a bit of money that this new project will be basically the same thing, just in a different setting. The fantasy world will probably be full of veiled and not so veiled references and parodies thereof. There will be a lot of jokes derived from the broadly drawn characterizations of the various characters (perhaps well done, perhaps late Flanders). There won't be an overarching series goal or plot a la "Find the Lost Thirteen Treasures of Rule". And as a result there probably won't be much serious character growth.

None of that is necessarily bad, but it will be more of the same. Even if it's executed very well Groening almost certainly won't deviate too much from the formula which has brought him so much money, and maybe he isn't even capable of it anymore. Like I said, they didn't even mix up the artstyle.


 No.996847

>>996840

The weird thing is, both Simpsons and Futurama did a tonne of fantasy episodes. Is there even anything left to explore in this setting?


 No.996875

Eh…


 No.996900

>>996766

Psh. It's interesting to hear about productive Anons. It's not like you were telling us about your latest date with your gf or something else unrelated to /co/.


 No.996906

>>996847

>Is there even anything left to explore in this setting?

How about making a fantasy setting that looks like fantasy instead of renaissance fair with fairy tale creatures running around? Like you see this goblin guy? He is supposed to be an elf. Someone didn't told Groening that fantasy elfs are not the same as Santa Claus elves. And I'm sure that if there will be any dwarves, they will be annoying bearded kids in pointy hats instead of stocky vikings.


 No.996908

>>996840

>But it follows a very similar comedic format heavily dependent on parodic and satirical cultural references interspersed with more serious moments of generally interpersonal drama not dependent on an overarching series plot.

Except that Futurama (the original run) had continuity AND an overarching series plot

>It had a very similar feel, if you understand what I'm getting at.

Well, each to his own but they never felt the same to me. Completely different set-up, completely different setting, completely different characters and completely different interplay between those characters.


 No.996919

>>996900

Now that you mention it…

I hope we all make it someday though. I love seeing other anons working on their ideas. I wonder how that group project of /co/'s is going. The one with the racoon cop.


 No.996920

>>996908

I think he's referring to the humor and style of jokes they had. There was a lot of the same kind of play on words and "unexpected outcomes" in both.


 No.996930

>>996022

So why does the imp and his shadow have their heads facing different directions?


 No.996931

>>996930

it's either because the imp is magical or because the animators are incompetent.

which is more likely?


 No.996953

>>996908

Futurama frequently contradicted itself in glaring ways, though.


 No.996954

>>996398

Ruined it.

It's totally the second one.

God fucking damn it.


 No.996955

>this is the only artstyle he knows of

what a fucking hack fraud


 No.996988

>>996953

True but the brain spawn plotline never contradicted itself


 No.997031

>>996575

It was noticably weaker than the first two, only shielded by Into the Wild Green Yonder and the reboot sucking worse. Granted the first two were overwrought on the drama, but Bender's Game is where the humor really fell off and never recovered


 No.997032

>>997031

>reboot

I wish people still knew what that word means.


 No.997034

>>997032

What would the preferred phrase for "new batch of episodes ordered several years after the show was cacelled"?


 No.997035

>>997034

Continuation? Revival? Whatever?

I knew of the term "reboot" before it got popular and it meant a reimagining of a series with the same general concept, but not an exact remake that intends to do everything the same. Now it's abused to hell, I've even seen someone call Dragon Ball GT a "reboot" of DBZ.


 No.997038

>>997035

Ah yeah, 'revival' is probably the better term


 No.997044

>>997035

I blame Hollywood.


 No.997082

>>996022

>Lisa Simpson as an adult

>Bart the elf

>Maggie as a devil


 No.997139

>>996636

>including the one where david cross played a planet-sized tentacle monster that raped everyone?

and turned fry into a straight up cuckold at that.


 No.997140

File: 7083be687bbff1d⋯.jpg (221.38 KB, 1200x863, 1200:863, maou-jou-de-oyasumi.jpg)

It make me laugh that even the jap is better at reinventing the fantasy princess cliche without turning her into a man.


 No.997141

>>997044

Well yeah, the term "reboot" started being spread around after people got fed up with remakes.


 No.997306

>>996398

I'm surprised how many people I've seen getting annoyed by this


 No.997319

I'm guessing that because it's on Netflix that there was no way a male protagonist was allowed


 No.997323

File: 7cc6a6d806dafb0⋯.png (816.08 KB, 836x755, 836:755, goodgoblins.png)

>>996182

>>996195

There is still straight up fantasy, but it tends to be tie-ins to tabletop RPGs or vidya, and I honestly couldn't recommend reading 20 mediocre to okay novels just to get the full backstory on the ones that are good. Or it's some "epic" series where the author is writing thousands upon thousands of pages and barely advancing the plot.

Honestly at this point if you want fantasy you're better off asking /tg/ what they like over worrying about what's new. Robert E. Howard's Conan is solid, so is Moorcock's Elric novels. Anything by Gene Wolfe is a good read. Hell, even fucking manga is good fantasy. Goblin Slayer is only a deconstruction in as much as it's main theme is "even scrub monsters are still monsters."

I could give a fuck less what Hugo Award winning bullshit is coming out regarding trans dwarves or whatever. There's still more than enough quality material out there if you spend a little effort to look for it.


 No.997331

>>997323

These aret good recommendations, but Elric novels are of the same quality as Harry Potter. Moorcock relies on Deus Ex Machina even more than Rowling. Comic books versions are much better.


 No.997333

>>997331

It's been a while since I read them, but Harry Potter, damn, that's harsh. Haven't read the comics, but they look good, will have to check those out.


 No.997340

File: 7726b3dca0e8f89⋯.jpg (41.54 KB, 800x587, 800:587, kabachurch had not it been….jpg)

>>996044

>not liking tomboys


 No.997357

>>997323

Delving into fantasy can be daunting, as there is a staggering amount of utter shite, but I'll share what I enjoyed, that wasn't a complete piss-take.

Books:

Thomas Covenant

Game Of Thrones

Thraxas

The Lords of Dus

The War of Powers

Pern

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Earthsea

The Dreamquest Of Unknown Kadath

The Magic Goes Away

Shike

The Adventures of Alyx

Jirel of Joiry

The Eye Of Argon (I have included this as a sorbet, to clear the palate)

Comic:

The Courageous Princess

Prince Valiant (the old Hal Foster stories)

Ghita of Alizarr

Den

Elfquest

300

Bone

Groo

Usagi Yojimbo

Warlord (Mike Grell's run)

Poison Elves

Webcomic:

Shin Kage

Al'Rashad

Unsounded

Bloodlark

Weeb:

Berserk

Vinland Saga

Orion

Aqua Knight

The Rose Of Marseilles

Chevalier D'Eon

Lone Wolf and Cub

Vagabond

Slayers

Maria the Virgin Witch

I could also list movies, TV and games if anyone's interested, but I thought them outside the direct purview of this board.


 No.997377

>>997140

Well there is some anime out there where it's a magical girl parody but the girl turns into a Yakuza dude in order to gain the powers or something.


 No.997384

>>997340

feminists aren't tomboys


 No.997386

>>997377

I haven't heard of that one. All I've heard was the manga about the three disgraced Yakuza forced to get sex-change surgeries and become idol singers.


 No.997661

File: 234d6195b74649f⋯.jpg (126.25 KB, 722x657, 722:657, Back street girls_9c7ac9_6….jpg)

File: 4b2643848ab5230⋯.jpg (222.82 KB, 702x878, 351:439, Back_c8acc2_6286363.jpg)

File: c92bb37536db8c5⋯.jpg (86.93 KB, 726x557, 726:557, Back_089908_6286363.jpg)

>>997386

(Googles)

Back Street Girls?

Oh my.


 No.997712

>>996396

>alcoholism an escape mechanism

Always fucking gets me. Let's try to prevent depression by ingesting copious amounts of depressant! What could possibly go wrong? The suicide rates are so low in hard-drinking countries such as Russia or South Korea, right?


 No.997715

>>997712

>Let's try to prevent depression by ingesting copious amounts of depressant

Depressants are often used to treat depression. Just because it's called a 'depressant' doesn't mean that it makes you depressed, quite the opposite in fact


 No.997718

>>997715

And yet the long-term use of depressants may cause depression. You know, like alcoholism.


 No.997723

>>997718

>And yet the long-term use of depressants may cause depression

Which usually has very little to do with the depressants themselves and more to do with self-medicating to avoid confronting personal problems.


 No.997842

>>997723

I don't know much about drugs, but doesn't alcohol amplify your emotions?


 No.997848

>>997842

Not quite. Alcohol shuts down your emtional inhibitions so it's more like it reveals what's already there yet repressed, boiling under the surface


 No.997858

>>997848

That's why I don't drink or abuse any drugs. I don't know what's down there, I just know it needs to stay down there.


 No.998336

This is gonna suck.

People don't seem to understand that the best parodies come from people who closely know and understand the source content. The fact that their "elf" is straight up a goblin shows they don't know shit about fantasy.


 No.998580

I will give it a chance.


 No.998581

File: 62c5a52c471b640⋯.webm (128.37 KB, 640x480, 4:3, lady dunmer says fuck off.webm)

Oh look, another attempt at deconstructing fantasy cliches with a strong womyn.


 No.998585

>>998581

I think we really are seeing more "deconstructions" than sincere fantasy stories these days. Everyone is such a tryhard, cynical edgy faggot that they can't write a story that's just a fucking story with good characters and a cohesive plot. Everything has to be drunken degeneracy slathered on top of a bad parody of common genre cliches.


 No.998592

>>998585

It's not just fantasy, it's pretty much every genre is over-saturated with either half-assed deconstructions or ironic meta humor that makes fun of you for daring to unironically enjoy something.


 No.998613

File: d7505e49f9ff3b6⋯.png (164.63 KB, 477x734, 477:734, IHateFairyland.png)

>>996022

How likely to be a worse and toned down version of this?


 No.998617

>>998592

Like music was few years ago when everyone was too detached and ironic to rock.


 No.998627

>>996396

The one I hate most on that front is Rick & Morty. It doesn't make sense that Rick would be this genius able to do all this brilliant stuff while consuming alcohol in the amounts he is. And yes I know it's a cartoon and a lot of stuff in it is nonsensical but you know what I mean. It's just Dan Harmon trying to justify his own vice, like his alcoholism is his muse or something. When in reality he's fucked up a lot of things while he was drunk. I get drunk too but I'm under no illusions that about how being drunk affects my intelligence.


 No.998637

>>996906

Please, the Tolkien knockoff stuff would have been even worse.


 No.998639

File: 973e5c4b57217cd⋯.webm (91.64 KB, 480x480, 1:1, really nigga.webm)

>>997357

>Game Of Thrones


 No.998679

>>998639

What would you prefer, Terry fucking Goodkind?

You want some Sword Of Objectivism?

You wanna kick a little girl in the face?

You want to conquer the land and rule it with an iron fist to prevent it from being conquered and ruled with an iron OH WAIT

Are you going to literally build a statue of yourself to show all the silly people that you're always right?

You going to save all the drippy mud people by showing them how to build roofs?

You going to unironically do everything the villains do, without the slightest shred of self-awareness?

Do your powers only work when the plot demands it?

I BET YOU'D PREFER SOME TERRY MOTHERFUCKING GOODKIND, WOULDN'T YOU!


 No.998685

>>997357

Dreamquest is utter, tedious trash and is objectively Lovecraft's worst work.


 No.998757

>>998679

Did he touch a nerve? Just because one author is shit doesn't mean your favorite is good.


 No.998761

>>998679

Calm down GRR


 No.998774

>>998685

>>998757

>>998761

Shut up! I am Awesome McCoolname and I wield the Sword of Smartass and I am always objectively right! I will spend half the god-damn book explaining why I cannot be wrong, spend the other half getting tortured by MEAN GIRLS, and then blast everything with lightning on the last page!


 No.999175

>>998774

Keep going


 No.999183

More like Matt Groaning.


 No.999185

File: baec89bce674020⋯.png (88.41 KB, 463x341, 463:341, 1472323961498.png)

>>998774

The third part of that book took such a crazy turn I actually went online to check if I hadn't downloaded a messed up epub.


 No.999901

File: b5c5052701a7f05⋯.jpg (29.65 KB, 720x455, 144:91, Containyourhugetoslaughter.jpg)


 No.999903

>>999901

Give me your home adress so I can personally track you down and disembowel your nigger ass.


 No.999904

File: ce8cdbc5498be27⋯.png (455.2 KB, 582x477, 194:159, 189824.png)

>>998592

>ironic meta humor that makes fun of you for daring to unironically enjoy something

This shouldn't upset me as much as it does when it happens.


 No.999924

File: a1d3c2393f04d84⋯.jpg (117.04 KB, 840x720, 7:6, bc6d17ad4a7453e1e8e9b34f2d….jpg)

>>999901

Delete this you motherfucker


 No.999946

File: ba7aae67fd7d1d7⋯.jpg (78.68 KB, 716x403, 716:403, Conan o brian ableist, tum….jpg)

>>999901

She was on 1958?


 No.999950

What really pisses me off is that they had to use the upperlip artstyle, lucky if Matt gathers the oh so called "geniuses" writers from old Simpsons.


 No.1000382

>>998585

> think we really are seeing more "deconstructions" than sincere fantasy stories these days.

Kind of like how people still complain about bikini armor even though it's mostly the japs who do it at this point.


 No.1002214

>>999950

Old Simpsons was good, fuck off.


 No.1002252

File: 5047a712f3f0235⋯.png (440.12 KB, 544x489, 544:489, wah gun.png)


 No.1002257

>>996580

You're thinking of the current Prince's second son, Hans Adam II's wife is decidedly white. The mulatto is dead-last in the line of succession, and that gap will only grow larger once those grand-kids start families of their own. No kangz in Lichtenstein.


 No.1002271

File: c982957d172e95b⋯.webm (3.84 MB, 640x427, 640:427, some discworld.webm)

>>997357

What no Discworld?


 No.1002289

File: 7cddeb5a1d0d0aa⋯.png (248.66 KB, 540x522, 30:29, Conan o'n Haiti 1.png)

>>1002214

Monorail Monorail Monorail

Phil Hartman died like a white cis male!


 No.1002307

>>1002214

It was good until about 1995. So I guess that's 5 seasons. Immediately after that it was like it became liberal propaganda the show.


 No.1002310

>>1000382

>Kind of like how people still complain about bikini armor even though it's mostly the japs who do it at this point.

Bikini armor is great. The japs are right.


 No.1002329

>>1002310

>>1000382

Biki armor wasn't really much of a thing outside of MMOs and niche titles like Soul Calibur. The few Jap games featuring it are full of over the top costumes and stylization, so it fits with the setting. Korean MMOs are the only genre where it gets ridiculous, but not to the degree people make it out to be.


 No.1002344

>>1000382

>>1002310

>>1002329

Get with the times, gramps. The thing to bitch about now is "boobplate" ie a breastplate actually designed to accommodate breasts because that's unrealistic in my European fantasy setting filled with trannies and niggers.


 No.1002463

File: ee9781d0905415c⋯.jpg (119.46 KB, 608x604, 152:151, 42.jpg)

File: 7638080998bf2d0⋯.jpg (447.05 KB, 1280x1745, 256:349, hm_81_04_00a_cover.jpg)

File: ef6873aca8c686e⋯.jpg (421.48 KB, 1227x1644, 409:548, 015.jpg)

File: 03063248d95f19b⋯.png (4.14 MB, 1071x1700, 63:100, ClipboardImage.png)

File: ac582366f07f866⋯.png (1.02 MB, 616x800, 77:100, ClipboardImage.png)

>>1002329

it was a thing in the 70's-90's in fantasy, but of course harpies had to screech about it.


 No.1002492

File: 885b355eaacb79e⋯.jpg (46.1 KB, 400x400, 1:1, bF8BvXrr_400x400.jpg)

>>1002463

Why do they have to destroy all the things we enjoy? Media is becoming more boring and propagandistic with each passing day.


 No.1002552

File: ea3ac37d98eb030⋯.jpg (178.01 KB, 800x997, 800:997, elder-scrolls-arena-dos-fr….jpg)

>>1002463

But even then, it was predominantly limited to Swords and Sandals. Conan, John Carter, Gor and so on were usually depicted dressed only in loincloths and very rarely in primitive or torn tunics. Last image is one example of that.

As far as I remember, only exceptions to that were RPGs (both vdieogames and p&p). They had tendency to just mix random fantasy elements - probably based on what creators liked - whether it made sense or not. But I do not recall seeing much crap like that outside of MMOs after mid to late 90s.


 No.1002822

>>1002214

It really wasn't, and it's gotten worse with age.


 No.1006004

HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.

Teaser was revealed.


 No.1006025

>>996470

or any elf before lord of the rings.


 No.1006026

>>996650

>Bender's Game

>worse than Cuck With A Billion Bulls

Kill yourself


 No.1006027

>>1006004

Animation looks stiff and there's apparently not much to say about the show, so they went heavy handed on the fact that it's a Matt Groening show. Which I get, but it's still pretty obvious that they are trying to cover for obvious short-comings by going

>HEY REMEMBER FUTURAMA?

>REMEMBER SIMPSONS????


 No.1006029

>>1006004

>that fucking 3D

>that animation

Fug :DDD


 No.1006068

>>1006004

I kinda like the backgrounds when they're not moving and you can tell its low grade CG.

Literally everything else is purest shit though.


 No.1006586

>>996022

So it's Megg, Mogg, and Owl, except something like five years after a. Megg, Mogg and Owl's fifteen minutes of fame expired, and b. Megg, Mogg and Owl jumped the shark.


 No.1006988

>>996389

gotta encourage the nihilistic millennials and gen Z to keep relying on drugs to be happy.


 No.1006993

>>1006026

>Cuck With A Billion Bulls

I don't remember them making a movie about you


 No.1007094

>>996536

Bart get out I'm piss


 No.1011483

File: 2a008e2c94cbfd7⋯.jpg (483.43 KB, 1382x2048, 691:1024, DiPNUy2WAAIIZhp[1].jpg)

Official poster has been released.

Full trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_RnJcb8Ig

The first season will run for ten episodes.


 No.1011506

>>1011483

>Rebel Rebel on a "bardic" lute

ewwwwwwwwww


 No.1011608

>>1011483

Holy shit that trailer was incredibly dull and bland.


 No.1011611

>>1002492

Because you are not killing them


 No.1011651

>>1011608

it was extremely "hey you like this shit, right? here have some you undiscriminating plebs."


 No.1011666

File: 1b70d6fd8c6d0fe⋯.mp4 (7.92 MB, 640x360, 16:9, Disenchantment Trailer.mp4)

>>1011483

Here's an mp4. It is just so underwhelming. Show will just literally be Groeing lazily spinning his wheels, making uninspired jokes about pop culture and occasional references to GoT and LotR. Animation


 No.1011667

>>1011666

Dammit, I did not finish my post.

Animation also looks worse than the initial trailer, and from the looks of it, cheap CGI will be used for almost everything.


 No.1011673

File: 197bd08c2ff7719⋯.png (189.06 KB, 256x337, 256:337, awful.png)


 No.1011685

>>1011666

I hate to admit, but it did make me chuckle a few times. It's still soulless though. The humor just isn't there, the characters aren't all that interesting, and it just feels like a weird version of Futurama that's going to try and go to heavily on the FRY'S DOG style of emotional sap.


 No.1011688

>>1011666

Thanks Satan.


 No.1011695

>No information about the show aside from very cursory and vague things.

>Just riding on the D&D/TTRPG fad wave that's coming in

>Probably going to just be Futurama again.

>Leela is the one lady

>Bart-Goblin is Fry

>Demon dude is Bender.

>Netflix exclusive so going to be probably going to have a ton of SJWisms shoved in

Nah, I'm going to sleep instead.


 No.1011704

>>1011666

Holy shit those 3D backgrounds piss me off. Laaaazy.


 No.1011705

>in b4 Bart-thing transforms into a human later and she marries him


 No.1011742

So it's Shrek with some Futurama, and obligatory references to contemporary things like GoT.


 No.1011807

>>1011666

I got a couple laughs, but most of the time there's jokes I'm just watching with a straight face. Not even altered breathing. It's trying to be a mix of fantasy adventure with comedy, but I'm neither interested in the adventure, nor laughing.


 No.1011893

>>1011666

>It is just so underwhelming.

Doesn't even rise to that level IMO. More like non-whelming. I felt literally nothing. The trailer feels paint by numbers grabbing random lines from different places and inserting them to make the timing of the trailer work. The jokes feel like something Family Guy would do 10 years ago. The voice acting is unremarkable, and the animation is just stale and lifeless.


 No.1011918

>>1006025

Tolkein based LOTR elves on the elves before it you fucking dunce. The mythological origins of elves are pretty diffuse. If you mean the alfs or alvs or various skandi flavours, they were human sized and shaped, and beautiful. Siðs, fairs, seelies, the anglo and celtic influences of the modern idea, all human sized and shaped and beautiful. Literally the only versions which are small and retarded looking are modern ones, originating from the conflation of various fairy myths by people who didn't give enough of a shit to tell the stories properly.


 No.1011949

>>1011918

Fun fact, the first known published writing of the Christmas elf was from some bitch who constantly whined about Germans because her dad expected too much from her something equally hysterical. She died without kids.


 No.1012063

File: ef282db71959d57⋯.jpg (172.89 KB, 760x596, 190:149, GlUqACE[1].jpg)

File: 50593aca88e9703⋯.jpg (182.04 KB, 760x596, 190:149, timlMiW[1].jpg)

File: 4d5b4bc0156e8e1⋯.jpg (188.88 KB, 760x596, 190:149, oldstnick_IqFubp3.jpg)

>>1011893

You cant expect something which can be described "Its exactly like X". Nothing new, nothing different. Unless you count "its pg-14 instead of mature" as something different.

Fuck, now I want good parts of Oglaf cartoon.


 No.1012090

>>1012063

>good parts of Oglaf

I always find it ironic that the best strips in the porn comic are SFW ones.


 No.1012099

File: db5653a65e5a46f⋯.png (349.19 KB, 757x632, 757:632, db5653a65e5a46ff025ec7a435….png)

>>1011666

i legitimately started with high hopes for the show, but the more comes out about it the further i drift back into depression. At this point i can't even tell if Matt Groening was ever a good writer, or if i have just slipped into a numb sense of no longer being able to find enjoyment out of anything


 No.1012110

>>1012099

Simpsons used to have 30 writers(at the same time).


 No.1012119

>>1012099

Has anyone got any Life In Hell to storytime?


 No.1012120


 No.1012124

>>1012090

I always found it ironic that of the million pages of Oglaf I found exactly one funny and the rest is unreadable cringe.


 No.1012130

>>1012124

>million pages

Go back to reddit.


 No.1012151

>>1012124

>I found exactly one funny

well are you gonna post it or not


 No.1012174

>>1012090

Does anyone even like the "erotic" strips?


 No.1013449

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

 No.1013457

File: 923dcc26911a677⋯.png (71.07 KB, 225x394, 225:394, Philip_Fry.png)

File: 4f1bf17d21bf8c7⋯.png (740.78 KB, 1303x1859, 1303:1859, Bender.png)

File: 141fa0f02313896⋯.png (101.6 KB, 359x600, 359:600, Turanga_Leela.png)

>>1013449

Found some concept art


 No.1013466

>>1012063

I kinda stopped to care about Oglaf when the author killed Oglaf.


 No.1013537

File: e5040cb7868b6a5⋯.png (149.89 KB, 337x259, 337:259, Oglaf.png)

File: caaf4ab0c64ce8b⋯.png (101.7 KB, 202x305, 202:305, Ivanpinecone.png)

>>1013449

Wow, thanks, without this video I was unable to make heads or tails of this boring generic fairy-tales-and-ren-faire setting. Now I perfectly understand its non-existent intricacies!

>>1013466

No, you retard, Oglaf is that shepherd boy who cums floating words. The killed one is Ivan the apprentice. Also he was never confirmed dead, last time he was seen he was in coma.


 No.1013540

>>1013537

Oh yeah, I didn't remember the name, but it has been already… fuck, I don't even remember how many years, and he didn't came back.


 No.1013561

File: 9fd09ef89e76dfe⋯.gif (1.03 MB, 400x444, 100:111, Vegeta denied his just des….gif)

I'm tired of deconstructions.


 No.1013604

>>1013540

She also said Oglaf would play a more important role later in the story. That hasn't happened yet either.


 No.1013607

>>996398

NO GOD DAMN IT. It's the second one, Matt you fucking hack.


 No.1013637

>>1013561

I wonder if we’ll start getting reconstructions. Or perhaps deconstructions of deconstructions.


 No.1013957

>>1013637

I think Alan Moore was saying he'd like to do that, but then Alan Moore can be full of shit. We'll see where the new League series goes.


 No.1013958

Anything's better than anti-Japanese propoganda from China. Why is Netflix supporting racism? https://www.netflix.com/title/80065078


 No.1013965

>>996398

I fucking knew it.


 No.1013966

>>1013958

All I get is a blank page.


 No.1013967

File: 963bfe27514c1f4⋯.mp4 (2.63 MB, 1280x720, 16:9, videoplayback.mp4)

File: b6541ebd13ef4d3⋯.mp4 (2.87 MB, 1280x720, 16:9, videoplayback2.mp4)

File: 16bca8f2ff694a4⋯.mp4 (3.37 MB, 1280x720, 16:9, videoplayback3.mp4)

File: 4bb75396c22fa2e⋯.mp4 (2.7 MB, 1280x720, 16:9, videoplayback4.mp4)


 No.1013972

>>1013967

>these were their best jokes


 No.1013975

>>1013967

It's just me or are the sound effects too loud? It's like the equivalent of shaking keys to grab a baby's attention


 No.1013981

I wanna fuck the silhouette imp.


 No.1013983

>>996398

>pic

oh

never mind


 No.1014017

>>1013967

It's just fantasy Futurama. Even has Zapp.


 No.1014020

>>1013967

The princess' voice is so shit.


 No.1014072

File: 71b564f33b195e7⋯.mp4 (2.44 MB, 490x360, 49:36, futurama_1999_trailer.mp4)

File: a5428fbdf3365f9⋯.jpg (181.87 KB, 1078x612, 539:306, SNOJIvb.jpg)

>>1014017

Please. This makes Futurama look like classy A-material.

>>1014020

There's no way Groening's tired old tropes can work with a female main protagonist. How come they haven't figured that shit out by now? Oh wait… it's the current year.

Homer, Fry (protagonists) :

>naive

>overconfident

>wasn't given a great hand in life

>good morals but easily tempted

>still tries to do the right

>lovable, failures are meant to be relatable .

>we're meant to see the world trough their eyes

Females:

Marge:

>Over-qualified for her chosen position.

>Tries to play tropes straight (mother and home-maker), and ends up being-overstressed because of it . "subversions, lol"

>is overly moralising, more often than not ends up being wrong (contrast to early Simpsons)

Lisa, Leela

>marry Sues

>strong womyn

>subvert all the tropes, still end up being right.

>only wrong when they try to play tropes straight.

Princess Bean (our current protfag):

>naive

>overconfident

<was give everything in life.

<subversive yet whiny moralizing tone that tries to mask self-centerd-ness.

<subverts all tropes

<still ends up being right about everything because Marry Sue

>has vices (beer)

<but are presented as virtues because rebellion is cool, yo.

<no flaws = no character arcs except proving how much the rest of the world sucks and is wrong for not listening to her.

>real people (I said real people, not feminists) are supposed to identify with this and find it funny.

Just once I'd like to see a story with a female protagonist that plays the tropes straight:

>modern day female:

>has seen too much crappy fantasies.

>tries the "strong womyng thing"

>meets examples of where the path leads.

>learns real world is real.

>swallows her pride

>flash forward seven years latter.

>happily married, tucking her daughters is bed

Heh. I guess that's too much of a fantasy in the current year.


 No.1014081

>>1014072

>Leela

>Mary Sue

Seriously nigger? She often acted shallow or unreasonable, the fact that she was a strong woman was a big turn-off for men, and her every attempt at environmentalism ended up going awry. She was far from perfect, and the show acknowledged it.


 No.1014114

>>1014072

>modern day female:

>has seen too much crappy fantasies.

>tries the "strong womyng thing"

>meets examples of where the path leads.

>learns real world is real.

>swallows her pride

>flash forward seven years latter.

>happily married, tucking her daughters is bed

This would be the actual subversion now.

It would have made more sense to make Bean a peasant instead of a princess, now that I think about it.


 No.1014485

>>1014081

She kind of was, but it was 1999, so a few believable character flaws still slipped through. She still got to be the smartest, toughest, and most competent member of the cast.


 No.1014662

The amount of giving a shit in this thread for anything Groening related in 2018 is disturbing.


 No.1014667

File: a245dae16942c3d⋯.jpg (41.05 KB, 245x204, 245:204, z.jpg)


 No.1014756

File: b0426426a79f7d3⋯.jpg (15.34 KB, 480x712, 60:89, titus.jpg)

>Haw haw isn't the chair from Game of Thrones super sharp and dangerous haha!

Fucking Jesus Christ those jokes stopped being funny after the first fucking season aired.


 No.1014968


 No.1016611

>Part 1

Groening pulling a Voltron confirmed.

Also Netflix has started rolling out Jew-Tube style ads for some burgers


 No.1016635

File: 5a20edf6c81fcbf⋯.png (89.1 KB, 199x178, 199:178, gnome.PNG)

>>1011483

Hey look, its not-scruffy!


 No.1016678

I'm on episode 4 and it's like this show has no idea of what it wants to be.

Does it want to be high fantasy? Not really. Too little magic.

Mid-fantasy? Nope, too grounded in low-fantasy with not enough magic.

Low fantasy? Nope, too many magical humanoid races.

Elfo doesn't even keep his motives from from the first episode and just tries getting into Bean's pants.

The world isn't even all that interesting. It's just really microscopic and plays way too safe so you're not expecting anything outside of a low-fantasy setting, overcommit to it, then throw in a ton of modern stuff. If you're paying attention and not just letting it be background noise you'll get confused.

Theres the occasional funny moment but it's so brief. Then then there are jokes that are just predictable and go on for way too long.

Theres tons of animation errors too, characters appearing huge on backgrounds, walk cycles not matching walking speed.


 No.1016680

>>1011483

Just saw a commercial. She's just Homer looking like female Moe.

How did Groening even make it in the industry? He's got zero ideas. He basically had luck.


 No.1016691

>>1016680

He made it the same way any other hack did. Personal connections and surrounding himself with at least half-competent people who are the ones who actually do the work. All Groening contributes is his hideous art style, name, and a half baked premise that is 'a parody and deconstruction of X'.


 No.1016695

>>1016691

So he's basically George Lucas.


 No.1016794

I just saw the first three episodes and I have a few complaints. Compared to the first three episodes of Futurama this had maybe two jokes that worked (but didn't make me even chuckle).

Here are the problems:

1. Bean's arc could have lasted a whole season but it's basically closed by the second episode. She could have had a real crisis of conscience about whether her own freedom is more valuable than the safety of the kingdom and then have the pig transformation save her from willingly sacrificing herself for the greater good. Instead she never wavers from her initial instinct, which makes her less sympathetic as a character.

2. King Panucci is just a grumpy king with olde-worlde ideas about women. The only jokes involving him are about how numb he is to the concerns of others, especially women. Kind of one-note.

3. Elfo's characterization is thrown out the window by the second episode. His complete naivete' and desire to feel things other than happiness means he should be stupidly brave in every situation, like Data when he gets his emotion chip. Instead he becomes a loyal sidekick that lusts after women twice his height for no reason. If he had a moment with Bean like Fry did when he saw the earth with Leela on the moon, there might be some reason he sees her in a romantic light. He should be like GIR in that every new sensation is greeted with enthusiasm.

4. Mr. Game & Watch shouldn't even exist. He doesn't have an arc, he's basically a less-charismatic Bender. The two people who keep commenting on his progress shouldn't exist either. Who is going to identify with a being of pure evil aside from edgy assholes…wait…nevermind. At least Aku has a funny, hammy way of acting.

5. Almost every joke falls flat because the timing is wrong. I can see each joke coming, arriving, and going. Abysmal.

I will probably get around to watching the other episodes (the background art is amazing) but will probably remain stone-faced as I am now.


 No.1016795

>>1014114

It would be a great arc if she had a sort of switching lives thing happen where she could be a princess but had to sacrifice her freedom. That would be compelling. Why Bean is so unhappy despite having everything seems to only be there because story has to happen and her mom is dead.


 No.1016835

finished watching it, easily the weakest thing Matt's ever made, that being said, not nearly as bad as it could of been.

>Bean

My major fear with her, was that they would of just fallen for the pit fall of basically making her a man too show "look wumunz canz be grossest too!!!!" while at the same time making her basically invincible from the get go. Avoided for the most part and left with a genuinely complex character.

Trailers does no justice to the show, made it out as tho the entire series was going to be her running away from her evil patriarchy dad who wants to marry her off. But in-reality this ends by the second episode and they essentially turn it into an episodic series with minor serialization.

By far the best character through the entire thing is the King, (((ZOG))) easily the best constructed in terms of layers and is also the funniest by a mile and a half.

For some reason, the first episode is so much fucking worse then everything else in the season, i don't know the behind the scenes stuff but there is noticeably bad sound mixing, writing, and animation. Clears up by the second episode tho.

Overall, some of the best episodes from the ten that are out now are better them some of the worst that futurama had, and you'll constantly be making comparisons between the two in your mind simply because of how similar they are. Cohen took a back seat role with this project supposedly, but everything from the pacing to the constantly changing settings reeks of futurama


 No.1016853

I haven't seen it yet, but I saw a post on Imgur trying to talk about how they liked the show, but the comments were filled with people talking about how it was mediocre/disappointing. I'll probably still give it a two episode try, but I've got really low expectations for a show even normalfags are saying is disappointing.


 No.1016855

>>1016853

It's better than the trailers make it look, but it never really gets better than mediocre. You might get a few chuckles here and there, but that will be contrasted with lots of eye-rolling.


 No.1016856

>>1013975

They're trying to compress everything so much that every couple of seconds they have an obnoxious musical sting.


 No.1016873

>>1016794

I could identify with or merely appreciate a cute evil jet-black imp if it didn't have a Groening overbite.


 No.1016874

Despite this show being SJW as fuck, not even critics like it very much.


 No.1016877

>>1016874

That's what happens when your rhetoric becomes white noise.


 No.1016881

>>1016874

>SJW as fuck

How?


 No.1016886

>>1016881

Because at this point people considering "No calling for death squads to kill niggers" means you're an SJW


 No.1016889

File: d5b3868952651fc⋯.png (53.66 KB, 665x800, 133:160, SOYFEEL.png)


 No.1016901

>>1016881

I wouldn't call it SJW as fuck, but they have the thieves that go on for a bit about "gender neutrality" in crime, and then the Griffin that looks like a guy, but insists he's female and when questioned about it, insists "gender is a spectrum" and it's just dropped there.


 No.1016904

>>1016886

No, it's more if the core concept of your show is deconstructing tradition, and gender roles.


 No.1016905

>>1016886

I wish that was the case, but life isn't that simple.


 No.1016906

>>1016874

Because its boring and everything in it does has been done to death and in much better ways.


 No.1016907

>>1016881

>>1016886

Fantasy deconstruction/subversion where women are competent and most men aren't is SJWs most favorite premise. PrinceLess, Rat Queens, Ladycastle are just few examples of it.


 No.1016916

>>996022

So I gave this a go and all I could think of is how hard I wish that bitch got spanked. Seriously she's an annoying brat.


 No.1016919

>>1016907

>where women are competent

But the girl in this isn't competent. She's a drunken idiot.


 No.1016927

>>1016919

Basically Homer/Fry with tits


 No.1016936

>>1016921

>Shill

I honestly almost wish that it were some obnoxious SJW shit because at least that would be something to talk about. But it's not. It's totally inoffensive. The jokes are flat, the characters are one note, the plots are uninteresting and unengaging. The best you could say about this show is that it's astonishingly mediocre. In other words, it's fucking nothing


 No.1016970

>>1016936

It's a little less than mediocre, because they attempt to go all DEEPEST LORE and force all this pathos in the last couple episodes of the show, and it all just comes off as insulting. Bean resurrects her dead Mom and within a few moments it's painfully obvious that she's evil. They were trying to be cliche fantasy world Futurama, and instead it ended up being Matt Groening Presents: Edgy Adventure Time for grown-ups.

They end on a goddamned cliffhanger where everything is ruined and it looks like the bad guys won, for fuck's sake.


 No.1016973

>>1016901

Both of those are ment to be making fun of affermitive action losers and trannies respectively, at least i read it as being a joke and not some commentary on society,


 No.1016980

>>1016973

To make fun of something, you have to actually make a joke out of it. Not just shit it out on the table and just assume that everyone gets the subtle implication. Both were played straight and were not funnier for it. No character in any of those scenes says "you're a fucking retard for believing this insane bullshit"


 No.1016981

File: 94158c7557c216f⋯.png (796.07 KB, 1000x563, 1000:563, 94158c7557c216f74b0f0df0bf….png)

>>996135

the elf is literally moe


 No.1016982

>>1016981

Elfo's clothes are also an obvious reference to Bart.


 No.1017000

File: 6bfd25a0ec25f56⋯.png (48.13 KB, 800x729, 800:729, 8nRqoXW.jpg.png)

>>1016980

>unless the characters look directly at you through the screen and say "this is a joke, please do not take literally" you can't read it as a joke

really makes you think


 No.1017002

>>1016970

>attempt to go DEEPEST LORE

it's literally about as complex as some futurama episodes

>Edgy Adventure Time for grown ups

i do not understand the comparison between this and adventure time, other then a fantasy setting, the two have near zero in common. And what makes it edgy? The entire show is PG at worst.


 No.1017023

>>1013967

"Entertainment is just a tool that pacifies the masses and lead to the decay and ultimate collapse of civilization."

Are they becoming self aware or is this just your typical nihilist humor?

>>1016695

What the hell did Lucas deconstruct?


 No.1017025

File: a38a99ac290d1c3⋯.jpg (188.46 KB, 1080x1440, 3:4, Mark Allen Mothersbaugh.jpg)

>>1016982

>>1016981

I thought from his hair, voice, and attitude that he was Fry. Companion him with hard-drinking princes Leela. and we already know where this is going. The black imp is Bender, btw. Tough not a funny.

>>1017000

The humor is suppose to come from us thinking "heh, fantasy people were so stupid for not being PC ." . Anachronism is the only subversion here. If there's any satire, it's aimed at "traditional fantasy", and not at current year. "Heh, before feminism women where slaves".

>>1016877

>>1016874

Sad as it may be, I've gotten used to this at this point. I mostly just tune it out.What I can't stand is the music. I skip the intro every time . It's like someone took a trumpet, a hammer, a cat, and a jewish (((atonal))) music composer, put them in a washing machine, and this is the result . and the composer for the main theme happens to be this guy. No surprise here


 No.1017040

Why are there so many non-white people in this medieval fantasy show? Every crowd is 50% non-white. Even the fat handmaiden has a family filled with children of every ethnicity, with a white husband and no indication she sleeps around.


 No.1017042

>>1017040

It's a pozzed show. Propaganda to normalize immigration, multiculturalism, and even for non-modern times.


 No.1017043

>>1013967

>First one

Where the fuck are the jokes? I heard better jokes on nick jr.


 No.1017052


 No.1017054

File: 2fcec8536983c65⋯.png (264.33 KB, 905x624, 905:624, u in a nutshell.png)

>>999946

Yurishitters aren't entitled to opinions.


 No.1017064

>>1017040

Honestly, that didn't schism my 'tism as much as all the times when they reference Germany and France and other European stuff. I thought this shit was supposed to be made up fantasy land?


 No.1017072

>>1017064

That way they'll get to reference real things and pass the references as jokes.


 No.1017084

>>1016919

Well, I was going off of the trailer since I am yet to watch the show. Promos made her look like one of the last few sane people in the kingdom.

>>1017072

If they wanted to go that route, they should have made a show about a fictionalized historical figure. France, England, and Germany had a few nutters who would be perfect for a comedy.


 No.1017086

>>1016970

Yeah…it felt like they had planned this over two seasons and ended up cramming t into a handful of episodes.I'd refer it to not have some weird over reaching super deep plot actually. I liked the gritty life in medieval-ish times stuff more than badly the magic shit.

>>1016901

That Griffin was some weird out of place shit. Then he swoops in and saved them from the fall..lazy as hell. At least do an episode where they save his next of help his people or any reason why he cares to rsavecthrm and fly them back. Why does he give a crap about the characters other than them being main characters? It's like they went zombie Simpsons.

>>1016794

Great post. It bugged me Robo was swearing like next episode.wished we'd seen him slowly discovering the seedy underbelly of life.

Skip the self proclaimed sexual tension bs, or at peast wait until we know the brackets enough to care.

Yeah the demon obviously they had no idea where to go with that. Give us a reason why he stopped blatantly trying to force events/bad actions like he can grow to care but slowly fades away if he see or something! He's wasted.

I laughed twice in all the first season. Once at the victor of the battle of that time a bird flew inside and can't remember the other.

What a mess this shit is. They squandered the season cramming in all that oh Spooky magic lore plot rather then letting us get to know the characters and finding their comedy grounding and letting the style for the show settle naturally. If they wanted to piggy back from Adventure Time they should remember the single episode adventures were the good episodes and it hit the downhill crap slide when they went for melodrama and deepest l o r e.

I guess they figured the audience was too fickle and stupid to slowly build the show and plot/characters up. No second season unless they shoved in some death and plot plot plot. We only hadv10 episodes to get to know these characters…we really supposed to care about one dying and how otyers react to that? Maybe if they had Work go to Luci's demon world in limbo between life and death give us a side plot to actually use the demon as a character and something interesting going on while the dumb, obvious as hell „twist“ family melodrama magic shit goes on.

Also the music never fits the scenes. The theme music sucks.


 No.1017088

>>1017086

Shit types all over that. Sorry, Anons. Siezure medicines Fucking with me.


 No.1017093

>>1017088

Are you sure you should be using a computer?


 No.1017102

>>1017093

I'm still stuck in neuro ward and bored as fuck but yeah lemme try that post again when not drugged off my ass. I think actually some good discussion to be had had had over this mess. Again sorry for the words salad.


 No.1017104

>>1016874

>SJW as fuck

>it's just a man in a female body

Do you retards even understand the SJWism you're up against?


 No.1017195

File: 65a56e4b93f53dd⋯.jpg (13.18 KB, 300x300, 1:1, There is no source.jpg)

>>1017025

>The humor is suppose to come from us thinking "heh, fantasy people were so stupid for not being PC ."

[citation needed]


 No.1017196

>>1017104

Do you?


 No.1017197

So I tried watching this since I saw it was out.

Holy crap is this bad. It was a fucking chore to get through the first 2 episodes, and I couldn't even get pass ep 3.


 No.1017202

>>996438

>>996464

but almost nothing’s funny anymore, everyone spends all day on websites and apps desperately trying to hunt down something funny, we’ve emerged ourselves in a meme culture that’s soul purpose is to make content that’s funny. Everything always has to be comedy or funny, that’s why it’s impossible to get us to laugh. Almost nothing is serious or genuine. All any art is now a days is comedy, or political content or both. Every movie has at least one comic relief, atleast. This is why comedy sucks today too. Everything this is a joke. There is nothing to make fun of, since it’s all a joke.


 No.1017213

>Protag is the anti-Lisa

>It's all about how single parenthood and decadence can ruin everything

>It was all the masons AND kikes all along

>(((They))) reinforce her behaviour just to crash dreamland

>Betas should learn their place or get fucked

>Cucks aren't human

And you wonder why the (((critics))) hate it.


 No.1017281

File: 4172237a33b406a⋯.jpg (186.44 KB, 1920x1080, 16:9, satire_done_right.jpg)

File: 30124578e700aeb⋯.png (1.35 MB, 706x1624, 353:812, gender_is_a_spectrum.png)

>>1017195

Show me one instance where we're the PC stuff is satirized and not the Dnd magical world in which it's put. Hint: you can't

<[citation needed]

Alright . 0/10 for making me rewatch the clip and make a panel.

Look at the second panel. That's not satire of humor. It's normalization . We're not supposed to have any reaction to it except maybe "heh, a gryphon is saying gender is a spectrum." The oddest part is the gryphon, not the "gender is a spectrum" . Ideally, you're just supposed to think nothing of it at all and let it slip into your subconscious mind-sponge. The same kind of tactic girls do when they 'happen to mention something' for 'no reason at all', and then move to something else. Not direct. Not overt.Devious. Jewish. Anyway, continuing about the joke, the second panel serves no purpose. There's no punchline to it, so you might as well remove it. It's not there to be part of the joke, it's just a quick wink to normalize. If they wanted to make a satire of PC and give the second panel a reasonable purpose, they could have made the fourth panel, "the reason the species is going extinct" because the gryphin is actually a man, or because he believes 'gender is a spectrum' . Instead we get: "because these days men prefer to fornicate with something other than a giant bird Heh?"

Any further questions?


 No.1017282

>>1017196

If the character is a shittily written female who's basically just a female looking male, it can't be SJW.


 No.1017293

>>1017281

Gryphons are only half eagle and lion. Why make the gryphon a human man combo too?


 No.1017295

>>1017281

So much talking for some shit noone watches. Except you fat fucks who watch it to get mad about SJWism. The jews do something right with that clever marketing.


 No.1017297

>>1017195

>>1017295

I really wish this board had id's.


 No.1017301

>>1017196

You've never heard Anita et al complain relentlessly about men with boobs?


 No.1017302

>>1017297

Me too, but sometimes it's pretty easy to see who posting and where.

- We have atleast one retarded mobile poster who leaving bigger gaps than the freaking Grand Canyon.

- A /leftypol/ poster going apeshit everytimes someone disagree with his taste (it took him 1 and half year to leave behind /leftypol/ slangs).

- A sandnigger who every third month trying to prove how Miss marvel is good and not a below avarange trash.

- And minimum 2 /tv/ poster pretend to be /pol/, but constantly using the slangs from /tv/

I think there are around 5 or 7 poster who are really here to do meaningful discussion or just chill. I personally there for those guys. Threads like the Death of Superman is reason why the shitposters will never won.


 No.1017305

>>1017300

Says you, but then it has too much women or niggers in it and you're like "Oh booohooo pls stop talking about it OH NOES I'm gonna get raped or something!"


 No.1017308

>>1017302

Don't forget about the fag who keeps bumping dead threads every few days.

>>1017304

Thanks to that asshole you can't discuss how different things were in that past and if you felt it was better than what happened in the future without him showing up, which was probably his goal.


 No.1017327

File: 52f9a3f7b61695f⋯.png (202.03 KB, 778x1000, 389:500, 385020b17e44cbb93b9f57665b….png)


 No.1017337

>>1017327

Why does she have two rows of teeth?

>>1017297

As one of the two people you replied to, I can vouch they're different people.

But since there's no way to really confirm what I'm saying here (it's not hard to mess with a page source or edit a screenshot) I guess you can assume I'm lying anyway.


 No.1017339

File: 16d1bf48cab1225⋯.jpg (213.28 KB, 1280x720, 16:9, bean teeth.jpg)

>>1017337

Because the show's artstyle is crap.


 No.1017345

>>1016886

Keep talking like that and it might come true.


 No.1017350

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>1017337

I just checked the famous buck-toothed characters in animation (except the Angry Beavers) and they all had the buck teeth be part of the normal row when speaking so it doesn't look weird.

I also wanted to say I'm up to the 7th episode and it's really boring. The show is so slow-paced that none of the jokes land. Even the psychedelic sequence was boring. This show is very inconsistent with its own mythos since you would expect people would be using magic much more in their daily lives (or wage a war against it like in Diablo). I might say they use it for the sake of jokes, but what jokes?


 No.1017353

>>1017350

Prepare for the incredibly predictable to see where it's going final 3 episodes of the season. You'll either be asleep or completely tune out because you'll know beat for beat exactly whats going to happen


 No.1017359

>Watch 2 episodes

>There's a joke about hating race mixing

>/co/ doesn't notice because their too busy bitching about a show they don't watch

This show is based.


 No.1017362

File: bad474f229cb665⋯.jpg (224.81 KB, 700x700, 1:1, 1284772891.grandpandaman_a….jpg)

>>997140

>when a cliche has been subverted so many times that the subversion is now cliche.

D'oh. File next to "God is actually evil instead of good" and "haha it's like fairy tales but DARK and TWISTED (unaware of how grim Grimm's could be)"


 No.1017366

Holy hell, I just realized how much better the show would be if the personalities were mostly reversed.

If Bean was the naive one (that only gets saved from marriage by Lucy's discouragement) her character would actually have development. Imagine if she was mindlessly following her family's wishes until the wedding and then decided to rebel. The rebellious teenager is a relatable character. Then each episode would be HER discovering the depraved side of Dreamland much to the audience's mutual surprise. This would be the beginnings of a hero if she loses her innocence.

If Elfo's banishment from the Keebler Elf kingdom was punishment instead of the hanging, it would give his small stature an appropriate sense of terror about the outside world. He would rush on purpose to the nearest sign of order which would be Dreamland, so he would have an actual reason to be there instead of wandering there by accident. He would be resentful of his banishment until he meets Lucy, who mistakes him for the prince. It turns out Lucy was commissioned by demonic cultists to stop the marriage of Bean to the prince (for political gain), but gave Lucy very little clue as to what to do, and Lucy is a very ignorant demon in general.

So Elfo suggests Lucy find the biggest "tree" in the village which is where important events are. They sneak in due to their small statue (Elfo tags along because he's nervous in this new place) and Elfo immediately spots the wedding cake. He tastes a taste of home while Lucy hunts for the prince. He stumbles into Bean's chamber and she is trying to suppress her feelings about the wedding. Lucy tries asking Bean about the whereabouts of the prince but Bean takes his probing questions as a profound questioning about her pampered lifestyle.

Eventually she thanks Lucy for the talk and decides to do the first rebellious thing in her life and refuse to marry the prince. But the king and his guards drag her out before she can take off the gown and everyone rushes into the cathedral for the main event.

Bean is being led down the isle, she whispers to her father that she needs to talk. Her father reminds her of the importance of the marriage to the kingdom, and she tries interrupting him. Meanwhile, Lucy is stalking the prince already at the altar with a dagger, but a member of the crowd spots Elfo having eaten the cake and screams, pointing at him. Everyone stops and the King yells at the guards to get the elf. In the commotion, Lucy's outstretched dagger gets knocked out of his hand and is stuck to the trapdoor lever. He tries pulling the dagger out just as Elfo hides under Bean's dress and the lever is pulled when Lucy pulls the dagger out. This causes the wedding rug over the trapdoor (established earlier in the episode as being used and covered up with the rug) to fall through the door along with Bean, Elfo and Lucy (after staggering back onto the rug when he pulled the dagger out forcefully). Bean grabs and slides down the absurdly long carpet with the other characters as it drapes down just over the water like a bungee cord.

The characters dangle close to the water. Elfo asks what happened. Lucy first expresses disappointment, but then they all see the to-be prince falling down, proclaiming that he will save her but instead falls at a lethal speed into the water. Bean then replies that Lucy saved her from that marriage. The trio drop onto the floating cake table below and ride the waves to shore to begin a new life of freedom.

This creates a much better character dynamic. Bean is the newly-rebellious teenager that is pampered, naive but enjoys new experiences. Elfo is the rebellious troublemaker with a good heart. Lucy is the devil that tries being a bad influence but his plans always go awry due to his ignorance and bad luck. They're all ignorant of the world and as such get into lots of misadventures. Sounds more funny?


 No.1017367

>>1017366

Continued…

Bean would approach every situation in Dreamland with the kind of idealized naivete that being born into royalty would bring, leading to lots of awkward situations with the downtrodden peasants. Her default approach is optimism.

Elfo would approach every situation in Dreamland as being ready to fight or flee due to the world being much grimmer and uglier than his homeland. His default approach is pessimism.

Lucy would approach every situation in Dreamland as an opportunist, compelled by his demon nature to sow misery and sin wherever he goes. But his frustration due to every attempt accidentally making things better (due to how crappy the world already is) drives him to stick around with the other two since only they seem to get that he's a demon so at least he feels some respect there.


 No.1017377

>>1017359

let me direct you to the niggerposter post asking for the source:

>>1017195


 No.1017389

File: cab77b88d2a8c34⋯.jpg (18.73 KB, 200x255, 40:51, all that shit by you.jpg)

>>1017366

Anon I think you've wasted too much of your life on this show. /pol/ faggotry aside, it's just incredibly bland and has no teeth. I think it got on netflix because that was literally the only platform where it could make money as netflix is trying for a "throw it against the wall and see what sticks" method; Groening got his paycheck and netflix has another "original" series.


 No.1017393

File: ccdcbceccdf6d48⋯.png (89.22 KB, 960x539, 960:539, 17553821_1641850569162631_….png)

>>1017295

>>1017305

Go away, Red Brigade.


 No.1017415

>>1017366

>>1017367

Congratulations, you've put more thought into the characters than anyone working on the show ever did.


 No.1017419

>>1017415

I felt like Groening thought "people like Bender, so let's have two Benders, the drunken irresponsible Bender and the evil Bender!" Then he made Elfo the ugly unlikeable Fry to have a crush on Bean despite her having no redeeming qualities. Also the king is Mr. Panucci.


 No.1017422

File: 3c7571b9f34e207⋯.png (204.71 KB, 609x342, 203:114, you're hideous.png)

>>1017419

Bean is just a younger Leela. If Leela were more into drinking. Throughout the show you'll have the pleasure of seeing her develop from a Mary Sue into a strong, confident self assured, smug Mary Sue. What joy!


 No.1017437

>>1017422

Leela is a much better character than Bean. Leela is ambitious, takes her responsibilities seriously and despite her intellect can still be romantic and kind.

Bean is just a drunken irresponsible teenager that's only good at killing by mostly accident.


 No.1017516


 No.1017544

File: 2efc4309811491e⋯.jpg (89.57 KB, 680x884, 10:13, aqua.jpg)

Reminder that Japan did the whole fantasy parody much better.


 No.1017557


 No.1017559

File: 731b92714fb95d7⋯.jpg (218.33 KB, 1024x576, 16:9, poor aqua.jpg)


 No.1017959

>>1017054

>dykefags are cucks

Not a surprise. You need to be one to advocate ending your lineage.

>>1017389

>>1017516

>>1017359

reddit/leftypol posters found.


 No.1018103

Frankly, watching this show just makes me wish i was watching Futurama, since all this show really wants to be is just a subversion of it. Elfo is like a soyboy version of Fry, the little devil thing is suppose to be bender, i think, but him and the princess are just fucking bland, and why they brought Lisa into the show i have no idea.


 No.1018456

File: 900555e46c1aa35⋯.png (52 KB, 408x570, 68:95, gobtepipic.png)

>>1017544

Should've posted Dungeon Meshi or Goblin Slayer


 No.1018758

>>1016680

I remember hearing that some FOX executive found some life in hell comics in some shitty L.A Bar, asked the bartender who made those comics, and the bartender said "It's that guy over there".

It's obviously bullshit as I can't find any source on it but I do know that some fox executive did find those comics funny.




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