Is anyone watching this? I just started it a few nights ago and am halfway through and while watching it, it's a hard thing to describe for me; I'm liking this and hating this at the same time. I've never seen the original show, Go Lions!, which was heavily edited into the show we in the States know as Voltron, which I have seen, but this new show and the old show share a remarkable coincidence for me because for both shows, while I'm watching it, I realize there's some potentially good stuff here that's hindered by the, well, awful all around it.
The writing is really spotty (rushed is an understatement) and the animation is that "mock-anime" that's kinda been building in the US for some time that I really can't abide by. Not because it's aping the style but because it does it as a naive attempt at flattery through imitation. It will take all the crazy, "kawaii" reactions and expressions but skimp on finesse and polish on the animation and character building that even the worst of anime has.
I know it's a remake of the show "Voltron" and not of Go Lions but if they're gonna build a new show from an old show, that was a mad reworking of another old show, then at least try to make it stand out from the old iteration. As it is, I can't help but find it just as equally flawed as the old edited show, which says a lot to the new one. They even have the intelligent mice which is just as lame as the old show.
I give it this, there are really cool moments of animation when it comes to some of the action sequences. However, it all feels so... undeserved, if that makes sense. I feel like the show hasn't set itself up properly to warrant this level of quality when it gets to it. It's almost as if the whole series was based on a few select key sequences that the show-runners thought up first and then proceeded to build everything around it from there on.
This kinda effort seen in action cartoons makes me all the more sad that Tron: Uprising and Sym-Bionic Titan (also rife with stupid but excelled in later episodes) were canned. Both shows really had incredible visuals and the never pandered or talked down to the audience it was intended for.
Ho hum. Here's hoping the return of Samurai Jack shows them how to do it.
The writing is really spotty (rushed is an understatement) and the animation is that "mock-anime" that's kinda been building in the US for some time that I really can't abide by. Not because it's aping the style but because it does it as a naive attempt at flattery through imitation. It will take all the crazy, "kawaii" reactions and expressions but skimp on finesse and polish on the animation and character building that even the worst of anime has.
I know it's a remake of the show "Voltron" and not of Go Lions but if they're gonna build a new show from an old show, that was a mad reworking of another old show, then at least try to make it stand out from the old iteration. As it is, I can't help but find it just as equally flawed as the old edited show, which says a lot to the new one. They even have the intelligent mice which is just as lame as the old show.
I give it this, there are really cool moments of animation when it comes to some of the action sequences. However, it all feels so... undeserved, if that makes sense. I feel like the show hasn't set itself up properly to warrant this level of quality when it gets to it. It's almost as if the whole series was based on a few select key sequences that the show-runners thought up first and then proceeded to build everything around it from there on.
This kinda effort seen in action cartoons makes me all the more sad that Tron: Uprising and Sym-Bionic Titan (also rife with stupid but excelled in later episodes) were canned. Both shows really had incredible visuals and the never pandered or talked down to the audience it was intended for.
Ho hum. Here's hoping the return of Samurai Jack shows them how to do it.
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