I’ve been unironically saying this for years. Cartoons and other media for kids used to be subversive. It always pitted kids against comically absurd adults, and the kids always won, which I thought was a good message along the lines of “don’t talk to strangers”
All cartoons now are just boot licking.
Paw patrol is such a meme by now, but everything people say about it is completely true. Whoever has creative control of it is a fascist, 100%. At best they’re a bootlicking “libertarian” AKA… a fascist
I watched the first twelve segments of season 1 just to see if it was as awful as people say. I suppose that some of the themes are vaguely neofascist, like tenderness being a joke and nearly everybody being too incompetent to solve problems theirselves (preventing problems is nowhere nearly as important as solving them), but so far the most disturbing thing that I’ve seen is how the writers repeatedly demonize seagulls. Otherwise, it feels like just another long toy commercial.
I should watch more episodes, but it’s hard to when the show is so boring. I’ve been playing the episodes at 1.5 speed, something that I don’t normally do when I’m watching fiction.
The movie they made involves a very clearly gay coded black woman with blue hair and cat eye glasses being so stupid that she accidentally burns down a police station.
At one point the villain zips through space leaving a trail that is literally just the trans pride flag.
In the show the black mayor is the character who is known for being a total, absolute moron, who is constantly saved from her incompetence by the independently wealthy entrepreneur child and his private police force.
Toy commercial is right - there’s so much emphasis put on their mechs and their transformations that it feels like an ad break every time they get in. And they all have variations too like when they’re in the jungle or the ocean, so that there are more toys to sell of course.
And I’m confident that Zuma and Skye were added as vehicles first and characters second because those two never do or say anything (Skye is the obligatory girl character and is girly, but Zuma the water rescue dog has 0 character traits).
We were so hung up on whether Zootopia was turning a generation into furries, that we didn’t consider whether it was turning a generation into cop loving fascists
I love how Robin Hood (in general, not just this version) has next to no real canon. It’s all just a hodgepodge of fanon that people have collectively decided to keep or abandon to suit their particular story.
Maid Marian is Hood’s love interest? Someone just added that later and everyone rolled with it. What is she like? Up to the author.
Shit is so much cooler when copyrights arent there to fuck it up.
This is great except most Americans don’t know what a common is
also watched it recently and i agree. my partner thinks it was suppressed because it had some messaging that was incompatible with peak Cold War
and yeah i guess that was an era where the best you could hope for is a benevolent monarch. no Free Yeomen Republics or anything to be seen
I was super surprised to see that critics pan it on rotten tomatoes 58%, my ass.
It’s kind of a mixed bag, I’ve noticed. Because on the one hand conservatives love the anti-tax messaging, but they hate the give to the poor messaging. So they don’t know what to do about it. Personally, I think that leftists have a lot learn from the story’s ability to transform criminals into heroes in the mind of the masses. If you haven’t seen Lucio, I very much recommend checking it out. Lucio Urtubia was behind the funding of a significant chunk of the leftist movements of the 20th century.
