IGN Top 100 Animated Series

Re: IGN Top 100 Animated Series

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:08:04 GMT

I liked both. I don't see why it should be paradoxical to. FO told me the typical internet complaint is that the cartoon wasn't close enough to the movie, but come on! It makes sense that in a movie, you're gonna focus more on more normal characters to establish the world and tell a story, but in a cartoon, where unusual stuff is more accepted and expected, you're not gonna focus more on the weird cartoonish ghost?

I think my sister liked both, too. At least she...

Re: IGN Top 100 Animated Series

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:38:47 GMT

I actually liked the Beetlejuice cartoon more than the movie.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:28:26 GMT

Flying Omelette wrote:

The beginning of G1 is a little slow, too, but not as slow as Dragon Ball Z, which is sometimes touted as being the greatest action cartoon ever.

Dragonball Z was slow. Transformers might have taken a little time to peak, but I'm not sure what someone would think of in terms of it being "slow".

Re: IGN Top 100 Animated Series

feeds@yuku.com (greybob) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:20:11 GMT

Flying Omelette wrote:
They also snubbed the Beetlejuice cartoon, even though it had a 65 episode syndicated run and at least 2 seasons on Saturday mornings, too. As much as the internet seems to hate that cartoon now, there must have been somebody who liked it. (Me, for one.)

Screw the internet, that show was awesome! >:( Did you know Tim Burton himself wrote a few of the episodes?
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Re: IGN Top 100 Animated Series

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:10:51 GMT

Now, Beast Wars, I WAS able to get into on my own, but I admit the beginning episodes were a little slow.

The beginning of G1 is a little slow, too, but not as slow as Dragon Ball Z, which is sometimes touted as being the greatest action cartoon ever.

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feeds@yuku.com (TWEETER911) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:21:08 GMT

Beast Wars beats the pants off of original Transformers for me.

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feeds@yuku.com (sethrashnoo) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:01:27 GMT

The few times I tried watching (the original) Transformers or GI Joe, I was bored out of my skull. I don't know what the deal with GI Joe was, but with Transformers it's possible that it was because I only saw the post-Optimus Prime episodes.

Now, Beast Wars, I WAS able to get into on my own, but I admit the beginning episodes were a little slow. But that's still no excuse for leaving it off. ReBoot was just the opposite - it started out good, but got ruined in the third...

Re: IGN Top 100 Animated Series

feeds@yuku.com (honestgamer) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:55:36 GMT

For me, Transformers never had anything more going for it than the fact that there were big robots and lasers. I didn't really care much about the former, and there was more than enough of the latter in nearly every episode of G.I. Joe. Now that I'm older, I'm able to watch and enjoy the G.I. Joe episodes all over again. They definitely have a terrific sense of humor and there's some great fantasy to them. A lot of it is mystical, so I'd agree that the show isn't more...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:10:43 GMT

Isn't Devastator a 6 Constructicon combiner only in Generation 1? I think that would bias me against all the other series.

Re: IGN Top 100 Animated Series

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:08:43 GMT

well, it's from the director of the Mummy movies, Van Helsing, and the live-action Jungle Book. Yeah...

My mother and another family member rented the live action Jungle Book years ago, right around the same time they rented Paulie. I don't remember jack squat about the Jungle Book now, but I do remember telling them I wasn't going to watch movies with them anymore because they always rented things that were

Re: IGN Top 100 Animated Series

feeds@yuku.com (greybob) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:27:30 GMT

If you had any doubts that the G I Joe movie would be any good or not... well, it's from the director of the Mummy movies, Van Helsing, and the live-action Jungle Book. Yeah...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:19:40 GMT

And the whole Cobra Gym scene. O_o And especially that guy that's the head of it who calls them "Spoilsports".

Maybe it really is a great show after all...

Re: IGN Top 100 Animated Series

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:07:20 GMT

I knew a kid who was a GI Joe fan and had a lot of the toys, including a Cobra playset -- I think it was this one -- and I do have to admit it was pretty cool.

But boy was the show stupid. There was one that actually was based on making