I vectorized it earlier today for great lulz. Looking at it now, I'm beginning to notice more and more errors on it, though. Bah.
Still, a halloween episode might just prove interesting.
Watched the first couple of episodes.
It's not bad; certainly a level or two higher than most crappy kids' shows. At the same time, it's not particularly good or special, either.
It's a competently made cartoon for little kids that doesn't suck. But just because it's not horrible doesn't automatically make it worthwhile. There's just not enough content, action, or humor for me to call it particularly entertaining, let alone good.
It's fine for the kiddies, and if I had a 6 year old daughter, I would probably be happy that she liked it. But there's not much content for those in the 13+ year old age range.
Most Western cartoons I watched and liked as a kid turned out to be horrible shit when I re-watched them when I became older, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Even so, a few of the things I watched that stood up to later viewing, like "Conan the Adventurer" or "Pinky and the Brain" are at least a little bit better than "My Little Ponies". So even among the genre of "Western cartoons for little kids", I don't think it's the absolute best.
Only part of that compilation video i did not recognize was the nose picking part, any idea what that's from? Pinky Core is awesome, though. I'll get around to today's episode at some point.
Also, cause I feel like adding something to the thread, found this neat remix after a minute's work.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/409176
Only part of that compilation video i did not recognize was the nose picking part, any idea what that's from? Pinky Core is awesome, though. I'll get around to today's episode at some point.
Could you give a timestamp? I don't feel like watching the whole video over for just that part.
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Funny I just made a gif on that yesterday. Fluttershy picking her nose right? Episode 20 "Green Isn't Your Color" - 17:35
[URL=http://imgur.com/1PyNQ]GIF[/URL]
Funny I just made a gif on that yesterday. Fluttershy picking her nose right? Episode 20 "Green Isn't Your Color" - 17:35
[URL=http://imgur.com/1PyNQ]GIF[/URL]
Your .gifs look pretty good, What method do you use?
I usually open the episodes in VDub and use that to export .gifs, and edit them in GIMP. I wonder if there's a better way.
Your .gifs look pretty good, What method do you use?
I usually open the episodes in VDub and use that to export .gifs, and edit them in GIMP. I wonder if there's a better way.
I go thru long steps, and I think it isn't best. I wish there's easier way.
1. Open episode with buggy vdubmod (I think it's only way to open video thru DirectShowSource support - I use Virtualdub-fr 1.5.10.3)
2. Set Videos -> Frame Rate -> Process every other frame
3. Use mouse or arrow key to get to specific region to make gif of. (Don't press play, or it crashes vdubmod)
4. Use start and end marker (HOME and END keys), make sure few seconds away from area you wanted to capture.
5. Add filters.. Video -> Filters... Null Transform and Resize (I hope you know how to use these?)
6. File -> Save Image Sequence.. save as PNG (I name folder vdubdump)
7. Look in image dump folder, delete unwanted pics
8. Use EASY GRAPHIC CONVERTER 1.2, open that folder and convert (I name folder EZGC)
9. Use UnFREEz 2.1, open your folder with pics converted with Easy Graphic Converter, select-all, drag and drop into UnFREEz, press make GIF
10. Get GAP plugin for GIMP - Open gif with GIMP, Filters -> Animation -> optimize for GIF then save as gif (do 3x for max compress)
I cant find better way to compress gif.
But there's not much content for those in the 13+ year old age range.
They disagree with you.
Actually, most don't. However, even if you were correct about the numbers, I've always considered the populist argument really goddamn stupid. Lots of people love Twilight, at least ten times more than those that like MLP; are those suddenly great books and movies according to you, Warp?
Argue the actual merits of the show, not the lame "lots of other people like it" fallacy.
Anywho, I watched the first three episodes, and despite the show being pretty average, I probably would have given it a few more shots, except for two things;
1. The really heavy-handed moralizing at the end of each episode. Nothing wrong with teaching kids a lesson, but it's way too long and repetitive, and often not a very good lesson, either.
2. Related to that, the outpouring of emotion, especially near the end of each episode is just way too much. They pour it on way too thick, purposely cranking the histrionics up to 11.
This is a very common, cheap, and frankly manipulative trick to use with kids. (Since it's much easier to rile up their emotions and elicit sadness from them than it would be for adults) As Ferret Warlord rightly noted, the end of episode 2 is probably the worst example of this, but I saw it during the end of episode 3, too.
Overall, it's an above-average childrens' cartoon show that is decidedly average by adult standards, with several very annoying elements.
Better than I expected at first glance, but nowhere near good enough to actually keep watching.
1. The really heavy-handed moralizing at the end of each episode. Nothing wrong with teaching kids a lesson, but it's way too long and repetitive, and often not a very good lesson, either.
They tend to take less than a minute to wrap everything up, including Twilight's letter to Princess Celestia.
IronSlayer wrote:
2. Related to that, the outpouring of emotion, especially near the end of each episode is just way too much. They pour it on way too thick, purposely cranking the histrionics up to 11.
The "outpour of emotion" you're talking about was only because they just defeated a threat to their world: Nightmare Moon. It isn't usually like that.
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But there's not much content for those in the 13+ year old age range.
They disagree with you.
Actually, most don't. However, even if you were correct about the numbers, I've always considered the populist argument really goddamn stupid.
The "populist argument" as you call it (with which you probably mean "argument from popularity", which I think is not the same thing) isn't actually stupid in this case.
You didn't say "this show is not very good" to which I replied "most people disagree with you". You said "there's not much content for a certain age range". If that were true, then not many people from that age range would watch the show. Quite many do, which means there is some content there that they like. (After all, there are hundreds if not even thousands of kids programs playing currently around the world, and the vast majority is not followed by any significant number of teenagers nor adults. This show is. There must be something different about it.)
Lots of people love Twilight, at least ten times more than those that like MLP; are those suddenly great books and movies according to you, Warp?
You didn't say anything about quality, only about content (that appeals to people). That's what I was replying to.
(And I have a confession to make: I have watched all three movies and didn't find them bad. They might appeal to womanly fantasies, but I think they were pretty good otherwise too.)
Argue the actual merits of the show, not the lame "lots of other people like it" fallacy.
Strong characterization, humor, emotional appeal, innocent fun. Not boring to watch. There are certainly much worse things one could be watching than this.
