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Kidding (2018)
Eccentric and unique show
Kidding is a piece of art, an indispensable trip to anyone who has experienced their lives and their imaginations to the fullest potential.
Laugh, cry, go crazy, get mad. Work for a better world, but never forget to love yourself.
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Your World Is an Illusion (2018)
What is real, though?
Damn, that was such a great episode! It was silly but deep: filled with existencial crisis and plenty of awesome animation-related jokes lol
KO was adorable in it, that was a tough experience for our good boy, and Holojane was really inspiring. I wish I've heard that final speech of her when I took acid for the first time and had all this "is it real?" moment lol
Did anyone else feel like this episode was based on an acid trip? 'Cause it totally fit my experience lol
Adventure Time: The First Investigation (2017)
what an AWESOME episode!!
I knew this episode would be an emotional one from the moment they showed Joshua and Margaret's old office, but their whole adventure was really interesting as well!
Time Bear's quirk and the time slips, the connection with the squirrel's fear, the tape... And they ended on the highest note; that message from Finn was the cutest moment ever! Joshua: "seems like it has a crush on me too" lol
Finn is such a grown up kid now, I'm proud of him for solving all these biz in no buzz.
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: We've Got Fleas (2017)
I wasn't expecting this at all, and that's why I LOVED it!!
This episode was above amazing! It had many twists, great nonsense humor, thrilling action and an analogy to furries and equality, in general, to close with a golden key.
Their transformation scene was so sweet!! Laughed out loud with Rad and my boy KO as a puppy, he really IS such a good boy <3
The whole adventure was really fun and the ending couldn't have been any better; what a solution to an amazing story that was breaking its way from the beginning.
Boku no hîrô akademia: Time to Pick Some Names (2017)
A sweet episode, in every sense of the word.
This is one of those episodes that show how thrilling this series is; it was funny, sad, sweet and dark all together. I cried, laughed and had a roller-coaster of feelings with all the emotional moments coming from the first second.
The characters in this show are all one of a kind and to see them interacting in episodes like this makes me share feelings not only for them but also WITH them. To see Uraraka being the cutest thing ever, Aishido acting like a lot of fun as always and Deku rumbling about his worries
it's like I know all the gang personally already.
And even though they're heroes, it's so good to see them hanging out at school, teasing each other just like regular high school students do. Also, to learn about their school's legacy and their teachers past as students makes that universe even more real.
Can't wait for next week's episode, things are about to get heavy for our class president Iida
The Get Down (2016)
An inspiring story with a great mix of reality and fiction
With captivating heroes fighting for unity and real thug villains ruling the underworld, the Get Down tells the story of Hip Hop culture with all the fantasy that art can bring to real life.
It hooks you up from every side and makes you respect and admire all the other warriors who want to make peace using the unstoppable flowing energy that circulates in our body and overflows to our creations. Anything is possible if we believe in it and work hard for it.
Adventure Time: Islands Part 1: The Invitation (2017)
An episode to put the "adventure" in Adventure Time
This episode is amazing from the very beginning. The opening, adapted for the miniseries "Islands", has amazing visuals, great narrative and awesome humor, elements that keep on going throughout this episode, which was a really big one for the series.
This is such a rad mission for tons of reasons. Not only is an important quest for Finn, but possibly the most dangerous one he had face in his life so far. I'm stoked to know more about his past and I'm stoked for him learning more about his past.
Besides this amazing quest, the humor was ON POINT, some really good laughs and REALLY creative jokes that were well balanced with some touching moments. This show is so funny that sometimes I forget how deep the relations between these characters are.
As a big otaku, I felt more like I was watching an anime adventure rather than a 11 minute cartoon episode. Looking forward to see our beloved shonen hero growing up and beating some baka villains. Things are about to get real here!
Dragons: Riders of Berk: When Lightning Strikes (2012)
Dragons: Déjà Vus of Berk
Since I love the How to Train Your Dragon movies, I really wanted this series to be good, but it started really weak, with the same plot being recycled over and over for a couple of episodes. Then finally we had new stories and I thought the show was getting better, but then they decided to repeat that same old plot AGAIN in this episode.
Once more, something happens in Berk and Mildew makes everybody think it's a dragon's fault and puts the whole village against Toothless, wanting him to be kicked out of Berk. But then, again, when everything seems lost, Hiccup figures out the problem (that we all realized within 2 minutes of episode) and shows everybody it wasn't the dragon's fault, so everything is OK again in Berk for another week, until they start having the same problem again and again.
This time they even put religion in the middle of the situation, making everybody sound so silly, especially Hiccup who's always been a smart and centered guy, which makes me think he was totally out of character in this episode. I can't believe I saw him talking about Thor that way, fearing a god's power.
The universe of How to Train Your Dragon has a lot of potential to be explored and I thought that was the reason in creating a series for the franchise, but nothing makes sense when they keep repeating the same plot over inside Berk and not exploring anything. I mean, you have FLYING DRAGONS, why wouldn't you want to get out of that boring village to have some adventures? Now we are all bored here with your quests
They're just playing safe, as if they didn't want to create something cannon for the series (like villains, new dragons, etc). But in this case, what's the point of creating a series anyway?
WALL·E (2008)
Oh, man. What a movie
The most charismatic and human character of Pixar is a robot. But not any robot, this one is a brave and enthusiastic guy who does his best to survive in a huge pile of soil, from which he extracts every single speck of life available.
Wall-E shows us that there's hope for anyone and that to make life better, you just gotta believe in it and fight for your love, fight for your life, fight for your future.
When we do the wrong thing for the right reason, when we go beyond the standard people who just want to survive, that's when we're being humans and not machines. Life is an adventure and we can make it a better place, anyone can, we just gotta go out of our Auto mode and make the magic happens.
And not only that, let's never forget about love 'cause happiness is even better when shared and, again, only depends on you to make it happen. No matter who or what tries to stop you, keep it going, doing what you believe. Any seed can grow into a tree and all these rules don't apply when you're high in the sky.
Great characters with a lot of feelings and one of the most original ways to tell a story that I've seen. More than a story, this movie is a piece of art.
And screw BnL!
Dragons: Riders of Berk: Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Man (2012)
The series upped the game
Now finally! An adventure that shows us more from Berk's world and starts exploring the potential that made us love the movies. I must admit I was about to drop this series, but since I'm a huge fan of the movies franchise, I decided to give it another shot and it was totally worth it
This episode was a total upgrade up for the series, having better quality for animation, scenes, story and pretty much everything. It's not perfect and it has some monotonous and predictable situations as in the previous episodes but it also has many exciting moments, besides showing more of Hiccup's relation with his father and his urge to become a great adventurer, no matter how people see him.
After this episode, I totally wanna name my next sheep (or at least my next dog) Hiccup.
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
An interesting concept that was developed in a really confusing way
"I know that my stories tend to get a little long". A perfect definition of Kubo about himself and also about his movie.
Instead of showing us a story, Laika decided to tell them through some paper tails that happen during punctual conversations between the characters, who are just walking around through the entire movie. Their long walking is filled with random fights that make no sense and many, many parents (I counted two moms and three dads) because apparently everyone/everything in the world (and beyond it) is related to Kubo. And this boy might be really cursed because every time he finds out someone is one of his parents, the person dies.
In a sea of drama with some forced humour moments, everybody is always about to die until the last second when someone bravely saves them out of nowhere. And then, out of nowhere again, they're laughing and becoming best friends, then in the next second someone is about to die again and we repeat the cycle until they actually die. The writers were just throwing things on us and finding excuses to justify those parallel stories they wanted to tell. The justification for Kubo losing his eye? COME ON!
It is really obvious that they put way more effort into the visuals than in the story, as the characters are beautiful but really empty and senseless. The problem is that even visuals tell stories and if you have nothing to tell, the designs and backgrounds might look beautiful but they will be really blend and generic, nothing really pops up in that world, there's nothing singular about it.
The movie is called Kubo and the Two Strings and I still don't know what that instrument is and why it gives him powers or what the heck his powers are and what exactly is his mom or his dad or something
And what's their deal with death anyway? I know they wanted to show a different vision of death and mourning, but it's used in a way and intensity that seems like they are obsessed about it.
I was really stoked to watch this movie, but I'm really disappointed now. Sorry if it seems harsh, but it's just how I feel about it...
Community (2009)
A funny start, an inspiring development but a disappointing ending
When I first started this show, I was loving it SO MUCH, enjoying every character and their silly humor. All the nonsense and the cartoonization they suffered throughout the seasons reminded me a lot of Scrubs, which is my favorite show of all time. The world they built for the series is inspiring and it activated my imagination to the point the characters and that reality kept living on in my head.
But then I got to the monotonous and forced season 4 finale, that I believe it was the moment when they jumped the shark. In season 5, the show seemed superficial and not funny at all, especially with characters leaving for no reason and things coming out of nowhere, so I dropped it.
Still, Community holds a place in my heart and I'm glad for all the laughs I had with it, a great show and I'd recommend it to anyone!
Regular Show: The Ice Tape (2016)
Kinda disappointed with the writing in this show right now
I used to have fun watching Regular Show, but I didn't have much with this episode. The humor was really weak and they made it so obvious whenever a joke was coming
I feel like, during this whole season, the writers are just throwing things on our faces so everything can fit the "central plot" (that doesn't fit anything by the way). Nothing is connected, you're just watching something and then this happens out of nowhere
and then that happens
then THAT happens, and suddenly the first thing that happened is now completely irrelevant.
We're almost in the season's climax (and the Series finale) and their journey hasn't gone anywhere so far, they're just fooling around in space, opening more questions and not answering any of them. And I guess Earth is an empty place now because every old character is leaving there to appear in the show again, which makes me wonder why the writers decided to make a season in space in the first place.
South Park: Fort Collins (2016)
It feels like living in South Park
South Park was always very current but I think now they finally mastered this "6 Days to Air" thing. I totally feel like I'm watching something from this present time and kinda feel like living in South Park's universe. And I love how all episodes in this season have some vibe of old school South Park but in a more elaborate way, like Cartman's dreaming about Mars.
Also, it's amazing how they're building and connecting everything, the whole Denmark concept was so well done that I LOL every time they're singing. I love how they're playing with the elections and mocking the Star Wars movie. I gotta say they won't convince me though, I still think The Force Awakens was a great movie and has way more than what they are giving it credit for. But well, whatever, it's South Park!
South Park: Douche and a Danish (2016)
The past is only the future with lights on
I've always loved South Park from the beginning but now they've reached a new level I've never seen before. To not say that I am full of praise, I must admit that I had low expectations for this season cause last season didn't do much for me (except from a few episodes that I had a lot of fun with), but, boy, they surprised me again! Season 20 is a perfect cartoonization of our current society and their message should be listened by all this people on social media that don't realize they are acting like puppets.
At the same time that it's real and credible, it's full of ludical elements that enriches it even more as a story and a cartoon, and the way they are connecting everything is just genius. Member berries are something fictional but they make perfect sense to our world and it already became part of my speech when talking about people driven by nostalgia ("it's time to quit those member berries and focus on the future").
South Park is the proof that no matter how interesting and magic the past can seem, we should always be looking to the future to make it even better. Of course the past will seem comfortable for you because (guess what?) it happened already so everything their is bright and simple for us to understand, but on the other hand the future can be ANYTHING we want it to be. It might seem dark and scary but that's the fun part about it, all you have to do to make it brighter is to turn the idea light on you.
We should all follow Matt and Trey and stop dividing ourselves in selfish groups and focus on the future to make the world a better place!
Freaks and Geeks (1999)
A slice of life filled with nostalgia and personal reflections
Watching Freaks and Geeks was a great experience, the characters are so relatable and all their experiences are so credible that the show totally brings memories to anyone watching it, either because you were born around that time and relate to their culture or because you've lived pretty much the same routine as them while growing up. I was a geek in school until I hit adolescence and became a complete freak so I've been through both parts of the story and totally relate to them: the problems with parents, all the relations around school (friends, enemies, frenemies) and the pressure society puts behind a student. And between all that, we still have time for our crushes, (video) games, rock bands (that need a lot of practice to get somewhere, Lindsay was right) and, of course, weed breaks.
Although the story isn't so linear, having some continuity problems, it is a great debut for all the crew and I wish we would have more seasons to see everybody growing up, going to college and facing new challenges that we all have to go through in life as well.
South Park: Pinewood Derby (2009)
South Park goes global
This episode follows South Park story structures but in a global level. It's an episode for those who love the show but might find hard to relate to some of their cultural references which are inside jokes for Americans. This time you might find a reference about your country, too :)
In a funny but deep episode about life in outer space, Randy Marsh, a typical dumb American, manages to get all the world leaders together in a sticky situation, where we see what we all truly are in this world: typical dumb people.
And isn't it true? We're just a bunch of stupid nations bombing each other for political interests and a bunch of piece of paper. Maybe before try to create new relations beyond Earth, we should worry about fixing the ones we have in here already.
Come on, guys. Let's make a better world for we all! <3 (or let's just bomb Finland, whatever)
FLCL (2000)
A coming of age jam
For 3 hours, this shonen totally turned me into a teenager again. Mixing music, chicks, aliens and robots, FLCL tells a nonsense tale that makes more sense that you can imagine (does it?). Instead of what is expected from a coming of age anime, it's not an ecchi experience. Although it has some perverted moments, those are more for nonsense than for ecchi. With an amazing art and a lot of humor, the style of the show dances around the episodes perfectly setting the mood for the moments they are describing. And speaking of change of styles... they make some amazing references that are completely unexpected (when you see it, you will know it)! If you were (or still are) an indie nerd with a huge crush on riot grrrls while growing up, this is definitely your jam.
We Bare Bears (2014)
Promising... I hope.
I watched We Bare Bears Premiere yesterday and I kinda had mixed feelings about this show
It starts really well with the episode "Our Stuff", where we get to know the characters, their tics (Ice Bear FTW!) and follow them on a funny quest to get their stolen backpack back. A 10/10 debut episode with a lot of good plot twists. But then, we have the "Viral Videos" episode, that doesn't explore the characters potential and has a way more shallow plot that fails to grab your attention.
So far, it seems like the show has a whole eccentric world and a lot of possibilities to explore, but I guess the writers are still trying to find its type of humor and sometimes they end up trying way too hard to make you laugh. Even so, I believe this can turn in another big hit for Cartoon Network if the they find its formula.