Monday, October 10, 2011

Cartoon Network is GOOD again!





That's right everyone I thing that Cartoon Network (the channel that I grew up with) this back to being good with original and interesting looking shows. There are three show that they have that really brings a spark in my heart that are funny, messed up, and have really cool animation. Here's the list...

Adventure Time  
This cartoon has an interesting look to it of what seems to be an post apocalyptic aftermath world where there are candy people, vampires, rainacorns, and very weirder stuff. we follow the tale of Fin the human and Jake the dog with stretching powers go off to have righteous Adventures in the land of OOO. The art style seems to have a good fantasy element mixed with some cartoon style from a old newspaper comic. Either way the coloring just looks so right in this world and makes it look so smooth. The writing is funny, some characters like Finn would use a math term as a way to say awesome such as "Rumbas." Or they would say thing that you would expect form a group of friends just hanging out and there would be time where someones says something so messed up it funny. I like this show and it deserved to have been nominated for an Emmey. 

Regular Show 
             
This show is a little more down to earth  than most cartoon shows for kids. the main characters aren't kids that go to school there guys in their 20's that have a mediocre job at a town park. Tho there are time were at the end of an episode there would be an WTF moment due to something insignificant like a 100 in a row tie of rock, paper, scissors that cause a black hole to open that destroys everything unless the tie is broken. The art style is pretty modern which gives it that feel of a slice-of- life surrounding. they even get away with saying a few slang like Crap and Pissed off, and have a somewhat violent scene, and even uses actual 80's music like u hear on the radio. This show is perfect because it relates to my demographic then it does for there tragic audience.

The Amazing World of Gumball 
This one is a mix of Regular Show slice-of-life atmosphere with the Adventure Time color and fantasy element. in a art perspective this is brilliant. What is is this a show set into a live-action background with characters that are each a different 2D and 3D animation. This is cool because kids are getting a dozen pieces of animation for the price of one. It really cool to see these animation interact with one another, which is what this show is intending to do. Have Gumball, the little blue cat-boy have an positive or negative interaction with another character that is completely different look form him. I like this show because it gets me into a personal level where...well... it reminds me of when i was 12-years-old with my best friend, meeting new people, going to school, and have a odd family that seems to work despite of how dis-functional they seem. Great new wave of animation and a look back on my childhood.                    

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