#i still need to watch the reboot

[bitterlybisexualbard]

Roswell (1999) is honestly such an underappreciated show these days

This shit had:

Couples that actually had chemistry

A mysterious male protagonist who is ACTUALLY SWEET AS FUCK AND NOT A FUCKING CREEP. Honestly, Max Evans proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that a male romantic lead can be attractive and compelling without being toxic and ‘damaged’

Teens doing stupid, realistic teen shit in an appalling attempt to keep aliens a secret

Cops as the antagonist the ENTIRE way through (minus the literally one good cop who has a redemption arc and basically only stays in the job so he can cover up their shit and is universally mocked and looked down on by other cops)

Reincarnation/soulmate trope where those involved turn around and say “no thanks. I’m in love with this person right here and destiny can fuck itself”

HEALTHY COMMUNICATION!!! Like, not at all times, but waaaaaaay more than we tend to get in media even now, especially teen media. These kids actually talk to each other when they have an issue the majority of the time and soooooo many misunderstandings are cut off at the knees by it. And they RESPECT EACH OTHERS BOUNDARIES!

Entirely non-romantic friendships between guys and girls. Like, not even the hint of a crush

A killer title sequence that i’ve literally watched on its own before

My boy Michael, who is the most pitiful, assholish, adorable example of a Poor Little Meow Meow ever to avoid reaching tumblr sexy man status. This man stood outside the window of the girl he had a thing for in the pouring rain and gave her puppy dog eyes until she let him in, dried him off and spooned him all night while he cried himself to sleep

Disclaimer: it was made in 1999 for a teen audience and so is just as white and straight as most other iconic tv shows of the era

[empress-carmilla]

Bang ;D

bang :)

[lauronk]

10 favorite tv shows

thank you for the tags @ameerawrites and @jessthebaker

okay this was kind of a struggle because my partner and i don't really watch tv anymore, we practically live on youtube. but in no particular order after lots of googling "popular tv shows" to remember wtf i used to watch...

also hopefully these all gif properly i never know if it's gonna work lol (they did not gif properly, i will try to fix later lol) ((i fixed!))

[zodiac-keeper]

After school Hanako makes me sorta excited for the reboot, the animation had more movement and felt more flowy. Honestly if they animate the actual anime like that I’ll be pretty stoked.

[guardbo]

Seeing ppl say parkour civ is better than pvp civ makes me want to vomit

[rigginsstreet]

The saved by the bell reboot was one of the only ones to actually like…get it… and yall let it flop

[hydrasaura]

now that i think abt it, looking back, srmthfg did a lot of stuff that i liked so much, let’s say regarding the main character. I find Chiro’s case so interesting because despite the fact that he is never given any backstory whatsoever, he becomes meaningful through his actions and becomes established and distinguished through his interactions with others. I think he is such a likeable character but not in the way that he’s perfect, he has his flaws and fears that he overcomes or struggles with. He is shown multiple times being kind towards others, even towards hideous creatures or animals (i mean it would be ironic for him to hate animals given that he lives with monkeys) which at the time was like such a breath of fresh air for me. Also the way characters constantly belittle/make fun of him for hanging out with animals and he just pretty much tells all of them to f off which is great. The majority of times the villains aren’t even naturally evil but corrupted by the evil force and the main characters recognize that and try to help as much as they can. Another thing that i like abt Chiro is that he’s supposed to be ‘’the chosen one’’ but he isn’t overpowered, he has several established moves which he uses throughout the show or improves and that’s it. and he loses, A LOT. Like there’s this great accent placed on the fact that they are a team and on how they are constantly saving each other.

AND GOD let me tell you, i dislike mechs, among all animals primates and monkeys are my least favorite and yet this show has somehow managed to make me love BOTH. The way they made me care so deeply abt each freaking technicolor monkey, about this pink mary-sue-ish robot-girl, and about that plain-ass looking super robot is INSANE. The writer somehow managed to give them so much personality. When Antauri [redacted] I was literally not okay for several weeks. I related to Gibson so much and his beef with Sprx was so fun and his relationship with Otto so nice. Nova was badass and funny and i loved the big sister kind of relationship she had with Chiro. I can’t even chose a fave out of the monkeys because they complemented each other so well. Jinmay seemed sorta boring at first but the fact that she was a robot made everything so much more interesting, i absolutely loved all the times when they would pit her against the heroes. I also loved that she was established from the beginning and kept being a recurring character even becoming a member of the team but not in the way that it would break the team’s mojo. The super-robot was so plain but the way they constantly showed us it was sentient was so eerie. AND god the villains where compelling, terrifying and idk felt like a constant looming threat. Idk maybe it’s nostalgia speaking but this show had so much shit that somehow newer shows/anime constantly miss and it makes me sad when i remember how it ended and how it has been literally forgotten by everyone. Sometimes i think it’s a fever dream because nobody ever mentions it, not even when they are talking abt ‘‘forgotten shows’‘ :’)))

[writebackatya]

I LOVE YOU ANTHOLOGY MOVIES AND TV EPISODES

I LOVE HAVING MULTIPLE SHORT STORIES TOLD TO ME

[oh-meow-swirls]

honestly still in awe over the fact that we finally got something??? like. 3 came out in america in 2018. and 4 came out in japan. this is the first piece of new yo-kai content (excluding puni puni and the anime. and 1 for smartphone. and china getting 4) in almost five years. and of course it had to be while i'm sick and don't have the mental capacity to articulate my emotions-

[willowcrowned]

Why would they reboot twilight pls say sike

because twilight is fantastic reboot material. you cannot fuck it up in a way that matters

[pupgzut]

im so sad didn't get the experience of being a xmen fan in the 70 up to the 2000's, it was the golden era, the moment to be a fan

the latest xmen movies are just not good ... ( days of future past is okay but dark phoenix is a huge no ) and there is no very active fandom like for others marvel superheroes

[princekirijo]

Feeling like completely revamping my Spidersona lore. Specifically the dimension that he lives in, I think its time I went wild and really lean into the whole demon thing

[trans-leek-cookie]

My comprehensive knowledge of animes made to promote early 2000s games

Pokemon: fuckin go Pikachu. We save the legendaries for movies mostly and they will make you cry

Digimon: god I wish frontiers was More Normal bc that shit was formative to me. Also the English theme song fucks harder than it has any reason to. I stopped watching at season 5 bc the main character didn't have goggles this isn't a joke I felt fucking betrayed

Yu-Gi-Oh: I know season 0 was nuts. Season 1 still killed you. Why. Also motorcycles happened and the game mechanics fully confuse me

Bakugan: I know nothing about this but the fact the phrase "split personality" comes up is driving me nuts

Beyblade: literally had to look up if a beyblade anime existed and fucking 2017???

[katyspersonal]

Movies should return to looking like cheap theatre plays

I feel like the biggest problem with the decline of quality of the movies is capitalism. I mean, obviously, but I just want to talk about it a bit. The huge problem with the movies is that they cannot be treated like a usual job; a company that creates them HAS to show the positive dynamics in profiting - more money with every next year. So they can convince their investors to stay and still pay them. Because otherwise they might not have enough money to MAKE more movies!

That’s why the quality of the products is dropping - to lessen the production costs. That’s why you often can see the case of ‘but this is a completely original story, it did not NEED the name of [popular brand] to be attached to it’ - to sell more tickets, because investors decided that original concept would not bring as much money (the recent animated movie about Buzz Lightyear off the top of my head. Same with endless reboots that are so tone-deaf to the original it’d be more honest to just make new universe and characters entirely.

Like... in a way, making movies is just a job like others. It is entertainment at least, education at most. Except it isn’t because people that make the movies cannot simply earn stable amount of money every year or god forbid earn less than the previous year. Studies just have to violate beloved and classic franchises and violate the art as a concept just to keep existing- I mean, Disney is the quickest examples of severe decline in quality I can recall. And like, I still think nerfing Strange World with a complete absence of advertising had to be a planned sabotage. Like a somewhat expensive way to gaslight people that ‘hey, you see, new and original universes do not sell well, we constantly make reboots or force [brand] into irrelevant stories not because we want to, but because people ONLY buy that :)))))))’

And like? The alternative is if government was to fund the movies (kind of the case in my country). And that, of course, means heavy censorship and involving propaganda of the ideas that the government wants to spread, so yet again, movies cannot be a truly free form of art.

I do not really see any legit way to escape the loop of movies being very troubled as art, because people need money to make them. If investors pay for them - they’ll be garbage and constantly torment popular brands with whatever they think is cool these days instead of telling original and interesting stories, if government pays for them - they’ll be infected with propaganda and only “approved” ideas and stories will make it through.

The only at least somewhat optimistic way out I personally see is to drop the visual quality bar very low. Like... to come back to shitty cameras, environments made out of tinfoil and wallpaper (seeing this in Star Trek TOS), very shitty low polygon CGI... all that. Because it will cut the production costs a LOT but crappy visual quality will NOT be able to ruin the good story, interesting concepts and well-written characters that’s what. The worst crappy visuals will do is to create a lot of memes in the internet - and that is even GOOD because it can draw a lot of attention. Investment of simple rich guys that want to be even richer feels like lesser evil when it comes to the movies than government funding because of lacking censorship and propaganda; companies and individual studios can do whatever they want as long as it will bring STONKS! Art must be free in expression and what it wants to tell.

But the visuals at this rate feel like a useless leech because people need to justify before the investors that the astronomical money they’ll give will pay off. And why they’re astronomical? Right, because they need the most realistic CGI and the coolest assets.

I just... I think most people can agree that ‘pretty picture’ is not only not everything there is, but also the lowest priority. People would, in fact, look at awful animation or crappy effects as long as they are being told exciting, meaningful, or simply fun story. Basically, what is making movies worse is the same shit that puts even us, simple visual artists and writers, into lasting creative block; once a masterpiece is created, it raises the bar to this level, so now everything else has to be not worse, preferably better, but it is not EVERY time a masterpiece can be created. If anything, it might be once in a lifetime deal.

TLDR; I think movies should return to looking crappy so the original, interesting, eccentric ideas do not scare the investors away with demanding too much money, because at least this way new stories will more likely see the light. And won’t have to cheat by just slapping names of a previously known brand over completely unique and new story that we’re all sick of. Visual quality is just the lowest priority, so if something to cut production costs it can only be this.

[poptartmochi]

i think that i will never be able to rid myself of Magdalena, despite my disdain for her source material, because she's just such a fun little inversion character 🤧

[tarraxahum]

Was saying for a while now that Speed is very much neurodivergent (dare I say autistic) and the movie especially went for that pretty directly, but my fucking god I did not remember they literally had a bully call him an r-word and immediately get punched in the face for that