Tag: Cartoons
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Callum: The Artistic Step-Prince (The Mind of a Character)
*Minor spoilers ahead for ‘The Dragon Prince’* When ‘The Dragon Prince’ first came out on Netflix, I didn’t pay any attention to it. I wrote it off as a generic children’s show. I’d heard that it was made by the same team behind ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’, which was mildly exciting. But after watching ‘The…
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Enter the Florpus: Zim’s Glorious Return! (Movie Monday)
Watch this movie. That is all. Goodbye. Invader Zim is a series very near and dear to my heart. Of all the Nickelodeon cartoons to ever come out, it was easily my favorite. Unfortunately, it only lasted two seasons before being taken off the air, leaving a hole in my heart for as long as…
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Ruby Rose: The Hollow Archetype (The Mind of a Character)
Up to this point, I’ve analyzed characters that I thought were effective and well-written. But you can’t know what is good until you know what is bad. So today, I want to discuss a character that I consider to be so frustratingly written that it hurts. Ruby, the central protagonist of RWBY, is not at all a…
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Remember The Tick? (TV Thursday)
No, I’m not talking about the Amazon Prime show. No, I’m not talking about the live-action show that came before it. I’m talking about the real Tick. The original cartoon series from 1994. Which were based on the comics by Ben Edlund. All of which I still need to read. The Tick is, if you ask me,…
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Day 307: The Emperor’s Best Disney Film
Release Date: December 15th, 2000 Directed By: Mark Dindal Screenplay By: David Reynolds Running Time: 78 Minutes Everyone has their favorite Disney movie. Some people prefer the classics, like The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, or Sword in the Stone. Others prefer films from the Disney Renaissance, like the Lion King, Little Mermaid, Hercules, or Beauty…
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