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My Knight and Me: CN dumbs down one of the best animated shorts on Youtube
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph on January 19, 2017, 12:38:10 PM ---I had a short essay here but I realized that I shouldn't say in 200 words what I can say in 21.
MK&M is a full season of 29 made-for-tv episodes, each almost as long as 850M. 850M was a passion project.
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that doesn't excuse the direct-to-DVD style of animation
other 3D shows have come out with the same quality of animation as in their movie counterparts; see "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"
--- Quote from: Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph on January 19, 2017, 12:38:10 PM ---It WOULDN'T be good for their ratings. They'd be blowing their good shows all at once and people wouldn't be saying "yo cartoon network is p cool" all year-round.
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that wasn't the point of my statement
yeah shows can't be unloaded all at once but shows that doesn't mean the shows that are supposed to fill the gaps in the schedule can't be as good as the shows they're backing
see "OK KO!" and "Infinity Train"
--- Quote from: Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph on January 19, 2017, 12:38:10 PM ---i'd like to introduce you to a nickelodeon show called harvey beaks. it's great.
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I'd like to introduce you to Nickelodeon. They're not great.
RedGajin:
its...for kids
SeventhSandwich:
I reacquainted myself with modern cartoons over winter break. Can confirm this show is terrible.
--- Quote from: RedGajin on January 19, 2017, 12:57:39 PM ---its...for kids
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Kids are smarter than people give them credit for. There's a lot of really clever and smart cartoons out there, and just because the audience is young doesn't mean that kids shows have to be terrible.
Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on January 19, 2017, 12:54:17 PM ---that doesn't excuse the direct-to-DVD style of animation
other 3D shows have come out with the same quality of animation as in their movie counterparts; see "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"
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--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on January 19, 2017, 12:54:17 PM ---that wasn't the point of my statement
yeah shows can't be unloaded all at once but shows that doesn't mean the shows that are supposed to fill the gaps in the schedule can't be as good as the shows they're backing
see "OK KO!" and "Infinity Train"
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i agree that they should focus more on experimental and higher quality shows but ttg brings in a ton of money iirc. i'd imagine that the ppg reboot and mk&m do the same.
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on January 19, 2017, 01:11:04 PM ---I reacquainted myself with modern cartoons over winter break. Can confirm this show is terrible.
Kids are smarter than people give them credit for. There's a lot of really clever and smart cartoons out there, and just because the audience is young doesn't mean that kids shows have to be terrible.
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I think what RedGaijin's trying to say is that My Knight and Me seems like it's made exclusively for a younger audience and really shouldn't be held to the same standards as the for-everyone cartoons. Not RedGaijin though so I wouldn't know.
RedGajin:
--- Quote from: Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph on January 19, 2017, 01:16:54 PM ---I think what RedGaijin's trying to say is that My Knight and Me seems like it's made exclusively for a younger audience and really shouldn't be held to the same standards as the for-everyone cartoons. Not RedGaijin though so I wouldn't know.
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^^ spot on bucko
i agree that yeah, cartoons can be a lot more engaging and deep than this one appears to be, but this isnt one of those cartoons. they made the two small kids the focus of the show because, believe it or not, the show is for kids and kids relate better to other children than a 40 y/o man. op is throwing a fit about how this animation has been dumbed down and lost its credibility, but thats the point. its more child friendly, it still has the same slapstick humor, and the female character is thrown in to appeal to a wider viewer base. im sure if, given the resources, the original creator would have loved to create an entirely different show that held truer to his original animation, but thats not the case. he was given an offer by CN, a channel that makes tv shows primarily geared towards children. and lo and behold, this rendition is geared towards children.
CN is trying to make money by appealing to the majority of their viewers, not appeal to the much smaller minority of teens that devotedly follow cartoon series.