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....which I know most of you don't; so I'm wondering why you're reading this....
Anyhoo; a friend sent me this:
Gundam Sousei Manga - Read Gundam Sousei manga scans online.
It's a fictionalized account of how the original Gundam series was done, and what the crew had to go through to get it on the air.
I've always wondered if we could do something like this here; not neccessarily the giant robot thing, but a dramatic animated series. One that catches on. We've come close, but nothing ever seems to stick. Ours are usually peppered with gratuitous sex and violence, (like the Spawn cartoon) or end up going too far the OTHER way and not carrying things through to a resolution that resonates with grownups. (like Batman:TAS.)
I think we've got a few things working against us. You'd need high quality animation, which is expensive, which you're not gonna get funding for without sponsorship, and the best sponsors are toy companies, so they 'aint gonna fund something not aimed at kids. Catch 22. (Invasion: America suffered from this; it LOOKED like a kids cartoon so a lot of people assumed it was.) You'd also have a problem with the audience. They'd want an established character, but appropriating one from comics, books, or video games means sticking to THAT continuity; and most perpetual stories CAN'T have consequence. You'd have to ease the viewers into something new, and there'd be a temptation to make it like something already established. (Like how "Heroes" was similar to the X-Men.) But as soon as you do that, you're gonna be held to those conventions, which is probably gonna hamstring you as much as using an established character. Catch 22.
It's a helluva catch, that Catch 22.
Don C.
Anyhoo; a friend sent me this:
Gundam Sousei Manga - Read Gundam Sousei manga scans online.
It's a fictionalized account of how the original Gundam series was done, and what the crew had to go through to get it on the air.
I've always wondered if we could do something like this here; not neccessarily the giant robot thing, but a dramatic animated series. One that catches on. We've come close, but nothing ever seems to stick. Ours are usually peppered with gratuitous sex and violence, (like the Spawn cartoon) or end up going too far the OTHER way and not carrying things through to a resolution that resonates with grownups. (like Batman:TAS.)
I think we've got a few things working against us. You'd need high quality animation, which is expensive, which you're not gonna get funding for without sponsorship, and the best sponsors are toy companies, so they 'aint gonna fund something not aimed at kids. Catch 22. (Invasion: America suffered from this; it LOOKED like a kids cartoon so a lot of people assumed it was.) You'd also have a problem with the audience. They'd want an established character, but appropriating one from comics, books, or video games means sticking to THAT continuity; and most perpetual stories CAN'T have consequence. You'd have to ease the viewers into something new, and there'd be a temptation to make it like something already established. (Like how "Heroes" was similar to the X-Men.) But as soon as you do that, you're gonna be held to those conventions, which is probably gonna hamstring you as much as using an established character. Catch 22.
It's a helluva catch, that Catch 22.
Don C.