‘Powerpuff Girls’ Live-Action Series - Officially Dead

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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
It is still probably worse than you think.

To Recap what I have heard.

Professor Utonium is a Black Man
Who steals Chemical X from a White Man ( Mojo)
Creates the "perfect little girls with the thing he stole"
Proceeds to be the most awful father ever, pushing his children into a life of Violence.
Makes their life of violence into a tv show for Profit..while erasing the Asian and Black Girl's skin color making them all white.
Then One of his Children Murders Mojo.

This is a special brand of absolute fuckness.
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Absolutely fucking repulsive. There's no substance to this beyond being a pretentious "WHAT IF SUPERMAN BAD" and "CHILDHOOD ROOOINED" type story, just like every other thing that tries to copy Homelander and (now) Invincible.

At least Homelander and Invincible have original characters and the writers aren't leeching off of the notoriety of a pre-existing IP.
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
The only thing that's missing are suicidal tendencies / sexual promiscuity / self loathing / drug addiction for at least one of them.
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Bubbles is all of these. She's a hollywood whore who fucks tons of guys including Brick, she does coke, and she hates herself for following Utonium's instructions to the letter.

I guess Blossom has the more apparent suicidal tendencies though since she's actively in therapy.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
I remember some failed reboots from years ago that were, at the very least, well intentioned
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The Thundercats reboot from 2011 was a pretty fair attempt, I thought. Some of the character designs/art was a little jank and it leaned more into drama than episodic adventure but it was a fair go.

It kind of reminded me of the actually succesful 90's effort to reboot Johnny Quest. That was a pretty good reboot.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
It is still probably worse than you think.

To Recap what I have heard.

Professor Utonium is a Black Man
Who steals Chemical X from a White Man ( Mojo)
Creates the "perfect little girls with the thing he stole"
Proceeds to be the most awful father ever, pushing his children into a life of Violence.
Makes their life of violence into a tv show for Profit..while erasing the Asian and Black Girl's skin color making them all white.
Then One of his Children Murders Mojo.

This is a special brand of absolute fuckness.
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They made Utonium black and a villain? When he was neither of those things in the original? TFW you're trying not to be racist, but you still manage to be more racist than a site where you're allowed to say nigger.

MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I want to call this fanfiction writing, but it's worse. It's Hollywood writing. It's edgelord writing, but dated edgelord writing.
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It's dated edgelord writing that thinks it's better than you because apparently you're a racist alt-right Nazi.
 
Neil said:
Bubbles is all of these. She's a hollywood whore who fucks tons of guys including Brick, she does coke, and she hates herself for following Utonium's instructions to the letter.

I guess Blossom has the more apparent suicidal tendencies though since she's actively in therapy.
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Does she have slash marks on her arms? I need to know they went for maximum shit.
 
Do the sisters all despise each other with Bubbles being very willing to post Blossom's nudes online?
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
It's almost like they think they're writing The Boys.
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I said it before as well but I legit think that was the primary angle here.

The Boys is well known because of how it deconstructs pretty much the very foundation of all superhero tropes and nobody's really a good person, particularly none of the actual superheroes (except Starlight or whoever the legitimately good, naively idealistic member of The Seven is), but it's also well written and while deeply flawed (and the IP creator clearly absolutely hates super heroes like Michael Chriton totally hated amusement parks) the characters still feel human and real.

What's going on with the PPG is it's just twisting the knife and distorting EVERYTHING at maximum wokeness. Its absolutely disgusting they're writing off the original show as not being accurate to 'reality' when that's the only thing giving this property and legitimacy in the first place. IF they simply stripped off the PPG shit and made these into original characters, it unironically would be better because then there isn't pre-attached notions of these characters being actively shit on to 'subvert expectations.'

MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Does she have slash marks on her arms? I need to know they went for maximum shit.
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Probably not, which is hillarious because the original show actually did. Kind of.

It was an episode where the PPG effectively make up 'gimmicky' superheroes and then decide to be those superheroes, and Buttercup is 'The Shade' or basically her in a black cloak, and early in the episode Buttercup explains that some comic book hero she likes 'has scars that never heal'.

The best part of the episode was the actual monster telling them to knock that shit off and beat him up as their real selves.
 
Optimus Prime said:
it unironically would be better because then there isn't pre-attached notions of these characters being actively shit on to 'subvert expectations.'
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Wonder how reactions would be for this script if it were the exact same stuff except with the names changed to remove it from the PPG aspects. I bet people would be laughing even harder.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
Beast Machines was reviled by Transformers fans back in the day, especially those that watched and loved Beast Wars, but you know what? That was a show that took some risks and while it didn't always work, I can at least respect the effort. And none of the mistakes made were born out of disrespect for what came before. Actually, the show delved pretty deep into TF lore to incorporate certain elements into their stories, such as the Plasma Energy Chamber and the Key to Vector Sigma. True, the Maximal's designs were ugly as sin and there were other problems, but I don't think it was anything that was a deliberate middle finger. And I can't fault the thinking either as Beast Wars was a radical departure from classic Transformers, and that turned out to be the breath of fresh air the brand needed.
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
There is also the fact that it had some decent twists, Waspinator being the "Cool Mysterious Anti-hero Bot's spark" instead of Siverhawk, Rhinox going Full Starscream once he got his memories back.
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Beast Machines also experimented with more serialized storytelling that would be present in future seasons like Animated and Prime. The animation also holds up really well more than twenty years later.
Optimus Prime said:
What's going on with the PPG is it's just twisting the knife and distorting EVERYTHING at maximum wokeness.
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Remember when the original made fun of the feminist "all men are evil" mentality in one episode?
 
Optimus Prime said:
The Boys is well known because of how it deconstructs pretty much the very foundation of all superhero tropes and nobody's really a good person, particularly none of the actual superheroes (except Starlight or whoever the legitimately good, naively idealistic member of The Seven is), but it's also well written and while deeply flawed (and the IP creator clearly absolutely hates super heroes like Michael Chriton totally hated amusement parks) the characters still feel human and real.
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I'm gonna stop you right there fam, The Boys isn't nearly as good at you're positing here. It sincerely tries but it's like a 12 year old boy aping Shakespeare, it's just too clumsy and distracted. The characters are cardboard thin and defined by one, maybe two traits.

It's still better than this rebooted shit though.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
In regards to woke shit, I've got a stupid question.

Can't you be woke without shitting on the original show?
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Literally not. Never. It is necessary for an SJW to shit on and destroy everything they touch.
ComeoutandJULAY said:
Well, in all fairness, if they're delaying the show, that must mean they care to some extent about quality control, don't they? Who knows, this could very well pull the same reverse UNO card the Sonic movie did.

...right?
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Best case one of the actual money guys got a whiff of this and fired everyone involved.
 
starborn427614 said:
If that script is real then I'm the Pope.
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Congrats pope :story: :story:
DON'T UNDER ESTIMATE 2020 AGENDA!!
 
JohnDoe said:
The Thundercats reboot from 2011 was a pretty fair attempt, I thought. Some of the character designs/art was a little jank and it leaned more into drama than episodic adventure but it was a fair go.

It kind of reminded me of the actually succesful 90's effort to reboot Johnny Quest. That was a pretty good reboot.
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2011 Thundercats got absolutely fucked over by corporate because it never really got a chance to find its groove. It was popular, but the toy sales were abysmal largely due to problems with distribution. Through no fault of its own, CN canned the reboot because it couldn't get money from the merch sales.

Of course, I can't say I recall Roar ever getting merch whatsoever yet that shit was CN's fucking darling for some reason. Probably because it was stupidly cheap to make.

Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Wonder how reactions would be for this script if it were the exact same stuff except with the names changed to remove it from the PPG aspects. I bet people would be laughing even harder.
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It probably would end up getting heralded as some kind of satire about how exploitive hollywood is and how broken it leaves the young folks who have to endure the brunt of it. Maybe exploitave child labor shit like what really was going on with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo or whatever.

JohnDoe said:
I'm gonna stop you right there fam, The Boys isn't nearly as good at you're positing here. It sincerely tries but it's like a 12 year old boy aping Shakespeare, it's just too clumsy and distracted. The characters are cardboard thin and defined by one, maybe two traits.

It's still better than this rebooted shit though.
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I haven't seen it so I'm just going off what I've heard from co-workers, honestly.
 
JohnDoe said:
I'm gonna stop you right there fam, The Boys isn't nearly as good at you're positing here. It sincerely tries but it's like a 12 year old boy aping Shakespeare, it's just too clumsy and distracted. The characters are cardboard thin and defined by one, maybe two traits.
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I remember reading the comics and thinking even Evil Ernie was better.

Optimus Prime said:
The Boys is well known because of how it deconstructs pretty much the very foundation of all superhero tropes and nobody's really a good person, particularly none of the actual superheroes (except Starlight or whoever the legitimately good, naively idealistic member of The Seven is), but it's also well written and while deeply flawed (and the IP creator clearly absolutely hates super heroes like Michael Chriton totally hated amusement parks) the characters still feel human and real
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Optimus Prime said:
I haven't seen it so I'm just going off what I've heard from co-workers, honestly.
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Oh, your coworkers must be truly awfull people.
As thinking "no good guys, and the only one remotely close is just naive = realistic and deep" is just how we get all this shit.
 
So when's the pilot episode getting leaked so it can be remembered alongside the Wonder Woman pilot from 2011?
 
Gensou Hadou said:
Blossom killed Mojo Jojo!? And the town loved Mojo Jojo enough to ban the Powerpuff Stronk Wahmen!? And Blossom got PTSD from committing her first murder and being ostracized for it!? And Bubbles and Buttercup are making fun of Blossom for having PTSD!?

Dear Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust: I had nothing to do with any of this, but please accept my most sincere apologies for all of it anyway.
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You do feel sorry for these creators when their single successful creation gets fucked six ways from Sunday. PPG already had been many things like an anime, a reboot, and now this. Poor Craig, sometimes I think back to this...
 
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