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Gazelle_Bro said:
Of course he doesn't understand anything from before him time, because he can't relate to it. He refuses to review foreign animation too, unless it has an english dub.
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Now he just missing out by refusing to watch non-dub foreign animation as there great cartoon that are never dub or in the case of Ernest and Celestine take years to get dub.
 
Swiggity Swooty said:
So how would you guys save a premise like Growing Around? (assuming it can even be saved to begin with)
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I would added a tiny green space alien named Ozmodiar that only Robert can see, and rename it "Edging Around X"" plus I would make it extreme and edgy for all the hardcore extreme edgy young peoples today.
 
KFC said:
@Nayolfa I have some serious questions:

1) If things got rough with him, would you consider dropping Mr. Enter from the Growing Around project.

2) If things got rough with you, would you consider leaving the Growing Around project.

3) What is Mr. Enter's reaction this thread and the wiki, assuming he is watching/you are showing him.
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Actually, I think the first two questions depend on whose idea Growing Around was in the first place, though from the sounds of it that falls on Mr. Enter. As it's unlikley Mr. Enter would give anybody enough leverage to perform a coup and oust him from this (comparisons to the antagonist from Ocean's 13 start coming to mind), if things got rough with anybody then the only result would be their "dismissal" from the GA project as Enter's ego clearly shows he is incapable of admitting he is anything less than perfection and is only reinforced in that regard by his rabid fanclub.

And the third question? We already know the answer. He predictably went defcon fuckzone zero and banned anybody from linking to any outside sources for any reason (I.E. fixing a hole in the wooden fence by encasing the entire thing within a miniature Berlin Wall practically) because he wants to ignore us as he does to any voice that thinks exercising first amendment rights in his presence includes actual criticism.

I mean, it's just like how The Golden Knight locked down his wiki to prevent anybody but himself being able to edit blatantly self-serving and obviously falsified information. Might turn into (50) Shades of Vade soon with this DeenSeventeen or whatever guy if he decides to confront us personally in the name of Enter.

Swiggity Swooty said:
So how would you guys save a premise like Growing Around? (assuming it can even be saved to begin with)
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Strip it the fuck down and rebuild the entire premise. After all, the core idea of GA is that kids are in charge and the adults aren't, right? Literally everything wrong with GA so far is that there is not even the slightest consistent reasoning behind this move in a setting otherwise identical to real life, so let's start from there.

Naturally, the easiest way to do this? It's all imagination. The way GA is set up already ideally supports this with how reality itself is kicked out the door to support clearly irrational and non-supported things like the family pet is A HORSE and kids being able to make the rules of government without civilization imploding like a large scale Black Monday. The key element, above all else, is that it has to be a certain-to-fail kid-central leadership model inside a controled enviroment.

Well fuck, that's basically the entire premise of Fantasy Island now that I think about it, as according to wikipedia's summary of Mr. Roarke's motivations:
Roarke had a strong moral code, but he was always merciful. He usually tried to teach his guests important life lessons through the medium of their fantasies, frequently in a manner that exposes the errors of their ways, and on occasions when the island hosted terminally ill guests he would allow them to live out one last wish. Roarke's fantasies were not without peril, but the greatest danger usually came from the guests themselves. In some cases people were killed due to their own negligence, aggression or arrogance. When necessary, Roarke would directly intervene when the fantasy became dangerous to the guest; for instance, when Tattoo was given his own fantasy as a birthday gift, which ended up with him being chased by hostile natives in canoes, Mr. Roarke suddenly appeared in a motorboat, snared Tattoo's canoe with a grappling hook and towed it away at high speed to help him escape. Another instance was in the 1980 episode "With Affection, Jack the Ripper" when a female guest intent on researching Jack the Ripper's crimes was sent back in time to 1888 London and would have became one of the Ripper's victims had not Mr. Roarke physically intervened. With only a few exceptions, Roarke always made it quite clear that he was powerless to stop a fantasy once it had begun and that guests must play them out to their conclusion.
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So, basically, GA would need to be a little bit like that, except within an environment that wasn't as potentially fatal as Fantasy Island and much more light-hearted. The parents would easily be support roles only as they weren't really part of the imagined setting to begin with, but on the periphery of the children's active consciousness, popping in now and then to say lunch was ready or something, or if a child went overboard in some way be able to directly "cancel" the imagined setting for that of hard reality.
 
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Swiggity Swooty said:
So how would you guys save a premise like Growing Around? (assuming it can even be saved to begin with)
Challenge Mode: the parodies don't count.
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hmm... Maybe there was a collapse of society, and most of the surviving kids decided to take over a little island or land they declared their own, and it leads to power struggles and manipulation. Maybe the adults attempt to intervene?

Ehhh, this doesn't really seem that original.

Only other suggestion is that I'd have the kids be somehow smarter than the adults, due to genetic manipulation
 
Swiggity Swooty said:
So how would you guys save a premise like Growing Around? (assuming it can even be saved to begin with)
Challenge Mode: the parodies don't count.
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The only way I can think of making the premise salvageable is if the kids only THINK they're in power and the adults are just humouring them. From what I've read of the scripts there doesn't seem to be a proper antagonist, so adding one of those might spice it up a bit.
 
TopperHay said:
The only way I can think of making the premise salvageable is if the kids only THINK they're in power and the adults are just humouring them. From what I've read of the scripts there doesn't seem to be a proper antagonist, so adding one of those might spice it up a bit.
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Maybe it takes place in a kid's imagination, and it's a dystopia [in his opinion] where kids rule? When the adults question things is when he's knocked out of his day-dreaming, albeit subtly.
 
You know about the whole thing about kids in charge thing in growing around, my feeling can be summed up with just this bit from Futurama.

"Kid leader: On what grounds do you challenge my authority?
Fry: Well, I'm older than you. I can beat you up.
Other Kids: Yeah, I'll bet he could."
 
It would be hilarious if they did an episode where the adults pressure the kids into giving up their authority, by threatening to beat them up and everything just returns to normal.

Then again this show has piss-poor logic.
 
WhoWantsStancakes said:
Maybe it takes place in a kid's imagination, and it's a dystopia [in his opinion] where kids rule? When the adults question things is when he's knocked out of his day-dreaming, albeit subtly.
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Or perhaps it could be a weird social experiment that some families have volunteered for and it's all part of a reality TV show. It's actually quite fun exchanging these ideas. :)
 
Perhaps it'd work better as a Roadrunner-esque comedy in where the kids constantly make terrible decissions that screw the adults over, and the adults constantly try to take the power away from them, only to inevitably fail in amusing ways.
 
Swiggity Swooty said:
So how would you guys save a premise like Growing Around? (assuming it can even be saved to begin with)
Challenge Mode: the parodies don't count.
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Now that's a toughie. First thing's first, remove the pony. After that, I'd rework the characters to actually have personalities.

As for the story, it's probably be some generic bull about a smarter than normal kid leading a rebellion to overthrow the world leaders and force them to become slaves or some shit. Also, the teenagers of this universe would serve as a third party used by both sides to gather information and ultimately fuck everyone else over in the end.

Eh, it was worth a shot, at least.
 
WhoWantsStancakes said:
Maybe it takes place in a kid's imagination, and it's a dystopia [in his opinion] where kids rule? When the adults question things is when he's knocked out of his day-dreaming, albeit subtly.
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I think that's called Lord of the Flies.

We all know how that ends and for those who don't, you can probably figure out what happens based on what I just said.

Of course, GA in general kind of just does the same schtick as the original Rugrats (fuck the aged-up spin off), just replace the pony with Reptar more or less.
 
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Aliens/magic/plot device warped their brains, and the premise is about someone slowly coming to realize something's really messed up.
 
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