Sunday Cartoons
Jul. 16th, 2012 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effexI spent yesterday alternating between chores and cartoons, which is the second best way to spend a Sunday (the best way has less chores). I watched 6 episodes of Gravity Falls! And the first 2 episodes of Motorcity!
Gravity Falls is the (far) better show in terms of storytelling, voice acting, and animation. The animation is *gorgeous*. Ugh, those backgrounds. And it's all about cryptozoology! And family! And magic summers in the Pacific Northwest!
Motorcity is... very early-ninties (with fancier graphics). A small group of teens must protect their dystopian undercity from an evil overlord! Using cars! Set in Detriot! The world-building's terrible (so far, anyway), and there's no explanation as to why five 17 year olds (with sweet cars) are all that stands between Motorcity and unstated doom. The writing is... pretty bad. But It's got *way* more PoC than Gravity Falls (who's core cast is entirely white), including an ambiguously brown lead dude, and signs point to it having more women. And it's better for fannish/shipping purposes. I'll give it another couple of episodes.
Writing this out and shelving it for later (I finally *have* a comic concept, dammit, and I'm sticking to it): it'd be fun to do a similar story (Five teens running/protecting a community from outside threats) in a context that made sense. I'm thinking a VR environment, in a game somewhere between Warcraft and that 17+under system Second Live (I think?) runs/ran.
Our leader would be a 17 year old girl who used to be a Big Deal (and kinda a bully) until her little sister started playing. Suddenly the dog-eat-newb culture seems pretty grim and she devotes herself to creating a safe environment for her sister and her sister's friends to game. She winds up with a team of older teens running a guild/town thing for younger players, protecting them from/leading them against game monsters, trolls, rival guilds, and maybe a more serious threat? Who knows!
Gravity Falls is the (far) better show in terms of storytelling, voice acting, and animation. The animation is *gorgeous*. Ugh, those backgrounds. And it's all about cryptozoology! And family! And magic summers in the Pacific Northwest!
Motorcity is... very early-ninties (with fancier graphics). A small group of teens must protect their dystopian undercity from an evil overlord! Using cars! Set in Detriot! The world-building's terrible (so far, anyway), and there's no explanation as to why five 17 year olds (with sweet cars) are all that stands between Motorcity and unstated doom. The writing is... pretty bad. But It's got *way* more PoC than Gravity Falls (who's core cast is entirely white), including an ambiguously brown lead dude, and signs point to it having more women. And it's better for fannish/shipping purposes. I'll give it another couple of episodes.
Writing this out and shelving it for later (I finally *have* a comic concept, dammit, and I'm sticking to it): it'd be fun to do a similar story (Five teens running/protecting a community from outside threats) in a context that made sense. I'm thinking a VR environment, in a game somewhere between Warcraft and that 17+under system Second Live (I think?) runs/ran.
Our leader would be a 17 year old girl who used to be a Big Deal (and kinda a bully) until her little sister started playing. Suddenly the dog-eat-newb culture seems pretty grim and she devotes herself to creating a safe environment for her sister and her sister's friends to game. She winds up with a team of older teens running a guild/town thing for younger players, protecting them from/leading them against game monsters, trolls, rival guilds, and maybe a more serious threat? Who knows!
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Date: 2012-07-17 08:14 am (UTC)