The Powerpuff Girls

Still love "Meet the Beat-Alls". I actually made a video years back detailing all the Beatles references in the episode and replacing all the song references with the lines from the original songs, and it had like half a million views, but it got copyright stricken sometime a year or two ago.

Originally from the Cartoon Network General thread:

Gentlemen...BEHOLD!

Actual PPG 2016 footage!

...It looks exactly like Clarence.

edited 11th Feb '16 11:51:29 AM by LordVatek

That first character sounds like Maurice LaMarche!

I admit, it could have been worse.

Now...well it just looks pretty average instead of out and out terrible, and Buttercup's voice sounds like someone imitating Kath Soucie, but it'll take some getting used to, I guess.

I'm pretty sure that is, indeed, Maurice La Marche. The man has a distinctive voice.

edited 11th Feb '16 12:21:58 PM by AdricDePsycho

Anything like this will take some getting used to, i think.

Though really it comes down to the writing. The first show had a sense of humor that's hard to pin down; some of its humor was decently grim, some of it fairly goofy or absurd. CN definitely has the writing talent in house for this, but will they deploy it properly?

That's what I said when this was posted in the CN thread. Fairly sure it's him.

Well, it certainly doesn't suck ass, but I still don't know what to expect in terms of humor and storytelling.

I hope the character designs look better cause a lot of the characters on Clarence look fucking ugly as hell to me.

@that new PPG clip: ...super meh on it, reminds me on that one Teenage Robot episode with that overly beating-you-over-the-head-with-the-point-we're-making villain Himcules. Chances are this probably isn't the most indicative of what the show as a whole will be like, but...meh. Hopefully later clips will be better.

As for the artstyle, honestly, it's not too dissimilar from how the show was in its final season anyway.

Upon watching it a second time, I liked it a little better, still not the biggest fan, but it's not bad. That voice is gonna take some getting used to.

Also that clip title had me expecting Princess Morbucks.

That one tuft of hair on Buttercup is weirding me out more than the voice.

I just saw a commercial for the new Powerpuff Girls reboot, and needless to say, it isn't even bad at all.

As long as they use the old series as inspiration, it shouldn't suck at all.

What is ticking me off is that Boomerang doesn't seem to even show any of the old episodes anymore.

I'm honestly expecting it to be average to decent. It could go further in either extreme, but somehow I don't think we're going to get something really exceptionally bad or great either way.

I just don't see this being hugely popular or memorable, honestly. And that's the worst thing that could happen, rather than just turning out anything less than average, especially if more resources than necessary were put behind this.

Worse still, I unfortunately see this show getting bashed harder than Clarence (unfairly, IMHO, seeing as I actually like that show, despite the "ugly" art-style) is, only worse - due to this being attached to something big to nostalgia whores / "critics" everywhere...

I actually want this to succeed, however - because I'm getting sick of precious B.S. like Social Justice Universe hogging up the spotlight - and CN always needs more good material for me to sit down to.

edited 13th Feb '16 1:26:39 PM by Shokew

What are the chances that this is going to stir some Tumblr SJW jimmies for it showing woman empowerment over a weaker male dominant population?

Wait, isn't women rising against the power of men to become equals the whole point of SJW?

Also, I've seen the promos last night. For some reason, I don't have any issues with the Girls having basically Green Lantern abilities. Or pretty much that Aura move from Yin Yang Yo! (heh, who remembers that last one?).

Wait, whut?

, I know I sound like an ass saying this - should we really be listening to what SJ Ws have to say about stuff like this?

I apologize for going off - subject like this, but it's only a cartoon, not a social statement. I think the sooner SJ Ws understand the same thing about Steven Universe, for example, the less embarrassed I'll personally feel for them and the stuff they cling to for being "precious" or some BS like that.

As it stands, I'd feel a lot better if this show did not attract such attention...

And then you post it anyway, as if the Earth will stop rotating around its axis if you don't shame people for enjoying cartoons for reasons you don't understand.

And like it or not, it's clear from Rebecca Sugar's interviews that making a social statement is one reason she created the show.

edited 13th Feb '16 1:55:41 PM by FawfulCrump

You know I'd gladly go into a 20 page argument about why complaining about Steven Universe for being a "SJW" show is literally stupid in every way imaginable, but this isn't really the place nor the time for it.

So instead, I'll just discuss the idea of taking up an "anti-SJW" standpoint with regards to the freaking Powerpuff Girls remake of all things.

If it makes you feel any better, go ahead,

I'm just gonna throw my two cents and say if you're gonna go through with this, how about you settle it in the Private Messages, so the rest of us won't be neck deep in ugly conversations that will inevitably get this thread locked? Sounds good?

Rerailing this thread back to the subject of PPG, was there ever an episode where Blossom got arrested for something involving Mojo Jojo? I've zero idea what was going on, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't weird.

edited 14th Feb '16 6:25:51 AM by TargetmasterJoe

I don't remember anything like that.

No?

I know it sounds weird, but I could've sworn I saw an episode that had just that. It even ended with her in jail and everything.

...or maybe I'm ridiculously mistaken?