Penny's new redesign kind of screams Uncanny Valley
edited 26th Mar '15 7:55:24 AM by NegaKingKix
"We be we baby!"Hey, the original Inspector Gadget show was pretty decent, just super formulaic and had humor childish enough that unless you liked that sort of you humor you wouldn't be so interested in it as an adult.
I actually wrote a review once about how the characterization in the original Inspector Gadget is surprisingly nuanced, but just not focused on very much. People (including me) don't usually remember it that way, though, so it stuck out to see it when I went back to the series after growing up.
At the very least, Gadget and Penny's relationship is surprisingly well put together.
I think a show with the original show's tone and general premise, with more attention to characterization would be awesome, with more things like focus episodes and a more developed plot. I actually wrote up a premise for something like that once.
edited 26th Mar '15 3:44:38 PM by KnownUnknown
It's formula, yeah. It's possibly one the most formula cartoons ever, thanks to it having so many episodes. But a lot of cartoons do/did, especially in the eighties. Not having an overarching or actively developing plot isn't, in itself, a sign of being a bad show (even if it does get boring if the show doesn't have much to keep it interesting), though it's one of the reasons I said if that it's not the kind of show that could keep a Periphery Demographic so easily.
It's the same deal with Scooby Doo - if you like the formula or the humor at least don't think it's that bad, you'll like watching it for the most part. If not, you'll probably like Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated but hate the rest of the franchise.
Which is a shame, because I really like Shuki Levi's soundtrack.
edited 26th Mar '15 3:54:42 PM by KnownUnknown
So is it too early to call this new program an insult to Don Adams?
Also... Apparently they don't have the theme song, the one thing everyone remembers about the show. I don't know why. Presumably whoever owns the Haim Saban-Shuki Levy catalogue won't let them have it.
Formulaic cartoons aren't a bad thing, really; if your show generally follows a set of similar contours you can spend the rest of your time focusing on character moments, or jokes, or whatever.
edited 26th Mar '15 3:51:46 PM by Aldo930
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."Sorry to double post, but...
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Well, you might also include A Pup Named Scooby Doo in that list.
I don't know why, really; I'd heard Saban and DIC had a falling out in the nineties, but they got the theme for the movie, so...
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."I think the recurring beef with the show was that They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character, making a comically endearing police cyborg with tons of cool weapons and abilities, and then reducing him to unimportant comic relief. Any scene involving the main character (par about five or six episodes) actually slowed the plot down or was irrelevant to the story. I get the feeling if the show was called "Penny", people would have been far less disappointed.
I believe I've said it before, but it almost feels like mid development they thought Gadget wasn't appealing enough so stuck in this Kid Hero who technically the real star that did everything that the little kids could relate to more.
edited 26th Mar '15 4:25:25 PM by Psi001
edited 26th Mar '15 4:32:42 PM by BagofMagicFood
I saw that movie at just the right time for it to be perfect forever.
Well, going crazy with doppelgangers was probably not great. And Claw is nothing like Claw.
I think IG 2 was a better adaptation, but the first was a better all-ages movie.
Fresh-eyed movie blogThe best thing about OG Claw was that he was a Bond villain unaware that he was trapped in a Saturday morning cartoon, which every adaptation drops anyway.
edited 27th Mar '15 2:03:21 PM by KnownUnknown
Eh, except for Will Eisner's original The Spirit comics and their Octopus, I don't think the 'Villain we never get to see or get a deal on what shapes them' concept has ever worked, original Claw included. I don't know, I think it just makes them look shallow and hollow. At least Movie 1 Claw had some actual presence of character.
Um, hey. I don't know how many of you are aware but the first 12 episodes are available to watch online. And by 12 episodes I mean each episode is actually two 11 minute episodes stuck together, so it's more like 24. If you don't like watching Netflix try asking Google to "Watch Cartoons Online" "Gadget."
edited 30th Mar '15 2:21:55 PM by WillKeaton
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You're somewhere around the line, but I'm not certain if I'd call that breaking the rule against sharing pirate sources or not.
TBH, even aside from the difference in moral currency, I prefer Netflix if I can because they have the best bandwidth management. Netflix gets interrupted to rebuffer the least, then Youtube, then pretty much everything else pretty far below them.
Fresh-eyed movie blogAside from all the Lampshade Hanging, it seems pretty faithful to the old series to me.
Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.

Brian Drummond was terrible as Doctor Claw in what little I saw of him in Gadgetinis.
The glove design was nice, though.
edited 20th Jan '15 7:28:36 PM by Etheru