Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20141228235252/@comment-1037137-20150108044055

Exactly, you can't violate and undermine your own work's integrity and focus just to suck up to one or another group and you can't just throw anything out there and hope through blind luck it will stick just like that, no. That's simply not how it all works. Lots of shows and franchises have made mistakes like that and it only hurt them in the long run. Definitely hurt Total Drama, as I've said their priorities are skewered, focusing almost solely on drama but letting all else fall into disarray. There's a certain science to making animated shows, and if you can't be trusted to remain faithful to it, to the point of open disregard as these guys have, then you got no business taking part. As for your remarks on the The Avengers......Wow, that's the first time I've heard someone speak so negatively of it. You really thought that it lacked substance?

Obviously, as that's all they have invested their time and resources in, even when that drama did not make sense, was forced, or triggered one of any chain of events that saw several derailments unfold and entire plots rendered meaningless by antics and nonsense BS that just comes out of nowhere and more often than not invites serious inconsistencies within the series. There is no overestimating what a damaging mindset that has been, it has warped the characters in countless ways and created a lot of unnecessary tension at the cost of better stories, better development and smarter drama. Instead of simply having fun with the characters, we can't seem to get through a freaking episode without someone acting out of character. There is never an excuse for that kind of callous disregard just for the sake of some half-***ed drama that has shattered the base on countless occasions. They really feed to the frustrations we're all constantly venting against each other in this fandom, they feed that volatility through all the derailments and controversies they provoke without a second thought. And there's not many who don't have a complaint against the show's ongoing handling, nearly everyone has some complaints about it, very fierce complaints at that. And yes, it can't just be about the humor, a lot of us want to see these guys really evolving into stronger characters, we want to be engaged with and enjoying their stories and interactions. And the humor lately is absolutely tasteless and bordering on offensive and inappropriate. This is being redirected at kids? That makes it even more outrageous. I just know that there was a fair amount of executive meddling going on and that some of these writers seriously should not have been here in the first place, and that communication among the staff was quite possibly a complete mess. This has the markings of a severely troubled production written all over it. One that they should've just killed on the spot rather than chucking out a mess that would have longtime fans in an uproar.

Yeah, Olaf is everything Jar Jar isn't and most importantly he's three-dimensional AND funny. He's got the makings of a great character like everyone else in that film. Jar Jar Binks is just a symbol of comedy relief done wrong and why he hasn't been offed in the films is anyone's guess. He was so terrible that fans all across the galaxy (If you don't mind me throwing that in) have openly wished he had been done away with, before that whole Emergency Powers debacle where he fittingly enough was the one to doom the galaxy. Way to vindicate the fan furor against him, George Lucas. But other than that, at least he was downplayed as time went on, as you said. But the damage was done and he's the thing people remember most about The Phantom Menace. If Lightning is the most remembered thing about TDROTI among some circles, that is a bad sign. There were other far more engaging characters who enjoy fan favorite status over him, like Anne Maria, Jo, Brick, and Scott........Lightning doesn't have half of what those guys offered or could have offered, and yet he's constantly put on a pedestal? Why? Guy barely is a character, beyond the stupidity-laden ego he's got NOTHING.

Exactly, the work ethic was truly catastrophic if this was the end result of that. They don't respect their own show or their own characters, look at how little affection they treat their own cast with. How they threw whole plots away and went out in the most insulting fashion possible, tossing out everything that made the show popular and only keeping the *one* plotline going that probably more than half the fandom didn't even care for? If everything I've heard from both friends and from professional sources is true, then the creative process at Fresh TV is completely fubar, and it would explain a lot of how we ended up with TDAS, but still doesn't really explain the mentality that drove every audience-insulting turn they took. Whatever the case, they need to get their act together and start working together to make sure they're all on the same page. RIGHT NOW. Rotating writers seems to have had an adverse effect on things.

They couldn't afford more qualified people if it was going to come to that? And no doubt corners were cut, the only reason we have 13-episode seasons and a 20-second intro is all for one thing: Money. But the kind of work we saw from TDAS sure as hell wasn't warranting a paycheck for any of these guys.

Well they shouldn't acknowledge it regularly either way, most fans have not complained about the lack of referral to TDA since nobody seems to like that season at all. Given the kind of anger TDAS provoked, hopefully fans would be all the more eager to see it disregarded in the grand scheme of things. And Mike's likely not coming back, which means no more Zoke, so Zoke fans ought not to get too hopeful of that getting further reference if that happens to be the case, that ultimately being the only preserved plot in this thing. And we really do need an explanation for all of those nonsensical plot points and twists they took, just to know what were they thinking when they put this all in? We need to know what was the driving force behind all of this. Scourtney in particular being especially stupefying. Actually Gwuncan and Duncney still have ardent and hardcore fandoms. But perhaps both have lost at least some of their luster since it all hit the fan.

All blatant lies, man. All of it was a lie. They must not have seen the final product if this is what the dossier says, or they buttered us all up because they knew the final product was so stupid that if it were truthfully told, fans would tune out. Either way. And I intend to get some answers on Scourtney.

Fair enough assessment, and those were things I used to love about her too. Still she's now incredibly out of touch with her persona and that is extremely unacceptable in their continued handling of her character. That needs to be answered for along with the rest ASAP.

Exactly. They went way overboard on the liberties taken with the advancement of this amazing world. And that has really put some including myself off who no longer feel the connection to it we had before. Seeing cars, biplanes, radios, remote-controlled bombs, and mechs in this world just clashes with nearly everything else and the whole idea to me has always been ludicrous. I still stand by what I've said in the past, it's been ONLY 70-75 years, where is all of this crazy crap coming from? And yeah, you heard me right, you can drive cars in the South Pole now. Freaking family-sized automobiles. And we also have silent movies now, which form a very pointless subplot in Book 2. Feel free to roll your eyes at all of that as much as you like. I did.

Well rather MW1 and MW2, I think people criticize MW3 for being less innovative. But that by no means makes it a bad game, I enjoyed it more than MW2 even, and that was the game that was considered the high point of the trilogy, with some extremely shocking stuff in it that few games have had the nuts to repeat. You'll see what I mean if you ever play them. And yeah, part of the reason I'm so turned off to multiplayer is that in the VERY FEW times I was on it, I got pummeled constantly. And that isn't fun. At all. It sucks. Bigtime.

Yeah, and that actually does sound like a pretty new and innovative feature! See, that's the kind of thing I like to see put in a video game. It makes the stakes of the action feel so much more real and your impact felt all the greater when that's the kind of thing you can affect.