[Colonol Dekker]

Daybreak episode 2....
I feel a kindred to Tigh buying his war buddy shots in a skin bar,  but I feel closer to Adama throwing up in his lap in an alley behind a bin 😂😂

[Luis Dias]

holy **** the boys season 2 is just super, pun intended etc

[Colonol Dekker]

It is.   Homelander has a slightly different take on the "stood on roof at night" pose than batman....

[Luis Dias]

he can do anything...

[Colonol Dekker]

 

[Det. Bullock]

I finished watching Beast Wars (PC)
I can see why people are nostalgic for it, there is some decent character development and in general for a toy oriented show it's much better than it has any right to be. The ending was a bit rushed and it's pretty clear Dinobot II was a request from the Hasbro execs.

Doom Patrol manages to be both hilarious and harrowing, I only wish they didn't end every season in a cliffhanger.

Netflix Carmen Sandiego season 3 is evidently a half season.
The episode set in Venice was almost bearable but then at the end they had a cop shout Fermare! which is so catastrophically incorrect I won't say anything anymore because it would be a rant about the use of Imperative in Italian.
Dear writers, if you write your foreign dialogue with google translate or just give no context to whoever does your translations just write all dialogues in english since it's evidently the only language you know.

[Scourge of Ages]

I'm currently rewatching Toradora! which is SO GOOD you guys. It's cute, and full of feelings, and funny, and has really good character writing and dialogue. It's really good.

The episode set in Venice was almost bearable but then at the end they had a cop shout Fermare! which is so catastrophically incorrect I won't say anything anymore because it would be a rant about the use of Imperative in Italian.
Dear writers, if you write your foreign dialogue with google translate or just give no context to whoever does your translations just write all dialogues in english since it's evidently the only language you know.

I had to ask at least two fluent Spanish speakers what the equivalent of "HELP!" is in Spanish, in the context of "HELP there's an angry monster over here, somebody please kill it!" I'm pretty sure the word is "Auxilio!" but I'm still not 100% sure on that...

[Luis Dias]

Auxilio seems a little to well behaved and formal for such a situation, but I don't really speak spanish that well, we kinda foster a hyper-nationalistic dismissal of our imperial neighbour, including its culture and language, so idk.  ¡Ayuda! seems more in line?

[Colonol Dekker]

Discovery: mass effect edition looks to be the only thing keeping my interest until the boys comes back.

[Det. Bullock]

Auxilio seems a little to well behaved and formal for such a situation, but I don't really speak spanish that well, we kinda foster a hyper-nationalistic dismissal of our imperial neighbour, including its culture and language, so idk.  ¡Ayuda! seems more in line?

I don't know much of anything spanish but considering the languages are similar ¡Ayuda! does indeed sound more natural.

I'm currently rewatching Toradora! which is SO GOOD you guys. It's cute, and full of feelings, and funny, and has really good character writing and dialogue. It's really good.

The episode set in Venice was almost bearable but then at the end they had a cop shout Fermare! which is so catastrophically incorrect I won't say anything anymore because it would be a rant about the use of Imperative in Italian.
Dear writers, if you write your foreign dialogue with google translate or just give no context to whoever does your translations just write all dialogues in english since it's evidently the only language you know.

I had to ask at least two fluent Spanish speakers what the equivalent of "HELP!" is in Spanish, in the context of "HELP there's an angry monster over here, somebody please kill it!" I'm pretty sure the word is "Auxilio!" but I'm still not 100% sure on that...

I don't know much Spanish but "Ausilio" in Italian is not the kind of word you'd shout when calling for help.
In Italian would be more or less "Aiuto! C'è un mostro infuriato, per favore qualcuno lo uccida!"
The example from Carmen Sandiego was something much more straightforward, it's likely they put the word "stop" into google translate and it came out "fermare" which is the basic infinite of the verb. It can be used as imperative but only in the context of a terse order to a group of people you have authority on like a Captain to a crew, for example "turn to starboard!"  can be translated "virare a dritta!" in alternative to the normal imperative "virate a dritta!"
The imperative singular for "fermare" is "fermati!" with accent on the first sillable (otherwise it's a plural participle) but in that context a cop would most likely shout "fermo!" which can be intended as a shortened version of the longer sentence "stai fermo lì!" (more or less "stop right there" literally "stay still there"), an alternative would be the slightly less terse "fermo lì!" and there is also a possibility of the use of foreign loan words like "altolà!" or "alt!" (from the German "halten") or, ironically enough, "stop".

[Scourge of Ages]

Ooh, Italian lesson!

[Det. Bullock]

In the end I couldn't resist and did the rant anyway, at least it's more or less coherent and less sweary than what I was tempted to write initially. 

Avatar The Last Airbender
Yes, I completely missed out on this back in the day. I hadn't even heard of the thing until the movie came out and people started complaining about it.
You can tell it had much more money poured into it than most of today's cartoons and that had it come out today the usual suspects would probably complain about it because of Sokka having his MRA tendencies beat out of him every other episode.
And I think I might have already watched half the first season over lunch and dinner.

[Colonol Dekker]

Solar opposites..... I'm watching that as its just Rick and morty with a different skin.

[Scourge of Ages]

Solar opposites..... I'm watching that as its just Rick and morty with a different skin.

Is it as good as Rick and Morty? Because I saw one ad for it and then nothing else ever, no memes or anything.

[Det. Bullock]

I finished Avatar The Last Airbender and I can clearly see it's been very influential. The aspects that haven't aged well are mostly due to it being very much a TV product (like, can we please clearly know if a character died? You can tell the showrunners were frustrated with it because they themselves joke about it in the show itself and some parts are not as emotionally raw as what you can see in something more recent like She-Ra) but the rest works really well.
There is more money put in the animation than in most current shows though there are a few conspicous animation errors towards the end (Nickelodeon cutting funds?) and the fight scenes look gorgeous as a result even if being TV animation from the mid-2000s it's still finalized in SD.

Kipo and The Age of Wonderbeasts
Jack Kirby's Kamandi but with a dash of Fallout (the "burrows" are basically Fallout's vaults).
It manages to be both dramatic and surreally funny, one moment there are mutated bees that talk in dubstep the other you get a tragic and often rather dark backstory (no, I don't necessarily mean "dark for a kids show" some of these backstories wouldn't feel out of place in Fallout if perhaps are not the most extreme examples of what you can find there).
I wish there was a bit more but the order from Netflix was for thirty episodes and the showrunners wisely decided to conclude the story within that limit.

[Colonol Dekker]

Solar opposites.....

I have no excuse 😂😂

[Strygon]

Touhou Memories of Phantasm.

Not really an official anime but it might as well be, the voice acting is pretty damn good (aside from that one awful episode with Utsuho vs Cirno) and the art is incredible.

Favorite episode is the Imperishable Night one, for obvious reasons.

[Det. Bullock]

The Legend of Korra
You can clearly tell that this wasn't planned at all after the first season and sometimes is seems to be pandering to fandom objections.
The second half of the series in particular (and perhaps even part of season 2) seems intent of overcompensating any perception of Korra being overpowered which is frankly weird considering that Aang was even more so in the original.
The aversion to say characters that are clearly shown dying are dead is even worse than in Avatar, even by kids cartoons standards it's a bit too much in this.
And the Korrasami thing is subtle to the point that even after years or reading articles and watching youtube essays about queer coding you can't really tell it's there unless you are a dedicated shipper that looks for ship teasing in things, it doesn't help that in the last season they share much less screen time together than in the third which at least had some bonding scenes here and there.

I did expect much worse as series quality overall, it's fine overall but the lack of direction is felt a bit too much.

[0rph3u5]

The Legend of Korra
You can clearly tell that this wasn't planned at all
[...]
 the lack of direction is felt a bit too much.

But doesn't it fit with the idea of teenage leads and a world that doesn't really need an Avatar at times?

[X3N0-Life-Form]

The aversion to say characters that are clearly shown dying are dead is even worse than in Avatar, even by kids cartoons standards it's a bit too much in this.

Yeah, this has left me scratching my head a few times, the death are even more blatant than back in avatar, but nope, saying the words "dead", "killed", etc. ist verbotten.

And the Korrasami thing is subtle [...]

That's a fairly common sentiment, although I've always been surprised at how widespread it is. Back in the day, I knew even less about LGBT & queer stuff than I do now, I'd always stayed away from the shipping mentality, and I yet I picked up on it pretty much straight away. Heck I even found it a bit heavy handed due to how blatant it was in the final season.


In any case, yeah Nick saying "you've got 1 season, and only one !", then going "cool, what do you have planned for the next 3 seasons ?" harmed the series quite a bit. With that being said, I re-watched bits of it far more than I ever did A:TLA, and I get the impression that it's emboldened a whole new generation of cartoons to be more daring.