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Post by SporkBot on Feb 2, 2018 18:45:46 GMT -5
There's another detail that I find curious: perhaps to make ring true the rap song that accompanied the first movie, Raphael is the leader in this series. Kind of reminds me of "Wolverine & the X-Men", where the creators were like, "hey, Wolvy's never been the leader, what'd that be like?" ...or something. I mean, Raph is the hothead, the muscle who's best plan usually involve rushing in and breaking things. At least, that's how he's usually known. How that translates to an effective leader, if at all, is ponderous. Unless they intend to shift leadership down the line. "I like breaking things!"
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Post by triumshockwave on Feb 4, 2018 10:19:40 GMT -5
Well... It's not like they EVER used Sais properly in that show. Hell, in ANY western media. Sais aren't meant to be stabbing weapons. They're bludgeoning tools. (That's why they got that heavy blunt end on the handle. Catch a sword in one, and smash them in the head with the end.) I had always heard that bit about catching and even breaking swords with them, but I've had trouble finding any confirmation of that. People seem to find it unlikely, and having practiced with a katana myself... they move really fuckin fast. The whole idea is to take advantage of radial acceleration so with relatively little movement on your end, you have a very fast moving sword tip slashing at your opponent. You'd have to be damn lucky to line the sai up right to catch it, it'd be way safer to either dodge it or do a more normal parry. Fighting against a sword, you're probably better off putting the sai in a reverse grip and blocking incoming strikes with the shaft of the sai acting like a forearm guard. Then you can strike back by punching with the pommel end. We'd see Raph put the sai in that reverse grip sometimes, but I don't think we ever saw him actually punch with it, or even block a sword. The only one using their weapon right in TMNT is maybe Donnie. Even Leo doesn't really do nito-ryu right, since the one in his right hand should be a shorter wakizashi used mainly for parry. A katana is a hand-and-a-half sword, meaning it can be wielded in one hand, but you lose some power and control when you do. When I was taught, the one handed stuff was all either draw cuts or parries, the actual killing strokes were always with two hands. People using nito were rare, I only saw one high level master do it at a kendo tournament.
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Post by SporkBot on Jun 26, 2018 17:56:47 GMT -5
Opening theme to the new show.
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If you ask me, it kind of feels like they got "Weird Al" to compose the actual music, and then they got different people to write lyrics about the Turtles when he was finished.
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Post by SporkBot on Aug 1, 2018 20:32:47 GMT -5
First episode is OnDemand, watching now (also on YouTube, for those interested). Also, I guess, subsequent 11 episodes.
It very much throws you into their world, there's not formal introduction of the Turtles or their friendship with April. It might get delved into in later episodes...and maybe Splinter becomes less like Homer Simpson. The animation...it seems pretty choppy in the beginning, but it does seem a bit more fluid as it progresses. There are visuals that remind me of Teen Titans, but the dialogue among the Turtles kept making me feel like I was listening to an episode of the current DuckTales. Though the personalities do not yet feel as...distinct. Like if Donny's actor and Mikey's actor switched, you might not notice. They basically all crack wise in the same way.
It's not without some charm, and the humor isn't bad. It's just a noticeable deviation in tone from the previous two cartoons. Though I think it'd be fair to say it's not that far, in some respects, from the 80's cartoon.
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