You can celebrate the end of the nightmare and be disappointed why you woke up.
Just something I realized. I’m happy that Velma won’t get another season, but I’m not sure anybody really learned any kind of lesson. This mistake will happen again. It’s just that right now Warner Brothers Discovery, despite having arguably the biggest animation library on the planet, really doesn’t seem to care about that library. Tubi and MeTV Toons are making better use of their stuff than they are, and WB has two cartoon channels, a family channel, and numerous streaming channels as well as their pay-to-watch Max service. It’s a real shame for us toon lovers, but at least it got rid of this monster.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week, who knew going through your closet and trying on every piece of clothing was so tiring? A quick report was all I had strength to do.
As for this week, the next installments of the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image and Star Trek: Pitch And Guide, plus I have a comic strip anniversary coming, so I need to get through my favorites of this year’s Jake & Leon comics before next Friday. Plus I have a couple of other things I’d like to do but we’ll see if those come together on time. At any rate, have a great week, everyone!
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Hollywood’s Fading Colors
There’s going to be a lot of images and videos on this one. Just be prepared.
In 1939, The Wizard Of Oz did everything it could to show off a new film coloring technique called Technicolor. That was two years after Walt Disney Pictures created all new colored paints to embrace the process, which actually dates back to at least 1916 according to a quick search, possibly a couple of years older. It helped make colors on screen look bright and vibrant.
Look around you. Does color still exist? I’m betting it does unless you have some particular decorating tastes or somehow reading this in a closet or something. However, you wouldn’t know it by watching a lot of TV shows and movies, or playing certain video games. Don’t get me wrong; I know you could point to examples that counteract this commentary, but overall, in the genres I’m mostly interested in, it seems that bright colors are dying off. Action, sci-fi, fantasy, and even some dramas seem have the color saturation turned down low, even properties that used to be bright and colorful. Frankly, it’s a disappointing trend. There are times where this may make sense for a certain visual style, to boost the story, but maybe the problem is too many of this kind of story. At this point I’m trying to pad out for the homepage, but you’ve seen video games that seemed so lacking in color they might as well be black and white. It’s just a sea of browns and greys. Brighter colors are a thing of the past while even darker colors don’t have the vibrancy it used to. And what’s happened to the sun lately?
I just feel the need to vent on that. Oh look, this is good for the homepage, so let’s get into it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 10, 2024 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, Television and Movies.
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