Ok, so, the last time I watched anything involving this sort of thing was when I was around 8 and watched the first movie.
Aves' antics along with lurking around this place (not to mention a sizeable lot of rum). Gave me an idea, well not really, I saw the basic gist when Huey watched BET for a week on end on Boondocks. But still, I decided that I would watch every LBT movie I could find back to back (breaks to work and eat and sleep mind you.) So for three days that is what I did upon finishing my nearly 8 gig download of I-XI. After the first 7 however the experiment became tainted as I was coerced into seeing Cloverfield (great flick by the way).
HOWEVER, before that I noticed weird changes in my personality. I was *gack* polite and helpful at work. I did things for people I normally wouldn't do.
It was...
HORRIBLE.
I'm a Network Operator. My job HINGES on my ability to scare away techno-illiterate idiots so I can get done what I need to get done. I had no progression in any project for nearly two days thanks to those movies. Thank god for giant *spoiler omitted*.
Regardless, I continued the last part of the experiment to no avail. Why? I dunno, I wanted to see what happened I guess.
My thoughts however on the series?
Better than most things I've seen that they make kids watch, although the lack of Doc saying, "I'll be your huckleberry," disappointed me greatly. And the dolphin that resembled a bad Shroom trip and sounded like JarJar made my eyes and ears bleed. I'm not kidding, dat crap could rust NAILS.
It's interesting to come back to a show you saw as a kid and see where they went with it. Although I think some of the background adult characters had more character development than the main character children.
Not all that much changed from the original with relation to characters. Probably a good thing considering most attempts to remodel classic characters into ones that "appeal to today's youth" almost ALWAYS fail. Lunatics anyone?
Ducky seems to be as naive and innocent as ever. Petrie is still riding the shortbus. Spike could still be replaced with Garfield painted green and noone would notice. Cera still needs to be slapped over the head with something large and dense, like her father's skull.
And Littlefoot?
Damn man, cheer up emokid. Your father is Jack F'ing Bauer! JACK BAUER! The only way your dad could be more BADASS is if he was Raistlin Majere... Oh, wait, ne-ver-mind. Wuss.
However, Chomper. Yeah. Bilingual, love the lisp... Probably the best character I saw. No, seriously, I love little things with sharp teeth and red eyes. Freaking awesome. Redeemed a whole movie by himself.
Anyway, bottomline, I see the draw. I do. I'm not sure I'm as large of a fan as a lot of the people here but I can see why now. Better than most of the drivel on TV. Although they could spend a little more time on the songs. Sounds like Randy Newman wrote the bulk of them.
Sorry, sorry, I'm just mad that I didn't get to hear Jack F'ing Bauer sing. Dang Emofoot taking all the screentime.
Well, thats about it. Although now I'm not sure if I like Ducky or Chomper better.
Oooo Oooo, almost forgot! Award for most 3d character goes to Petrie's Uncle Pterano! For being the only villain and one of the CHARACTERS to have not only a z-axis to their personality but to have real character development. I award Pterano the coveted "Christopher Lee Villian Award". Well deserving of being VAed by D'Artagnan.
K, I'm done.
~Tobe
Jack F'ing Bauer, SHEEEESH.
What? Go away I'm finished! Oh, right. *Clicks post*