Questions about anything

[Dr TeethFan]

Why do people like NASCAR?
It's just grown men in cars that keep turning left?
Most people(not all)are like "OMG HE TURNED LEFT,OMG HE TURNED AGAIN,I WONDER WHATS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT!
LETS GO TO COMMERCIAL,COME BACK IN TEN MINUTES,YOU AINT GONNA MISS A DANG THING!"

 

[CaseytheMuppet]

My grandfather was a race car driver, and I can assure you it was much more than that. There is a lot of tension, and it is really one of the most dangerous sports out there. My grandfather got in a bad, bad crash once, (fire engines had to come), so, you can't go off saying that it's just men in cars going left.

 

[Dr TeethFan]

My grandfather was a race car driver, and I can assure you it was much more than that. There is a lot of tension, and it is really one of the most dangerous sports out there. My grandfather got in a bad, bad crash once, (fire engines had to come), so, you can't go off saying that it's just men in cars going left.

It just dosen't amuse me

 

[beatnikchick300]

Well, Ratcliffe from Pocahontas is a weak villain anyway to hammer the point home about how Anvilicious and Oscar Baity that film was.

But then again, you look at the Disney villains...

Scar, while wanting power, also fell victim to the royal system that puts his nephew in front of him... Ursula was banished by Triton for some reason (discounting the canonical iffiness of them being brother and sister)... my personal favorite, though, goes to Yzma. Now, while she is evil and has evil intentions for taking over the kingdom (and in an episode of the TV show she does and it's awful), she works for a hero that's a complete self interested jerkwad, so you would actually almost feel sorry for her if she wasn't just as self centered and nasty. But then again, that movie's all about viciously subverting Disney movie cliches, and plays around with designated heroes and villains.

There's also Beauty and the Beast where Gaston, sack of crap that he is, isn't so much the villain as completely convinced that he's the hero of his own life. Wrong genre savy. His motivations are essentially wanting a woman that doesn't want him back for the reason that she doesn't want him while ignoring the blonde triplets that constantly throw themselves at him. It's ambition, sure, but he's deluded, not technically evil. If anything, he's as evil as Daffy Duck.

Even examples of villains who are bitter because of having bad bosses or just feeling like they've gotten the shaft doesn't, in my opinion, make them better or stronger villains than others (personally, some, like Scar, or Syndrome from The Incredibles, I find much too whiny and Wangst-y (TV Tropes, you never let me down!) to be sympathetic).


Something that leaves a bad taste in my mouth about some of the hatred Ratcliffe gets from fans is that a lot of his haters say he's too "sissy." Likely because of his hair and clothing (and his rather effeminate sycophant), but I still don't get it. Some of Disney's best loved villains are women, and even some of the male fan favorites (like Jafar, Ratigan, and others) have arguably feminine mannerisms. So...why the double standard? And why aren't people aware that rich men in 17th century England DID wear high heels, silk stockings, and yes, long hair with bows?

 

[Drtooth]

If there's one thing that I HATE about Disney villains, it's like the only ones that matter are the movie villains. What about the TV series or comic book villains? How come there's no respect for Magica DeSpell (who predated Ducktales by decades) or Megavolt or those guys? Pete barely seems to get any recognition in the villain circle, and he basically predates the Disney canon all together.

If there's a discussion about designated villains, no ones more designated than Bushroot. He seems to be a very reluctant villain that's just trying to be accepted. Yet he hangs around with the Fearsome Five who have much more sinister motives. His origin and the Christmas episodes are the only times I've seen him get even slightly malicious, and that's because of pushback for being treated shabbily.

 

[minor muppetz]

If there's one thing that I HATE about Disney villains, it's like the only ones that matter are the movie villains. What about the TV series or comic book villains? How come there's no respect for Magica DeSpell (who predated Ducktales by decades) or Megavolt or those guys? Pete barely seems to get any recognition in the villain circle, and he basically predates the Disney canon all together.

I recently wrote an article for The Mickey Mindset (heard of that site?) on the top ten Disney villains and included Megavolt (as well as The Big Bad Wolf). http://mickeymindset.blogspot.com/2013/11/ten-favorite-disney-villains.html

And another contirbutor did a top ten list on the same subject, and included a character from Phinease and Ferb. http://mickeymindset.blogspot.com/2013/12/mark-hansens-ten-favorite-disney.html

If there's a discussion about designated villains, no ones more designated than Bushroot. He seems to be a very reluctant villain that's just trying to be accepted. Yet he hangs around with the Fearsome Five who have much more sinister motives. His origin and the Christmas episodes are the only times I've seen him get even slightly malicious, and that's because of pushback for being treated shabbily.

It seems his appearances with the Fearsome Five are the only ones where he's not shown wanting to be accepted by others and being truly evil (more or less). He's probably willing to be part of a group of villains if that means getting acceptance from others.

 

[beatnikchick300]

If there's one thing that I HATE about Disney villains, it's like the only ones that matter are the movie villains. What about the TV series or comic book villains? How come there's no respect for Magica DeSpell (who predated Ducktales by decades) or Megavolt or those guys? Pete barely seems to get any recognition in the villain circle, and he basically predates the Disney canon all together.

They get plenty of love. It's just that outside of the nostalgia factor, a lot of Disney Afternoon shows of the '80s and '90s have slipped under the radar, while the animated canon films are considered more timeless (and as such, so are their villains), for the most part. I personally think Darkwing Duck had cool villains, but I never liked Ducktales that much (it was just kind of boring for me).

 

[D'Snowth]

Has Mill Creek pretty much become nothing more than the re-release season sets of shows that have already been previously released, but with no special features, and cut syndicated prints of the episodes studio?

 

[D'Snowth]

Is practically everything on cable edited with iMovie? I hear the exact same default iMovie sound effects on various different cable shows, promos, commercials, and such.

 

[minor muppetz]

Back to what I was asking earlier about pitching a series.... So networks/companies want a test pilot as opposed to reading a long detailed pitch explaining the show, and the networks/companies fund the pilots... So how does one convince them to fund a pilot? I doubt they would fund a pilot without knowing what the show is supposed to be about. I doubt they'd fund a pilot just because somebody wants to create a series.