Recent content by zimbach

It was the censorship that provoked that rewrite. The Shredder having an army of robots wouldn't have made any sense without access to advanced alien technology.

Blunt force trauma is less visibly injurious (though often in reality equally or more damaging) than cutting or impaling, as rarely is blood shed. The sight of blood is one of the big taboos in children's programming. Stabbing can also be seen as a subliminal metaphor for sexual penetration, and...

This is just the first week. I'm sure there are some refinements of the new packaging already in the works, and I expect they will show increased integration with the program characters in the coming months.

I recall at least one other series being made: "Tower Prep", descriptions of which strike me as something between Lost and a sanitized Battle Royale, which I'd be happy to be completely wrong about.

Yes, long hair is difficult to animate, especially in the international production model. Things like flowing hair, crashing waves and similar things are generally handed off to effects animators, and for TV cartoons there isn't any extra money for such specialists, nor the directorial...

Well, they did recently acquire a new very little girl. I understand that has occupied much of their time.

With the holiday season upon us, CN has really fallen off the rails with all the mediocre live action kids' feature films, most from Disney. If they were on just a couple regularly scheduled slots a week AND they had some relation to a cartoon property, then they might bug me for just being...

Oh, no (unless you were being sarcastic). They're still there, and if anything are even more severe, though the specific priorities may have shifted. The program creatives are just a bit better at standing up to them, but only just.

No, not really. Just a product placement/holiday special sponsorship parody.

More to the point, the lasers that do exist that are capable of significantly harming a person are too large and heavy to make effective hand weapons. That makes laser guns "fantasy weapons", therefore not imitatable and OK for kids. Imitibility seems to be the biggest concern for S&Ps. Any...

To be fair, CourtTV (TruTV before it was rebranded) produced The Smoking Gun puppet show for Adult Swim. Also there are the runs of Family Guy and The Clone Wars on TBS. Not saying you're wrong (there probably was a payment between the divisions), just pointing out exceptions are possible...

It's like they assumed nobody is going to watch anyway this week, so to heck with the schedule, not that it was all that coherent before. Why bother to counter-program against falling asleep on the couch while your drunk uncle watches football? At least thee is no sign of any CN Real shows...

I've known plenty of women who neglect their hygiene, but by and large the geeky guys stink more than even the broad majority of geeky girls. That being said, women around age 10-17 dominate commercial culture, certainly with regard to whom is marketed fashion and music. I think the studios...

We are starting to see payoffs of what was set up in the first three seasons. The fact that each season has taken nearly two years to produce would make it difficult to follow, but there have been ample reruns and DVD sets to help newer or more casual viewers to catch up. The show is rich in...

While we have seen positive improvements in recent weeks. I feel it is premature to declare an end to this dark time.