Unoriginal
This TV show sounds very much like the 1992 Hulk Hogan sci-fi comedy Suburban Commando.
shareNo offence intended. Hollywood and the television industry really needs to come up with fresh new ideas. Instead of reusing old ideas and doing all these reboots, sequels, prequels and remakes.
shareYeah, cause I'm so sure Disney would look to a 1991 Hulk Hogan bomb for inspiration.
This show is a tribute to the magical girl-style animes that a lot of people grew up with (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, etc).
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shareLiterally everything is built on plagiarism. Some philosophers argue that humans are not capable of original thought.
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Actually, a lot of modern movie tropes and ways of telling stories are based on animation principles. Snow White helped bring about character based movies and the family movie was essentially invented by Disney.
Yeah, cause I'm so sure Disney would look to a 1991 Hulk Hogan bomb for inspiration.
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From the IMDb: "The tagline "Move over, Shep Ramsay!" was an obvious nod to 1991's "Suburban Commando" which the main protagonist Shep Ramsay (Hulk Hogan), an intergalactic warrior goes to stay with the Wilcox family as an tenant, whilst doing battle with the evil General Suitor and bounty hunters sent by Suitor to Earth to deal with him. In this cartoon, Star Butterfly is a intergalactic warrior whom lives with the Diaz Family, whilst fighting the forces of evil."
Not that I recall this particular Hogan flick, but that would've been one huge coincidence if it weren't part of the inspiration.
BUT, yes, this does also look like a direct...well, perhaps not copy, but similar successor to the "magical girl" toons (I'm thinking of Sailor Moon, of course, as well as ones like Juniper Lee, PPG, Winx & W.I.T.C.H...) My first impression was that it sounded unnecessarily redundant, and maybe I'm also a little turned off by the current Disney/Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon style of animation, which might be TOO doodly-cartoony-looking for me. I dunno. Every time they announce a new series, it has "that look" to it (just saw an ad on Nick as well), & my automatic reaction is, "ANOTHER one?!? How? Why?" Apparently, though, this one is pretty funny, which I guess is a good enough reason to animate. I don't wanna write it or any show off without getting a better taste.
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Never saw that movie, but I got a "Simple Wish" vibe from this show (magical being with wand who does incorrect spells).
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That's every story ever. Aspects of real life and past ventures combined. Star vs. The Forces of Evil has aspects of Simple Wish, Suburban Commando, numerous animes, numerous Disney TV franchises, and likely hundreds of other influences and similarly every single one of those things likely borrowed from something else. By this logic, Simple Wish was just a rip off of old Disney fairy tales. Suburban Commando is just another fish out of water story.
That a plot has similarities doesn't make it unoriginal and in this case, doesn't even necessarily mean that THAT is where they took the inspiration from. It's reaching. No one is going to watch Suburban Commando and Star vs. The Forces of Evil and go "Nope, too similar. It's unoriginal". That's preposterous.
They totally JACKED Sailor Moon's moon stick! They didn't even change the design! Just turned it from pink to slightly pink/purple! I am disappoint...
shareI think because of Adventure Time, studios want to cash in on its popularity by mimicking the animation style. Also, i think it's a nod to anime (which adventure time in itself also is), with its highly stylized animation styles.
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"I think because of Adventure Time, studios want to cash in on its popularity by mimicking the animation style." That would definitely appear to be the case for...almost every cartoon, save for My Little Pony and maybe a couple others.
sharei'm confused. are you mocking me or what?
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Huh? I agreed with what you said...
shareOh I see, well i was confused because i havent seen every cartoon out there, but it does seem like a lot of new ones have the same style as adventure time.
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I try to sample as many as possible because I've always adored animation, but it looks as if every cartoon on TV now has the same basic style--cartoony, doodley, simplistic, and unrealistic in the extreme. The techniques for sketching blobby or wobbly-looking characters and such are so similar from one set to another. Not saying the style is horrible, and obviously some people enjoy it...but it doesn't appeal to me at all. I find it more ugly- or lazy-looking than cute.
sharei'm confused. are you mocking me or what?
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