Winter’s Lighting has a slow-building suspense much like Winter’s Darkness and to be sincere, at first I believed I was not going to savor the follow up. But by the 50 percent way level I was switching the webpages easily to discover out what occurred next.
I, for one, didn't care for the heavy metal theme. If anything, it just reminded me of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I guess they need work for the other eleven months of the year, so why not do covers of theme songs?
Ok, you know? The music is good, but if someone has to make a fan-made Game of Thrones intro pony ripoff, I won't accept anything less than a map of Equestria with gear-operated Canterlot and Ponyville emerging from the land.
I know, I'm getting too exigent. But hey, the Simpsons did it.
Mr. Rob Bricken's declining view on Bronies:
5/20/2011: "You know, I was going to feel bad that Hitler has become a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan like myself, but then I realized that's less a slight on MLP fans and more a credit to MLP's insane appeal -- even mass-murdering fuckheads find the adventures of Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Twilight and the rest adorable! "
1/5/2012: "From the New York Times:'An article on Monday about Jack Robinson and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger Syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children's show "My Little Pony" that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover.'
Allow me to sum up my feelings on this matter with one image:http://www.toplessrobot.com/as..."1/27/2012: You know what I like about Bronys? It's that while they enjoy a cartoon primarily targeted to young girls, they aren't necessarily perverts. They simply enjoy the show, realize there's something inherently ridiculous about grown men enjoying a girl's cartoon, and have turned it into its own little thing...I just appreciate that, for the part, the Brony movement is seemingly benign."2/28/2012: " For the record, I approve of MLP:FIM, but reading the Amazon reviews on this [DVD] is just terrifying."
3/30/2012: " The My Little Pony thing bothers me in the same way that things like cuddle parties do. Simply put, I find the manufactured cuteness of Brony culture disquieting."So from Happy Picard to Benign to Disquieting. At this rate, Rob, by this time next year you'll be ransacking stores for MLP merchandise, burning it, and putting said burning on youtube.
I had the same disheartened reaction, until I realized that Chris wrote this one, and is apparently not a Brony. Rob might still be in the stable, but he shows a lot of love for MLP.
I think it's the catch phrase, Chris, that deters them from remaking Pound Puppies. With the asshole-riffic tendencies of little brats of today, it won't be long until "Pound Puppies, let's start pounding!" becomes an euphemism for sex jokes.
And once that happens, the furries are gonna come a-flooding. And Rob's drink tabs are gonna come a-pilin'. Sorry, I suck at rhymes.
I would like to point out that Pound Puppies HAS a rebooted show, and it even features the voice talents of the amazing John DiMaggio, but it's still a fucking terrible cartoon with less comedic value, animation consitency and all around enjoyability than Lauren Faust's ponies. If it makes you feel any better, the last of the Faust era episodes premieres saturday and could mark the begining of the end for the fanbase and possibly the show itself.
I don't know if Pound Puppies is trying too hard to appeal adults or kids. Look at the fucking cast and crew!
It was good, granted I haven't actually seen game of thrones.My personal favorite MLP mash ups are: "samurai applejack", or the "pony league unlimited"
Ponies got a comeback because the new Pony show is actually decent (extremely overrated to a bizarre extreme, but shockingly good for My Little Pony) and the new Pound Puppies show is just as mediocre as you'd expect.
"...the rock version of the Game of Thrones theme featured here is pretty top notch."
Welcome to last year, dipshit. Enjoy your stay.
Actually, it was Rob who not only promoted this version of the theme last year, but the multi-part string theme, too, and the mix featuring both versions.
I think that the music from Game of Thrones is absolutely weak and uninspired. They could've done anything they wanted and they gave us limpdick scoring that is in no way memorable. The whole thing was composed in a paint-by-numbers fashion.
And the rock theme version is even dumber.
On the other hand, while My Little Pony is a legitimately good show. Including the music. Dunno if it makes me a brony for being willing to admit that, but it's awesome that as an adult well outside the intended audience, I can watch some G-rated cartoons and still be entertained.
"I think that the music from Game of Thrones is absolutely weak and uninspired."
And you're completely and totally wrong.
Yeah, the score of Game of Thrones isn't one of its strong points, but really, it does its job honestly and that's it. If a work is a sum of awesome, awesome, awesome, and adequate, the result is maybe-not-perfect-but-still-quite-awesome. I can name better works than Game of Thrones, but it's still only a long running TV series, not a 300,000,000 $ movie.
Well, he does make a good point about scoring being important. Just look at Bear McCreary and BSG: the mood of that show would be absolutely different with different scoring, and (I'd argue) much worse for it. The fact that none of the scoring in GoT is memorable means that it has no impact on the dramatic feel of the show, and that's a big step back for TV scoring. I probably have overly high standards (I'm a composer myself, but not for soundtracks), but there are plenty of cases where the scoring of a series has a significant effect on the show's overall feel. And "me" does a decent job of giving some concrete examples of that very thing.
So, maybe don't bite his head off for having an opinion and being insistent about it?
Obviously, *I* give a fuck. Which is why it's such a problem. Music is absolutely part of the experience of visual entertainment. You can't say that TV shows like Angel or the X-Files weren't enhanced by the expertise underlying their scoring.
Er, yes. Like, really REALLY really. The theme is fucking amazing. As for the scoring during the episodes, who gives a fuck? It doesn't distract from the storytelling, it's not "memorable" but if you're watching TV shows for their scores you've kind of missed the point.
And watch your fucking tone, son.
Really?
REALLY?
In the, what? 10 hours of the show that has been broadcast thusfar, the only even remotely memorable bit is the theme, and that's only because you've heard it every time you've seen an episode.
The thing is, the scoring is absolutely the only complaint I have about Game of Thrones. The show really is otherwise exactly as it should be. But compared to some of the epic work that Bear McCreary or Howard Shore have done in recent memory, it was a huge fucking let-down for something that really could have risen to the same level of quality and prominence as the rest of the production if only someone had considered the scoring important enough to get right in the first place.
Because the message of "Pound Puppies" encouraged animal abuse.What kind of sick freak wants to encourage children to beat up on innocent baby dogs?
There is a new series. It's a flash animated series like Friendship is Magic. The new Pound Puppies series is something like Hogan's Heroes with the dogs being an undercover band of operatives that work to find homes for dogs.
So, does that mean the dogs constantly ruin the adoption plans of other animals so dogs get adopted instead ?
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