Totally Spies!

[athena]

I can't belive this show's on the site.
I just wanted to drop a quick note... the fact that "Totally Spies!" is rapidly rising through the ranks--or falling, depending on how you look at it--and will eventually end up on Keyframe's Top 5 Worst TV series is *exactly* why it's on the site... it is popular and it is terrible, and thus it is worth the viewer equivalent of a Surgeon General's Warning... watching this series will cause your eyeballs to seize and your brains to dribble out your ear... avoid at all costs.


I say, be proud.
Rant loud.
:bazooka:

[Toonboy]

Hee hee. I'm only sorry that Totally Spies is taking the crown(or maybe it's dunce cap) because I've seen far worse alternate-reality-inducing cartoons. Has anybody ever heard of 6Teen? Or The X's? Both are animated in that annoying, flat, paper doll look(I don't know how else to describe the style). 6Teen's animation looks like the kind you would see in commercials like the Wheat Thins one or some kind of Playtex commercial. XD And the show is another teen cliche-athon in that all teens only think about hanging out and shopping at the mall and talking like they do in Totally Spies or surfer movies. :P And is The X's supposed to be like James Bond? I mean what the heck is that? Can't people at least even attempt witty writing and staying away from archetypes anymore?

[athena]

Has anybody ever heard of 6Teen?

Okay, here I must object because I'll admit to actually watching 6Teen... intentionally, even... where Totally Spies basks in its teeny-bopper shallowness, 6Teen pokes a lot of fun at the teenage condition. It's a smart little show and I find the animation WAY less annoying than Totally Spies' inane anime pretentions.

[Toonboy]

Oh well. At any rate, the current object of my rage is Kids Next Door. XD

[Toonboy]

Is it just me, or does Totally Spies seem kinda. . . shiny? Like someone just coated the animation with a whole bunch of turtle wax.

[Juuchan17]

Yes. It is uber-shiny. It's blinding . . . . Hahahahaha.

Don't forget to wear your shades when/if you watch it.

[MonkeyFunk]

As dismal as the series is, I think it gets a lot of unfair flack for its anime stylings. I mean, no-one ever complains about Asterix imitating American cartoons.

...well, okay, Asterix doesn't have the irritating facefalls, but that's something found in real anime too.

[P.C. Unfunny]

As dismal as the series is, I think it gets a lot of unfair flack for its anime stylings. I mean, no-one ever complains about Asterix imitating American cartoons.

Is there really a difference between European and American cartoons ?

[MonkeyFunk]

Is there really a difference between European and American cartoons ?

If there's really a difference between Japanese and American cartoons, then yes, there's a difference between European and American cartoons too.

[P.C. Unfunny]

If there's really a difference between Japanese and American cartoons, then yes, there's a difference between European and American cartoons too.


I can see a difference in anime because of the art style and animation technqiues. However, I just don't see any between American and European cartoons. I may just not be seeing something.

[MonkeyFunk]

Well, it depends what european country you're talking about. If you take the UK, you can see that its earliest animated series are derived far more from children's books than from American animation - a lot of narration, more emphasis on illustration than actual aniamtion, and so forth. So something like Noggin the Nog or Captain Pugwash is no closer to, say, The Flintstones than Astro Boy is. More recently the UK seems to have gone in for stop-motion far more than America, too.

The Czech Republic has a strong puppetry tradition, so Czech animators like Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Trnka often use puppets.

With France, well, there are French cartoons that look American (Asterix), French cartoons that look Japanese (Totally Spies) and French cartoons that, well, don't really look like either (Triplets of Belleville).

[P.C. Unfunny]

Well, it depends what european country you're talking about. If you take the UK, you can see that its earliest animated series are derived far more from children's books than from American animation - a lot of narration, more emphasis on illustration than actual aniamtion, and so forth. So something like Noggin the Nog or Captain Pugwash is no closer to, say, The Flintstones than Astro Boy is. More recently the UK seems to have gone in for stop-motion far more than America, too.

The Czech Republic has a strong puppetry tradition, so Czech animators like Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Trnka often use puppets.

With France, well, there are French cartoons that look American (Asterix), French cartoons that look Japanese (Totally Spies) and French cartoons that, well, don't really look like either (Triplets of Belleville).


I see what you mean now.