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Post by ZoDy on Sept 19, 2010 11:41:10 GMT
I loved the show as a youngster but even I can admit the show has gotten a lil weak now. But personaly what does everyone else think about the show? Is it time for Matt Groening to call it quits? Or will you feel lost without the yellow family on your screens anymore?
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Post by Eyz on Sept 19, 2010 13:04:41 GMT
Haters really hate the "modern Simpsons" nowadays..and I ask...are these "haters" people who actually watched the Simpsons back then?! Or people jumping on the bandwagon?
I'm actually sort of a fan (watched a lot of episodes "back then" as a kid...then stopped.. and it's only in these recent years I've been watching it again). The show didn't start that super-great in my eyes.. it only got better by Season 2-3... The real bad seasons are in the past now, like around 15th and until the recent ones. But season 20 had some mixed episodes, and some good ones. I actually quite loved season 21!
I say they should continue! It's pretty rare (in fact, isn't it the longest running tv show now?) that a series can hit and continue past 20 seasons!! I find it quite impressive! They seem to still have fun with the characters and the concept. And I think I'll be sad the day the Simpsons will be no more (it will happen, at some point, let's be realistic), I wanna enjoy watching new stories with Homer, Bart, Lisa and all the others.. Just a little more~
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Post by pitchblackdragon on Oct 4, 2010 10:56:15 GMT
I have to say I'm watching the Simpsons since....well I don't even know when I started I think I was 7 or 8 years old. I really love them because of their awesome jokes but ever since those new HD Episodes I don't watch them anymore. We all know that Simpson is the classic Cartoon everybody knows but they should stop now. 20 years are enough.
I now watch Family Guy more than Simpson
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Post by Eyz on Oct 4, 2010 12:07:28 GMT
I'm not a big fan of Family Guy's design..I guess to each their own. But reaching more than 20 seasons, that's quite something! I wouldn't want it to stop, not yet :/ The current Season and S21 last year were actually pretty smart and better than 20, I think
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Post by pitchblackdragon on Oct 4, 2010 12:56:53 GMT
well it might be also a thing that in the german translation the old voice actress of Marge has quit (or died, I dunno) and the new one just sounds horrible. That might also be a reason why I don't like the new episodes
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Post by Eyz on Oct 4, 2010 14:09:47 GMT
Oh. The english voice actors seem to still be having a lot of fun! Specially Homer/Dan Castellaneta seems to be having a blast, despite how much years have passed. (Homer's getting crazier ever year!)
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Post by James on Oct 5, 2010 12:23:37 GMT
Jup Pitch, the German actress for Marge died. But due to the fact that the german SCRIPT and spoken dialoge is, in the eyes of fans, not true to the original and waaaay less funny, it's recommended to watch the English dub in any way. I mean, just WATCH how great they are :
And well, they COULD stop the show, but I guess they can also let it go, as long as there's nothing that could be taken in place in terms of quality, fun etc. Well, there IS Futurama of course, even thought that series has a whole new setting...
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Post by Sors the Bloodedge on Oct 5, 2010 12:49:21 GMT
I prefer the old episodes, mainly because most of them were just incredibly funny and enjoyable to watch.
I have to say that a lot of the newer episodes, let alone the current season, is just bland and to be honest, has lost its touch. The only episode I remember enjoying out of the new ones was the episode that satirised 'World of Warcraft' .
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Post by ontels on Oct 5, 2010 18:02:27 GMT
I love The Simpsons above any other series and I don't think it should ever stop! As for it apparentlly getting worse I have to compleately disagree, I think it's getting better!
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Post by pitchblackdragon on Oct 5, 2010 19:22:47 GMT
Thanks James I DO watch the english versions. At least I did with the new ones but I just loved the german voice actors too ^^ I also watch the new Futurama Episodes and Family Guy episodes in english
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Post by Eyz on Oct 6, 2010 7:57:49 GMT
ontels: Well said! Sure, I prefer Futuram & The Venture Bros. over the Simpsons..but be it older or new seasons. It's just a different type of show~ At least, the Simpsons still criticise stuff and comment on today's topics like it did before. (only now, it criticise Apple, modern films, internet trends, etc..) That's how it kept being actualized over the year and staying fresh, at least in my eyes.
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Post by ontels on Oct 6, 2010 19:16:01 GMT
Now that you think about it as long as the world keeps changing The Simpsons will allways have new material.
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Post by SassiKittyCat on Oct 7, 2010 20:30:13 GMT
Fun show, never really getting around to watching it, has so many dramatic changes now. But don't get me wrong, I love the Simpsons, been a fan since I was eight. Preferred the older seasons, always had some classic epic moments.
Problem is, all these documentry shows always seem to place The Simpsons at number one...*scoffs*...what do they know?
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Post by Eyz on Oct 8, 2010 8:13:42 GMT
Fun show, never really getting around to watching it, has so many dramatic changes now. I'd say quite the opposite. Sure it changed the content, parodies, modern critiques, etc.. alongside the changes we had from the 80s to today...but it never changed anything in it. They still have the same age (how many adventure did they have at those ages?!?) They still live in the same place, with the same community, the same primary cast, etc.. The problem may be, and I understand the haters in that aspect, it's always more of the same...20 years of the same type of stories. .. Anyway, I still like it. It's not, simply, my favorite show (but I guess it has never really been) I watch it, follow it. But I never bought a season of the Simpsons on DVD.
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Post by rogerfromimp on Oct 8, 2010 20:01:55 GMT
I like the simpsons, and any comedy show like Southpark, the most when they have smaller, silly stories.
I love it when Bart and Lisa have to deal with a crazy killer babysitter, or solving the Krusty mystery case with Sideshow Bob and all that. Even the new episodes occasionally have just a fun episode, I remember one where Marge has to pick up Maggie from school and keeps getting in mad situations straight out of a puzzle brain teasing book.
What I hate about the Simpsons is that the drama doesn't work anymore, because every member of the family already learned every lesson and went trough every moral that's physically possible. I was soo angry and bored duing the simpsons movie when we had to sit trough another "Will Homer learn that his family is more important then (insert random item/ Job/ friend/ animal from current episode)" moral. We've been trough that a million times already. The only lline that made me laugh (unintentionally) was Marge's "Homer, in every marriage you get one chance to say:I need you." or something. One chance per Marriage? More like once per every damn episode.
Will Bart Simpson choose for Homer or Ned Flanders as his Da...hey, didn't that happen in a previous episode? And another one with Burns as a possible alternative father for Bart and Barney and..and.. Why would I invest in character drama when it keeps repeating over and over with not a single reference of "hey, didn't we do this before"?
And worse, the show does occasionaly lampshade it, acknowledge the fact they make these flaws. I hate lampshading. If the writers admit their flaws, they better either do a full parody, or fully acknowledge continuity and try to build the moral and character development a level deeper , and don't just "haha, it's stupid how we keep repeating the same plot huh? so let's do it again!" over it.
Southpark was great fun when it was about the boys growing up in South park, having camping trips and dealing with class and strange dreams and that stuff in their own mad and crude way with lot's of silly jokes, but now every episodes needs a BIG statement about today's world. And the moral is always the same "both sides are kinda right, calm down and act normal" Bleh.
As soon as shows stop being small scaled and try to be more and more and more epic every episode, it quickly jumps the shark. Big episodes need to be used with respect and with long intervals inbetween to be powerfull.
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