Gah, my DVDs-to-be-watched pile explodes!

[dvandom]

Due in stores today: final volume of the 90s Batman cartoon, second volume of Superman, season two volume one of Gargoyles, volume 2 of Clone Wars, and a token live action in the form of the Fantastic Four movie. Not to mention I ordered some BGC2040 from ADV's online sale last night (sale's over now, else I'd link). Tonight I'd better watch some MST3K and clear out my to-be-watched stack....

Edit: I decided to order BTAS, STAS and Gargoyles online. Saves a few bucks, and by the time they arrive I should be done with FF and Clone Wars. :)

Comments

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

You forgot Thundercats comes out today too... (Though I suppose you might not have picked that one up...)

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I've seen the ads inundating Cartoon Network, but I'm not interested in getting the Thundercats set. I've found that I generally like my favorite cartoons of the 80s better if I never actually watch them again. :) Although I suppose I might be interested in picking up the final volume of Thundercats, since I stopped being able to watch 'em regularly by that time.

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

Well I have picked up TFs, GIJoe and Thundercats. GIJoe is the only one that didn't age well for me. Still waiting on MASK and Voltron... ;D

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Of TF G1, I only picked up the final volume, because it had several eps I never saw*. I'm far more interested in 90s cartoons that I saw as an adult and am fairly confident won't have aged so badly. :)

* Yes, I got the set so I could see what the fuss was about Carnage in C-Minor.

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

And were you disappointed? *shudder* Awful awful episode...There are others that rank that high on the crap-o-meter, but not in Season 3. :D

Oooh, BGC2040

[zqadams.livejournal.com]

Excellent show...for the first 20 eps. It kind of (well, okay, TOTALLY) falls apart at the end, but I really enjoyed it.

Re: Oooh, BGC2040

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I got "Essentials" sets 2 and 3, which is what they had on sale. They also had volumes 5 and 6, but as far as I can tell, those are the same eps as Essentials volume 3.

The original BGC was one of the first subbed anime I watched all of, after Dirty Pair (of which I snagged a lot during a previous ADV sale). I also saw the first three BGCrash, but nothing after that. One of my favorite tapes in college was the Konya Wa Hurricane album.

Re: Oooh, BGC2040

[zqadams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Essential Anime releases from ADV are basically two-disc sets of previously released shows, with the dub tracks redone in 5.1 surround and more extras. So Essential v3=original release v5&6. Most Best Buys should have v1 for $12.99 if you want to see the beginning of the series.

Just don't expect the series to be anything like the original; it's a "re-imagining" with new character designs (sadly done in the AIC mid-90s house style; Sylia looks like Ifrita from El-Hazard, Maki looks like Tenchi Masaki) and a harder soundtrack (still good, but not on par with the original IMO)

Re: Oooh, BGC2040

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

I think they only ever made three episodes of Bubblegum Crash, didn't they?

My understanding of the original series was, I think, permanently warped by the fact that I first watched it without any translation at all, and the second time through it was with a wide-carriage band-printer printout of a horrific literal translation in my lap. I still don't really know what the hell was going on most of the time, and I've since watched the official sub a couple of times. :)

Re: Oooh, BGC2040

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, the fact I don't know if there were more than three shows about how much I cared at the time. :)

[j-anderson123.livejournal.com]

I'll likely only grab Batman for now. As Superman volume 1 still lingers, I can pick up both of them at my leisure. Besides, I still have Utena episodes to watch, I own the Love Hina perfect set, Dirty Pair, and, oh yeah, subtitled Sailor Moon(I got a bootleg of Stars with decent subs, it's amazing how much of Marvel's Onslaught saga copied this). Nevermind Emergency! and Columbo. Oh, and I should get around to the final episode of Cutey Honey someday(grabbed the $13 Essential set).

Carnage in C-Minor was lame. Even if the animation had been GOOD, it'd still have sucked. The plot was just bad.

Thundercats... I don't remember liking the show when I was a kid. Though I also hated GI Joe(come on! 2 armies shooting at each other and nothing gets hit!). TFs had some good points and was one of the better but still had some odd momemts. Real Ghostbusters was kinda the pinnacle... then NBC picked it up, forced changed, VAs were fired, and JMS quit, leaving us with some horrid episodes.

Not as if the 90s didn't have their share of lame... "Stunt Dawgs"? I odn't even know if it was widely seen, but it was crap. We pretty much NEEDED Timm's Batman.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Oh, not saying there wasn't lame stuff in the 90s too. But if I enjoyed it in the 90s, I will likely still enjoy it. If I enjoyed it in the 80s...well, no guarantees. Hell, I liked Liefeld in the 80s.

[j-anderson123.livejournal.com]

Batman TAS was sold out at every store I hit.