We’re in a renaissance of television animation at the moment. As the medium’s come to be taken more seriously in the West and been given more leeway in the kinds of stories it tells, there’s been a push to grapple with more substantive content. There was Aang’s struggle […]
There’s a difference, ever blurrier with the advent of social media, between being an audience member and being a critic. I don’t mean that in a social stratification sense of one being better than the other, with obviously more high minded and trustworthy opinions. The theoretical leveling of […]
Imagine: Kenneth Parcell as an adorable, fuzzy lollipop alien, traveling the galaxy to help people alongside his grumbly best friend (think Amethyst with a side of Marceline); never visiting the same planet twice, and constantly thwarting the fairly inept galactic conquest of a hulking, bratty skeleton overlord and […]