You! Stop Spitting On My Childhood's Grave!

[here_inmyhead]

It's interesting what you find on LJ these days...

Disney irks me to no end these days. Did you hear about their latest sacrilege? They're making a 3D Winnie the Pooh series for his 80th anniversary, but this time "to make it more relevant to today's world" they're replacing Christopher Robin with a 6-year-old tomboy girl. Also note that the series' name is "My Friends Tigger and Pooh." Tigger suddenly comes before Pooh?

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To quote the "FF2" translation of Rydia from FF4:

"SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM~!"

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Rant ahead

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Why is it such a bad thing to keep the story the way it is? Because having a male protagonist is OMG SEXIST, and any story with a female protagonist is OMG BAD cause the girl is OMG WEAK and perpetuates a baaaad stereotype?

If people want little girls to see strong female characters, they should read stories like Pippi Longstocking and Matilda. Great stories, great leads, no bloodshed and leather miniskirts required.

At the very least, they could've just added a girl without replacing Christopher Robin. :P

Re: Rant ahead

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

I'm actually angry about the modernizing of our old things--dude, leave them as they are, I don't like a lot of present things in today's society, the old shows and movies are my comfort! T__________T

Matilda = TEH RAWWWWK

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[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Aww, The Cheat. T_T *pets him*

Yeah, I know what you mean. I felt the same way about Nickelodeon as a whole, and I don't like super-modernized hip-hop versions of old Disney favorites. I loved Goof Troop and Disney's Doug, though.

I watched that movie over and over again during the Christmas vacation of my 8th grade year. :D

[pimmy.livejournal.com]

..GUH. that stinks a lot of arse.


.... amitheonlyonewhoreallydoesntliketiggerthatmuch?

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

*sniff* I knoooow. T-T

I like Tigger--but geez, it's POOH for crying out loud! It's his show, not Piglet's or Tigger's or Rabbit's or anything. :(

Speaking of which... I rememebered that I like Eeyore. :33

[pimmy.livejournal.com]

indeed.

I remembered I liked Rabbit :D

*scrolls down* you know not EVERYONE hates Chris :D;;;;;

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

Poor Rabbit, always getting his garden dug up or bounced on... XDDD;; (By the way, do you remember Cassie? You know, the blue bird he took care of? That was sweeeeeeeet~! T_____T)

I know. XDDD I'm just bitter and mean, but at the character, not you. ;D

[metaraymek.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

That sorta thing didn't work for Metal Gear Solid (Raiden), F-Zero (Rick Wheeler), Sonic (Chris Thorndyke) and Batman (Azrael, old comic story from the early '90s). I don't see it working for Pooh.

I forsee this one getting seriously mangled/spun before it takes off the ground, ala 'Loonatics'. (Which in actuallity isn't THAT bad, but there are better things on TV these days)

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

And dude, lord knows I've wanted to throw darts at Chris--why do they keep making characters like him now? It's like, hellooooo, we don't care about them... *SIGH*

Yep. Same here. *imagines all that was once cool about Disney sitting in the rain holding up signs with messages like "wil rak lawn 4 cash" here*

[metaraymek.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a good explaination for the whole 'new character' thing on a Hellboy MB a year or so ago about why they chose original character John Meyers over a comic mainstay like Kate Corrigan and the like:

They wanted to have the 'everyman' character, so audiences can identify with them and experience the set world from 'their' perspective, or something of the sorts.

I think it went like that, but you get the general idea. Now in theory it's a good idea. I'm using that basis for my SSB fic, only Eirika from Fire Emblem 8 is the 'everyman' role. More often than not, it backfires, depending on how the character is written.

Chris just devolved into a Mary Sue-esque archetype that makes, say, Sally Acorn from the Archie Comics look like an average joe.

... Well, that's an exaggeration (as Sally is a prime example of a Sue, but let's not get too much into Archie here), but you just don't alter Sonic Adventure 2 like that. Having Chris be the one to convince Shadow instead of Amy about Maria's promise just guts the whole emotion and feeling of the sequence. By that point in the show, everyone hates Chris so much, they've made about 50 voodoo dolls of the person who came up with him in the first place. XD;;;

As for the 'tomboyish girl' in Pooh, I can only see her fall victim to the typical tomboy archetype that is so prevalent in cartoons. Who wants to bet we'll get more than 1 'grrl power!~1'-themed episodes? XD;;;

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

Ahh... the everyman! I get what you mean. *nodnod* I've known myself to use Toad as an "everyman" in one of my discontinued fics--like, usually as long as these characters are minor and/or don't take up that much of the main character's spotlight, they're fine. However simple the everyman may be though, they're really easy to screw up: make one wrong move, and bang! Wrong move, and he/she sucks.

I didn't mind John Meyers that much, but then again, I didn't think about him either. My parents rented the movie, I'll have to watch it again. *nod* Chris however, was a leech--was it really THAT nessessary to become that important in SA2 all the sudden? I agree about the whole Chris-replacing-Amy scene, too: it killed all the original impact the scene in the game had, and it Chris was just WHINING to Shadow, ("Stop, Shadow! You can't destroy the Earth, there are good people down there! Why do you want revenge when these good people when they've done you no wrong? It isn't FAIIIIIIIIR~~!") so no wonder he was so peeved. ("Fair!? Let me tell YOU about what isn't FAIR!") At least one thing we can get out this is Shadow flinging Chris against the wall multiple times.

Oh yeah... yes. @.@ Whatever happened to girl power when you didn't have to be a tomboyish brat? Can't you be strong for your character and not being a snob who thinks she's special 'cause she wears pants and burns dolls? Oh wait, you're either a stereotypically weak damsel-in-distress, or you're an uber-femmenazi that throws a shriekfest at the mention of wearing a dress or "behaving like a lady". *rolls eyes*

[boombaibe.livejournal.com]

The new Pooh news is just... Wrong. =(

Tigger's probably hyped up on something... Always bouncing around like a nut... XD Pooh goes first! Alphabetical order!!!

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

It iiiiiis. T____T

Yes! Think think think, you guys! Think of the alphabeeeet~! :o