Level3Kobold t1_jebg21l wrote on March 30, 2023 at 8:09 PM

Reply to comment by YouandWhoseArmy in How are you liking Season 3 of The Mandalorian so far? by esran7

Star Wars has multiple animated shows that are very good. Bad Batch was/is considerably better than both Obi Wan and Boba Fett and its the worst of their animated series.

So when you say "it's a live action cartoon show" I don't really know how to take that.

YouandWhoseArmy t1_jebkf0m wrote on March 30, 2023 at 8:37 PM

That you don’t know how to take it is literally addressed in the second part of my comment.

Level3Kobold t1_jebnd3m wrote on March 30, 2023 at 8:55 PM

And yet you don't explain what "its a live action cartoon" actually means.

I mean that's like saying "This movie feels like a book made of pictures." Profoundly uninformative for anyone who doesn't share your clearly present but obliquely expressed preconceptions.

BlueTeamRuless t1_jecp3gf wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:23 AM

> Andor was a great show. Mando is a fun one.

Lacking a full bore explication from them (which someone else was able to articulate elsewhere in this comment chain), does this not satisfy your question?

Level3Kobold t1_jecsxq6 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:52 AM

"Fun but not good" tells me something, but "like a live action cartoon" does not - especially not in the context of Star Wars media.

The explication posted by the other commenter doesn't particularly sound "cartoonlike", it just sounds like an action/adventure serial.

I mean Looney Tunes, Batman Beyond, and Bojack Horseman are all cartoons. Aside from all being cartoons, I can't think of much else they have in common, where you could say "oh yeah this just feels like a live action version of all of those".

MeatTornado25 t1_jecmhcd wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:03 AM

It's a live action cartoon in the sense that most episodes of the show are self contained adventures of little consequence that are only vaguely tied together by a bigger plot. The stakes aren't very high and action scenes are abundant, so the main characters are rarely in any real danger. The acting is just okay, truly emotional scenes can hit hard but are extremely rare. The main hook for most of the show is visual rather than anything character driven, making the story feel very surface level.