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Title: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 04:19:50 AM

The Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes Season 1 Episode 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWkf5FqFebE#ws)

No way this is going to last long before a DCMA takedown, but full episodes of this series I just discovered tonight, so watch while you can.  I found it gratifyingly smart and well-done.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Zoid on January 02, 2013, 04:28:23 AM

 8) ;b;

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:01:15 PM

The Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes Season 1 Episode 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GRtCCIRHM#ws)

Huh.  It seems to load more smoothly embedded here.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:02:02 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E03 - Iron Man is Born! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSQVKm6pmo#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:03:07 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E04 - Thor the Mighty! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6CfoPE5RzU#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:04:05 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E05 - Hulk vs the World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6H_crqn9c0#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:05:39 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E06 - Meet Captain America (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQVNRAETTVw#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:06:02 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E07 - The Man in the Ant Hill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMri-94OQk8#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:07:20 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E08 - Some Assembly Required (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lOf9EmctY#ws)

I haven't watched most of these yet, and since they play better for me here than on YouTube...

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:07:55 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E09 - Living Legend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AaHrYYexIc#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:12:34 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E10 - Everything Is Wonderful (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZWMsml-iv0#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:13:00 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E11 - Panther's Quest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGnePYnsyFg#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:21:02 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E12 - Gamma World - Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPFgu5sD4K4#ws)

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 02, 2013, 06:22:43 PM

Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - S01E13 - Gamma World - Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQEtbjYd9fk#ws)

Disabled?  SAY WHAT?

I guess I'll have to start a new thread when I've watched this far, if I can't find a setting to change...

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Unorthodox on January 02, 2013, 06:42:35 PM

Wonder if this'll hit netflix.  I rarely watch full videos on a computer...

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Green1 on January 03, 2013, 02:45:39 PM

I will admit, the newer supers cartoons are MUCH better written than some of the unwatchable crap us older guys had to put up with. Remember 1970s/early 80s Superfriends? /gag.

Still, no supers universe has still gotten it right. Ever notice no matter how many catastrophies happen to the city, it is always bussiness as usual and no damage to the city next episode?

Off topic, but I think there was only one setting that got the whole "superhuman" folks popping up gotten right: an old roleplaying game series called the Trinity series. First one was called Adventure that was set in Captain America's (1920s-1940s) era with the first supers. Second one, Abherrant set in 1990s with supers becoming VERY commonplace. The last, Trinity, set post apopolyptic where wars between supers have decimated everything and alien races are around. The comics world, if more "realistic" would resemble Trinity more.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 03, 2013, 03:11:40 PM

Yeah, well, as a consumer of escapist fantasies, I'm not gonna sit through any more stories about 9/11.  There are limits, and I reached them years ago.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Green1 on January 03, 2013, 03:48:37 PM

Quote from: BUncle on January 03, 2013, 03:11:40 PM

Yeah, well, as a consumer of escapist fantasies, I'm not gonna sit through any more stories about 9/11.  There are limits, and I reached them years ago.

No, BU... not sob stories of normals. Almost all cartoons do now have (some) character development nowadays. Even My Little Pony is doing that (god forbid). I want gritty, realistic world development. Let the reprocussions from battles affect from one episode to the next.

Oh yeah... and main characters need to die.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 03, 2013, 03:50:12 PM

Meh. 

Escapist. Fantasy.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Unorthodox on January 03, 2013, 06:51:15 PM

Quote from: Green1 on January 03, 2013, 03:48:37 PM

I want gritty, realistic world development. Let the reprocussions from battles affect from one episode to the next.

Oh yeah... and main characters need to die.

Those are few and far between.  Batman: The Animated Series of the 80's/90's probably the best, followed by the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited (both rather brief), all headed by pretty much the same team of writers. 

The old 80's/90's Xmen series is another that springs to mind. 

No, cities might not remain leveled, but there were usually reprocussions that carried from one episode to the next.  Perhaps most drastic in the Justice League Unlimited run. 

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 03, 2013, 06:54:32 PM

Justice League Unlimited FTW!

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Unorthodox on January 03, 2013, 06:55:16 PM

I typically hate DC (outside Batman), but JLU kicked some serious ass. 

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 03, 2013, 06:57:59 PM

It's tough to put a finger on why it was so good.  The pre-Unlimited seasons were merely okay, often pretty dull.  It can't have been as simple as all the cameos of assorted supers walking around the sattelite...

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Unorthodox on January 03, 2013, 07:05:09 PM

It was the 'dark'/realistic world that suddenly sprang up.  Governments getting all anxious about this super powered space base with a mega laser pointing at earth manned by superhumans, and all.  The whole levels of grey on the right/wrong of the multiple sides, etc.  Often you could realistically question the hero's actions (and many people did).  No one was ever totally right/wrong with few exceptions.  JL lacked much of that for the first half-3/4 of it's run until they setup the unlimited run at the end. 

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 03, 2013, 07:32:53 PM

So a lot of it's down to better villains and stories that were about something?  That's probably it, yes.  The first two seasons suffered from lame, often faceless menaces.

...

I've started a second thead with the rest of the first season here (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=2866.0).  The OP has my impression as of the first 12 episodes posted in this thread.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Unorthodox on January 03, 2013, 07:58:20 PM

Villains make the story. 

Any story. 

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 05, 2013, 08:00:14 PM

No doubt, no doubt.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Unorthodox on January 06, 2013, 10:23:17 PM

The hulk...ugh.

Episode 2 or 3 I think. 

Bad enough they expect me to believe a rocket launcher ripped off a helicopter still might work, but to have the Hulk attempt to use it as anything other than a club is just horrible...and then he's cracking one liners in the middle of it all?  Heroic Hulk always has this problem to some degree, but this is as bad as "Planet Hulk".  At least Planet Hulk had more rage. 

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 07, 2013, 12:26:53 AM

Yeah, not that the classic retarded Hulk is right for early Avengers either, but I fancied that that version would have been sorta fun in a team, al la all those years in the Defenders, with the coaxing and bribing with beans.  This version is sorta none of the charm of the retarded Hulk with none of the dramatic possibilities of the truly thuggish Hulk who was around to found the team in the comics. 

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Unorthodox on January 07, 2013, 12:33:49 AM

Quote from: BUncle on January 07, 2013, 12:26:53 AM

Yeah, not that the classic retarded Hulk is right for early Avengers either, but I fancied that that version would have been sorta fun in a team, al la all those years in the Defenders, with the coaxing and bribing with beans.  This version is sorta none of the charm of the retarded Hulk with none of the dramatic possibilities of the truly thuggish Hulk who was around to found the team in the comics. 

Oh, I get that hero hulk cant be total rage machine, but Hulk OUTSMARTING enemies?  (and making fun of their stupidity in the process)  That's just WRONG.  (and my 9 year old even noticed)  Avengers Movie Hulk had a good balance. 

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 07, 2013, 01:46:51 AM

Quote from: Unorthodox on January 07, 2013, 12:33:49 AM

Quote from: BUncle on January 07, 2013, 12:26:53 AM

Yeah, not that the classic retarded Hulk is right for early Avengers either, but I fancied that that version would have been sorta fun in a team, al la all those years in the Defenders, with the coaxing and bribing with beans.  This version is sorta none of the charm of the retarded Hulk with none of the dramatic possibilities of the truly thuggish Hulk who was around to found the team in the comics. 

Oh, I get that hero hulk cant be total rage machine, but Hulk OUTSMARTING enemies?  (and making fun of their stupidity in the process)  That's just WRONG.  (and my 9 year old even noticed)  Avengers Movie Hulk had a good balance. 

I haven't seen the movie yet - and I've rather been wishing that no one involved in making this cartoon had.  They restrained themselves for most of the characters, but this version of Iron Man never lets you forget Robert Downey Jr.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Unorthodox on January 07, 2013, 04:20:41 AM

Quote from: BUncle on January 07, 2013, 01:46:51 AM

Quote from: Unorthodox on January 07, 2013, 12:33:49 AM

Quote from: BUncle on January 07, 2013, 12:26:53 AM

Yeah, not that the classic retarded Hulk is right for early Avengers either, but I fancied that that version would have been sorta fun in a team, al la all those years in the Defenders, with the coaxing and bribing with beans.  This version is sorta none of the charm of the retarded Hulk with none of the dramatic possibilities of the truly thuggish Hulk who was around to found the team in the comics. 

Oh, I get that hero hulk cant be total rage machine, but Hulk OUTSMARTING enemies?  (and making fun of their stupidity in the process)  That's just WRONG.  (and my 9 year old even noticed)  Avengers Movie Hulk had a good balance. 

I haven't seen the movie yet - and I've rather been wishing that no one involved in making this cartoon had.  They restrained themselves for most of the characters, but this version of Iron Man never lets you forget Robert Downey Jr.

Well, considering this began production in 2008, I think that's more to the Iron Man movies and their popularity than to the Avengers movie.  For the record, I found the Avengers movie "good", but don't think it lives up to all the hype that surrounded it as 'best superhero movie ever'.   

Title: Re: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 07, 2013, 04:47:59 AM

Eh, I've seen the first Iron Man and I wish they hadn't.  You shouldn't be surprised to hear, knowing my contrarian nature/tastes by now, that I thought it was okay but nothing like all so great as the group mind would have it.