On TV.com this show is rated at least 7, which is pretty good. However, on IMDB, which people tend to visit and rely on more, the show is rated a miserable 3.9. The main user comment is: 'One of the worst shows in the history of television'. Now wonder LU seems to be reaching its end! With such ratings on the main Internet Movie Database it ranks among the worst.
I say we should join forces and push up the ratings of the show on IMDB.
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On TV.com this show is rated at least 7, which is pretty good. However, on IMDB, which people tend to visit and rely on more, the show is rated a miserable 3.9. The main user comment is: 'One of the worst shows in the history of television'. Now wonder LU seems to be reaching its end! With such ratings on the main Internet Movie Database it ranks among the worst.
I say we should join forces and push up the ratings of the show on IMDB.
Oh, it's not a big deal. Those peeps at IMDB tends to be full of rubbish. I mean, seriously, there's also a group of people who go there regularly to sing the praises of Space Jam. SPACE JAM FOR GOD'S SAKE.
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To be honest, even though I used to hate the series but like it now, I wouldn't say it's a terrific show. It scrapes "decent", I guess. Sure, the special effects are nice, the animators actually made D.Duck cool, and the fighting scenes are terrific. But look at the general things.
First off, Loonatics has a bad start with the general audience by looking like a cheap ripoff of the original Looney Tunes. That's Minus Factor 1. The episodes themselves aren't that great either: most of the stories have really predictable outcomes with extremely, extremely, generic villains who have been given really shallow, one-dimensional characters.
And then there are the names. Come on. "Time Skip"? "Deuce"? (The moment I heard his name I snorted and echoed, "What? Did he just say he's called "douche"?) "Massive"? Re-read all the villain names and tell me they don't suck. Ace's flat character and corny lines don't help much either.
And why the heck did they revamp some of the originally anthro characters into humans?! It's unnecessary and just odd, that the only anthros in Acme City are Ace and gang. Why the heck couldn't Pepe le Pew have stayed as a skunk, except evil? At least it would explain the fact that it wasn't just anthros that the meteorite decided to hit because it was being biased.
I haven't seen all the episodes, but majority of Season 2 seems to be a lot better than Season 1 in terms of storyline and villains. Let's hope that if they do make a Season 3, it'll be even better.
I'd give the show a neutral rating of 5 out of 10. The only thing that's keeping me in is the eye candy and D.Duck. He gets the best lines in the show, and he's the only one who actually has actual character, imho.
I have to disagree with some of what you say. I for one am not bothered by the villains personalities or names; this isn`t Batman we`re watching, it`s a show based on Looney Tunes, which was better known for it`s comical cartoon face-offs than it`s in depth personalities.
As for the villain names, I`d like to see anyone come up with aything better. At least villains like Massive and Sypher don`t have names like "Gravito" and "Copycat"; names like those would copy off of DC Comics and Marvel, which, TBH, I`ve always found some of their naming conventions to be wince-worthingly corny.
And yes, the outcomes are predictable, because we expect the Loonatics to win. That`s the general nature of these stories; Evil is not supposed to win, at least not indefinitely; sooner or later the heroes must triumph. And LU isn`t the type of show to be comprised of tons and tons of story arcs; some stories just don`t need to be carried for three or four parts.
I have to agree with you on the anthro-turned-human point. WB needed to use more creativity there. Why couldn`t Acmetropolis be filled with anthros like the `Tics? And I can tell you right now that Pepe LePew is easily my least favorite character on the show due to the amount of mutilation his character brought upon the original`s. At least Ace`s corny lines are reminiscent of his ancestor; there`s really nothing much else to relate the two.
Thankfully, they also gave us Sylth Vester, another anthro. But maybe they just had trouble turning a cat into a human.
I can tell you that Season 2 is definitely better than Season 1. They introduce more descendants like Electro J. Fudd and, as I mentioned, Sytlh Vester, the majority of which contribute to LU`s rogue`s gallery, and they are arguably the best villains on the show.
Season 2 also draws out more character in the `Tics, even showing signs of development (after the first episode of Season 2, "Secrets Of The Guardian Strike Sword" where Ace`s trust is betrayed by Deuce, he shows signs of caution allowing Pinkster to help the team later in "In The Pinkster", apparently having learned not to trust a new face just because it may look like a good guy).
I feel every Loonatic, even Ace, has character; Lexi and Tech are certainly just as in depth as Duck, and given a good enough writer, I`m sure Ace, Slam and Rev could (have) develop(ed) deeper personalities too. I give the show an overall 7/10. Yes, it could be better, but it could be worse, too. It`s one of the few cartoons I still watch, and it more than anything else made me a fan of WB`s works.
Plus, it brought us all together, so some good had to come from it, right?
But this is just my personal opinion but Pierre Le Pew being humanised gave me some great oppitunities to write stories that makes him look more bad than if he was an anthro. They were naughty stories I know, but Pierre Le Pew is a villain that we all and supposed (to WB) to hate.
And I do have to agree with the personality developments from the Loonatics. We all noticed how Ace won't be making the same mistake again as he did with Deuce. Plus he also distrusted Sylph Vester in "The Fall of Mount Blanc - Part 2" as well as Pinkster. When Duck had so many spotlight episodes, we were all getting fed up with it including me. I have to admit, I was a bit rash with Ducks spotlight. But it wasn't until "In the Pinkster" that really made us feel sorry for him. I myself included felt ashamed. But then stories like that get us thinking what's under the fur/feathers of our heroes. What have they got to hide or why they act as they do in 2772.
And in agreement to Crossfire's rating, I give it a 7.5/10. And I do agree that I like talking with you guys and that it's nice to share things with other people from all over the world.
I might give it a 8/10, -1 For making some LT characters villians (7 are bad with only 1 good Oo), The another -1 is for Ace, I must agree they are corny,and a bit annoying.
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Luc Bunny wrote:For making some LT characters villians (7 are bad with only 1 good Oo)
Oooh, yeah. That was something that really kinda peeved me. I can take Sylvester and the Le Pew guy being villainous (the former more than the latter) but I was just plain annoyed when they made Porky a villain, and even MORE annoyed when they made Granny a villain. Whadupwidat?
They just didn`t have enough creative purposes for heroic LTs, I guess. Tweetums was the only idea for a good guy they could think of. Mentioning that part about Grannicus being a villain, yeah, I was thinking "WTF?" about that. LePew, Grannicus, and Pinkster, all villains? That`s three too many in my book of good and evil. I liked Ophiuchus Sam, Electro J. Fudd, and Sylth Vester, though.
As for Stomper, Stoney and Bugsy, meh. I would`ve preferred a Ralph Wolf-kind of rival for Tech. And c`mon WB, we need(ed) some more heroic anthros here! The Loonatics can`t be the only "special" ones in Acmetropolis!
Maybe in the past humans tried to wipe out anthros either by killing them or making them marry humans so that the animal genes could be 'cleaned out' through generations (such as Pierre LePew's case). The few anthros who refused to mix with humans would remain second-class citizens so they would never get good jobs (I mean, look what most of the Loonatics did for a living - well, except maybe Tech). Maybe the anthros themselves had their own views of 'anthro-purity'. This can be quite an interesting story.
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