Has anyone seen ‘The Tick’ (live action) series yet?
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Originally posted by Monkey:
I am the reclusive “Horse” of “horseandmonkey”. I loved the cartoon series. The show is enjoyable and keeps me smiling thruoghout the 1/2 hour but seldome makes me laugh out loud the way the cartoon did. I though it was a shame the way they took a strong female character like American Maid and made her into a ditzy slut as Lady Liberty. “Captain Liberty”.
sorry.
any opinions?
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Eh, to each their own. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] I try not to compare the live-action series with the animated series with the comic, and appreciate them for what each is. It’s nearly impossible to capture the kind of anarchy possible in a comic or animated series in a live-action setting successfully, and I think they’re doing an admirable job with the medium. It’s closer in tone (but not nearly as dark or seedy), I think, to Bob Burden’s [i]Flaming Carrot[/i] comic series than the rapid-fire hilarity of the animated show. Actually, it’s more of a cross, tonally-speaking, between the two.
And you think Capt. Liberty is a ditzy slut? Wow. I don’t see her that way at all. She’s a passionate person, to be sure, but I think she’s pretty strong, both physically and intellectually, and walks that “I have to be good and upstanding as a super hero, but [i][b]dang[/b][/i], I’d like to…” line pretty well. I mean, she’s not the same character (in any sense) as American Maid was, but legally, she can’t be. The only similarities between Der Fledermaus and BatManuel, for instance, are those ears. Other than that, they’re completely different cats. Because DF and AM are the property of the animated series’ producers, CL and BM have to be different enough to not get anyone sued. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
–Aleck