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TMBpower · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:54 am Post subject: New PPG Special?

According to Craig McCracken's DeviantArt page, it appears a new Powerpuff Girls special is in the works! It will celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the PPG show.

You can read about it here:

http://cmcc.deviantart.com/journal/19861744/

Banter · Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 28 Location: dreamland

I can't wait to see what the Powerpuff Girls will look like in the animation style as Foster's. Though I'll always be a bigger fan of hand-drawn animation cels.

Agent Orange · Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 943 Location: The Netherlands

Banter wrote: I can't wait to see what the Powerpuff Girls will look like in the animation style as Foster's. Though I'll always be a bigger fan of hand-drawn animation cels.

There's a difference in having the animation done by the team that worked on Foster's and actually having said people animate it in the Foster's style. Plus, they're two entirely different style. Besides, why would they want to do that anyway?

Anyway, I knew about this for quite some time. All I don't know is when it will air and what the actual plot will be.

Booncy · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 51 Location: West Haverstraw

Agent Orange wrote:
There's a difference in having the animation done by the team that worked on Foster's and actually having said people animate it in the Foster's style. Plus, they're two entirely different style. Besides, why would they want to do that anyway?

Anyway, I knew about this for quite some time. All I don't know is when it will air and what the actual plot will be.

I totally agree, wholeheartedly with that statement! Personally IMO it kinda offends me as a devoted, hardcore, veteran Powerpuff Girls' fan that Craig McCracken would diss the fans of his show like that by using the animation style of another show (a.k.a. the show that was responsible for the downfall of The Powerpuff Girls once the idea to create said show popped into Craig's head, thus causing him to totally abandoned The Powerpuff Girls and leave it into the hands of hack writers who didn't know what they were doing) to create a very important, milestone, special 10th Anniversary TV Movie for the series. Also to add even more insult to injury the special 10th Anniversary TV Movie is only going to be a half-hour long rather than an hour & a half long or even just an hour long. Given that I'd hardly call it a "TV-Movie", but I guess we'll all just have to wait and see what it looks like in November before we can judge.

Gopher · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 2994 Location: In a hole....

^ Seems like you've already made your mind. Dude, don't get worked up over it. "Space Marine" devotion was cool back when the show was still fresh. It's been over 8 years, the show's dead. Even after the special the show is still gonna be dead. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if McCracken saw how zealous and overworked the PPG fandom could get over things, and vowed never to get into Powerpuff Girls again! So does it matter what style it's gonna be in? Just be glad if it's Foster's style and not something else, like that sharp, pointy "girl-fashion" thing they tried. Or worse, the Asian crap.

Or even more worse....

Booncy · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 51 Location: West Haverstraw

True, you do have a point there! It's just that I love this cartoon so much, and see so much potential in it to be bigger than it was that I just get so frustrated at times when that potential is not fulfilled. There are plenty of examples of what I'm talking about in the series (the episode "Speed Demon" for example), but I'm not going to go into that. The point is that since this IS a special, milestone, 10th Anniversary TV-Movie the potential plot could've easily been expanded into an hour & a half or at least an hour even, but unfortunately it wasn't, thus not living up to it's max potential and that's what's so frustrating about it to me. I just want the best for my favorite cartoon show.

But for the record I am very thankful & glad that we are at least getting a special 10th Anniversary TV-Movie, regardless of it's flaws or not. Also TV Shows & cartoons can be revived & brought back from the dead. Dexter's Laboratory, The Jetsons, Family Guy, etc. are all examples of that. I'm not naive and do realize that outside of the people on this forum & on powerpuff.com that the Powerpuff fandom is relatively a very small one in comparison to something like Family Guy's or Dragonball Z's, but so was Dexter's Laboratory's fandom (around the time that that series was dead) and that cartoon was also able to come back from the dead. Anything's possible! Even Tara Strong herself said in a recent interview a few months ago about the TV-Movie that if the fan's demanded it and really wanted it that the show could be revived & new episodes could be made.

Gopher · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 2994 Location: In a hole....

Nothing will ever live up to its full potential. The more you cling to that pathetic ray of false hope, the more it will hurt when you're disappointed. I'm not saying wear all black and write poems about how meaningless life is, but you can't expect your (anyone in general, not YOU yourself) desires to be fully met. Be prepared to allow exceptions. CN might not take into consideration the more mature members of a show's fandom and would be less inclined to give a shit about their expectations, especially for a show as awkward and age-specific as Powerpuff Girls. Therefore, the "BIG FINALE, LOL" may be short, stupid, and shallow, which is disappointing for you and me, but okay for a lot of kids in the younger and more targeted demographic.

And while Tara Strong is optimistic about PPG future, I doubt she has the authority to make any promises.

Booncy · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 51 Location: West Haverstraw

Gopher wrote: Nothing will ever live up to its full potential. The more you cling to that pathetic ray of false hope, the more it will hurt when you're disappointed. I'm not saying wear all black and write poems about how meaningless life is, but you can't expect your (anyone in general, not YOU yourself) desires to be fully met. Be prepared to allow exceptions. CN might not take into consideration the more mature members of a show's fandom and would be less inclined to give a shit about their expectations, especially for a show as awkward and age-specific as Powerpuff Girls. Therefore, the "BIG FINALE, LOL" may be short, stupid, and shallow, which is disappointing for you and me, but okay for a lot of kids in the younger and more targeted demographic.

And while Tara Strong is optimistic about PPG future, I doubt shehas the authority to make any promises.

Hey, hey, hey! Don't just make a generalized statement like "Nothing will ever live up to it's full potential." in life (TV Shows/cartoons/movie-wise). Batman fanboys were at an extremely low point in their fandom after the last two crap movies they were given in the 90's (Batman Forever & Batman and Robin), and all of their desires were eventually fully met one day once Batman: The Dark Knight was released in theaters this summer and fulfilled the max potential that every Batman fanboy saw in the movie franchise, but almost gave up all hope on after the Batman Forever and Batman & Robin movies turned out to be bombs. Again, I know that The Powerpuff Girls' fandom is an extremely small one (and that this is semi-unrelated), but I'm just merely pointing out an example of something that actually lived up to it's full potential in life and pleased/fulfilled all of the fanboys desires.

I mean who knows? I know that I'm practically grasping at straws here at this point, but for all we know there is still some small possibility that series could be revived someday. I mean technically speaking the series isn't officially "canceled", and is still merely on hiatus right? And also hypothetically speaking here if the series were to come back from the dead one day I highly doubt that our desires of the PPG series returning true to form wouldn't be fulfilled since it would be almost guaranteed that Craig McCracken would be back on board, and we wouldn't have to suffer from another set of dreadful seasons like seasons 5-6 were again :(.

And if all else fails then there's always fanfiction for me to fall back on :wink: . The common saying "If you want something done right, then do it yourself." certainly rings true & applies to fanfiction, as any fan can undo, fix, make right, or create new adventures/storylines/character development the way that they see fit through that medium. It may not be the same thing as seeing it through moving animation on a television screen, but hey! it's still a good substitute IMO. It also perfectly goes back to what you said about allowing exceptions in our lives when your desires aren't fully met to our expectations.

Agent Orange · Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 943 Location: The Netherlands

Gopher wrote: Nothing will ever live up to its full potential. The more you cling to that pathetic ray of false hope, the more it will hurt when you're disappointed. I'm not saying wear all black and write poems about how meaningless life is, but you can't expect your (anyone in general, not YOU yourself) desires to be fully met. Be prepared to allow exceptions. CN might not take into consideration the more mature members of a show's fandom and would be less inclined to give a shit about their expectations, especially for a show as awkward and age-specific as Powerpuff Girls. Therefore, the "BIG FINALE, LOL" may be short, stupid, and shallow, which is disappointing for you and me, but okay for a lot of kids in the younger and more targeted demographic.

And while Tara Strong is optimistic about PPG future, I doubt she has the authority to make any promises.

I don't share your pessimism. I'd rather wait till I've seen the final result before I can say whether or not it falls within my expectations. Craig should know what the fans like and I doubt he'd go for some half-arsed project to please new fans and ignoring the long-term ones.

I will say this: I'd prefer seeing the show in the style that I'm used to than seeing them in a whole new style (something that would still make no sense to me whatsoever).

But, we'll see what happens...

Gopher · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 2994 Location: In a hole....

I'm not saying everything in life will suck, Booncy. My statement, "nothing will ever live up to its full potential," is not the same thing as saying "nothing will ever be good." The Batman example you gave, it's true that Dark Knight was a much better movie than the last series of Batman movies ever made; it still didn't live up to it's potential. How can I say that? Because no matter how good something is, someone will always say it could have been better. There may have been hundreds of things DK could have done in addition to what was done, or some things that were done could have been done better. Just because something was really good does not mean that its full potential was tapped. Hence, "nothing in life will ever live up to its full potential." You were talking about being frustrated by things not living up to that, I was just saying it's so commonplace that it's better to not get worked up.

As for what AO's saying, I hope the special meets our expectations as well. I didn't say it wouldn't. I just said it wouldn't live up to its potential. No matter how good it is, it could have been more. That's all I wanted to say.

Twilight · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject:

Nyuu, hope it's good. D:

....I have an urge now to invite you all over my house and we watch anime and PPG till dawn. XD

Booncy · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 51 Location: West Haverstraw

It finally leaked :D!: http://www.sendspace.com/file/nijh6s

This was recorded from my friend's camera so expect bad quality & bad sound, but hey it's much better than nothing right!

Btw, after watching it for myself I take back EVERY negative thing that I had said about the special in August :)!

duzzkiller · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 23

I saw it in 11/30 in Taiwan.

Damn you Craig !How could PPG and Mojo be like that?
Mojo sang two songs and Miss Bellum showed up her face!
Blossom..................OMFG!

Banter · Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 28 Location: dreamland

Not a bad episode, really. I thought the Frankie, Bloo, and Mac cameos were cool. And of course... this!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Sygmus/bellums_face.jpg

Anyway, the episode certainly had a different feel, but I could easily tell our man Craig was behind this one.

Agent Orange · Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 943 Location: The Netherlands

I can only sum this up in one word: brilliant! I haven't laughed this hard for a PPG ep in years. Pretty much everything about this ep was perfect. Though the professor acting like a total idiot during the race was probably the only thing I didn't really like.

It's pretty clear this is Craig's work. Pretty much everything is how it should've been with the last two seasons and it proves that he still knows his stuff. I like how he abandoned the post-movie style and went for a more unique design based off the first four seasons. It gave the episode a somewhat 'special' touch.