>Critically acclaimed live-action series is cancelled due to low viewership and high production costs>Twice in a rowIs the Tick cursed? Can the Tick be saved?Can't we get Patrick Warburton to at least voice him or something? I'll take a commercial or something, goddamn.
>>153871854Since both Tick live action series got cancelled, they should try another cartoon, maybe aim it at adults this time, the 90s cartoon was the longest running out of all The Tick adaptations even if it was only 3 seasons
The franchise just worked best adapted as animation, and Ben Englund seems to want to runaway from the madcap animated feel to trying to do more "adult" aimed satire which is turns out, has almost no fucking market. Like if The Tick had a 2000's Adult Swim animated adaptation it'd be as cult as Venture Bros, but at best the live action shows can muster people insisting they were pretty funny, actually!
>>153871881>maybe aim it at adults this timeI'm just terrified of them making the series overly edgy or cynical or something, but the live action shows did characterize him well. The cartoon had a lot of adult jokes anyway. Not like crude stuff, but things that clearly weren't written for kids like a parody of the Punisher going to therapy or Tick briefly believing he's Jewish. The kids liked it anyway because funny chairface guy and spoon.
>>153871913>Venture BrosOne of that show's creators wrote some Tick cartoon episodes and a comic, I think. You can see the influence.
>>153871854We shall forever wonder if the Tick owns property on foreign lands.
>>153871854There were TWO live action Ticks??
>>153871854>Is the Tick cursed?It's a bad design that is eye catching but for all the wrong reasons. It spoofs capes while at the same time largely depending on the cape loving audience for both is initial and sustained viewing audience in every medium and that audience gets the joke pretty quick and moves on. It's an intrinsically flawed design for a show/comic/cartoon.So no, you can't save it. It has its fans, and it will remain niche forever. I'm sorry :(
>>153872188Yeah, Fox did one in the 2000's and Amazon did one they canned so they could do "the Boys". I'm serious.
>>153872188https://youtu.be/a5pGq5x0psA?si=-X3E4jZ-yVeAEDh6Nobody knew it fucking existed because it was exclusive to Amazon Prime and they didn't advertise it right. And it still ran for longer than the Patrick Warburton one.
>>153872239History has proved them right though.
>>153872239>>153872243Well, now I know. Still, cartoon is superior.
>>153872251What're you? A shareholder? The Boys sucked.
>>153872251The Boys is the Tick but with sex/gore jokes and politics. You know, things retards like.
>>153872281That's like, your opinion man. Financially it seems to have been a success, it lived in social circles, had good viewership. You didn't like it and that's fine. I didn't like it either. I also didn't like The Tick, or any of its various shows or comics. You can not like something and still observe that it succeeded or failed.
>>153872325The Boys has nothing but contempt for its own source material. The Tick, in comparison, feels like a kid getting to play with their favorite toys. The secret ingredient is love.
>>153872343>>153872325They were both pretty boring.
>>153872334So, how did the show do in the last couple of seasons. I've heard got sick of it and the finale is horrible.
Sex with Lobstercules!
>>153872251>>153872334>Sabotaging a critically acclaimed show by refusing to advertise it was the right move, actuallyPeople didn't watch the Tick because no one fucking knew about it.
>>153872384The finale was the broad strokes from the comic. And I'd have to go look up the data for the last seasons viewer numbers but if it lasted this long it wouldn't have been because no one like it. Not really getting where you're going with this either, you sound bitter and nerd-ragey.
>>153872307>Not giving him a Kadabra
I think the Amazon tick is one of the better versions we've gotten of "modern world, with super heroes." They don't spend a whole shitload of time on world building or any of that bullshit. It's a relatively normal world, the "world outside our door," but sometimes people get fucked up by super villains, and sometimes superheroes save people and shit. I love that.
>>153872398>People didn't watch the TickI knew about it the same way I knew about The Boys, TMitHT and Vox Machina. It was on my Prime feed. You can blame whatever you want. People didn't watch the show you liked.
>>153872448I don't think your experiences are universal.
>>153872431>I think the Amazon tick is one of the better versionsI actually did think it was probably the best adaptation to date, it still got pretty boring though.
>>153872461I don't think the feed I have on Prime is special.
>>153872023And in turn Englund wrote an episode of VB, the only person besides the creators to do so. He helped with an early episode and also wrote the episode with the Scooby gang parody.
>>153872482I don't think everyone in the world has an Amazon Prime subscription...and of those that do, I don't think all of them much time looking at their 'feed'. Some people subscribe to streaming services specifically for a small number of shows they found out about elsewhere, for example. Or spend most of their time on other streaming services and only occasionally hop on to another when they hear about something interesting. I think advertising a show successfully might be more complex than you're insisting and involve more than putting an image of it on a feed. Did you know there's whole agencies that do advertising? Like, entire businesses that do nothing but advertise for products and other stuff. Jesus Christ, you are boring.
>>153872487He also wrote a couple of episodes of Supernatural who's creator was the showrunner of the Boys. Wild.
I only knew about the Amazon show from here. It's the only reason I got Prime.
>>153872538Wow you're insufferable. You can't just talk about the thing you went out of your way to try to turn this into a debate. Literally why?
>>153872487>He wrote the Scooby doo/Venturestein episodeThat's one of the best ones too.
>>153872583I saw an ad on youtube.
>>153872538Ok, what are you basing this off? They setup a pilot for the Tick and gave it a run, it didn't take. You're insisting sabotage because....why?
>>153871854The Terror was great in the Amazon one.>We don't kill people because they call you names. We kill people because it's fun.>Creates a huge successful soda company just so he can piss in the soda.
>>153871854>Is the Tick cursed?It wasn't but it is now. It spread the stench of failure over the entire IP with its numerous cancellations and series that went nowhere. Anyone that touches it in the future will do it apprehensively and expect failure from the onset.
>>153872615>>153872655>Chastises for turning it into a debate>Attempts to continue the debate anyway while shifting goalpostsBye
>>153872736I'm>>153872698>>153872655And I ask again, wtf are you basing this off of?
>>153872777God damn, how many issues of "yeah, I get it" does this thing have?
>>153872786I don't think you do.
>This character design is from 1994It's like they knew
>>153871854Patrick's face in OP is the personification of the cartoon fart sound effect.
>>153872868What did they know?
>>153872899???
>>153871881Now is unironically the time with Invincible at the height of its popularityThe Tick is always lampooning the trends of the time and okay animation that depends on B and C list actors for voice casting is the hottest trend out there
>>153872690lol
>>153872538Most people that have Prime do it for the free shipping on packages honestly, the streaming service just comes with that
>>153872924What I mean I guess is that his face is the type of face you'd make after you just made a very loud cartoon fart sound.
>>153872425Or Joltik, you know, the only pokemon named after a tick? Too bad it's not all blue, though at least it's eyes are blue.
Die Fledermaus > BatmanuelAmerican Maid > Captain Liberty
Oh yeah that show that turned a Green Day song into soft pophttps://youtu.be/12Ndrj4dhEc
>>153874197Thats so fucking horrid but I like the superhero horns in the instrumental
>>153872364Nah, just The Boys
>>153873035Captain Liberty was awful but her driving Destroyo crazy in his cell was one of the best jokes in the 2001 show.
>Lemme tell ya why that's a buncha malarkey
>>153873035Yes
>>153875354
What makes him Tick?
>>153875815What'd you guys actually think of the Amazon series?
>>153872466It was obvious they didn't get the budget they needed.
>>153872689Man the costumes in this were fucking great. Right mix of grounded and over the top.
>>153872232The Tick was a parody/deconstruction made by people who love superheroes.Contrast with The Boys that was made by people who hate them. It's terrible that we got the latter instead of the former.
>>153877410It only makes sense. The public can’t love superheroes without everything that makes them enjoyable either being stripped out of them, made into self-aware mockery, or both.
>>153875815I like the fuzz on this design
>>153872482Looking at a feed on what was the 6th or 7th streaming service at that point in time? Yeah, that's pretty rare.
>>153871854Wasn't amazon Tick cancelled so they could shift production to The Boys?
>>153871854The Tick is too wacky and cartoonish that it only really works as a cartoon. But for some reason Edlund desperately wants it to be a live action thing while still including the wacky over the top cartoon gags everywhere. It just doesn't work.
>>153872243It was Amazon's first original show back when Amazon Prime was fucking awful. It consisted of just all Wal-Mart $1.99 bargain bin movies that no one gives a shit about so nobody bothered with prime video, even if they were already subscribed to prime.
>>153871854I would say at this point, yeah it's cursed. But based on the fact that it has multiple failures in its history that now every executive is going to see that and decide it's a toxic franchise that does not work and pass on it. Another issue is that the side cast has to be reinvented for every single new incarnation and that makes it more and more difficult to make newer adaptations.
>>153879645What's the issue with side cast?
>>153871854Wasn’t the first LA show cancelled because FOX was pissy about Sony owning the show or am I just completely wrong and stupid?
>>153879722Chalk it up to ignorance or indifference or a concession made because The Tick wasn't a billion dollar property, but Edlund didn't secure ownership rights on new stuff. If it was in the cartoon and wasn't in the comic first, he doesn't own it. That's why the first live action show had use a knock-off Fledermaus and the second kept to a more limited pool of largely existing characters.
