It was a pretty beautiful show, wasn't it? Just like the Eds. I miss both of them now.
[QUOTE=Lunik;51200237]Eustace really is a tragic character, tbh. Any other show would have the curmudgeonly old asshole just be that, but this show wanted to demonstrate that monsters are made, not born. The guy's felt scorned and abandoned his whole life and doesn't even realize how much he's loved by his family :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
Doesn't help that he "dies" in a lot of episodes.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;51200323]It was a pretty beautiful show, wasn't it? Just like the Eds. I miss both of them now.[/QUOTE]
The turn of the millennium had the best fucking cartoons.
I will literally fight people over this.
The episode with the traveling puppet show really fucked me up as a kid. The owner kidnapped visitors and turned them into puppets. I was like 8-10 years old when I saw that.
Good times, love the show. :v:
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;51204302]The episode with the traveling puppet show really fucked me up as a kid. The owner kidnapped visitors and turned them into puppets. I was like 8-10 years old when I saw that.[/QUOTE]
...and the ending of that episode spawned a theory that everything that happened after the first season didn't happen as Courage was coping with the losses of Muriel and Eustace by playing with the puppets as if they were still alive.
Of course, a show like this with some really loose continuity bar a number of instances, and over-intellectualizing such a thing in the first place, that's really just stretching it beyond actual reasoning (i.e: it's a dumb theory, stop overthinking).
I never would have thought Germanic early 20th century Expressionism Horror would make a good theme for a children's show - utilization emotion and moods in a manner to backdrop the plot, as someone mentioned earlier about the episodes being about depression, self-esteem, and so forth.
[u]The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari[/u] for example:
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Das-Cabinet-des-Dr-Caligari-poster.jpg[/img]
[img]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2006/10/25/arts/25cali.600.jpg[/img]
This thread reminded me that I never watched Fog of Courage.
I always loved the ep where Eustace is trying to get his hair back with that shitty droplets thing or that creepy episode with the burgers. The ep with the hunchback dude with the bells is the first cartoon ep I remember making me sad too.
I didn't get to watch too much of courage since it wasn't that common on the UK's CN back in the early to mid 2000s.
Also fuck that episode with the spiders.
Courage was easily one of the top five shows I watched as a child(#2 at best) that still holds up today. The scare factor was part of this very expansive atmosphere that never lingered on for too long. Like what Jordan said, the characters fit in the world so well that it was surreal but all the more immersive. It was also one of the only cartoons that my family and I would watch every time it aired. Before school, after an hour of playing video games, and on weekends. It was just so good and knew its audience well. The Last of the Starmakers, The Mask, The Curse of King Ramses, Perfect, and Remembrance of Courage Past were my favorite episodes and left a huge impact on me. The music, the characters, the settings, the tone were all unique and perfect for the show and no one did it like this until perhaps "Adventure Time" came around.
This show was so good.
Also, didn't realize this, but apparently John Dilworth went back and made another Courage the Cowardly Dog special in late 2014 (ignore the video title saying 2015). it's only 7 minutes and totally CG, and they had to recast Eustace because apparently his original voice actor died. But they did get the "INCONCEIVABLE" guy from The Princess Bride to replace him so that's not too bad a replacement
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_-EphKsJLQp[/media]
[QUOTE=postal;51210213]This show was so good.
Also, didn't realize this, but apparently John Dilworth went back and made another Courage the Cowardly Dog special in late 2014 (ignore the video title saying 2015). it's only 7 minutes and totally CG, and they had to recast Eustace because apparently his original voice actor died. But they did get the "INCONCEIVABLE" guy from The Princess Bride to replace him so that's not too bad a replacement
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_-EphKsJLQp[/media][/QUOTE]
[del]No matter how good he is, he really cant compete with the original as Eustace.[/del]
What the fuck? Eustace has had 2 voice actors during the series, i never fucking noticed. The first, Lionel G. Wilson, died 5 months after leaving the role after episode 33, in 2003. The second, Arthur Anderson, died earlier this year, he started at episode 34 until the end of the show.
[QUOTE=postal;51210213]This show was so good.
Also, didn't realize this, but apparently John Dilworth went back and made another Courage the Cowardly Dog special in late 2014 (ignore the video title saying 2015). it's only 7 minutes and totally CG, and they had to recast Eustace because apparently his original voice actor died. But they did get the "INCONCEIVABLE" guy from The Princess Bride to replace him so that's not too bad a replacement
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_-EphKsJLQp[/media][/QUOTE]
As much as I like this, I'm glad this was just a one time thing and didn't become a continuation of the show.
CG just doesn't work as well for this show compared to hand drawing. Plus CN doesn't have the brightest history when it comes to reboots.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;51212457][del]No matter how good he is, he really cant compete with the original as Eustace.[/del]
What the fuck? Eustace has had 2 voice actors during the series, i never fucking noticed. The first, Lionel G. Wilson, died 5 months after leaving the role after episode 33, in 2003. The second, Arthur Anderson, died earlier this year, he started at episode 34 until the end of the show.[/QUOTE]
[del]And the voice of Meriel, Thea White, was there the whole run since the original pilot. She died years later in '08 I believe. There's probably an bad joke in here somewhere about bringing them back for the reboot.[/del]
Whoops. She is still around. Well guess I'm wrong about that...damn tabloid from years ago.
[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;51212981]And the voice of Meriel, Thea White, was there the whole run since the original pilot. She died years later in '08 I believe. There's probably an bad joke in here somewhere about bringing them back for the reboot.[/QUOTE]
Huh? She's still alive.
[QUOTE=ClauAmericano;51212674]Plus CN doesn't have the brightest history when it comes to reboots.[/QUOTE]
See: Teen Titans Go!, the 2014 PPG short and more tellingly, the actual PPG reboot plus the upcoming reboot of Ben 10 [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1511470&p=50600540&viewfull=1#post50600540"](if this concept art is really anything to go by for starters).[/URL]
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