Team America - Supermarionation?

[comrade_general]

Team America: World Police

[Jubal]

Meh. It's an homage I guess.

[comrade_general]

Woo!

[Jubal]

Still very much inferior to the real thing though.

[comrade_general]

To each his own.

[Jubal]

I guess I find the humour in Team America a bit blunt at times, and visually I think coupling supermarionation with lots of realistic gore doesn't work that well. Not that the 60s shows have very advanced humour, I just enjoy watching the very silly takes they have on classic sci-fi tropes I guess.

[Clockwork]

"Remember, there's no I in Team America."


"From what Intelligence has gathered, it would be 9/11 times 100.


9/11 times a hundred? Jesus that's....


Yes, 91,100."


"It will be 9/11 times 2356.


That's....I don't even know what that is!


Nobody does."


"Intelligence is down! We have lost our intelligence"


"So rong earthrings!"

[Flamekebab]

I enjoyed that Paris had cobbles shaped like croissants:

[Jubal]

Would anyone mind if I shifted the Team America discussion to a separate thread?

[Glaurung]

That's fine by me: I didn't even know about it until it was mentioned here.

[Flamekebab]

But it's very much on-topic? 

[Jubal]

I feel like we've moved into discussing whether we like Team America, which is a different topic to whether Team America is or is not supermarionation? And this is a pinned thread so I guess I was thinking we should maybe keep it for helping introduce people to the canon supermarionation shows generally. That was my thinking anyhow.

[Flamekebab]

I didn't notice that this was a pinned topic. I hadn't realised there was even a subforum for the topic!
In that case it makes sense to move it.



Assuming it gets moved: I don't particularly like Team America. It's funny but really doesn't have the legs to sustain a feature-length movie. A series of Robot Chicken length episodes could work, I suppose, but I've no intention of ever rewatching it as what I mostly remember was it dragging!

[Jubal]

We have a supermarionation forum now, yes. I wanted somewhere to rant about all the old Fireball episodes I'm watching over dinner every evening

I agree that Team America could have worked better as a skit or series of mini-episodes, possibly inside a bigger comedy show.

[Flamekebab]

Why is it not Supermarionation?