Probably would have lasted had Amazon not pulled out of building their HQ in New York city.
That deal cut a lot of the budget.
And Lord of the Rings is magnitudes more expensive. They could have kept the show going for a decade or more. And Ben Edlund is very consistent in his work. May have brought in Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick at some point to work on it.
>And Lord of the Rings is magnitudes more expensive
and it's going to be great. can't wait for chuds to seethe when positive reviews and audience reactions come in
They're not just rookies; the weird thing is that their IMDB credits only have "uncredited writing" for Star Trek Beyond. There's a possibility that they could do well on this but that does give pause for actual concern
I feel like all the arguments about race/politics about the show are just intended to distract people from that
He said it himself, why do the same shit over again? He's already done it, twice in fact. He likes to frick around and challenge himself for good or ill, I can respect that
I get why they went for a more "reserved" Tick; the show was as much a parody of then-modern MCU/Marvel TV shows as it was superheroes in general, but yeah he just wasn't as fun to watch as Warburton. Good actor, just not energizing at all, which the Tick should be.
Yeah, I have nothing against Warburton but he's always gonna sound like himself and do his kinda laid back goofball thing. Serafinowicz genuinely surprised me at how much he sounded like Townsend and also channeled his Tick's energy
it's not the one with patrick warburton and the rest of the cast he was a part of, so i didn't watch it
It died when it became the Dot and Overkill Show
I'm thinking s3 was gonna shake up the dynamics and create a team element with the new flag five perhaps even introducing warburton as the other more hot-headed tick. Shame really.
I think that's ideal. The Tick is great and focal, but he's simple. In all things, he is there to fight crime and do the right thing, and the legs on that are only so long. No, he supports the show, but all he can do is make it stand, it's up to everyone else to be the body built on top of him that thinks and reacts and gives us something to watch. Like his fights, the meat of it is what he's wading into, not that he's there doing the wading.
It has the problem any modern Tick adaptation was going to inevitably have: Not being about the Tick. He's a stupid, happy, child-like guy. Nobody knows how to write a protagonist like that anymore, so they make it about Arthur, who's a neurotic dork that's "relatable" to the audience. I get that the show is supposed to be a parody of modern capeshit adaptations, but it eventually just became unironically too much like one.
Excellent show.
With all the superhero parodies happening recently, it's nice to see one where the main characters are actively striving to make themselves into better and stronger people, instead of just watching most of them spiral downwards as some sort of commentary/critique on the genre.
I'm not very familiar with the original comic, but I liked that the show was fully aware of the absurdity of the setting but didn't go about things as if it had a chip on it's shoulder.
Comic and other iteration feature many heroes whom this is their profession and their daily 9 to 5 grind. A Diner where they all meet sometime during the day being a core settings.
The first season took a while for me to get into because it was such a strong departure from the previous Tick stuff, but after Arthur got over his plot-mandated waffling about being a superhero, it really pulled out of the nosedive. I fell in love with it just in time for the cancellation.
There were rumors back then that the reason The Tick got zero promotion was because of the changeover, previous head of Amazon TV got #metoo'd or some shit and the new head wanted to kick everything the previous head had greenlighted, including The Tick
I remember enjoying it but thinking it was a bit too serious for a Tick show.
Not a "someone think of the children" level but a "kinda surprised they say Frick in a Tick show"
All around all the Tick stuff has a good batting average. Would enjoy watching/reading any of them any day.
If anything it was closer to the early comic run in tone. The early Tick comics were a bit different tonally from the show or even the final Edlund issues
>Tries to be parody of modern serialized super hero dramas like Netflix Daredevil and CW’s Arrow >Winds up getting hijacked in season 2 and just becomes that for real
Dot and Overkill stole the show and not in a good way. It feels like some writer (probably a woman) got attached to their little ship and wanted to sail it into the proverbial sunset, but Tick and Arthur wound up getting shoved into the B-plot. Honestly the concept of Arthur trying to find legal precedent to defend a lobster mutant in court was pretty funny, but it should’ve been the sub plot of an otherwise episodic series about fighting ridiculous costumed villains every week. They forgot that Tick was meant to be both funny and campy and his presence was supposed to put a wrench into the stale drama rhythms of a normal cape show. Instead they constantly have characters telling him no so he just stands there while the plot goes on instead of being the wild card that alters it. Frankly this show was wasted potential.
I loved his goofy attitude towards fricking shit up too. early on when Arthur wasn't even sure if The Tick was real and Tick didn't know the extent of his powers was fricking gold. Like, Tick showing up at the (whatever the frick it was) criminal warehouse and beating the frick out of those guys and being invulnerable to bullets with a, "Hey. Neat!" demeanor was fricking hilarious.
I liked it, but I can see why it didn't catch on. It was too self-aware and campy to really feel like a generic capeshit but also not edgy or crass enough to feel like a "deconstruction" like The Boys.
the show was good it got a lot better in season 2, most likely not a great tick adaptation (never read the tick comic) but it really knew how to use superheroes in a comedy by treating everyone like people (with the exception of the tick) that's the thing that so hard to get with superheroes in comics vs films post 90s is all the characters are fairly realistic and have realistic dialog rather than the larger than life characters tv and movie writers remember
It was a fun show. Decent characters, some interesting stuff, but I don't remember the villains too well and I think it may be because the tone is different than earlier Tick stuff.
Earlier versions of The Tick would have some bombastic villain carving his name in the moon, and he tries to feed everyone to crocodiles and cows, but he wasn't watching them and one of the cows ate all the crocodiles and all the other cows. Or some kind of twist like that - Man Eating Cow went on to get a few spin-off stories. The idea was that in a crazy world, a super punch hero who acts too fast will beat the villains because their plans are like elaborate, feberge eggs. They thwart themselves almost as much as a hero could. They Tick running in and just kicking some important machine solves all of it.
Like imagine the Tick getting an Infinity Stone, and instead of thinking about what to do with it, he just threw it into the sun, or swallowed it. Now Thanos can't get it, and yes, this will cause SO MANY PROBLEMS, but that's the essence of The Tick. Tony Stark is fricking furious, but Tick won. The Time Stone is inside him and Thanos isn't strong enough to wrestle Tick to submission, especially now that Tick has time travel powers he can't actually control.
That plot would be resolved by Tick going back in time, having a buddy adventure with Amelia Erheart, and then losing the stone in the Bermuda Triangle, creating a stable time loop where the stone is really forever beyond Thanos's reach, and Tick wouldn't have planned it.
The Prime Tick wasn't that. The villains were always a step ahead and their plans never imploded. Tick rarely solved anything himself and bordered on useless most of the time. But it was still a fun show.
They were too cowardly to use Chairface and then had the audacity to do a fakeout with the Duke character. It got what it deserved. I'll admit I loved Serafinowicz.
I watched this with my friends entire family, like his younger siblings, parents and grandparents for some reason. We watched two episodes and then Detective Pikachu and I was super drunk, don’t remember their reactions besides his little sister is so hot
>$5 Million per episode
Probably would have lasted had Amazon not pulled out of building their HQ in New York city.
That deal cut a lot of the budget.
And Lord of the Rings is magnitudes more expensive. They could have kept the show going for a decade or more. And Ben Edlund is very consistent in his work. May have brought in Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick at some point to work on it.
>And Lord of the Rings is magnitudes more expensive
and it's going to be great. can't wait for chuds to seethe when positive reviews and audience reactions come in
Nah. Its not Peter Jackson enough for the Normy audience and it isn't the material from Tolkien so it doesn't have the traditionalist.
Its under the hands of a rookie showrunner. The entire thing is fricked.
>Its under the hands of a rookie showrunner.
They're not just rookies; the weird thing is that their IMDB credits only have "uncredited writing" for Star Trek Beyond. There's a possibility that they could do well on this but that does give pause for actual concern
I feel like all the arguments about race/politics about the show are just intended to distract people from that
And they say Cinemaphilembler is not real.
Became SJW trash in Season 2.
I honestly liked Season 2 better though, it was allowed to be more weird.
it did?
Not really. The only issue is that they focused a lot on Overkill and Dot
Eh Ben Edlund likes to change the beat of the story every time he starts again.
I hope he gets another chance or teams up with Jackson and Doc Hammer for a new project.
He said it himself, why do the same shit over again? He's already done it, twice in fact. He likes to frick around and challenge himself for good or ill, I can respect that
it's not the one with patrick warburton and the rest of the cast he was a part of, so i didn't watch it
I get why they went for a more "reserved" Tick; the show was as much a parody of then-modern MCU/Marvel TV shows as it was superheroes in general, but yeah he just wasn't as fun to watch as Warburton. Good actor, just not energizing at all, which the Tick should be.
I actually liked Peter Serafinowicz's Tick more than Warburton's on account Serfinowicz sounded more like the Tick from the cartoon
Yeah, I have nothing against Warburton but he's always gonna sound like himself and do his kinda laid back goofball thing. Serafinowicz genuinely surprised me at how much he sounded like Townsend and also channeled his Tick's energy
Serafinowicz is fricking great in anything to the point it's baffling he isn't more well-known.
it alright
It was better than the Boys and never should've been cancelled for that pile of shit.
A far superior and loving satire of Superheroes in a similar vein to One Punch Man.
The Boys is poorly written dogshit, if you're trying to claim the opposite.
Saying the Tick is the better satire because it comes from a good place of love.
>One Punch Man.
>satire
For like maybe the first handful of issues/episodes. Otherwise it's exactly the thing it pretends to parody.
The manga yes. The webcomic still continues as satire even though it hasn’t been updated in over a year.
>The manga yes
delusional. It's the exact same thing.
Yep.
I'm thinking s3 was gonna shake up the dynamics and create a team element with the new flag five perhaps even introducing warburton as the other more hot-headed tick. Shame really.
Warburton would have been Barry had the show continued.
Was that confirmed anywhere? I know he was one of the show’s producers.
Really solid show that deserved more seasons.
I don't outright hate The Boys or anything, but yeah if I could trade it to get The Tick back, I would in an instant.
It died when it became the Dot and Overkill Show
I agree. The first season was wonderfully charming, all the relationship being built between Tick and Arthur was great.
Then the other seasons just focused way too much on the side cast and it felt like we barely saw The Tick in a show called "The Tick".
I think that's ideal. The Tick is great and focal, but he's simple. In all things, he is there to fight crime and do the right thing, and the legs on that are only so long. No, he supports the show, but all he can do is make it stand, it's up to everyone else to be the body built on top of him that thinks and reacts and gives us something to watch. Like his fights, the meat of it is what he's wading into, not that he's there doing the wading.
Villains need to be the stars of a Tick show. In as much its their hijinks that make The Tick react to whatever their plan is.
It has the problem any modern Tick adaptation was going to inevitably have: Not being about the Tick. He's a stupid, happy, child-like guy. Nobody knows how to write a protagonist like that anymore, so they make it about Arthur, who's a neurotic dork that's "relatable" to the audience. I get that the show is supposed to be a parody of modern capeshit adaptations, but it eventually just became unironically too much like one.
Yeah. That was even worse.
Excellent show.
With all the superhero parodies happening recently, it's nice to see one where the main characters are actively striving to make themselves into better and stronger people, instead of just watching most of them spiral downwards as some sort of commentary/critique on the genre.
I'm not very familiar with the original comic, but I liked that the show was fully aware of the absurdity of the setting but didn't go about things as if it had a chip on it's shoulder.
Comic and other iteration feature many heroes whom this is their profession and their daily 9 to 5 grind. A Diner where they all meet sometime during the day being a core settings.
The Tick? More like The Dick!
Never clear if he has one.
The first season took a while for me to get into because it was such a strong departure from the previous Tick stuff, but after Arthur got over his plot-mandated waffling about being a superhero, it really pulled out of the nosedive. I fell in love with it just in time for the cancellation.
I liked it and was sorry to know it was canceled when it was really finding its stride. But as Boris says, thems the breaks.
it was a non-cynical loving tribute to comics that spread a message of joy and hope
which is why it wasn't successful.
Michael Reeves aged like shit
I didn't even know there was a new tick series. Which streaming service was this on? Hulu?
Amazon Prime
And they had zero promotion behind it.
There were rumors back then that the reason The Tick got zero promotion was because of the changeover, previous head of Amazon TV got #metoo'd or some shit and the new head wanted to kick everything the previous head had greenlighted, including The Tick
No so much MeToo was Amazon wanted to bank big on Big Name series stuff.
They Shitcanned the entire Pilot program they had for shows where you could actually send in scripts and possibly get the chance to make a show.
Rings of Power is their make or break for Big Money shows.
Literally if it fails then they'll just go back to Military Thriller adaptations.
i wanna frick his tiddies
It's weird no one has tried Megaton Man yet
I remember enjoying it but thinking it was a bit too serious for a Tick show.
Not a "someone think of the children" level but a "kinda surprised they say Frick in a Tick show"
All around all the Tick stuff has a good batting average. Would enjoy watching/reading any of them any day.
If anything it was closer to the early comic run in tone. The early Tick comics were a bit different tonally from the show or even the final Edlund issues
Boring only good if You are bored
Really enjoyed it, pissed off they cancelled it.
>Tries to be parody of modern serialized super hero dramas like Netflix Daredevil and CW’s Arrow
>Winds up getting hijacked in season 2 and just becomes that for real
Dot and Overkill stole the show and not in a good way. It feels like some writer (probably a woman) got attached to their little ship and wanted to sail it into the proverbial sunset, but Tick and Arthur wound up getting shoved into the B-plot. Honestly the concept of Arthur trying to find legal precedent to defend a lobster mutant in court was pretty funny, but it should’ve been the sub plot of an otherwise episodic series about fighting ridiculous costumed villains every week. They forgot that Tick was meant to be both funny and campy and his presence was supposed to put a wrench into the stale drama rhythms of a normal cape show. Instead they constantly have characters telling him no so he just stands there while the plot goes on instead of being the wild card that alters it. Frankly this show was wasted potential.
Holy shit anon..... what if he shows up and upends the boys? Am I mentally moronic?
I loved his goofy attitude towards fricking shit up too. early on when Arthur wasn't even sure if The Tick was real and Tick didn't know the extent of his powers was fricking gold. Like, Tick showing up at the (whatever the frick it was) criminal warehouse and beating the frick out of those guys and being invulnerable to bullets with a, "Hey. Neat!" demeanor was fricking hilarious.
Yeah, they "Neat!" attitude is what made the show for me.
Idk, this is Cinemaphile not Cinemaphile. Please keep your garbage in your own board
Don't you have more coomer threads to post in weirdo? Kek
It origins are a Indie comic. It counts.
I liked it, but I can see why it didn't catch on. It was too self-aware and campy to really feel like a generic capeshit but also not edgy or crass enough to feel like a "deconstruction" like The Boys.
It's The Tick it's always like that.
Very good, like every Tick show. Ended too soon, like every Tick show.
the show was good it got a lot better in season 2, most likely not a great tick adaptation (never read the tick comic) but it really knew how to use superheroes in a comedy by treating everyone like people (with the exception of the tick) that's the thing that so hard to get with superheroes in comics vs films post 90s is all the characters are fairly realistic and have realistic dialog rather than the larger than life characters tv and movie writers remember
It was a fun show. Decent characters, some interesting stuff, but I don't remember the villains too well and I think it may be because the tone is different than earlier Tick stuff.
Earlier versions of The Tick would have some bombastic villain carving his name in the moon, and he tries to feed everyone to crocodiles and cows, but he wasn't watching them and one of the cows ate all the crocodiles and all the other cows. Or some kind of twist like that - Man Eating Cow went on to get a few spin-off stories. The idea was that in a crazy world, a super punch hero who acts too fast will beat the villains because their plans are like elaborate, feberge eggs. They thwart themselves almost as much as a hero could. They Tick running in and just kicking some important machine solves all of it.
Like imagine the Tick getting an Infinity Stone, and instead of thinking about what to do with it, he just threw it into the sun, or swallowed it. Now Thanos can't get it, and yes, this will cause SO MANY PROBLEMS, but that's the essence of The Tick. Tony Stark is fricking furious, but Tick won. The Time Stone is inside him and Thanos isn't strong enough to wrestle Tick to submission, especially now that Tick has time travel powers he can't actually control.
That plot would be resolved by Tick going back in time, having a buddy adventure with Amelia Erheart, and then losing the stone in the Bermuda Triangle, creating a stable time loop where the stone is really forever beyond Thanos's reach, and Tick wouldn't have planned it.
The Prime Tick wasn't that. The villains were always a step ahead and their plans never imploded. Tick rarely solved anything himself and bordered on useless most of the time. But it was still a fun show.
It was horrible. The humor was lame and they were doing stupid, high brow shit to keep up with DC movies.
Tick looks so small.
>live action
Shit
The cartoon always wins.
cartoon?
Chin not big enough.
I liked it fine. The Terror really sold me on it.
Terror was great. I loved that bit at the end with his "I'm not trying to take over the world, I'm trying to take it back."
I like that concept. Villian is a villain but also wants to free the world from another contol.
>animated series
>live action series
>live action series 2.0
They need to give it a rest.
Those all happen roughly ten years between each other each altering the premise slightly.
I'm glad Edlund still likes the property.
They were too cowardly to use Chairface and then had the audacity to do a fakeout with the Duke character. It got what it deserved. I'll admit I loved Serafinowicz.
> zero promotion
> creator (or co-creator? memory is fuzzy) comes on Cinemaphile to beg us to watch it
Real sad man
It was one of the supporting cast members
What thread was it?
Season 1: Very good!
Season 2: Not... terrible. But the spark was gone.
I watched this with my friends entire family, like his younger siblings, parents and grandparents for some reason. We watched two episodes and then Detective Pikachu and I was super drunk, don’t remember their reactions besides his little sister is so hot
There’s a lot to unpack there.