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maqqy96: jackscarab: friendlyuncle: the-best-of-funny: jewel-pet: furries will advance X It’s not just that this happened, because this kind of shit is actually pretty normal for a 90’s cartoon series. It’s that this shit happened in an episode of MegaMan, which is 100% about a robot who fights other robots. Robots. This isn’t exactly hard sci-fi here but come on. They had at least seven games and like a bajillion robot masters to work with and they still ran out of ideas so fast that “ancient lion men awaken from their thousand year slumber and start turning everyone else into lion people” was a script concept they actually wound up using. I could eat a bowl of Alpha-bits and shit a better script than this, but I’m unemployed and I had to watch this kind of crap on television growing up. I need a drink. Fucking anti-curse device what the actual shitting hell. Ancient mummified Hawaiian lion men. Men who were cursed to be lion men, in Hawaii, thousands of years ago, of which Dr. Light had archival video footage, and who turned other people into subservient lion people with curse-based eye lasers. In a show which featured de-evolution weaponry turning robots into cavemen, and vampire robots which ran on “lunar energy,” and a scientist and his robots uncovering an ancient genie whose true form was a multi-headed dragon — for which Dr. Light also had archival data — Ruby-Spears’s Mega Man had to sit down and work hard into the night to come up with something to out-stupid every other episode they produced. And the name of that episode was Curse of the Lion Men. I owe that episode a great debt. It was so stupid, I as an elementary-school “creative writer” thought I could write a better episode for the show. Oh, but I wasn’t interested in mere fanfiction. I sat down and timed the average length of an act and the length of an actual episode per half-hour timeslot. I studied how plot was built in the time constraints. I comprehended what an action beat was before I had the vocabulary to describe it well, and knew the value of entering a scene late and getting out early. In other words, that episode was so bad, it made me want to be a screenwriter, because I thought Mega Man as an IP was worth better respect and better treatment than what the cartoon was providing. (Luckily, Mega Man was never presented poorly again, right guys?) A couple decades later, I’m actually trained to be a teacher, but my personal creative project is a lot of screenplays for the kind of cartoon I want to see. So thank you, Curse of the Lion Men, for being inspirationally terrible. “I could eat a bowl of Alpha-bits and shit a better script than this…”That’s the most perfect expression when describing the writing that went into this. -- source link