Korgoth of Barbaria: So very wrong, so very fun.

[satori01]

I'm fine with anything that makes a nod towards gamers, but if the writting stayed at par with the first episode, I can not say the show would really keep your attention.

Playing on people's nostalgia for Heavy Metal style artwork, and oblique refrences to role playing games pacing, lets face it, will get tiresome, unless the show went into a The Gamers/ opening of
Cloak and Dagger/Order of the Stick type thing, where the show makes blatant refrence to Korgoth being a character, and have bits that break the 4 th wall so to speak.

Otherwise the show is trying to be a Howardesqe, Vicious Jackie Chan style show. Cheesy Comediec in a way that lets the audience in on the fact the show is a joke, with shock value action and a main character that is silently homicidal.

That is a tall order....on that is already somewhat fullfilled by the "Swedish Murder Machine" Brock Sampson.

 

[Simplicity]

I thought the pilot show was great, personally.
It's hard to do a "shocking" show anymore. Korgoth actually got me to the "Oh no they didn't stage" that most shows just don't anymore. Too many South Parks, I guess.

I think the show has more potential to grow than Samurai Jack ever did... (And I like Samurai Jack). Cartoon Network, TO HELL WITH YOU!

 

[RangerWickett]

I thought the pilot show was great, personally.
It's hard to do a "shocking" show anymore. Korgoth actually got me to the "Oh no they didn't stage" that most shows just don't anymore. Too many South Parks, I guess.

I think the show has more potential to grow than Samurai Jack ever did... (And I like Samurai Jack). Cartoon Network, TO HELL WITH YOU!

Um, for the record, they did pay for the pilot and air it. Don't 'to hell with them' just because they ultimately decided not to go for it. It makes you seem ungrateful.

 

[WayneLigon]

Korgoth ROXXX!!! Next time I play a barbarian, I'm taking the feat where you grab someone's pony tail and rip off the front half of their flesh, douse them in alchohol and set them on fire.

I was crying with laughter at seeing that and the rest of the episode. Every vintage barbarian/Conan/Den/etc device they could use, they did. The rest are being snapped up by the TiVo.

 

[Nightfall]

Ranger,

Yeah but the trouble is they green lit episodes for pilots for shows that aren't that good. I mean serious, Squid Billies anyone?!

 

[Shalimar]

Saved By the Bell and Home Alone. There are so many good cartoons that they can show, and they show things like Tom goes to the Mayor, Squid Billies, Perfect Hair forever, etc. They are like the drug dealers of TV. Get you addicted to the good stuff and then cancel/time swap randomly with bad stuff that makes you go WTF? like Bobobo Bobobobo.

We have to stick with them because just like with Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football, we hope that next time they put on a good show they wont yank the rug out from under us.

 

[D.Shaffer]

Um, for the record, they did pay for the pilot and air it. Don't 'to hell with them' just because they ultimately decided not to go for it. It makes you seem ungrateful.

Actually...I think he was making a Conan (The Movie) Reference, here. Kind of apt considering the show in question.

 

[satori01]

See you do not have to stick with Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, I dont. Other people obviously are not otherwise they would not chose what is cheap (Save By the Bell reruns, Tom Goes to the Mayor, ) over more quality fare. Like G4, when you start having shows on that have absolutely nothing to do with the theme of your channel, you know the channels current line up of in theme shows is not getting the job done.

 

[Simplicity]

Actually...I think he was making a Conan (The Movie) Reference, here. Kind of apt considering the show in question.

I'm glad someone got the reference...

I don't hate cartoon network, but rather I plead for their assistance in keeping Korgoth, and if I don't get it then TO HELL WITH THEM!

 

[Shalimar]

Cartoon Network bought the rights to air all 45 episodes of PeeWee's Playhouse at 11pm during their Adult Swim block. Sigh.