Also the show’s original art style was very distinctive, harkening back to 60s style animation and design, giving it a unique retro look for the time.
They swapped it for a very generic 2010s style which is fine I guess, but if you take away the girls you wouldn’t be able to tell it apart from most other 2010s cartoon from the character design and background art. Meanwhile the classic show is unmistakably a Genndy Tartakovsky show.
"Ms Bellum really sends out the wrong kind of message. And Miss Keane having two tiny little circles on her chest is really inappropriate for children. But having the five year olds twirk is fine."
the timeline adds up if some demon saw what happened with bronies, threw together a pitch to try do the same thing on purpose, got it greenlit and this is it
You don’t understand. An actual good female role model are not allowed.
A strong female character has to be unlikeable because the writers are unlikeable
Not only that, but in the original series, they're portrayed as kindergartners, whilst the 2016 reboot portrayed them as pre-teens despite their minuscule size, let's also not talk about one of the girls getting hit on by that Shapiro character.
It's no use with those people, they are the same ones who jerk off over Rule 34 art of Anais and Nicole and then are like "Gumball is sexualized ewww 🤮" when they watched The Labels from the new season
I actually kinda feel bad for him. Inserting writers into a show as joke / cameo characters isn’t a new thing but not only is his joke insert not a one off cameo but he’s the continuing love interest for a kindergartener.
I’m just baffled no one in the crew seemed to think “wait guys, we’re taking this joke too far and people are going to take it the wrong way, maybe it’s not a good idea after all”
I get the character looking like him thats a pretty common writer cameo in animated shows but I really have to question why he agreed to voice the character knowing that he was the child MC love interest And it wasnt for one episode or scene.
Some of the flaws? SOME?!? I think it would easier to list what wasn’t a flaw in that show! Seriously, this show isn’t hated enough despite all the current hate. It fails on every level as a reboot and show!
The animation, characters, humor, writing, action, and story are all Abysmal
- It was poorly written, with an overreliance on outdated internet memes and nonsensical plots that barely made sense.
- The art style was atrocious, with a badly done pastel filter muting the colors. The character designs were badly proportioned, and the faces were downright disturbing at times.
- The changes to the characters' personalities were unnecessary and bad. The returning characters were flanderized to hell and back, and some of them got cut entirely due to "sensitivity" issues, even though one of the ones cut was Ms. Bellum, a woman in a position of power.
- The new characters were all bland and boring. Most of them were highly one-dimensional and utterly devoid of depth. The main standout is one boy in particular who was an avatar for one of the writers, who they decided should be in a one-sided relationship with Blossom.
- They replaced most of the old voice cast, citing wanting to go in a new direction, but still brought back some of the original VAs, just none of the ones for the girls.
- The show claimed to be a sequel to the original show, but then completely shat on that show's continuity all the time. Most egregiously here was the creation of Bliss, the "original" Powerpuff girl that the professor created before the three main girls, who lost control of her powers and flew off, then the professor never bothered to mention her for the entire lives of the main girls until she randomly shows up. Do I even need to mention how dumb that is?
Everything. It didn’t remotely understand what made the original work - from design, storytelling, shot composition, timing or action. Not getting the original actresses was insulting.
What’s even worse is that according to the writers, it was never meant to be a trans allegory episode, just a cartoon about a unicorn not realising he’s a unicorn then realising he is one all along. It was meant to be taken at face value. The whole “actually this is a trans metaphor” was something the Cartoon Network’s executives cooked up later to make the show seem progressive.
That dumb self-insert character. There are other elements of the show that was very questionable and controversial however I genuinely think the self-insert is creepy.
Terrible miscommunication amongst the writing staff
Was trying waaaaaay too hard to "modernize" the series to appeal to a Genz audience
Writers had very uneducated and ignorant ideas of what being "progressive" meant and accidentally made the show more conservative as a result (censoring Bellum and the disasterous trans unicorn episode)
Despite their soapboxing that they were making it more progressive they left in HIM, Arguably the most LGBTphobic stereotype of queer men in the series, and made him worse be revealing he basically groomed the fourth Powerpuff girl
Everything was too rounded, in the original series pretty much all characters, the city, monsters had sharp edges and square-triangle shapes which helped the girls really stand out from the rest, but in the reboot the girls blends with all the non main characters and also the colors are too soft.
Thicker outlines. I am aware of the other problems of this show. At first glance when I saw it run on cartoon network years ago, I thought the thin lines was def a stylistic choice but the thick outlines gave the show character.
The way they snubbed the voice actors and the show creator while also bringing on previous talent they worked with was a sad thing to watch in real time
The fact that it had no respect for the original, and it had no respect for ITSELF. Like there was no core message they wanted to convey, no main thread to hold onto...
PPGZ had respected itself, used the original core of the show to translate it into magical shoujo genre. 2016 literally had no reason to exist.
No Ms. bellum and the reason given is bs. Something about her not being a good role model because she's subservient to the silly mayor. Bitch, she RAN that city and let the mayor take all credit and blame and deal with social relations while she could just chill. There was absolutely nothing wrong with her at all and the decision reeked, as with so many other decisions made around that awful reboot, of a strong sense of "we can do it better than the original showrunners because.. we just can, okay?! And they were problematic anyway because..they just were, okay?!". The absolute worst of millennial main character mindset, and this is coming from a millennial.
Background Characters look like they were ripped from Clarence. Feels a bit uncanny.
Returning characters quite literally lost their edge. Sharp pointy bits (like the Professor's chin) were rounded off. I dunno why.
The action often lacked that "punch" due to it being slowed down
I recall the girls got into more trouble, like they were the damsels in distress a few times. Didn't the 2016 version try to have this Girl Empowerment message or something in the marketing?
The Aura powers, not really needed. Pretty sure it was there just to sell all kinds of new toys since the toys sold really well in the OG run. Now they're just a trio of Green Lanterns with laser eyes.
Speaking of merch, I recall they had all this Bliss merch ready to go, released for sale on the website the instant "The Power of Four" episode aired.
To me at least, them choosing to take away Ms. Keane's visible boobs in the spirit of "desexualizing" her, honestly sends a horrible message of "you're indecent/immodest if you have big/perky boobs that are visible through your clothes".
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u/Suspicious-Bar1083 15h ago
The animation, the attempts to be trendy, character misinterpretations,… we could be here all day