"Conan the Barbarian returns as animated Amazon series" Topic

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Interesting, not that I have a Amazon Prime account.

Cartoon = pass for me.

This guy did Primal and the early years of Clone Wars. I'm in.

Amazon? Pass.
"Animated"? Pass pass.

+1 @Flashman14

The first season of Primal was great.

Tarkovsky as in Stalker?

Never understood the resistance to animated shows. If a tale is well told and well presented, the manner of the presentation should matter not at all, or indeed might well be a high artistic endeavor. Hand-drawn animation is an art form, and sometimes exceptional. That it lends itself well to child audiences isn't relevant— some of the greatest literary masterpieces were written for children.
Also not relevant is that animation is often used for humorous stories. Is not wit itself a literary art? Shall we toss aside Shakespeare because of his comedies?
(And I defy one to create comedic art as terrific as "High Diving Hare" or "Rabbit Seasoning"— or for that matter, dialogue so richly humorous.)
Animation, even humorous animation, is serious art.

What animation does do is allow for visual construction of scenes and elements which could not be achieved with live action filming. Appearance, color, movement can be crafted to a precise degree, while stylized imagery and exaggerated features can produce different moods, thematic situations, and more in a very effective way.

Now, I'm not trying to pre-defend this particular endeavor. It could be utter carp. The art could wind up being bad. The dialog could be flat. Conan might wind up coming across like a Yorkie having a go at a mail-man. I've no idea. But if so, it won't be the fact of animated or unanimated that makes the difference, here or there. It will be a failing in the trio it always is: writing, directing, acting.
Nothing else really matters.

Genndy Tartakovsky has an overall excellent track record. I'm on old guy now, but I loved Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, the real Clone Wars animated, ect. I'm hopeful.

BTW that movie poster has Samurai Jack vibes.

I see this as a gateway for another generation to learn about Conan and REH.

Check out what Amazon did to Tolkien in Rings of Power.
Then guess how Amazon will handle "toxic masculinity" from Conan.