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Apr. 13th, 2014 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
esmenet1. so, I've been kinda absent from DW for a while. You know, school, learning, random hand pain, feeling like I shouldn't be bothering people . . . Anything interesting happen lately?
2. Oh my god, why isn't everyone in Iron Man: Armored Adventures fandom? I mean, canon high school AU! Plucky teenage superheroes! And, since it's a high school AU, that means the Mandarin is also a high schooler, and part of their little friend group! He is both the awkward type and the hot gangster type, it's so adorable, I can't take it.
As for the quality of the show itself, unrelated to the high school AU thing: it is okay! Like, this isn't A:TLA or anything, but it's on like a White Collar level or so. Not super incredible awesome, but good-ish? A large part of the draw for me is the high school AU factor (I LOVE HIGH SCHOOL AUS and also it is very interesting to see Tony Stark go through all his crises as a teenager instead of a middle-aged dude) but the writing is quite good, the animation is computer rather than hand-drawn but still looks decent (if not detailed), and the overall plotting is pretty good so far. It's nice to see more of Rhodey and Pepper than we do in the films (can't speak for the comics, of course) and -- well, I thought they were going to go somewhere awful and racist with the Mandarin, but then they turned it around and did something not awful. I actually like him.
Long story short: so far (s01e07), it is a decent show that you should watch so I can talk to you about it!
2. Oh my god, why isn't everyone in Iron Man: Armored Adventures fandom? I mean, canon high school AU! Plucky teenage superheroes! And, since it's a high school AU, that means the Mandarin is also a high schooler, and part of their little friend group! He is both the awkward type and the hot gangster type, it's so adorable, I can't take it.
As for the quality of the show itself, unrelated to the high school AU thing: it is okay! Like, this isn't A:TLA or anything, but it's on like a White Collar level or so. Not super incredible awesome, but good-ish? A large part of the draw for me is the high school AU factor (I LOVE HIGH SCHOOL AUS and also it is very interesting to see Tony Stark go through all his crises as a teenager instead of a middle-aged dude) but the writing is quite good, the animation is computer rather than hand-drawn but still looks decent (if not detailed), and the overall plotting is pretty good so far. It's nice to see more of Rhodey and Pepper than we do in the films (can't speak for the comics, of course) and -- well, I thought they were going to go somewhere awful and racist with the Mandarin, but then they turned it around and did something not awful. I actually like him.
Long story short: so far (s01e07), it is a decent show that you should watch so I can talk to you about it!
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Date: 2014-04-14 05:41 am (UTC)