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The Tick Didn't Need a Gritty Reboot

posted 8 years ago by Legendary_Badass
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Loved the Saturday morning cartoon. A post-modern superhero before the genre went critical mass, as it has today. You can't turn your heard without hitting a superhero property anymore, and with that in mind The Tick's gig is up. With this 2nd reboot series attempt, The Tick is modernized through costume, as well as complete and utter tonal confusion. Dramatic lighting and heavy moments punched with a halfassed joke. Then The Tick comes blazing in, providing some of that much needed fun factor.

A bizarre, mess of a pilot. At least the previous live action take kept the right tone (though it was always better suited for comic or cartoon) and the myriad of wannabe superheroes flooding the city. I don't see anything here to set The Tick '16 apart from the crowd. Should this get picked up, consider it another desperate appeal to nostalgia.

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[–] electricafroman 8 years ago

I was hoping for similar to the last show but better (it suffered from a lot of 90's things that hadn't quite disappeared yet) But I don't think this was remotely gritty. I have a feeling there was nearly no budget to make this which caused a lot of problems. I'm hoping it gets picked up with more money attached. Some of the ticks rants were pretty great...

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[–] TimmyElkinson 8 years ago

I can't say I was a fan of this, either. I quite liked the first live action show. It's only downfall was the lack of actual action. This one just feels...unnecessarily complicated? I think that's a good term. Too much psychological stuff going on. The cast does the best they can with the script, but the writing just isn't cutting it.

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[–] sean_ohlson-1 8 years ago

Didn't seem like a gritty re-boot to me. Seemed closer in tone to the original comic book that the old cartoon was based on.

[–] bkbirge 8 years ago

Exactly

[–] bond_98 8 years ago

First off i don't remember comics being this boring. Also when did Author have a sister cop. Or some stupid plot about his dad.

[–] dsrtrosy-1 8 years ago

I was disappointed. It wasn't funny, the story was quite depressing and acted poorly while the dialog was trying way too hard to be something it wasn't--namely, funny. All in all, I hope they let this one go.

[–] kardargo 8 years ago

what show did you watch? because its not the same as the one i watched.

[–] Grethiwha 8 years ago

The original Tick cartoon is one of my favourite shows. To me it's the anti-superhero show, a parody of superheroes, now more than ever relevant because of the inundation of overly-serious or lame superhero properties now. So I think the Tick is ripe for revival now.

The original live-action series IIRC had more of a sit-com feel to it, like Seinfeld or something with the twist of their being superheroes making it very strange and surreal. This one has more of an effects budget, so might be more action-y like the cartoon. It also has a bit of a dark/psychological angle.

So I don't know where they'll go with this really. But I hope it gets picked up. It's still Ben Edlund behind this (who did the previous versions). It has potential.

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[–] sequeneretao 8 years ago

I'm wondering if any of these people who are pining for the previous live action series have ever actually watched the cartoon or read the comic. I like Patrick Warburton but, that series was an abortion. This current incarnation is almost spot on with the tone and plot from the source material. I feel bad for the person whose only exposure to The Tick was that Holocaust of a show on Fox.

[–] steve4192 8 years ago

Agreed.

I watched that show because Patrick Warburton was AMAZING as the Tick, but everything else about it was awful. This show seems much closer to the source material. I'm totally digging the open ended way they are treating the Tick's existence. Is he real or is he a figment of Arthur's imagination?

[–] cinemafreak13 8 years ago

It's dark and gritty because that's what comic book movies and tv are now. The Tich was always created to be a satire of comic books. Then of superhero cartoons. Then sitcoms, and now the grittiness.

[–] AgentBlue 8 years ago

I liked it it balanced the grittiness and comedy quite well.

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