This video just make me more angry Not because it’s bad. Far far from it But because it proves that the Gangstalistois ep wasn’t about P. Diddy y’all dumbasses
millennials complaining about "this sensitive generation won't be able to handle it" is hilarious, but also true. i think a lot of my generation actually loves this series though as well, since quite a few of us also grew up with it. i don't think a reboot is needed though. og series is good the way it is.
Having grown up with comic strip (I think I was around Riley's age when it started being serialized in the SF Chronicle) I definitely noticed how the kids had less focus in the TV show. I was always sad that Caesar never appeared in the show, with his optimistic personality acting as a foil to Huey's cynicism, I always felt it was a major part of the series and characters.
Very fascinating analysis of Death Note through a prison abolition lens. Your parts on L's ego in wanting to catch Kira even after Light had wiped his connection to the Death Note was particularly insightful in how you linked L's mentality to the current punitive system that we exist in. Though even if I am largely in consensus with your analysis of Light's character, I still think the manga version of the ending is better, and not simply because it depicts Light losing in a more viscerally and narratively vindictive manner, but because it serves as a better conclusion to Light's relationship with Ryuk. That as soon as Light explicitly leaned on Ryuk to be his Deus Ex Machina that's what finally sealed and ended Ryuk and Light's relationship, working a really nice thematic bookend. I also think the manga ending more explicitly sticks to the perspective of its neutral/apathetic view of death. That there is no salvation or condemnation for people in death, it's simply just mu 無 (nothingness), I am curious how your Christian Universalist beliefs engages with that thematic aspect of the story.
I think that light asking Ryuk to kill for him means he was desperate. He should have known he probably wouldn't. But remember also Ryuk told light that he would be the one to write his name at some point near the beginning. So basically Light was compelled to continue because if he stopped Ryuk would get bored and kill him. Seems like he already undersood that.
@@lightlayagajoie5739 hence why the manga ending works so well, Light becomes so desperate that he forgets Ryuk’s promise and ends up leaning on Ryuk thus sealing his fate. Though Ryuk’s promise wasn’t literally compelling Light to continue be Kira, Ryuk’s promise didn’t mean he would literally kill Light if Light hypothetically for real decided to quit using the Death Note. Light didn’t become Kira under duress of threat from Ryuk.
@@TheoVorster Well I'm not sure about that. Maybe Ryuk simply knew light wouldnt stop. It does seem implied that giving up ownership would get rid of it. I also think some interpretation could be that Ryuk is a part of lights psyche. or that he already had a connection with him before.
@@TheoVorster Maybe. one way you can look at it that light imagines ryuk and that the deathnote is a methaphor or plot device for someone somehow gaining power. it would seem boring if light doesnt have free will. but he does seem changed.
Still surprised that their was no origin/flashback episode showing Huey and Riley before they lived with Granddad. The closest we got was the episode Wingmen in season 1. They go to Chicago which is where they are from, but in the comics I believe they are from Baltimore which is weird/creative liberties.
I love this break down of the _Red Ball_ episode. Obviously that's what it is, but I watch a lot of reaction videos to _The Boondocks,_ and literally the ±dozens of reactions I've seen to that episode, all of them miss the point. Sure, the show was intentionally written with a lot of surface level stuff to appeal to a broader audience, but the fact that people miss the obvious points and messaging drives me insane. I had an ex straight up say to me back in the day, "sometimes jokes are just jokes, and its not that deep" in response to me saying that I love the messaging in this and Chapelle show. It really changed how I saw her. Exes are exes for a reason.
10:33: If by parents, you mean biological parents, that's pretty prejudiced toward adopted/adoptive children and people with stepfamilies, I must be completely frank; I must frankly add. 😒
Kenny is actually still 9, not 10 yet. He is the youngest of the four boys, also known as "the Broship" or simply "Broship" - of the series - while Stan is the oldest of them by the episode "You're Getting Old", even though Cartman was supposed to have his 9th birthday in "Damien", but this was a continuity error, and he was brought up to still be eight in the episode "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" by Stan during the boardgame when he himself Cartman complains about paying something-something (I don't remember) because Kenny's parents want to conceive a third child, with Stan bringing up that he's 8, and being this age (Cartman being this age) has been brought up in later episodes after this/that one.
7:51: Actually, nine, he's the only one who hasn't had an episode dedicated to his birthday out of the main four, even though "Damien" was a continuity error, with Cartman still being eight later on; the rest turn ten; Stan had his tenth birthday in "You're Getting Old", obviously, and all four of them have had their ninth birthday parties off-screen/off-camera/outside of episodes or TV specials or TV movies (and obviously out of THE movie, as in Bigger, Longer & Uncut). The last time Kenny's age was brought up, it was brought up to be nine in the Mysterion/Coon and Friends episode-trilogy, and in the episode "Crack Baby Athletic Association", Stan brings up to Kyle and a bunch of other boys in the South Park franchise who are fellow male students in/at South Park Elementary slash South Park Elementary School that they are ten, asking rhetorically that they are ten years old and still don't know that a Dutch-based character named Slash or something like that isn't real, as in his parents - Stan's parents - had already told him, Stan, that he wasn't real when Stan was still a young kid.
Yeah, making fun of green texters. Like if you have an iPhone, unless you don't have your phone on "iMessage", you can tell if the one you're talking to has an iPhone by text, if a fellow iPhone, blue, if it's any other, it's green. You would make fun of someone for not also having an Apple phone slash iOS phone if you see that the text is in green - if it's green text rather than blue text. 🙄😒
He may be poor, but Kenny is a regular temptor, my masculine version of temptress I made up. A real seductor, male seductress (also I made up myself), a true seductor, an icon mâle matale (again, femme fatale, I created). Even his name means what he is. Etymology of Kenneth = Kenneth = handsome; comely; beautiful; born of fire; fire-born Comely = Comely is a humorous archaic term meaning "(usually of a woman) pleasant to look at; attractive.". (Usually has to do with physical attractiveness.). The word "archaic" means "old-fashioned", "outdated", or usually a term not used or not commonly used anymore. "Comeliness" redirects to "physical attractiveness" on Wikipedia. Kenneth = handsome; comely; beautiful; born of fire; fire-born Etymology of Kenneth = handsome; comely; beautiful; born of fire; fire-born Even his phoenix ability to be reincarnated or to be reborn emphasises more on his fire birth. 🫶 🫶 🩷 🧡💛
Its really easy to just cast an adult woman to voice Jazmine especially since she’s not as relevant anymore. Cindy is voiced by Tara Strong. They don’t need to get an actual child to voice cartoon children
3:35 “we don’t have to think about them anymore.” This is what turns my stomach on the issue of certain American states “solving” homelessness by making it illegal to sleep outside in public places at night. All while not addressing their homelessness or giving them somewhere to sleep at night. The ideas that sending them to prison will solve the issue is one of the most naive and insulting.
I always read the Boondocks comic strip, and it was more focused on Huey and the kids than the TV show, ultimately. I think the show was a part of Adult Swim, so it was inappropriate for children. That being said, the show ended up being more focused on Riley, who was ridiculed in the comic strip. I found this off putting at the time it was on. I wished I'd understood the parody aspect of the show then, as I do now.
I think Aaron loving Peanuts as well as South Park and Big Mouth using kids that never age to tell adult stories is fantastic. It makes you question and understand more clearly why certain things aren't great for kids and the world we made and the limitations of not having adults but telling adults stories gets you more involved. It's genius to me.
I agree with you saying the focus on the kids is a fundamental point of The Boondocks. It’s like how South Park is about the kids. The whole point is the dichotomy of putting adolescents in adult scenarios.
I love you and your Boondocks content. They are so very cute and beautiful looking young characters, I love looking at them, and I'm glad they were comic images that couldnt be sexually violated by white execs in real life!
Yeah it was supposed to be the focus on the kids perception of the world, and I did notice until the show's latter half, and used the adult's focus on real life topics, and how ahead of it's time like it's real crazy how much it reflects read life lol
There definitely needs to exist a balance between the adults and kids when it comes to the focus. As much as the comics and show were inspired by the Peanuts, it becomes increasingly harder to tell more fleshed out stories about the deeper themes that the show wants to inform you about without the adult figures. The Chicken restaurant episode is mostly Grandpa focused, but you can see that Huey is a very active Co-star of it too. Their exchange about Soul Food is still the part that stuck to me all these years.
