"Astro Forever" wrote:[QUOTE=Strange Wings;196523] Touché!
I didn't know there was a GIF around from that scene!
I think somebody had made a gif of that scene before I did, in fact I thought you were the one, but I may be mistaken. [/quote]
If so, it must have been years ago. Maybe you're right, but I can't seem to remember.
"Astro Forever" wrote:I'd never thought of this episode that way! I try not to think too much of what may be strange, as long as an episode is coherent within the rest of the series. In this case, I must admit that there are many other strange underground/hidden worlds, but no other episode with creatures living on the clouds.
Perhaps I searched a bit too hard for reasons to rant about Snow Leopard. However, the episode's rather moderate animation stuck in my mind, so it has become a convenient target for me. That one episode just doesn't live up to the rest of the 80's episodes in terms of animation quality (my opinion only).
"Astro Forever" wrote:I think one of my main problem with the 2003 series is that I find that the message is too often made too obvious! Sometimes I feel the message is more powerful when not said out loud, when the action speaks for itself instead. But I don't know if it's only because I've watched it first as an adult. All I can say is that I don't get this feeling when watching the 1980 series.
I see what you mean. Perhaps the '03 series has suffered too much from editing, which may have lead to certain rather obvious messages. I can't judge here, since I only saw a couple of episodes with french dub, and only excerpts from the english one (Candy Milo's voice for Astro made me cut it very quickly ).
I wonder about the series' impression on me if I had watched it in my native language myself.
Impressions we had as children often outweights our adult analytic views, thus I'm not sure if I had gotten hooked by the Astro Boy series so firmly if I hadn't wachted it when I was a kid.