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Originally Posted by Mazrim
This might be pedantic, but if it was live action instead of animated, would you be okay with it?
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Probably. But that's just me.
I became a fan of a trilogy of live action movies as a kid. The animated series don't do it for me. I've given each of them a chance but lost interest in every case.
So for me there's a personal bias, but it can also be acknowledged that it's a lot to ask a casual fan to invest just to understand what the relationships are between these characters they're new to.
If they want to attact new fans they'll need an entry point where prior knowledge isn't required to understand the relationships between the characters.
I know it works in some franchises that have rich lore where you feel compelled to go and read the books or do the homework after the fact. But in this case the gotta see that series or read that graphic novel aspect just doesn't work.
And maybe that's because the characters just aren't very interesting to begin with (at least how they're written in live action).
I think if it was better written and these characters were more three dimensional perhaps they could get away with it.