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[rtil]

HAHAHA are you kidding me? strong characteristic traits are things like strong sense of individuality and if the character has the ability to change in the story.

blockhead is NOT an individual. the only thing consistent about him is that he has about a dozen different personalities that fire off at completely random times. he doesn't have a personality, his design is weak, and he disconnects himself to the viewer.

in every episode he never is influenced by anything around him, and is a complete mystery as to what his goals, motivation or purpose to the story are.

i can't believe anyone would look to blockhead as an example of a strong character. he's just about the WORST example for strong character i can think of

besides, i'm not "obviously ignoring the principles of developing a strong character". you're so textbook. whatever you learned in your class was probably tripe if you think some yellow circle with a face in it spouting random dialogue is an example of strong character

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

[Gerkinman]

my cats breath smells like catfood

[MRat]

i disagree Rtil. your dislike for the character is stopping you from being objective. he does have a personality, it's plain to see. his design in appearence doesn't affect whether he's a strong character or not. in fact i'd go so far as to say he's one of the STRONGEST characters because he influences everything about the story. he has the greatest prescence visible in any of those dumb, unfunny flash cartoons you see stinking up newgrounds.

i can't even begin to grasp how you came to believe he has simply a load of personalities that fire off randomly. to me it sounds like you watched 2 episodes and nothing else, which leads me to believe you don't have a whole lot of evidence, but who knows. I don't, not really. listen closer to the dialogue, it's not all that random. it's stupid sure, but a stupid character doesn't mean he's not a strong character. but you get alot of insight into blockhead and his world view through his dialogue. you just have to think about it, but i'm guessing you watched it, said this is dumb, and that was that. which is fine, cuz blockhead is dumb, but i still think you're missing something.

maybe we just think differently though. i find blockhead entirely memorable, which to me is abig part of being a strong character. perhaps you forget him instantly though.

whatever i'm not going to push it anymore, because we're both rooted in our ways, and we're both fairly intelligent, which will make us stupid.

[Nadroj0711]

my cats breath smells like catfood

whoa
what are you talking about
because
that's a weird coincidence what you just said

[anigen]

stop talking about blockhead you stupid faggots damn

[rtil]

i disagree Rtil. your dislike for the character is stopping you from being objective. he does have a personality, it's plain to see. his design in appearence doesn't affect whether he's a strong character or not. in fact i'd go so far as to say he's one of the STRONGEST characters because he influences everything about the story. he has the greatest prescence visible in any of those dumb, unfunny flash cartoons you see stinking up newgrounds.

Wait, so design has nothing to do with character? This is truly fascinating. I'll be sure to make my designs pure shit from now on since it doesn't make any difference.
Just because I dislike the character doesn't mean I'm biased against him. I actually didn't mind the original episodes that much (in fact you can find favorable reviews for the earlier ones), but I got sick of it after I realized he was a one trick pony. Of course the episode are about him - he's the main character. And, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but the fact that he's bright saturated yellow and red may make him stick out out of a series completely made up of graphically depicted real people. Pure genius? Probably not. Bad design? Most likely.

i can't even begin to grasp how you came to believe he has simply a load of personalities that fire off randomly. to me it sounds like you watched 2 episodes and nothing else, which leads me to believe you don't have a whole lot of evidence, but who knows. I don't, not really. listen closer to the dialogue, it's not all that random. it's stupid sure, but a stupid character doesn't mean he's not a strong character. but you get alot of insight into blockhead and his world view through his dialogue. you just have to think about it, but i'm guessing you watched it, said this is dumb, and that was that. which is fine, cuz blockhead is dumb, but i still think you're missing something.

maybe we just think differently though. i find blockhead entirely memorable, which to me is abig part of being a strong character. perhaps you forget him instantly though.

I've seen most of the series. What's happening to you is that you're buying into the swain's faux-intellectual writing that is actually disjointed and about as much garbage as a super mario bros z spinoff. The only thing he has going for him is that he has a better grasp on the english language than your average 13-year old NG kid. I understand blockhead's world - he misinterprets everything. It's been done before and much better. The best example I can think of is Yotsuba, a popular manga book about a young girl who looks at the world and the things in it a lot differently than most people would. The eyes-of-a-child type story.

The problem with blockhead is that he is just goddamn annoying, he doesn't fit in the world he was dropped into visually, and no, he DOES NOT have a personality! How can you not watch an episode and see that he will go from polar opposites of character from one second to the next for the sake of dropping a two-bit joke? It's complete trash, and anyone outside of the idiocy of Newgrunds tends to realize that.

[mishkamash]

i think i saw a blockhead cartoon
when i saw it
it didn't seem right trying to understand the character or the plot
because blockhead is almost like a stick figure, except added detail and an annoying way of talking
and i didn't know much about characters or animation then

not really saying i agree with rtil here
and this was a while ago when i did see an episode

[anigen]

stop talking about blockhead you stupid faggots damn

[rtil]

i'll talk about it when i want to talk about it, thanks

[anigen]

im just sick of hearing about it all the time like its extremely important

[rtil]

no one's talked about it in months

dunno where you've been,though

[MRat]

Like I said, I'm not going to be this guy who can't let things go, we just see things differently. But as a side note, I didn't say design has nothing to do with character, I said it doesn't determine whether he's a strong character or not. A strong character is someone with prescenece and influence the way I see it, and a character with a brilliant design could be just as forgettable.



And you do come across as biased is all. And once again, I never said Blockhead was good. As for his personality changes? I don't see em as anything more drastic than a pretty common moodswing. He just doesn't have emotional control.









And the Yotsuba was cool, but it was like Blockhead after a while; it never changed much.

[rtil]

there's only 4 volumes of yotsuba available in english. i think it would be pretty unfair to judge it at this point

[MRat]

there's only 4 volumes of yotsuba available in english. i think it would be pretty unfair to judge it at this point

I've read 3 actually, so you're correct. To be fair, I once learned a little Japanses though, maybe I could plow ahead.


You ever read Berserk? That guy has one arm. Talk about a STRONG character, ahahahahaha. Bad pun.

[rtil]

one of my friends loves that show
probably because of all the fighting

[MRat]

the action sequences have some pretty decent animation, but lack and really flair or pizzazz. also it's an anime show. yeah some are good, but for the most part, this one isn't.

[KingDavid]

i think the animation in the block head series is good - don't ban me plz

[rtil]

banned until 1912

[MRat]

i think he's getting better, but i wouldn't say its good. it's smooth though, which is at least something, i guess. well it's not always smooth, but sometimes. i like his lipsync actually.