julianmarku

I have seen this special multiple times and it pains me that Cartoon Network did not believe in the project to give it 90 minutes and the budget. It just goes to show that Cartoon Network had real talent but it had very bad management and terrible marketing.

The show really is a collection of all of Dexter and Mandark's rivalries in their lives. We get good character developmemt for Dexter and very little for Mandark. It pains me that we never got any from DeeDee even though we had character models. If you look online, you will find them.

Also, comics and cartoon hinted at Leelee liking Dexter. Imagine if we had Leelee as Dexter's love interest in all this movie.

As is, the movie is a treat to Dexter's laboratory fans who enjoyed the Rivalry with Mandark. Bing. Bang. Boom. Enjoy.

If Warner Brothers need to make some money with young adults in their late 30s to young 20s, they can greenlight a remake of this movie and give it to Gendy to make it as planned and make an ultimate version or Director Cut ending of Dexter's Labratory. You can even include The Blue Falcon or Scooby Doo. They share the same Universe.

It's an 8 out of 10 for me. Good but could have been great with an extended version. It's the bare minimum of anotherwise great idea.

It leaves you wanting a bit more.

I have never see so much product placement for an IP from Netflix before. This clued me in that Netflix were going to milk this series to the bank.

But I had no idea how much they ruined series with their writers and how gutless they were with seasons 2 and 3.

If season 1 was a masterclass of good writing. Season 2 and 3 is what you get from a greedy company that tells the creator: "look, we want more money, you are either on board with us or you can get off after season 1, we will still make it without you." (They should have made Frontman and the IPs be more like the creator of the IP and the studio where they wanted more control over the games and make it unfair which they did to some degree with the baby, but it came of as cliche classism than taking over).

But the season was so bad after the first 2 and a half episodes: so slow and boring that I had to skip scenes because they were so cringe.

Gi-hun's exist might have been the original outcome but how they got there is so stupid that it makes no sense. Season 1 told us that he can choose to vote anytime according to the contract. (Why didn't he bring that up? Was the baby going to vote to stay and finish the game?)

The baby brought this game down so much for Gi-han. He shined so much in season 1 and 2. The Frontman should have ordered for that baby to be taken away and if Gi-han wanted it, he would get it if he won the game and then wrapped it around that.

What brought down the show for me: 1) The detective arc was useless. He should have never been a detective, maybe a windows washer was his calling.

2) The baby dragged the show and everyone down. I hate how much blood was spilled and how many uselessly died for it.

3) the VIP's should have reflected studio interference, instead they were more like online trolls leaving comments or bad reviews.

4) Character development for 222 and 333 was horrible. Especially for 333. Season 2 we got not 1, not 2 but 3 ankle injuries and useless deaths.

5) The ending was stupid, boring as F and 333's decent into madness had no buildup and everyone was incredibly stupid.

I know that South Korea has the worth birth rate in the world and they are desperate to save their culture and genetic diversity and encourage family and children but bro, making the child the reason that this show's story is falling apart should not be what the studio or the writers do if they want to encourage birthrate.

If I watched this, I would dislike kids more because they show that kids get in the way.

Imagine if at the end of the show: Gi-han is promised by the Frontman that they can havea final battle if he wins the games and can demand anything and Gi-han gets obsessed to.the point that he has to decide between winning the game or killing the father and his daughter to get to Frontman and end the games.

That would make Gi-han crazed and mad even but at least he would sacrifice himself for a father and his daughter to survive.

The ending is just Meh, it's a weird place where the studio were too afraid to: turn Gi-han into a anti-hero and gray willing to kill anyone to stop the games, or did not want to end the franchise with revealing the truth to the world so that they can milk this franchise for more spin-offs, they killed their most interesting characters too early, they did not want to cut off Frontman from this franchise so that they can have a new anti-hero or sprinkle him around in future series. They went half-way down the bridge and fell into the hole.

When I was a kid admit that I did not understand anything about this episode and the characters because of how simple and innocent I was.

Watching this as an adult I am like: Christopher Nolan must have been a Johnny Quest fan because the story of the trilogy might as well been based on this episode:

• We have a hungry for ratings news station that basically puts a bounty on the beast and drives people crazy.

• there is an giant underground city under New York;
• Benton Quest and Race Banon use some kind of high tech computer to listen to every phone in New York and basically find a Johnny from his voice exactly like radar;
• There is so much interracial conflict in this episode that confused me but today it makes sense.

Honestly, the episode is full of ideas both great in terms of what is possible and used by Chris Nolan. And the social messages of the goldilocks and the brothas living in the slums.

Still relevant today.