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Originally Posted by emperor26
Wow, I didn't see that plot twist coming to begin with.
But this was a great episode, though the I am disappointed some of the characters, even Mr. Herriman, hasn't shown up at all.
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That was my only real gripe, honestly-that we never so much as glimpsed Mr. Herriman, Frankie or Wilt, or even heard them mentioned. They really weren't central to the plot, but still, I'm kinda getting the feeling that they(and Wilt and Frankie in particular) are being sorely underused this season.
Still, this ending has me reeling. I totally did not see that coming!
Mr. Marshmallow had a really excellent point, one of the things that makes this animated series really stand out so much from the usual crowd of animated shows aimed primarily at young kids: characters on Foster's are very much mortal beings. Unlike the characters on say, "Loony Toons", the Foster's characters can be hurt, even seriously, leaving permanant scars, and they can be KILLED. In most animated show, Western animation at least, you never really had to worry about a character being hurt or dying; you'd see them get shot at or fall over a cliff, and the worse thing that would happen was that they'd have a little circle of birds or stars around their head for a moment, and then in the next scene, they'd be back to normal, good as new. I don't think I can recall a "kid's" cartoon in which it was specifically mentioned that a character was about to be killed, nor one in which a character is left with highly visable, life-altering injuries, as is the case with Wilt. For that matter, Foster's is the only animated show to depict actual blood, as when Frankie got all scraped up in "CAGG" or Goo's boo-boo in "Go Goo Go". That all makes us really empathize with these characters and feel much more concern for them, knowing that there is no "cartoon magic" to save them and make them good as new if something happens to them. It also has villains that are genuinely dangerous and psychotic, not merely a nuisance. It takes a lot of gumption to make a cartoon like that.
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