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Finally we have the last action scorecard from Cartoon Network for this season, Sym-Bionic Titan. You know, I was there when Cartoon Network first premiered shows like Regular Show and M.A.D., and for Sym-Bionic Titan? No because I wasn't into action cartoons at the time, but I did acknowledge its existence from a promo showcasing the Night of Action block with Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Generator Rex and this one, including a coming up next bumper I remembered seeing. I doubt seeing any episode of the show because I was only little when I first heard of it. However, I did remember seeing a clip from the show that has Kimmy twerking in front of Newton (who is Octus) and...I don't want to talk about it.

But oh man, get ready to hear a lot of Megas XLR because this show felt similar to that. Anyways, this scorecard is a pure example of why I don't enjoy all action shows. Damn look at the pie chart that most of you guys weren't expecting at all. Unlike The Angry Beavers, Catscratch and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, there's only 1 episode I recommend and it barely made it, most likely because I realized the harshness I had on this show that I had to boot the rating for Shaman of Fear up to Fair. However, like The Angry Beavers, there's only 1 damned episode. The amount of bad episodes take up 75% of the pie chart and those that are at least tolerable only got a small portion of the chart with only 20%. When you talk about a show that's just bad, this is a good example of that because the bad episodes make up most of the episodes of the show.

There were a lot of solid bads Sym-Bionic Titan carries so let's jump into the writing, which is the aspect I was the most anxious about:

When you read my Almost Complete 2010s Cartoons Scorecard, you know that I thought I was going to be fond of this show, mostly because of the action and animation. My view on the premise and show made me thought that this will be a great show, but when I viewed the episodes and realized that they're cliched, I lost my trust in the show's potential and started disliking the show some more as time goes by. The idea of a princess, a solider and a robot escaping from a planet under siege and terror to Earth didn't seem like a bad idea to me at first, but then I realized the clicheness hidden inside the premise after comparing the premise to episodes of other shows like Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess. The fear triggered me just when I read the premise of the show and a few of its episodes. Turns out that the fear is real because the writing is cliched alright. While I did like the continuity in the episodes at first such as the titan fight against the fire monster in Escape to Sherman High being reported in the news in Neighbors in Disguise, it didn't help that it's plain cilched. Mecha robot shows such as Megas XLR successfully tried something different and new with the concept, but Sym-Bionic Titan felt like it took some elements from Megas XLR, such as something ending up in Earth and being followed by extra-terrestrial enemies. I find the similarities to pay off because like Megas XLR, the typical formula Sym-Bionic Titan uses is that the antagonist sends aliens to hunt down our heroes. But back into the writing, where not only do cliches ruin the writing, but also the very rapid use of predictability, even on episodes that aren't cliched. The episode premises don't seem cliched at first, but there's still cilches used in plot points like someone protecting one in danger but gets sacrificed to the predator and the rival becoming a success garnishing attention from the heroes' hobby. But, is there anything new added to the cliches? No, I couldn't find anything new to them. Then we have the filler in a few episodes that are really dirty and unnecessary. The title for the filler has to go to the second-long butt shots of some women. Even though they don't go on for so long, what's easily the worst of them all is Kimmy's dance scene in Lessons in Love where the song was so hip, there's bunch of twerking that shows that she is totally flirtatious in the episode and it was terribly timed. To match with the cringeworthy butt shots, we also have the out of place humor that doesn't match the relatable humor of Megas XLR. Because that this show would seriously take itself literally a lot, the oblivious townfolks tried to be like Megas XLR's oblivious citizens but it makes them look more dumb than funny. Yep, it's sadly unfunny and awkward. Does the focus tries to match the quality of the Megas where the 2 plots meet? No, like the same case as Danny Phantom, it would often be affected by bland school situations that doesn't affect much of the characters in some episodes. And this is where I felt like Sym-Bionic Titan feels a tad dated with the school conflicts being the subplot and the main conflict being to take on the villain, but this case being that the protagonists are being eliminated by mutants sent by General Modula. What frightened me about the writing is the fact that it's cliched with nothing new, very predictable from beginning to end and awkward humor that feels out of place.

The focus I mention felt dated by 2011 standards. Get ready for "dated" to be placed all over the quality:

At first, I thought I was going to LOVE the quality due to it looking like a tribute to nostalgic cartoons and the vibrant animation that keeps it from being dated. However, the more I think about the quality, I felt like the vibrant animation isn't enough because it looks too bright where some of the colors are white. Heck, it's so vibrant that Ilana's hair is almost white. The good thing I can describe the vibrancy is that at least they tried. The design on the Titan looks cool and futuristic, but what ruined the effect of the sophisticated design is the poor use of CGi. But before we get to the computer animation, I'd like to talk about the quality's main problem; it's all over the place. First off, Sym-Bionic Titan endeavored to capture the nostalgic feeling of the character designs of Galaluna by making them look a bit cartoonish yet look like they pop out of a teen school cartoon, but unfortunately, there are other cartoons that Cartoon Network aired like Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorported that did it better mostly because it has an identity with the character designs. But Sym-Bionic Titan just didn't picture the nostalgic feeling of the character designs correctly because there are other characters that look realistic as if they popped out of an action cartoon such as G.I. Joe such as General Steel. And for those realistic looking designs where a few look like a pop culture reference contain grotesque detail on their faces and expressions that it's plain disgusting to look at them with pimples scattered all over their faces. And another thing is that the designs has an identity kilometers better than the eyes because the pupils would change a lot from having no eyes to oval dots to just normal eyes and one addition, creepy eye glitter where only one circle is placed onto the pupil. Next off, we have the CGi which I promised that I would talk about later in this section; most of the time, it looks amateurish and cheap. The animation done on the Titan is actually decent, but the animation on the Titan made it look like the textures on the outer parts of the Titan look fake, as well as a bunch of shapes glued together inside the Titan. For the fight scenes? It would usually move awkwardly and sometimes too fast to get the pace going. What else the crew did a bad job at animating with computer animation are the bridges, cars and clouds because once again, they poorly blend into the backgrounds. Occasionally, Lance's abs muscles look ugly to look at because some of the lines close into the border of the character design. With all of the poor CGi, it was at their worst in the last episode (or cliffhanger) of the series, A New Beginning, where G3 looks laughable as a CGi robot and the scars on the mutants horribly blend with their skin whenever the shots pan. Speaking of mutants, they look like they popped out of Ben 10, but that's just me. And finally, shots of objects or backgrounds from aerial view look too realistic where I can mistake them for stock photos. To combine everything I've talked about in this section, it's all over the place with the cartoonish character designs and realistic looking soldiers with the poor use of CGi and backgrounds that look too realistic, this all would look dated by 2011 standards.

Can't believe I lost hope in the quality weeks ago after realizing the truth Sym-Bionic Titan has. Things will continue with the characters:

What the sitch on the characters this time? I didn't have that much hope for the characters because I thought they'd act bland but have an interesting description about them on the way of the show. The only aspects I was excited for were both the writing and animation, but not the characters because it may seem that they could express dull characterization. Sadly, there were only a few characters that interest me thanks to their personalities and depth, but not enough due to being either uninteresting or cliched. One of the few characters I assume to be accepting with are Octus and Solomon. As for the rest (though not all of them), they're just like the writing where it's all Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess style; they're bland and cliched as heck, though not one dimensional. What pretty much shows that these characters are cliched and really forgettable is pretty much the characters relations and status type. For example, Ilana would be the typical passionate princess who is nice to others while Lance is the down to earth soldier who is over protective of Ilana from the earlier episodes, but starts to establish a chemistry with her throughout the series. I heard that Lance is quite likable in Sym-Bionic Titan, but I just seem to dislike him because his backstories makes it hard for me to sympathize with him and his attitude is plain dull and serious like a goth. Same thing goes for Ilana because she's another cliche but pretty much a forgettable princess trope and plain uninteresting as heck. Even though the characters are given some depth throughout the short-lived series, their backstories are again cliched underdog stories, betrayal stories or generic princess tales. Then the recurring characters are more hate-able and forgettable than the main protagonists themselves because they never stop with their actions. General Steel is a perfect example of an underdeveloped egotistical general who's goal is to capture Lance, Ilana and Octus because he never refrains from what he's doing and wasn't aware in the beginning that the Titan saved the day in the first episode. I can go on about each cliched character, like Barbara who is just a pop culture reference only used to blend Lance, Ilana and Octus into Earth who has the same mom type of attitude that can get annoying at some points, but there's more that makes them more blander and hard to relate to, which Megas XLR achieved in doing with making the characters relatable, funny, have some real interesting depth and contribute to the story well, and that's the development. Both shows barely have any development in them, but what made Megas XLR's development excusable is that the characters are likable and easy to relate to. Sym-Bionic Titan carries characters I'm not interested in learning more about whose backstories, characteristics and traits are generically dull that we've seen so many times in media before this show came to the scene. Well, both shows did try to have development in a few episodes, but Sym-Bionic Titan has the development I saw coming in the plenty of episodes. I don't see everyone's love about the characters because they're plain generic and dull. Enough said, now let's get to the finale:

Genndy Tartakovsky's generic version of Megas XLR has positive reviews I can't apprehend. This would be one of those times where I was excited for a show at first, but by reading the premises the cartoon created made me feel like "Oh, is this show really going to bore me with these episodes?" where I can't help but fear for what's coming. Sym-Bionic Titan serves more like a full-series continuation of Samurai Jack's Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess and an inferior version of Megas XLR where both the writing and characters are not only plain cliched, but predictable, dull and bittersweet that not even the dated and all over the place animation can help it. The title alone feels like the only aspect of the show that has potential in my eyes to be a great show. How the potential survives in 22 minutes of generic-ness is left with continuity, cool futuristic music that keeps the quality from being dated and a few decent characters, but because there is a tiny amount of redeemable qualities, all I can say is that Sym-Bionic Titan is just bad (29%). It's a show that I wouldn't come back to due to all of the cliches and the dull atmosphere keeping me away. I heard that Sym-Bionic Titan is in the same situation as Danny Phantom where loyal fans endeavored to find solutions to a possible revival to their beloved show by creating a petition to bring back these shows. While Danny Phantom makes no sense, it actually does with Sym-Bionic Titan because it ended with a cliffhanger. If this show comes back, I won't be surprised that it's being revived and will ignore any light of potential from this series only if Season 2 reincarnates the flaws Sym-Bionic Titan has.

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Finally we have the last action scorecard from Cartoon Network for this season, Sym-Bionic Titan. You know, I was there when Cartoon Network first premiered shows like Regular Show and M.A.D., and for Sym-Bionic Titan? No because I wasn't into action cartoons at the time, but I did acknowledge its existence from a promo showcasing the Night of Action block with Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Generator Rex and this one, including a coming up next bumper I remembered seeing. I doubt seeing any episode of the show because I was only little when I first heard of it. However, I did remember seeing a clip from the show that has Kimmy twerking in front of Newton (who is Octus) and...I don't want to talk about it.

But oh man, get ready to hear a lot of Megas XLR because this show felt similar to that. Anyways, this scorecard is a pure example of why I don't enjoy all action shows. Damn look at the pie chart that most of you guys weren't expecting at all. Unlike The Angry Beavers, Catscratch and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, there's only 1 episode I recommend and it barely made it, most likely because I realized the harshness I had on this show that I had to boot the rating for Shaman of Fear up to Fair. However, like The Angry Beavers, there's only 1 damned episode. The amount of bad episodes take up 75% of the pie chart and those that are at least tolerable only got a small portion of the chart with only 20%. When you talk about a show that's just bad, this is a good example of that because the bad episodes make up most of the episodes of the show.

There were a lot of solid bads Sym-Bionic Titan carries so let's jump into the writing, which is the aspect I was the most anxious about:

When you read my Almost Complete 2010s Cartoons Scorecard, you know that I thought I was going to be fond of this show, mostly because of the action and animation. My view on the premise and show made me thought that this will be a great show, but when I viewed the episodes and realized that they're cliched, I lost my trust in the show's potential and started disliking the show some more as time goes by. The idea of a princess, a solider and a robot escaping from a planet under siege and terror to Earth didn't seem like a bad idea to me at first, but then I realized the clicheness hidden inside the premise after comparing the premise to episodes of other shows like Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess. The fear triggered me just when I read the premise of the show and a few of its episodes. Turns out that the fear is real because the writing is cliched alright. While I did like the continuity in the episodes at first such as the titan fight against the fire monster in Escape to Sherman High being reported in the news in Neighbors in Disguise, it didn't help that it's plain cilched. Mecha robot shows such as Megas XLR successfully tried something different and new with the concept, but Sym-Bionic Titan felt like it took some elements from Megas XLR, such as something ending up in Earth and being followed by extra-terrestrial enemies. I find the similarities to pay off because like Megas XLR, the typical formula Sym-Bionic Titan uses is that the antagonist sends aliens to hunt down our heroes. But back into the writing, where not only do cliches ruin the writing, but also the very rapid use of predictability, even on episodes that aren't cliched. The episode premises don't seem cliched at first, but there's still cilches used in plot points like someone protecting one in danger but gets sacrificed to the predator and the rival becoming a success garnishing attention from the heroes' hobby. But, is there anything new added to the cliches? No, I couldn't find anything new to them. Then we have the filler in a few episodes that are really dirty and unnecessary. The title for the filler has to go to the second-long butt shots of some women. Even though they don't go on for so long, what's easily the worst of them all is Kimmy's dance scene in Lessons in Love where the song was so hip, there's bunch of twerking that shows that she is totally flirtatious in the episode and it was terribly timed. To match with the cringeworthy butt shots, we also have the out of place humor that doesn't match the relatable humor of Megas XLR. Because that this show would seriously take itself literally a lot, the oblivious townfolks tried to be like Megas XLR's oblivious citizens but it makes them look more dumb than funny. Yep, it's sadly unfunny and awkward. Does the focus tries to match the quality of the Megas where the 2 plots meet? No, like the same case as Danny Phantom, it would often be affected by bland school situations that doesn't affect much of the characters in some episodes. And this is where I felt like Sym-Bionic Titan feels a tad dated with the school conflicts being the subplot and the main conflict being to take on the villain, but this case being that the protagonists are being eliminated by mutants sent by General Modula. What frightened me about the writing is the fact that it's cliched with nothing new, very predictable from beginning to end and awkward humor that feels out of place.

The focus I mention felt dated by 2011 standards. Get ready for "dated" to be placed all over the quality:

At first, I thought I was going to LOVE the quality due to it looking like a tribute to nostalgic cartoons and the vibrant animation that keeps it from being dated. However, the more I think about the quality, I felt like the vibrant animation isn't enough because it looks too bright where some of the colors are white. Heck, it's so vibrant that Ilana's hair is almost white. The good thing I can describe the vibrancy is that at least they tried. The design on the Titan looks cool and futuristic, but what ruined the effect of the sophisticated design is the poor use of CGi. But before we get to the computer animation, I'd like to talk about the quality's main problem; it's all over the place. First off, Sym-Bionic Titan endeavored to capture the nostalgic feeling of the character designs of Galaluna by making them look a bit cartoonish yet look like they pop out of a teen school cartoon, but unfortunately, there are other cartoons that Cartoon Network aired like Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorported that did it better mostly because it has an identity with the character designs. But Sym-Bionic Titan just didn't picture the nostalgic feeling of the character designs correctly because there are other characters that look realistic as if they popped out of an action cartoon such as G.I. Joe such as General Steel. And for those realistic looking designs where a few look like a pop culture reference contain grotesque detail on their faces and expressions that it's plain disgusting to look at them with pimples scattered all over their faces. And another thing is that the designs has an identity kilometers better than the eyes because the pupils would change a lot from having no eyes to oval dots to just normal eyes and one addition, creepy eye glitter where only one circle is placed onto the pupil. Next off, we have the CGi which I promised that I would talk about later in this section; most of the time, it looks amateurish and cheap. The animation done on the Titan is actually decent, but the animation on the Titan made it look like the textures on the outer parts of the Titan look fake, as well as a bunch of shapes glued together inside the Titan. For the fight scenes? It would usually move awkwardly and sometimes too fast to get the pace going. What else the crew did a bad job at animating with computer animation are the bridges, cars and clouds because once again, they poorly blend into the backgrounds. Occasionally, Lance's abs muscles look ugly to look at because some of the lines close into the border of the character design. With all of the poor CGi, it was at their worst in the last episode (or cliffhanger) of the series, A New Beginning, where G3 looks laughable as a CGi robot and the scars on the mutants horribly blend with their skin whenever the shots pan. Speaking of mutants, they look like they popped out of Ben 10, but that's just me. And finally, shots of objects or backgrounds from aerial view look too realistic where I can mistake them for stock photos. To combine everything I've talked about in this section, it's all over the place with the cartoonish character designs and realistic looking soldiers with the poor use of CGi and backgrounds that look too realistic, this all would look dated by 2011 standards.

Can't believe I lost hope in the quality weeks ago after realizing the truth Sym-Bionic Titan has. Things will continue with the characters:

What the sitch on the characters this time? I didn't have that much hope for the characters because I thought they'd act bland but have an interesting description about them on the way of the show. The only aspects I was excited for were both the writing and animation, but not the characters because it may seem that they could express dull characterization. Sadly, there were only a few characters that interest me thanks to their personalities and depth, but not enough due to being either uninteresting or cliched. One of the few characters I assume to be accepting with are Octus and Solomon. As for the rest (though not all of them), they're just like the writing where it's all Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess style; they're bland and cliched as heck, though not one dimensional. What pretty much shows that these characters are cliched and really forgettable is pretty much the characters relations and status type. For example, Ilana would be the typical passionate princess who is nice to others while Lance is the down to earth soldier who is over protective of Ilana from the earlier episodes, but starts to establish a chemistry with her throughout the series. I heard that Lance is quite likable in Sym-Bionic Titan, but I just seem to dislike him because his backstories makes it hard for me to sympathize with him and his attitude is plain dull and serious like a goth. Same thing goes for Ilana because she's another cliche but pretty much a forgettable princess trope and plain uninteresting as heck. Even though the characters are given some depth throughout the short-lived series, their backstories are again cliched underdog stories, betrayal stories or generic princess tales. Then the recurring characters are more hate-able and forgettable than the main protagonists themselves because they never stop with their actions. General Steel is a perfect example of an underdeveloped egotistical general who's goal is to capture Lance, Ilana and Octus because he never refrains from what he's doing and wasn't aware in the beginning that the Titan saved the day in the first episode. I can go on about each cliched character, like Barbara who is just a pop culture reference only used to blend Lance, Ilana and Octus into Earth who has the same mom type of attitude that can get annoying at some points, but there's more that makes them more blander and hard to relate to, which Megas XLR achieved in doing with making the characters relatable, funny, have some real interesting depth and contribute to the story well, and that's the development. Both shows barely have any development in them, but what made Megas XLR's development excusable is that the characters are likable and easy to relate to. Sym-Bionic Titan carries characters I'm not interested in learning more about whose backstories, characteristics and traits are generically dull that we've seen so many times in media before this show came to the scene. Well, both shows did try to have development in a few episodes, but Sym-Bionic Titan has the development I saw coming in the plenty of episodes. I don't see everyone's love about the characters because they're plain generic and dull. Enough said, now let's get to the finale:

Genndy Tartakovsky's generic version of Megas XLR has positive reviews I can't apprehend. This would be one of those times where I was excited for a show at first, but by reading the premises the cartoon created made me feel like "Oh, is this show really going to bore me with these episodes?" where I can't help but fear for what's coming. Sym-Bionic Titan serves more like a full-series continuation of Samurai Jack's Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess and an inferior version of Megas XLR where both the writing and characters are not only plain cliched, but predictable, dull and bittersweet that not even the dated and all over the place animation can help it. The title alone feels like the only aspect of the show that has potential in my eyes to be a great show. How the potential survives in 22 minutes of generic-ness is left with continuity, cool futuristic music that keeps the quality from being dated and a few decent characters, but because there is a tiny amount of redeemable qualities, all I can say is that Sym-Bionic Titan is just bad (29%). It's a show that I wouldn't come back to due to all of the cliches and the dull atmosphere keeping me away. I heard that Sym-Bionic Titan is in the same situation as Danny Phantom where loyal fans endeavored to find solutions to a possible revival to their beloved show by creating a petition to bring back these shows. While Danny Phantom makes no sense, it actually does with Sym-Bionic Titan because it ended with a cliffhanger. If this show comes back, I won't be surprised that it's being revived and will ignore any light of potential from this series only if Season 2 reincarnates the flaws Sym-Bionic Titan has.