 This is something I've been wanting to do for a while talk about science fiction cartoons in this show I'm going to introduce you to four Recent science fiction series in the hopes that my regular viewers will go watch them and get to experience them now these Introductions I'm about to make are intended for people who haven't heard of these shows and certainly haven't seen them So those of you who have seen these shows bear with me number one legend of Korra, this is a Nickelodeon prime-time series that started in 2012 and it ended in December of 2014 just a little over a year ago. I never watched this while it was running. I only watched the whole thing through This past summer. I resisted for a long time. I haven't been watching new cartoons on cable television. I Think there's a glut of new Uninteresting cartoons like Adventure Time, which I've never been able to get into never enjoyed. So I've just been ignoring things Well, that turned out to be a mistake in this particular case Korra takes place in a very complex fictional world not Earth It is a world that has recently discovered electricity and cars and what we would think of as modern cities Almost steampunk. There are airships and everything in this world. There is magic people with natural talents can learn how to manipulate water fire earth and air and each generation Apparently there is only one person born with the ability to manipulate all four and that is the avatar and Korra Is the avatar? She is young. She is not well-practiced yet is thrust into fame simply because of who she is Everybody in the city wants to be associated with her the city leaders want her endorsement the police force wants her endorsement The various political factions want her endorsements Businesses want to be associated with her to sell more cars and more soft drinks and even certain criminals and rebels Want her to associate with them to achieve their own goals The writers of this show have done an excellent job of introducing these complex adult themes into a show Intended for young viewers. Korra's most dangerous enemies are not Supervillains and monsters from other dimensions. They are human Equalists who consider benders to be a threat to them They are anarchists who consider the avatar to be a symbol of division and oppression Korra's villains Believe in what they're doing in addition to seeking power They also believe that what they are doing is the right thing to do and as a viewer you find yourself unable to completely Disagree with them. The only thing bending has brought to the world is suffering It has been the cause of every war in every era, but that is about to change I want what you want to restore balance to this world. I don't think our ideas of balance are the same Are you sure about that? The idea of having nations and governments is as foolish as keeping the human and spirit realms separate You've had to deal with a moronic president and a tyrannical queen Don't you think the world would be better off if leaders like them were eliminated? The animation is surprisingly good. In fact, it's top-notch It's going to destroy the entire city And one of the most impressive things about this show is that by the end of its run All of the prime characters all of the leaders are women and not young teenagers like Korra I mean mothers and grandmothers who are reluctantly brought into the fight to protect their families Would you ever have imagined? Hearing a conversation like this in an American animated television show. So here's something I've always been curious about Hooslin's dad He was a guy named Kanto nice man, but it didn't really work out between us Yeah, let's not linger on the fact that I grew up without a dad No need to get all touchy-feely about it. Just one of those things, right? Hey, I forgave you for all your garbage a long time ago You're the only one who wants to hold on to this family drama nonsense for the rest of your life Forgive me for what and not knowing my dad is nonsense to you It was pretty important to me and until now you would never even discuss it I thought maybe I should try to reach out to mom But now that we're together again, I remember why we stopped talking You make me furious and you don't even know why and when I tell you you don't care once we save sue you and I are finished This is good stuff The entire series is available on blu-ray and DVD and I recommend you go get it number two bravest warriors This show was created for YouTube specifically part of the cartoon hangover channel It's created by a Pendleton ward the creator of adventure time and Everything that did not click for me with adventure time does click with me for bravest warriors. It started in 2012 They have two complete seasons and they're supposed to be a third on the way Every episode is only a little over five minutes long, but they take advantage of every second. They pack a great deal in there Everything that you see and I mean everything will eventually come back around and turn out to be important Take the science fiction humor of Futurama and combine it with the design aesthetic of adventure time This whole mission has been so wack first. We'll be landed on Zagraxas to help King Kongletard fight the hardcore hill midgets Didn't it seem more like they were soft core hill midgets? And then make it uncensored because it's the internet Professor, these are the bravest warriors They Kind of look like dorks. Listen up fart sparkle and you get a really interesting series I don't remember how to fly we're all going to die This show has a very complex little future world that they've built and some of the strangest absurdist humor I've ever seen Our brains just weren't designed to understand the concept of forever. What about your horse? He realized the meaning of the universe back when we were six Oh, yeah, he hasn't moved since I feel like I should ride him more often, but he's always so blown away And there's catbug Bravest warriors is on youtube. I will include a link to season one in the description below number three gravity falls This show is on disney xd. Yes, it's a disney product And I've said plenty of times before how I don't like promoting disney products because I don't like the the disney corporation But man is this good It's about two little kids named Mabel and dipper Who are sent on their own to spend the summer with their great uncle stan who they call grunkle stan at his home slash gift shop in gravity falls which turns out to be A magnet for x-files type weirdness I don't have any real evidence I guess I can be kind of paranoid sometimes and wait what? Mabel now that we've gotten to know each other there's There's something I should tell you you can tell me anything. Please be a vampire. Please be a vampire There's so much in this show. Where do I start talking about one of my favorite things is this Really absurd distant future dystopia vision they have of earth Where everything is lorded over by time, baby Yes time, baby one big, baby you will have until time, baby finishes drinking the cosmic sand in this hourglass No, come on And then there is the threat to the entire universe posed by The interdimensional supervillain bill cipher. It's the end of the world While I was rewatching these last few episodes I was Saying to myself, how is this show so original and funny and then I looked at the writing credits of this particular episode and There's josh Weinstein whom we all know and love from the simpsons and future rama and in this particular episode Matt Chapman Do you know who matt Chapman is? You don't Yes, that's who matt Chapman is he and his brother are the creators of home star runner and strong bad strong bad Is writing gravity falls or contributing to the writing? That's why it's so funny The series has two seasons And the creators have announced that the show is designed to end After the second season the final episode of the second season has not aired yet It's supposed to air in february of 2016 and the day i'm recording this is january 31 So we should see it soon I don't think there are any official collections of gravity falls episodes released by disney or if the episodes are available on the disney Website whatever this is the internet go find them number four steven universe Where do I start to describe steven universe? I really can't I remember seeing the pilot episode of this show Not long after it first came out And I was not impressed in fact. I thought it was stupid and I avoided it ever since But this past november At a local comics convention. I ran into a local artist who had her art on the table And she had drawings of all the the crystal gem characters and I said to her what is it with these characters I see all the artists on the internet drawing them over and over and over What what is the appeal of these characters and she had the same problem describing it that I'm having right now She said you just need to to see it And I had just finished watching the entire kora series which she had not seen so I made a deal with her I'll watch steven universe if you'll watch kora after watching the first three or four episodes Let me tell you it becomes really complex and interesting This is legitimate science fiction. Are you okay? What is all this? We're not talking about sailor moon here this way. Uh How many more gems are trapped here? Don't know don't care She stopped singing This takes place in an alternate earth where there was apparently an alien invasion five or six thousand years ago and these crystal gems were instrumental In thwarting that invasion these aren't teenage girls With gems that give them powers the leader of the crystal gems was for many thousands of years a much larger physically larger gem character named rose quartz who gave birth to steven and then Somehow is no longer with us She was the leader of the crystal gems But it's apparent that she had a much closer relationship with these other characters Pearl you have to tell me what's wrong Sometimes you even sound like her Pearl whom you see here Again, where do I start is probably the most interesting and complex cartoon character. I have ever seen ever Everything I ever did I did for her Now she's gone But I'm still here Sometimes I wonder if she can see me through your eyes What would she think of me now? I have to say again. I don't know where to start to tell you about Steven universe So what I'm going to do is have a a series of Special discussions with a local friend of mine who also has her own youtube channel And we'll talk specifically about Steven universe and I'll upload those starting I guess later this week In the meantime the second season of Steven universe is not yet complete And I suggest you go look up these episodes again. This is the internet. So you will be able to find them My next video will be my january wrap-up and then I'll do another book review. See you then You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron There is a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumbler That's my headquarters in addition to my videos. I publish links and updates there every day