{"id":128219,"date":"2015-10-03T23:36:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T05:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/03\/vixen-is-finally-worth-watching.html"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:13:15","slug":"vixen-is-finally-worth-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/03\/vixen-is-finally-worth-watching.html","title":{"rendered":""Vixen" is finally worth watching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why CW Seed thought that breaking the Vixen<\/i> animated feature from about 25-30 minutes run time into six 6-odd minute episodes (including a minute of credits in each one) is beyond me. It was a horribly irksome way to watch the show, and I gave up after one episode. But they've finished the job, so you can now watch it, more or less painlessly, all back to back.<\/p>\n

Net-net, it's nothing earthshattering, but Vixen is a fun character and, when animated well, visually interesting in her power. The animation reminded me of Young Justice<\/i> (sigh). The story was pretty basic origin stuff, but well-handled for that. The cross-overs by characters (and actors) from Green Arrow<\/i> and The Flash<\/i> were interesting and well-handled (even if the power balance was a bit arbitrary, which is almost necessary when you get a speedster in the party). Worth a watch if you have any interest in the character.<\/p>\n

I hope to see more (and in a concentrated format).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Why CW Seed thought that breaking the Vixen animated feature from about 25-30 minutes run time into six 6-odd minute episodes (including a minute of credits in each one) is beyond me. It was a horribly irksome way to watch the show, and I gave up after one episode. But they've finished the job, so … Continue reading “"Vixen" is finally worth watching”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,45,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-cartoons","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49240,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/vixen-to-get-her-own-dc-animated-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":128219,"position":0},"title":""Vixen" to get her own DC animated series","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Jan-15 11:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Complete with ties to Arrow and the Flash (in some fashion).I've always liked Vixen -- her powers (especially in an animated format) are very dynamic, understandable, and, when used right, imaginative. She tends to be overpowered, though, by the biggest guns in the DCU, so having her own series may\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127815,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/barely-a-sip-of-vixen.html","url_meta":{"origin":128219,"position":1},"title":"Barely a sip of "Vixen"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Aug-15 8:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Six five-minute episodes? Um, sorry, I'll wait for them all to be complete, and then \"binge-watch\" it for half an hour. That was just annoying. (Quoth +Kay Hill : \"The trailer was longer than the episode.\")What I saw was good, but ... ugh. My attention span isn't that short. 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