@Farm Zombie @ThineButtocks So, Eight Deadly words for Archer and AoT, uh? I liked AoT and continued to read the manga, but almost quitted due to a case of Darkness Induced Audience Apathy. Simply put, things were getting too hopeless and grim, and the line between villains and heroes was blurring. Luckily, the latest chapters of the manga finally gave some hope back.
For me, Xiaolin Chronicles was really dissapointing. I was wary but excited about a series revival, but the characters (especially the villains) felt flatter than before, and it irritated me to no end that they managed to screw up the basics of the original series: in the original, every shen wong wu had a single ability. You could get creative with that ability, or alter it with the help of another wu or the elemental abilities of the heroes, but that was it. In the revival, they sometimes have weird, never talked about nonsense abilities as the plot demands. Second, the Xiaolin showdowns; OIn the original, one of the duelists chose a game or challengue, and then it took form by crating a grand scale, epic version of said game. In the revival, most of the time the duel started with none of the participants giving any game, leaving you confused as to the rules and nature of the game, and when one of the participants did say anything, it often was some unexplained, bizarre thing like "clown world", that only leaved you more confused. That it got cancelled seems like the right choice.
