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Venture Bros. Update

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According to Jackson Publick's blog, Venture Bros season 4 is full steam ahead. Kinda old news, but the season is set to premiere this fall with 8 episodes. They'll take a break, and come back with another 8 the following summer. Apparently, they are editing "season 4.1" and writing "season 4.2" currently.

And, they snagged Kevin Conroy for a guest spot.

I'm excited. Season 3 was a bit of a downturn, I thought, in quality. I hope the next season will return the show to it's former glory.

He also revealed the names for some season 4 episodes:
"Hansom Ransom"
"Blood of the Father"
"Heart of Steel"
"The Revenge Society"
"Perchance to Dean"

Also, for those of you going to ComicCon, Publick and Doc Hammer will be appearing there. They are hoping to have some sort of preview clip or something to present, but are not sure just quite yet.
 
That's good news. Well, kind of. As long as it get's shown/released in Britain sometime.

Seasons 1 and two used to air on the digital channel Bravo, but there's been no sign of them for months. Season three hasn't aired at all.

Season one came out on DVD recently, I'm hoping for season two soon.
 
Last season was a disappointment, I agree. It wasn't bad, just mediocre. I'm still really looking forward to this season though.
 
I was really enjoying the third season until the do-nothing season finale. It looked they were leading up to a huge event with the return of Venture Senior and the ORB business, but it wasn't even dealt with, apparently setting up Season Four instead. Boo.
 
miraclefan said:
LutherSloan said:
Last season was a disappointment, I agree. It wasn't bad, just mediocre. I'm still really looking forward to this season though.
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Explain to me why you think it was ''mediocre''?:vulcan:
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I will. Many of the episodes were funny and I enjoyed them on that level. However, I felt there were too many episodes focusing on characters that were not the Venture's. Like The Simpsons in it's later years, it felt as if the Venture family became guest stars in their own series. I hope season 4 will bring it back to the family.

Tharpdevenport said:
And Kevin Conroy IS Batman. No one, in a serious role, has ever encompassed Batman like he did.
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Agreed.

While leaves me with an overabundant amount of anticipation to see who they have him voicing. Hopefully it is something that kinda plays off that fact of his previous role of Batman.
 
Mr Light said:
I was really enjoying the third season until the do-nothing season finale. It looked they were leading up to a huge event with the return of Venture Senior and the ORB business, but it wasn't even dealt with, apparently setting up Season Four instead. Boo.
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This is basically why I thought it was mediocre.

It was also the first season where there was no real overarching story, except I guess towards the end of the season with the ORB. Then they forgot about it for the finale...:wtf:
 
I saw the season 3 DVD on shelves yesterday. The mock Atari 2600 packaging made me laugh...even had a screen shot on the back.
 
MeanJoePhaser said:
I saw the season 3 DVD on shelves yesterday. The mock Atari 2600 packaging made me laugh...even had a screen shot on the back.
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Apparently the season 3 DVDs are selling very well. Better than the first two seasons did, which is, apparently, very unheard of.
 
This is another series like Galactica in that it features ridiculous gaps in between seasons and half seasons.
 
I have to agree season 3 was only so-so. I liked it but it lacked the feel and entertainment the first two seasons had. Hopefully season 4 is a return to the earlier seasons with the outrageous stories and humor of the first and second.
 
Broccoli said:
miraclefan said:
LutherSloan said:
Last season was a disappointment, I agree. It wasn't bad, just mediocre. I'm still really looking forward to this season though.
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Explain to me why you think it was ''mediocre''?:vulcan:
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I will. Many of the episodes were funny and I enjoyed them on that level. However, I felt there were too many episodes focusing on characters that were not the Venture's. Like The Simpsons in it's later years, it felt as if the Venture family became guest stars in their own series. I hope season 4 will bring it back to the family.

Tharpdevenport said:
And Kevin Conroy IS Batman. No one, in a serious role, has ever encompassed Batman like he did.
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Agreed.

While leaves me with an overabundant amount of anticipation to see who they have him voicing. Hopefully it is something that kinda plays off that fact of his previous role of Batman.
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Which one was it, Dean? That dressed up as Batman in a Holloween episode. There has to be some kind of Batman joke made.

"Hey, your voice sounds familiar..."
 
LutherSloan said:
Mr Light said:
I was really enjoying the third season until the do-nothing season finale. It looked they were leading up to a huge event with the return of Venture Senior and the ORB business, but it wasn't even dealt with, apparently setting up Season Four instead. Boo.
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This is basically why I thought it was mediocre.

It was also the first season where there was no real overarching story, except I guess towards the end of the season with the ORB. Then they forgot about it for the finale...:wtf:
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Concur with this.

The real problem is that it lacks the driving force of Season 2--the Monarch against Phantom Limb. S3's finale has nothing on Showdown at Cremation Creek. I almost want them to bring Limb back so some real villainy can be had again, and part of the problem is that the antagonists as they stand are funny, but unthreatening. The Monarch looked like he was going to come into his own in S3, but they incomptented him again at the last moment (and killed 24!). For some reason I expected something much more epic out of Sgt. Hatred than crying on the Ventures' toilet. The dude's a recovering pedophile with a tattoo of the word HATRED that goes all the way down and a flying supertank, for goodness' sakes!

For a moment in S3, I thought they were going to completely turn the series upside-down, by making Rusty a supervillain. The Doctor Is Sin is still the best episode of the bunch, but I kind of wonder how S3 would've been received if they'd taken that road instead...

A final strike against S3 is that the Blu-rayization is rather crap. :(

I still enjoyed S3 a lot, especially highlights like the aforementioned Doctor is Sin and The Invisible Hand of Fate, and very much look forward to S4.
 
Broccoli said:
MeanJoePhaser said:
I saw the season 3 DVD on shelves yesterday. The mock Atari 2600 packaging made me laugh...even had a screen shot on the back.
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Apparently the season 3 DVDs are selling very well. Better than the first two seasons did, which is, apparently, very unheard of.
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Might be because their uncensored episodes unlike the first 2 which included the episodes as they appeared on Adult Swim.


I'm really looking forward to the return of new episodes because next to Robot Chicken and King of the Hill reruns I can't stand much of what AS airs these days.
 
Leroy said:
This is another series like Galactica in that it features ridiculous gaps in between seasons and half seasons.
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That is mostly because it takes a very long time to animate and they typically don't start work on the next season until the previous one is finished airing. Be glad there is all that time, because in some cases, episodes are finished mere days before being aired.

Tharpdevenport said:
Which one was it, Dean? That dressed up as Batman in a Holloween episode. There has to be some kind of Batman joke made.

"Hey, your voice sounds familiar..."
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It was Hank that seems to be the Batman fan. He dressed in his Batman costume when jumping off the roof with an umbrella; again when Dean had his double date with Triana ("It's my best suit!"); and again for a Halloween party costume contest (even though the rest of the family dressed in Star Wars related costumes [Brock made his own Wookie costume and Dean was Slave Leia]).
 
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