Since its official launch in June 2002, Kim Possible remains an active fan-favorite for young and old. The perfect mold of badass heroine who kicked the bad guys and save the day in her spare times. The Premiere was among the most watched (At that time) in Disney Channel's history, but fewer times later, one start to noticed that all this recognition was shortened due to an inherent sense of "quirkness".
Where the shows works best then, is the main character's girl can doing anything like a professionnal athlete. She can snowbarding, climb mountains and stuffs like that. But in the real life, she is just a typical teenage girl where she is became stuck with two pesky twin brothers, a too-much enthusiastic father and her doctress mother. Apparently, someone was concerned through the production that make in session the heroic exploits of Kim P. by herself would be too much unsettling to 2002s Disney Channel standards. Sadly for her, (But thankfully for us) Kim have no choice, but to endear the squeaky annoyances of Ron Stoppable, at sidekick and her supposed boyfriend. Such revelations would be developped through the course of the series.
If we can made comparisons here, Kim Possible have a lot to do with François Walthéry's Natacha when Walter been typically Ron due to its own awkwardness. Both are now aimed for a very nostalgic audience, or those who are old enough for appreciate their flaws.
Because when it's about flaws, there's many sadly. The overall show been too talkier and where characters bitched and argued each other without we get anything back for our troubles. The girlfriends like Bonnie are such unappealing because all they're do is make our heroine to the clumsy, out-of-focus teenage bug that all the school knows. Having to dealt a tacky job on the local Taco restaurant with Ron. But where the real action part begins, it's always set to an adventure, like the way most of the best Disney stories were (Not now anymore) able to do.
And what about the villains? Sadly, they're a little too dim or one-dimensional for match against the Kim's sense of heroism. In current times, everyone wanna brag any "stock" heroines without ask to fans if it that will work. Kim Possible's vilains were a little too passive. Like Drakken who can't make anything usual without Shego, (A Kim P. alter-ego?) the bad guy with a Scotsman attire, TeamGo and others were more peripheral than engaging. Despite that, the original series have ran for 87 half-hour episodes between 2002 and 2007 by even put a conclusion for once.
But when some fans revived the show almost a decade later, it's as if what makes the series so fun first became rather formulaic and pedestrian. Just compare it to another Disney Channel animated show producing at that time, American Dragon: Jake Long. Jake Long had struggled hard after a very faulty first season until the 2nd season have all fixed that with a more conventional sense of storylines and humor been improved with probably the most realistic romantic bond in modern-day history about Jake and Rose.
Unlike the shit that was done by Dargaud's Les Fées Valentines where a change of artists had deteriorated what makes the two firsts stories at fun-reading, American Dragon: Jake Long deserved to be remembered by be a show that had the fullest potential to succeed if the right hands were still there since the begins. Something that Kim had also struggled and unfortunately, for the most serious fan, the show never reached at far than something that may be made only for the internet audience.
About the creation of the project to the one we'll know and love, according to a DeviantArt's fan, hotrod2001, the original Kim Possible looked a little different, a blonde one and more generic than the one redhair girl everyone knows. Some concepts arts were from Shane Glines and John Nevarez while another one was made in 2020 by Bob McCorkle based of the folder that containing the original designs. That worth to take a look and thankfully, they put the right choice with that!
But where Kim completely also lacked is on the consumming products. There weren't many, and from a time where the trend of creators-driven productions have surely convinced creators to not longer took profit their own works to merchandising, in the biggest enjoyment of fans, but this is sadly a factor that have kills a lot the American animation business in the 00s for a not-that-good reason.
When it's about commerces, several of the reruns of older cartoons have run more longer than their lifetime on merchandising. This kind of snubbery related to consumming products is all the more incoherent. If there's one place where animated properties could make a life spin away of its original medium is on the items. Looney Tunes does that. Asterix did that too. Peanuts and Betty Boop are still hot consuming properties even decades after their original creators passed away. It's often the only place where fans can purchased items featuring their favorite characters, but Kim never get that. Instead, it remains obscure since the definitive end of the late-00s and I wouldn't says anything about that godawful 2019s live-action movie. A pretty out-of-nowhere, shot-by-shot cartoon (Even the film's "so-00s cheesy" theme song have a shot-by-shot live-action montage of the same sequences featuring in the Intro of the animated show. WTF?) with live actors does up the heaviest lifting.
And when it's about Kim, why not sharing several of my latest AI-works about the character? It's a very fun ride, thought to be honest, I've never been a fan of the TV show, but enjoying the character very much. She deserved all the world's love and a reboot but this time, without that Disney pull their claws to this. (Like when Ketchup Entertainment miraculously took the Daffy and Porky's movie script in theaters away of Warner Bros.-Discovery-proving that the golden years of big corporations are definitely over.) The world would be on better ways if Kim Possible still was in our lives today.
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