This was a foreseeable problem, guys.
I’m home now, so things should be more or less back to normal. At least once I finally get around to that stupid other cheat power show I’ve been putting off.
Impressions:
An anchor on this show, aside from its bizarre and inconsistent art styles mixing blob faces, CGI, rotoscoping, and nightmare abstraction, is what a spoiled, whiny brat the main character is. He’s in the fanciest clothing of everybody, waited on by servants 24/7 who also do his chores for him, wanders off to play while everybody else is toiling away, even has that pretentious no da speech pattern, all the while lamenting that he doesn’t understand why anybody would want to dance because it’s so meaningless. Unlike how he prances in the river with his secret just-friends bestie, which is full of meaning. Granted, way more blame should’ve fallen on the dude who accidentally knifed a horse in the middle of a show, but this kid is like 12 years old and throwing existential tantrums on stage where he’s inexplicably being showcased as the starring attraction. Why again? Is everyone else somehow even worse than the horse-stabbing guy?
Then he sees some sick woman in a dilapidated shack having a violent seizure and goes “Oh wait, I understand dancing now! It’s the best thing ever!” At least, I think that’s what was going on. Again, the animation there went into full on fever dream and was just flailing appendages a mile long whipping around the screen. You could’ve told me that was a depiction of an elephant wrestling a squid and I wouldn’t be able to argue with that. So like 99% of these hobby shows, it contains virtually none of the actual hobby it purports to be interested in, but does have some teenager being obnoxiously melodramatic about it, just to randomly do a total 180 as soon as he sees ‘real’ art. It is pretty animated, though the styles are wildly inconsistent with little rhyme or reason as to which is used when. And again, I found the pretentious little brat’s existential angst as he crawls over the skulls of dead villagers to whine about how boring he finds his job and his servants to be very, very far from a compelling protagonist.
