• HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    the show is bad. there is no reason to engage with the internet discourse about it beyond coming to understand that fact.

    e: so as to avoid criticism without investigation, i have resolved to watch the first episode on a site of ill repute. I'll have the Truth for you in about 26 minutes.

    1:43 - okay the proudly sexually normal people talking about the high school shower scene like it's kiddie porn are honestly underselling it. it's even worse than that. it's "self referential" and all the characters talk like TV writers whose skulls have been hollowed out by twitter. we get no compelling, character driven dialogue, just the characters in the show turning to the camera and telling the audience that this show is a game piece for idiotic arguments about Diversity in Media.

    2:55 - Cool gore. Every cartoon should have a cute animal sidekick and/or some cool gore. Imo.

    4:17 - I think they should have explained one of the main characters assaulting another main character with a pipe better. Like given any sort of reason or consequences at all besides "they hate each other, and then everyone forgot about it."

    5:16 - This show has a terminal fear of having anything serious plot stuff on screen. Like, it has the tone of Family Guy, but it's not as funny.

    7:40 - The teenage protagonist called someone "a basic bitch who doesn't even know how to use hashtags." I checked and Mindy Kaling is 43, in case you didn't know.

    11:58 - This flashback is cute. I think the idea of this backstory is neat. I think it's hack shit to put it all in a single out-of-place expo dump and then lampshade how janky it was with a line referencing scriptwriting.

    13:39 - The joke about Shaggy hating drugs lands because they don't overexplain it. Wish they had that capacity for restraint anywhere else in the show. If I had to guess it's a set up for his origin story where we find out how he transformed from "Norville" to "Shaggy."

    16:40 - Oh, that's why they sped through the backstory. Because it was a fakeout. We're resolving this character arc right now, because this show is "satire." Why would we explore this motivation for a full episode or even an entire season when we could just sink it for comedic value.

    18:32 - "Hey, you guys ever seen Heathers? People liked that, right? I bet we could do that."

    25:34 - Okay maybe we are sticking with the mommy issues. I wish the show gave any reassurance that that emotional hook will pay off.

    okay

    The Truth

    The show is bad. We can stop talking about it I think. I'm not conceptually against an edgy scooby cartoon where all the characters are totally different, and I can get into a high school dramadey, but every line feels like the writers would rather be doing anything else, and instead of jokes they have the characters just say that they know they're in a TV show, and that they expect it to be discussed online. I figure this thing was proposed and fleshed out to its fullest extent in a single brunch meeting, and then everyone got bored and gave up on making it any good. At least it's animated better than the average western adult cartoon, which isn't saying much.