Ftimis t1_itvbou8 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:01 PM

Gonna sound a bit harsh but I expected to like this show and ended up actively disliking it. I get that it's made predominantly for kids, but it's so irritatingly banal and predictable it's kinda unwatchable. Every tiny bit of "comedy" is given so much pause after it's shown, when there's absolutely nothing to digest. I feel that I can't put it entirely into words but, like, the 10th time Mugman went "haha yes, I am not noticing the obvious danger!" [PAUSE... PAUSE... PAUSE...] "Jeepers creepers!!!!" I kinda gave up.

I gave S2 a try but decided to drop it altogether after half an hour. You can have a kids' show that's an homage to older cartoons without it being 101% derivative in its storytelling.

Uptopdownlowguy t1_ityweze wrote on October 27, 2022 at 9:43 AM

The biggest disappointment to me is how the show doesn't look like an old cartoon the same way the game does

Ftimis t1_iu00hhs wrote on October 27, 2022 at 3:30 PM

yeah the only reason I didn't mention that is because it's a very obvious flaw that everyone complained about when they first showed a trailer for the show.

I'd be fine with the bland as fuck writing if the show was true to the artstyle. I'd also be fine with the bland as fuck artstyle if the show had bothered to be at least 1% innovative and engaging. With the way it is, I see zero reason even for a kid to watch this instead of other animated projects that are at least fun or visually pleasing.

Uptopdownlowguy t1_iu03ikn wrote on October 27, 2022 at 3:50 PM

Yeah, I agree that the writing is pretty lacking. There's very little sense of an overarching plot line even though I only watched season 1, and the humor is kinda hit and miss

Ftimis t1_iu0468w wrote on October 27, 2022 at 3:54 PM

It's not even that it's very episodic. It's that it reminds me of cartoons I was getting annoyed with when I was a kid (I'm 28) without knowing why. With the reason being that they were all very cookie-cutter, predictable, zero-stakes lowest-common-denominator shows as far as the writing went. And if you're making something like that in the 2020s and dressing it up as an homage, it should at least pick up the slack in most other aspects, and it very obviously doesn't.