Seriously, though, fucking hell, Infinity Train.
That sure was an end.
There may not be any more unless a lot of people learn that it exists and watch it through official channels, but if that’s how it wraps then, well, fuck, they went for it.
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That whole third (maybe final?) season feels like a John Carpenter plunge into the abyss.
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Still unpacking a day later, and likely will be for a while. It’s the kind of thing that stays with you, you know.
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So, I finally watched seasons 2 and 3 of Infinity Train, back to back. I remember being surprised they’d gone to the end of the basic premise so fast in season 1 and was wondering if they could ever live up to it in further seasons, and… whoa, this is going places. Forget living up to it, it’s completely transcending the setup and ending up with something much greater.
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Yeah, the first season is mildly interesting and doesn’t outlast what seems like a limited gimmick. It’s fine, a notable mention with some neat ideas and aesthetics and a decent little personal story.
Then season two is one of the best things I have seen in ages, animated or live-action. And it completely blows open what the show can be in the future.
Then season three, uh. It, uh. It… takes advantage of that opening.
…
whys it gotta be on hbo
Corporate consolidation. Everything Turner is now owned by Warner Media, and Warner Media is abandoning the ship of cable and moving basically all scripted programming to this new service.
There’s a free trial period! Which also counts toward people officially viewing the show. Otherwise, well. This is the Internet. I’m poor too!
Owen Dennis says the ideal situation is to go to eight seasons, because, you know. 8. Which, sideways.
But yeah, everyone’s been let go now, pretty much, and this is the end unless the studio can be convinced that the show is a draw for their little service here. And right now, the plans they’ve pitched and have built up on a server somewhere are… not inspiring the studio. Which still thinks of this as a kids’ show, and can’t see why that audience would be interested in following, say, a grumpy old woman for a whole season. Which has caused Dennis to grump himself about the narrow way animation continues to be perceived here, unless it’s edgy “adult” comedy.
I guess we’ll see. Even if they do get the greenlight, there won’t be any more for a while. They haven’t already been working on any more (beyond planning), they’re gonna have to restaff at this point, and many of the original team members will have new gigs already. And if the pipeline is anything like Steven Universe it takes, like, nine months for an episode to turn around. So this will be it for now.
Storyboard revisionist for the show
thoughts on Aggrestuko s3
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haven’t watched it yet but oh no / oh yes
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oh no ive never related to a dril tweet so much
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a friend of a friend here just moved to LA because she’s dating his roommate so hopefully that brightens things up
aww, bummer
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WHAT?!
FUCK
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new characters, new ideas, new cartoons, same extreme horniness
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if there’s one thing children’s entertainment has been missing, it’s more casually racist characters
bring on the revival of big-lipped alligator
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Made in Abyss is sort of cool? The world-building and stuff is all the kind of shit I’m a sucker for. It is also way less fluffy than what I first expected it to be, these kids Go Through Some Shit.