So I took the 3 1/2 hours out of my life to watch episodes 1-8 of this show. The animation work is solid. Obviously talented people are involved in this but it has the same issue as the rest of these millennial arts major shows. The dialogue. The issue with all of these shows is that the “people” making them are some of the most broken, wretched queers alive and no amount of therapy or feel-good horseshit has EVER made their miserable faggot lives ANY better. But the day they accept that is the day they join the 41%. Truly, it is the last cope of the copeless, as a fat-Canadian-who-showed-his-asshole-on-stream would say. An astonishing lack of self-awareness, but I expect nothing less from a troon. Suffah tranny.
Other than Space King, Bigtop Burger, and Smiling Friends, are there even any genuinely good animated series coming from internet creators right now? Even Baman Piderman had better writing and plot progression than TADC, and that show was literally about Batman falling in love with a cake-eating tuba.
Why does it feel like most Glitch shows only have the showrunner writing everything? A lot of these projects come across like the story was never fully planned out beyond a few cool ideas and character concepts. I genuinely do not understand how you dump millions into animation without having a clear beginning, middle, and end mapped out beforehand.
Edit to avoid double-posting:
Honestly, Glitch should just start doing pilot pitches and let the audience vote on what gets picked up. Cartoon Network did something similar years ago, where creators pitched their own show ideas, and one called "Villainous" ended up winning. The network did not make the pilots themselves either. The creators made them independently and presented them.
That system makes way more sense. It lets people vote on projects they actually want to watch while giving Glitch access to a huge pool of ideas without immediately throwing massive budgets at them. It would also cut down on people whining about what gets greenlit because the audience literally chose it.
Instead of spending insane amounts of money on something like KoG before anyone even knows if it has an audience, let creators like Dana make and pitch a pilot first. Build an event around it. Livestreams, showcases, community voting, whatever. Let creators actually show the raw version of their idea instead of burying it under corporate production immediately. KoG had no reason to be made at the quality it was if it wasn't even guaranteed to be produced. It would also allow them to see which character designs work and which do not. KoG is interesting in concept, but I hate looking at the two girls because they're ugly as shit. If it was made as a simple pilot with them, then they could get community feedback, update the designs as needed, then have something people like more.
It would also give smaller indie creators a real shot, rather than mostly pulling from ex-industry people. You could get teams like the Long Gone Gulch creators pitching ideas, too. Hell, charge a submission fee for pilot entries and it practically pays for itself. The whole thing would create way more community engagement, help build actual hype around projects, and make audiences feel invested from the start. Even just an animatic would do. "Becky Prim" got popular despite just being an animatic.
They keep milking the whole "Arin Ross 13-year-old passion project" since they aired GameO. Villainous was like that as well. His characters existed on early Newgrounds (now that I think about it, it also does the "infection" idea as well. Instead of games, though, it's for shows.) If they care so much about airing people's passion projects, let people who don't already have names get a go.
