Oh hey this guy is sperging about Murder Drones again, eh, I'll join too, I haven't done it in a while, I disagree with some of your takes so prepare for more wall of text
You mean, write the lore for Liam because like 99% of the lore is apparently intentionally left out according to the fans.
Very interesting cope on their part. People always come up with the dumbest shit to justify bad writing for some reason.
>The writing isn't bad! The creator left the story vague on purpose! That's why there's no story! It's not because the writer can't write! It was an intentional creative decision!
Lowkey reminds me of some of the copes I've heard about Metal Gear Solid 5's ending.
>IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE EMPTY AND MEANINGLESS, THAT'S THE POINT, YOU JUST DIDN'T GET IT, CHUD!
Okay what lore is exactly left out anyway?, as much as I don't like his series for how badly so many aspects of the story were fumbled, lore is the one aspect I would argue he didn't really mess up, at least in a major, glaring way. LV is super autistic about his own worldbuilding with how many details he was sprinkling over, when you take the time put it all together (or just read someone's else post who did exactly that), its actually relatively simple. Solver manifests one day, infects the Worker Drones, starts modifying the WDs as "Disassembler Drones", spazzes out one night on the Elliot Mansion, kills everyone, skins Tessa to become Leatherface, amnesiacs the DDs (except V, I actually forgot why she was left out), and both the Solver and the DDs start killing everyone, Earth is destroyed, Solver expands its influence from beyond all over the galaxy, reaches Copper-9, infecting Nori and Yeva, which eventually led to the extinction of humanity on Copper-9 too, sent the DDs to kill all the other surviving WDs, and the plot proper starts from there on.
Okay so you literally don't know what I'm talking about, that explains it.
I'd recommend at least watching it if you're intending on discussing why it sucks. I like to at least have watched a thing once before engaging in earnest discussion about it.
To be honest, I think the only reason I ended up sitting through the entire thing is because I couldn't look away, the old can't look away from the crashing train effect.
But to give a very quick rundown of everything MD does wrong. (TADC shares some of these too despite being written by a completely different person.)
>Plot is schizophrenic and nonsensical yet somehow meandering at the same time, pacing is ADHD and gives no time for the characters to breathe yet somehow never goes anywhere
The Plot only makes sense if you treat it like an ARG and start taking notes on the little details, which is...definitely an interesting choice to build your story around, which is why the only people I have seen actually defending the series are the giga-autists who spent the time meticulously analyzing every frame and keep swearing it's "kino" and I just "don't get it", I compared this show to FNAF, but even then, from FNAF 1-6 at least (because the lore becomes even more unnecessarily convoluted pretty much after that), you can get the basic gist of what's happening by just watching the ATARI-style cutscenes.
Typically, when most shows drop important lore bits, they tend to keep it focused on that piece of lore, just so the audience have the time to process it and what it could mean for the story, Murder Drones has a challenge that it has an extremely limited runtime with a fuckton of lore to spread, now, theoretically, you COULD fit all of that and also maintain the good pacing if much of the comedy bits that happen to make up a lot of the show were heavily scaled back, but this is Liam we're talking about, so he went with option 2, stuff most of his lore stuff into "blink-and-you'll miss it" moments.
I know everything is subjective, especially when talking about creative processes, but, fuck, this made watching the show not that fun at all for me, I don't want to pause at every lore drop when watching a VIDEO.
>There is no character development at least no satisfying character development one character goes from hating someone to literally laying down their life for them in the next episode that's about it, nobody else really changes in any meaningful way
FUCKING this, I hate almost every character, not only are they not that funny, but all of them are extremely shallow and most of the potential angst or character development doesn't happen, skipped offscreen, or barely acknowledged, I don't even know why it tried character drama when it does not have the time to properly do it at all.
>Classic millenial humor where it's impossible to know what is supposed to be a joke and what is supposed to be taken seriously
I think it was pretty easy to see where it was
trying to be funny and where it's
trying to be scary, the problem is the mind-numbing level of tonal dissonance that breaks all of the established "tension" and "stakes" to the point it's impossible to find any sort of sincere emotional connection with anything, this is what we call breaking the suspension of disbelief in writing, the most important thing every writer must do when making any remotely serious story, is to make sure your audience is sucked into whatever story you are telling, that includes making sure the fiction has an internally consistent logic, believable characters, even just making it feel like the world is its own, living universe is usually enough, you can stretch the suspension in some aspects (it's surprising how much you can get away with), but breaking it will KILL any emotional connection the audience has for your story, and that's worst type of audience reception you can get, it essentially is a signal that your story just isn't that good at all.
>Several plot threads that you think are going to be important or explained later are then never elaborated on or even brought up again
The only thing that mattered is the main Solver plot, everything else is irrelevant.
>Nobody not even the main antagonist really has a clear motivation for why they're doing anything
Solver wants to eat the universe; Everyone else doesn't want that to happen.
>Several characters just exist to exist and don't really do anything of note even characters that you might have thought were gonna be important
Oh yeah, J, Alice, Thad, Khan, a lot of side characters that barely did shit, the fans gave them more attention way more than the creator ever did.
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