A theatrical release of the finale isn't a bad idea, theaters need all the help they can get. They made episode 9 an hour long so even if they didn't tack on episode 8 it would be an acceptable length for a smaller animated movie. But damn you were not kidding with the merch. Does the show really need THREE VINYL RECORDS!?
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The cover art looks fine, but this show didn't really have an OST that stood out at all. Outside of maybe the credits I can't really recall a song from the series and I just finished watching it.
I didn't even know they were selling records now. Sorry, not records. "Vinyls", as they're known to the kids who are buying these who don't even own a record player.
Honestly, this is kinda perfect. The 'vinyl revival' is something else that I (and likely many others) got cold feet with after it became very aggressively commercialized. I was probably one of the first people who started collecting records. Used to love it. Haven't bought one since before COVID.
The novelty of collecting records in, say, 2014 was that they were an obsolete, forgotten format that had distinct quirks and charms that no one really cared about. You could buy them in bulk in charity shops for next to nothing. When musicians started releasing new albums on vinyl around that time, it was genuinely a bit of a novelty. But now it feels like vinyl has been 'revived' for so long that the charm is gone, and all we're left with is a music format that's honestly a bit shit. It was superseded by CDs and digital music files for a reason. You start to remember that the "quirks" were actually just shortcomings.
It feels like a perfect example of what Mark Fisher meant when he said that the cancellation of the future does not even leave us with the past. No matter how cool old stuff from the past is, when it's rehashed repeatedly, it will become monotonous.
If you squint close enough, there's probably a better message buried within there about the boredom of a comfortable eternity than there is in TADC itself.
Also, interesting side-fact: Glitch, being based in Australia, has apparently received extensive funding from the Australian government. Y'know, one of those "support local artists" bursaries governments like to hand out. The fact that what are by far Glitch's two biggest franchises, TADC and Murder Drones, are both made by Americans apparently makes no difference. I dunno, but if I were an Aussie I'd have a few questions about where my tax money is going.
but still.