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Disenchantment New animated show from Matt Groening Netflix 2018
- Thread starter Sagadego17
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Well hell, how am I, as big of a Simpsons fan as there is, and a fan of Futurama just finding out about this now? Will definitely give this a shot.
Might as well stay up the extra hour to watch the first episode of this. I'm not really sure what to expect to be honest. I do like Matt Groening and Eric Andre though so I hope it's good.
I expect Futurama, but Medevil setting, with a season-long story arc.
I'm keeping my expectations a little low, but I'm very excited nonetheless.
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55 Metacritic oof
Here's hoping it's a Bojack Horseman situation where it gets better half way through the season.
Here's hoping it's a Bojack Horseman situation where it gets better half way through the season.
Not a frequent Netflix user so I'm not really sure what their worldwide content release policy is for Netflix originals. Thanks for the clarification!
Who knows they could be right, but i typically never listen to reviews of first seasons for tv shows. especially animated ones, bojack being one of the big reasons like you stated.
I liked the short introductions for the characters so I'll definitely give this a try!
I'm enjoying it more than I expected from the trailers. I love the elf names.
I thought it was a fun callback. :)
Almost done with episode 1, all I have to ask is what the heck is with the New Queen? LOL What was the gain for marrying her? Was it a trick? Does the King have a thing for tentacles?
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I keep getting vibes of Futurama characters, I keep imagining the Demon's voice as Bender, Elfo as Fry, the Wizard as the Professor, The Head Guard as Zap and Bea as Leele. And somehow the show is more enjoyable projecting those voices onto the characters.
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I keep getting vibes of Futurama characters, I keep imagining the Demon's voice as Bender, Elfo as Fry, the Wizard as the Professor, The Head Guard as Zap and Bea as Leele. And somehow the show is more enjoyable projecting those voices onto the characters.
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First Episode seemed good to me. Most of the criticism certainly seems to fall along the lines of "the jokes seem more muted" or "there weren't that many big laughs."
I'd disagree, personally. Seemed like there was plenty of quality humor to me, but of course it's going to have to share space with a slightly more sentimental ongoing story.
Both aspects seem solid so far, though, and I think the critics forget how often Futurama and The Simpson's could be the same (one could say a big problem with recent Simpsons is the lack of sentimentality that helped define the earlier seasons).
I guess it just bothers me when critics, of all people, try to shoehorn a creator's work into a neatly defined cubby, especially when he and Weinstein are attempting something intended to be a little different from their perceived norm.
E.g. Groening's "that animated comedy guy" so why am I not laughing every five seconds?!
Let the show breathe a bit my dudes. What's there is already good. Could end up great.
I'd disagree, personally. Seemed like there was plenty of quality humor to me, but of course it's going to have to share space with a slightly more sentimental ongoing story.
Both aspects seem solid so far, though, and I think the critics forget how often Futurama and The Simpson's could be the same (one could say a big problem with recent Simpsons is the lack of sentimentality that helped define the earlier seasons).
I guess it just bothers me when critics, of all people, try to shoehorn a creator's work into a neatly defined cubby, especially when he and Weinstein are attempting something intended to be a little different from their perceived norm.
E.g. Groening's "that animated comedy guy" so why am I not laughing every five seconds?!
Let the show breathe a bit my dudes. What's there is already good. Could end up great.
thats what I was thinking, I feel the reviewers are waiting for laughs every second of the show and going "that's not funny! Man the first 10 seasons of the simpsons were great because they always made me laugh!" Which I could easily point out to them, there was a lot of moments where I didn't laugh for 15 minutes. It's weird how their mind told them what the simpsons and Futurama really were, they were their best when they took their time for jokes
Yeah I felt the same way at the beginning but by the end of the first episode I wasn't really noticing it anymore.
Bingo, drives me nuts.
It's also the crux of where the Simpsons declines for me. The more it tried to cram in 'HERE, THIS IS A JOKE, LOOK AT ME, I'M AN ON THE NOSE REFERENCE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LAUGH AT, HOMER SAID D'OH ISNT IT FUNNY', the harder is crashed
Mainstream critics really overlooked the subtle importance of the setup of classic gags