I think it's great that more independent animations are being created and that Glitch is branching out and coming into its own as a label, but I have concerns about this one. Concerns (Broad...
I think it's great that more independent animations are being created and that Glitch is branching out and coming into its own as a label, but I have concerns about this one.
Concerns (Broad Spoilers)
Odd choice to break up your duo in the pilot episode before we know how they play off of one another. Kit plays off of Gobbles who already had a decent relationship with one another and Kabootle is with Snappers where they just cynically snap at another. If you have to split them up for reasons, maybe pair them up differently, so you have the cynic seeing the value in the rookie and a positive influence on the bad guy?
There's probably more going on here with "save the game worlds by preventing the heroes from completing their objectives." If so, it would be nice to hint at it and/or maybe see the consequences of a world that is saved. Does the hero die or is the world stuck in a loop, or do they need to find another way to seek fulfillment? If not, it's Kingdom Hearts with a bunch of stuff we never heard of except the heroes need to get in the way of stuff happening, which takes away a lot of the appeal of Kingdom Hearts. Plus games are presumably blipping out of existence without outside interference which is a bit of a downer.
Having the good guys in one story intentionally and repeatedly get in the way of other heroes is going to feel a little off structure wise. You have this space opera stuff going on the grand scale, and whatever is going on in game, and they're directly at odds with one another, and that's going to feel weird long term. It feels like the pitch was "what if the good guys were actually doing bad things, and the bad guys were doing good things, and everything was a video game?" I know this idea was in Ross' mind for 13 years or so, but it feels very 2013 in that way.
I wonder if originally the pilot was a couple episodes in just so they could immediately go into beach outfit merch...
I think it's great that more independent animations are being created and that Glitch is branching out and coming into its own as a label, but I have concerns about this one.
Concerns (Broad Spoilers)
Odd choice to break up your duo in the pilot episode before we know how they play off of one another. Kit plays off of Gobbles who already had a decent relationship with one another and Kabootle is with Snappers where they just cynically snap at another. If you have to split them up for reasons, maybe pair them up differently, so you have the cynic seeing the value in the rookie and a positive influence on the bad guy?
There's probably more going on here with "save the game worlds by preventing the heroes from completing their objectives." If so, it would be nice to hint at it and/or maybe see the consequences of a world that is saved. Does the hero die or is the world stuck in a loop, or do they need to find another way to seek fulfillment? If not, it's Kingdom Hearts with a bunch of stuff we never heard of except the heroes need to get in the way of stuff happening, which takes away a lot of the appeal of Kingdom Hearts. Plus games are presumably blipping out of existence without outside interference which is a bit of a downer.
Having the good guys in one story intentionally and repeatedly get in the way of other heroes is going to feel a little off structure wise. You have this space opera stuff going on the grand scale, and whatever is going on in game, and they're directly at odds with one another, and that's going to feel weird long term. It feels like the pitch was "what if the good guys were actually doing bad things, and the bad guys were doing good things, and everything was a video game?" I know this idea was in Ross' mind for 13 years or so, but it feels very 2013 in that way.
I wonder if originally the pilot was a couple episodes in just so they could immediately go into beach outfit merch...