Fun, exciting, great animation and a quick little story that makes you care about the characters. Loved the unique farmers vs. aliens story - and love the very end!
So far it's...fine. A weird clash of tones: one minute they're making silly jokes and the next it's all "whoa, here comes the scary apocalypse!" My wife and I have to keep pausing it to discuss the ins and outs of the plot, which takes interesting turns here and there but can't decide if it's scary or funny. I guess the best way to describe it is a "light-hearted take on the apocalypse." We'll keep watching, hoping it gets better. Random thoughts: I can't figure out why Crowley walks so funny? I guess the "Queen" songs are from the book. I liked the Garden of Eve and hate the Frances McDormand narration. I understand she's God, but everything is a joke to her, which just seems cruel to all the little people on the planet. The bone-dry humor might come through better if it were being read by someone with a more commanding voice, I'm thinking. Crowley says that went over like "a lead balloon" in the Garden of Eden long before lead or balloons have been invented. "Two demons lurk at the edge of the graveyard. They're pacing themselves, and can lurk for the rest of the night, if necessary, with still enough sullen menace left for a final burst of lurking around dawn." Okay, this is a good example. It sounds scary but then has a funny joke at the end. The tonal shift is jarring and unexpected and happens all the time in this show and (presumably) the book as well. So are we laughing or scared or both? Not sure. It's like Seinfeld with an occasional bloody murder. So there are three babies? What happened to the third one? All we know is that he "probably wins prizes for his tropical fish." The President Bush impersonator was dead perfect. I liked the nun suggesting evil names. David Tennant as Mary Poppins was just ick. And wow was that devil dog CGI horrible?
I thought this was great - fun interactions between the robots, who are busy touring a post-apocalyptic human city and run up against another threat. "Watch out, it's getting ready to explode!"
One of the best and most beautiful animated shorts I've ever seen. While Love Death and Robots is more of a mash-up of Twilight Zone and the Animatrix, this tale set in a steam-punk version of Hong Kong was hauntingly told and filled with lush animation.
Trippy ending, I'll give them that. Wonder where they'll go from here. It was nice to finally get some answers, and I liked the part about all the construction workers going crazy. But, when all is said and done, the story leaves me feeling sad. No matter what OA does, she'll never be rid of HAP or apparently really get a chance to connect with Homer and her friends. It's not a happy ending or a sad ending, just an ending. She's trapped in an endless cycle of loss and rediscovery, tethered to her tormentor. And even death isn't a release. For everything we've seen, OA calls herself an angel. What if she's really in hell, spending an eternity locked in a hopeless battle with a man she hates?
You know it's bad when half-way through you're saying out loud to yourself "why am I watching this?" I honestly have no idea where this story is going but good GOD it takes its time getting there, doesn't it? Also not realistic at all that this traveling band of kids can just toodle around the United States and no one spots them. AMBER alerts are very effective, yet these folks never get caught. When can we go back to that dream/dimension where Homer was picking out new skin? That was good and creepy, not "oh, look how pretty the ocean is" and "let's run into the water" and whatever else is going on with this meandering, senseless plot. My hope? This is all a dream in the mind of that sentient octopus. Or maybe our world is the dream...
A few answers...and more questions. At least they're starting to get to the bottom of the house and how it's connected. I liked a few of the reveals but whatever the h*ll Dr. Percy is doing with those flowers is beyond me. Random thoughts: mercury sulfide is a great hallucinogen, apparently. Poor Zendaya has to deal with a friend who got bit by a spider AND a creepy haunted house. Where can I buy one of the eyeball USBs? Homer's even more of a moron in this dimension. I like the traveler lady--maybe she's got more boxes? So Scott ended up somewhere else in the house? How did HAP get him back to the lab? And we finally got some answers about why the detective guy was sought out in the first place...
The puzzle chapter, where nothing is as it seems and we get to see a miniature circle of friends. A few answers and more questions, par for the course with this show. Am I bored and frustrated? Yes. Will I keep watching to see how it ends? Yes.
