I don’t see why a show with poor writing like this became so popular. The pacing is bad, none of the characters make me feel invested in their struggles, and the show ending with a focus on Jax was an odd decision. The music was good, the design is endearing and the SOMA plot had potential, but the truly mediocre writing butchered it. I still don’t understand why the show was so popular. Is it because the creator is Jewish and got a boost from
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>>798470I don't know, haven't seen it. Yeah the character designs look mildly interesting. I think maybe it's because it bills itself as "Adult Animation" while the art and everything looks like it's for children and in turn children are the number one fans of it. I think preteens and teens are looking for media which is supposedly for an older audience and more "mature" to latch onto so they can feel like they have advanced tastes for their age. Also isn't it like the only thing in that genre made by a translady pushing the trans agenda stuff?(I guess Steven Universe too to an extent) There's a lot of kids out there probably looking for that kinda content.
>>798470>I don’t see why a show with poor writing like this became so popular.The writing wasn’t poor until the last episode, before that it was pretty solid
>Is it because the creator is Jewish and got a boost fromthe industry?
That is just actual antisemitism, please tell me your joking
>>798470You are among of small minority that hasn't been completly brainrotted by the modern slop shurning industry.
> Is it because the creator is Jewish
WHAAAAA?
Pomni = W faps
The best way I can describe TADC is that it is an adult show masquerading as a children's show that actually is for children.
>>798470>why a show with poor writing like this became so popularsomething really simple you need to understand about entertainment is that people want to be entertained, and will watch just about anything, especially if they're not "media literate" and therefore uncritical of the media they consume. so why's it popular? well, you already partially provided some insight that can answer your own question
>The music was good, the design is endearingjust those two elements right there elevate it enough to stand out. same can be said about hazbin hotel. very aesthetically appealing with good music.
sex with clonw girl
>>798492Typical moid behavior
>>798498>women don't masturbate to fictionanon I…
>>798501Do not ever imply i am a woman again
if you care about this or anything else i don't like you are in permanent arrested development
It's kino. If you want it written differently then check out fanfics.
>>798481Wouldn't be so sure on that, OP's brainrotted by something else entirely, and oh gee I wonder what it could be
>>798520Say what you will about the tennets of national socialism but at least it's an ethos
>>798521an ethos of what is essentially class suicide
>>798528True, but slop makes it as well
ignoring the chud moment at the end of the post, its just a hallmark of industrialized media. vague writing w emphasis on open canon and merch to boost oc/fandom engagement. they evangelioned the fuck out of it. no im not comparing it to evangelion's story, more like what was done w evangelion post-evangelion in the real world. in short they fandomized the fuck out of it
>>798769Why do people love it so much though? Nothing better to watch? Even christEpstein chuds are watching that shit religiously if xitter is an indicator.
>>798773Infantilisation of the adult american.
>>798773It's still better than most of the garbage that's on TV, like literally, me and my boyfriend tried watching supposedly critically acclaimed shows recently like Peaky Blinders, The Pitt, Beef, The Bear, all of them were fucking unwatchable practically. So cliché and tropey and predictable, not as if TADC is completely a masterpiece either, but at least I wanted to actually watch the next episode
>>798785>The BearI don't know why it got such rave reviews, I was quite bored without, and I tried being sympathetic to and getting invested in the characters. I don't want to say it was entirely garbage, but I was pretty disengaged the whole time.
>>798790We didn't go past the first episode, it was just grating, like if Uncut Gems was a TV show (but shitty)
FUCKING SPOILERS YOU FUCKING COCK SUCKING MOTHER FUCKERS I AM GOING TO FUCK YOUR DAD
>>798784That’s not it.
Maturity isn’t solely defined by aesthetics
>>798769fandombaiting + theorybaiting + sexymanbaiting
i thought the show would be a whole lot better if they dropped the severance shit and just made it a goofy monster of the week kinda thing
>>798471> turn children are the number one fans of it. I think preteens and teens are looking for media which is supposedly for an older audience and more "mature" to latch onto so they can feel like they have advanced tastes for their age. It could be because they like it genuinely as well
Alot of shonen and superhero media is also more dark and nuanced nowadays and kids still love it genuinely, not just to feel “sophisticated”
There’s also the fact that people forget that kids are developing so it’s natural to want more nuanced plot lines anyway.
>>798479Anti Semitism is becoming more a thing on here
Actually, even back when Leftypol was on 8chan, it was there if you dig hard enough
>>798833sorry bro but it's been like 4-5 days, you've had time to watch it
Is gooseworx even Jewish or did we just make that up
>>798471> I think maybe it's because it bills itself as "Adult Animation"it doesn't, it's firmly made for teenagers. it's not like hazbin hotel or whatever where characters say fuck and dick a lot to appeal to developmentally stunted adults. i think slurs are censored in-universe, like literally the circus simulation censors bad words. it really is a cartoon for 12 year olds, and from what i understand from some review i read, it's not even like steven universe where the show is aware of its disney adult fanbase, it heavily roots itself on its teenager fanbase.
“i have no mouth but must scream” was a shitty story in the first place, doing that but making AM half benevolent isn’t an improvement
>>798861dark hair and clocky features or something
>>798877>IHNMAIMS badme when I'm wrong
>>798470>whining about Jews ruining the quality of shows for children that you're consuming as an adultthe fascist manchild situation is crazy
>>798769>industrialized media>open canon and merch>fandomized Neoliberal ideology ✍️✍️✍️✍️
>>798884Harlan Ellison sucks and so do his stories
>>798886It’s become the norm for adults regardless of political orientation to morally obsess over quality of childrens shows, denigrating then for not appealing to adults’ nostalgic whims
>>798877It's alright, not as good as everyone gives it credit for. The game is better than the story. Harlan Ellison is apparently a massive prick, but he also give mentorship to Octavia Butler so that's good
>>798470You mean the creator is a nepobaby or something? Thats not exclusively jewish thang. Creator could be indian also, any other race really.
>>798886The notion of all media being intrinsically sorted into age groups is itself neoliberal Ideology.
Just because the show has nothing that makes it unsuitable for kids doesn't mean it's "a show for children." It's a general audience show.
>>799076True, but the inverse can be said as well.
Just because a show has a few bad words, some blood shed, and light fanservice doesn’t make it “not for kids”
Lots of childrens stories from before the mid-twentieth century were more darker and nuanced
>>799076>Just because the show has nothing that makes it unsuitable for kids doesn't mean it's "a show for children.this is some embarrassing brony shit
>>799113But is anon wrong?
Idk what’s up with this board obsessing over aesthetics as a moral compass when we are supposed to be materialists
>>799113Embarrassment is not a substitute for an argument, that's a textbook example of a spook.
@Pomni4BWC has followed you
>>799122>But is anon wrong?Strictly speaking no, a show can't be exclusive to a particular demo, but I reserve the right to raise my eyebrow if you claim to like a cartoon with simple plot structure and where the characters display affects and feelings of young teenagers. Like I'm sorry you're a little bit of a midwit in that case.
>>799160That’s how most adult cartoons are though. And funnily enough, kids cartoons often have more sincere writing of characters and their emotions.
Like, if I grew up on South Park, I would get tired of it after awhile.
Funny but the edginess can be overstimulating and wear me out
>>799132Embarrassment is an argument, but an argument that can be counteracted with another one
>>799138We brown folx are superior
>>799168Trvthnvke
t. 125 autism score mutt
>>799160As I pointed out earlier, most TV shows are adults are stultifying
>>798470TADC is basically Undertale/Deltarune if it had weak writing.
Gooseworx should unironically collab with Toby Fox.
>>799271>late teens and young adultsLate teens is eighteen and nineteen which are adult.
In fact YA includes teens.
Just say late teens and early vicenarians
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kek
>>799305Sometimes those “ackshually” points aren’t so bad.
Especially since people have a fetish for language policing
>>799271thats what i was thinking. the writing wasnt strong enough for the drama and horror parts, so it just felt awkward and tryhard
maybe they added it to try and justify that its actually a "mature" show? cause if you take out the horror, its just a normal kids show (and theres nothing wrong with that, the wacky antics and jokes are well made and fun, they shouldve been the main focus)
it felt like a weak cartoon ripoff of severance where you dont even feel invested in the characters or the mystery ARG world because the pacing is too tiktok and it never gives you enough time to process what is happening or ask questions about the setting. like, theres a massive overlap between the scenes where the characters are in a car chase riding a fucking candy truck and the scenes where theyre having mental breakdowns, it just doesnt fit together, it feels out of place
and why should i care about pomni? she was just introduced and we know nothing about her other than the fact that shes freaking out. what about the other characters? theyre just one dimensional goofy looney tunes characters
oh, and the art direction was weak too, i think that lighting is an important part to a show's feel, and tadc is way too bright to ever make you feel scared or suspenseful, i mean, its a fucking circus, right? go a little crazy with it, get creative with color usage, make the setting feel otherworldly, make it a little more disorienting and claustrophobic, its not hard to do, look at the backgrounds used in squid game, it actually manages to get you on edge, it does that contrast between childrens playground and liminal space very well. if anything, the tadc setting felt more fun and safe than dreadful, like everything looks like a super mario galaxy level
its a good show. i love some good old existential dread.
ok so i decided to watch the children's show and i'm baffled how little stuff the writers had for pomni, you know, the audience surrogate and the most popular character by far? everyone else on the cast is some level of burnt out artsy thespian with unstated emotional baggage except pomni who is sort of an amenable normie. way to handle audience expectations i guess. that's it, those are my thoughts on the children's cartoon.
>>799730Pomni is supposed to be the audience self insert though. She's supposed to be a relatively blank slate that reacts to the other characters
>>799734tbh i'm getting that part of the drama is that jax become the vehicle for the author and the character that is going through a proper arc whereas pomni is just there. and i mean this isn't fucking drive or le samourai. there's nothing vicarious going on. what are we doing here playing with blank slate characters.
oh also it's yet another black mirror cookie thing? like black mirror didnt have enough cookie episodes
>>798470TADC blew up way beyond what glitch and goose ever expected, less because it's secretly genius and more because entertainment media is so by-the-numbers and sloppy nowadays. Indie productions are usually just somebody working solo or with a small team/community so to have an actually produced series like this is a novelty unto itself. The show would have been popular no matter what it was.
The fact that it was a very personal passion project helmed by one person meant that it just wasn't suited for mass market appeal, let alone the type of consumption that the average person has been conditioned into by secondary media like game theory and cinemasins. Instead of just enjoying a thing for what it is, people consume media as an avenue to having discourse about it with a community. A show that isn't really made with that in mind will result in people seeing mysteries and secrets in the empty space around the point of the art.
>>798470>this deeply personal work didnt play with da epic Lore enough so its badi honestly hope you kill yourself
previous episodes had constant nods to jax's condition, you are just stupid
>>799756> less because it's secretly genius and more because entertainment media is so by-the-numbers and sloppy nowadays. Indie productions are usually just somebody working solo or with a small team/community so to have an actually produced series like this is a novelty unto itself. truth nvke, if the show was less personal it wouldnt have blown up the way it did
>>799756>The fact that it was a very personal passion project helmed by one person meant that it just wasn't suited for mass market appeal, let alone the type of consumption that the average person has been conditioned into by secondary media like game theory and cinemasins. >Instead of just enjoying a thing for what it is, people consume media as an avenue to having discourse about it with a community. A show that isn't really made with that in mind will result in people seeing mysteries and secrets in the empty space around the point of the art.This. It’s a double edged sword. On the one hand it’s good to get the bogging juices flowing but at the same time, it says a lot about our society when adults make hour-long video essays about some irrelevant detail like some characters’ vocal inflection or gestures or slight emotional reactional changes towards other characters
>>798470Post on
>>>/hobby/ retard(s).
Anyway the writing was pretty decent, but they rushed things with Episode 9 and bungled it all up. Jax was a self-insert who really shouldn't have been given a main character role in the story.
>>798472 Okay, what's your point with these?
>>799410> tadc is way too bright to ever make you feel scared or suspenseful To be fair to Gooseworx, they stated outright that it's not a horror show, it's a mild existentialist thriller cartoon. The World is made by Caine and it's a reflection of his personality, bubbly and bright and childish.
It's nothing like Severance, honestly it may have benefited from taking from that more.
>>799730Pomni is blank because that's convenient for audience surrogate writing; fill in the blanks with whatever stuff you want to project onto her.
>>798877You're right, but digital circus ends up being more like No Exit, than I Have No Mouth ever managed to be. Not sure if wittingly or unwittingnly but there you go, TADC leveraged existentialism better lol.
>the creator is Jewish
The amazing digital circumcision
>>801093>for the genre of autists who wear clip-on tails and hang out in the manga section of Barnes and NobleThat's Murder Drones. TADC was meant to be liked by people who grew up watching Adult Swim, but nice try though.
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