I still cannot believe Cooper has repeatedly compared this show to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. There is nothing even remotely I Have No Mouth-esque about it except for like 30 seconds of Episode 8. Best part is, whether it was just a cynical marketing tagline or whether he really truly thinks his series is ultra-bleak existential horror is unknowable.
What was with the use of that Stevie Wonder song in the middle there? Like, did Gooseworx just insert a "FunnyBunny" AMV in the middle of the finale? It feels insanely rushed and kind of unearned to show a bunch of flashbacks where you attempt to explain Jax's behavior and humanize him after you ALREADY showed him abstract, off-camera, in the most anti-climactic way possible. I can't say I was surprised or 100% disappointed with this ending, but the best I can say is "it was an ending". At least it didn't try to "subvert your expectations" and veer off into a twist ending that makes no sense.
What was with the use of that Stevie Wonder song in the middle there? Like, did Gooseworx just insert a "FunnyBunny" AMV in the middle of the finale? It feels insanely rushed and kind of unearned to show a bunch of flashbacks where you attempt to explain Jax's behavior and humanize him after you ALREADY showed him abstract, off-camera, in the most anti-climactic way possible.
If I had to take a shot in the dark, it's probably a reference to (or lifted from) Tezuka's Metropolis (2001) where Ray Charles' I Can't Stop Loving You blares over a techno-nightmare Tower of Babylon exploding for five minutes straight. It's one of the most tonally dissonant sequences in any film I've seen in recent memory, but that dissonance between music and image is entirely intentional and transcendent to experience. Unfortunately for Goose you actually have to be a good storyteller to pull something like that off. Knowing the rules before you break them and all that.
If I had to take a shot in the dark, it's probably a reference to (or lifted from) Tezuka's Metropolis (2001) where Ray Charles' I Can't Stop Loving You blares over a techno-nightmare Tower of Babylon exploding for five minutes straight. It's one of the most tonally dissonant sequences in any film I've seen in recent memory, but that tone is entirely intentional and transcendent to watch. Unfortunately for Goose you actually have to be a good storyteller to pull something like that off. Knowing the rules before you break them and all that.
I wouldn't even call that scene dissonant. It's about someone losing someone they love as things literally fall apart around him. It's also them flexing how the studio knocked that building collapse scene out of the park. Looks incredible.
I still cannot believe Cooper has repeatedly compared this show to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. There is nothing even remotely I Have No Mouth-esque about it except for like 30 seconds of Episode 8. Best part is, whether it was just a cynical marketing tagline or whether he really truly thinks his series is ultra-bleak existential horror is unknowable.
The bleakest thing to trannies is having to face the reality they'll never be the pretty goth girl they wanted to fuck in high school and always be ugly men pretending to be what they think women are.
I wouldn't even call that scene dissonant. It's about someone losing someone they love as things literally fall apart around him. It's also them flexing how the studio knocked that building collapse scene out of the park. Looks incredible.
You're right -- the scene isn't dissonant in the film itself. But the juxtaposition between that song and the visuals just slaps you in the face. It's gorgeous.
You're on the same internet as furries, weebs, and the LGBTQ. I refuse to believe the guy wanting to fuck a doll shaped like a mature human woman is somehow stranger than all the people that keep posting about Sally Acorn.
You're right -- the scene isn't dissonant in the film itself. But the juxtaposition between that song and the visuals just slaps you in the face. It's gorgeous.
I still cannot believe Cooper has repeatedly compared this show to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. There is nothing even remotely I Have No Mouth-esque about it except for like 30 seconds of Episode 8. Best part is, whether it was just a cynical marketing tagline or whether he really truly thinks his series is ultra-bleak existential horror is unknowable.
The show would have managed that if the tranny wasnt such a lazy fag and instead spend the first season being episodic with the characters being subjected to progressively more deranged challenges, infact that was my expectation of this, but i guess crying and trooning out the rabbit character was more important.
It's a crazy cope. Just because the fanbase was bad and the creator decided to make a shit ending doesn't make the series any less shit. All this show was is just hype moment after teaser after hype moment.
Honestly, I thought Episode 3 was probably the best the show ever was. I found myself chuckling at some of the gags, which isn't saying a lot, but for this show, it's something. The characters were fleshed out (until later), and the plot moved drastically with Kinger. The show only headed downwards since. (I don't actually remember much of it, I plan on rewatching the show for the finale, but it's the one that always stuck to me and I considered good.)
However, I am not surprised the show decided to pull a 41% like that.
I still cannot believe Cooper has repeatedly compared this show to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. There is nothing even remotely I Have No Mouth-esque about it except for like 30 seconds of Episode 8. Best part is, whether it was just a cynical marketing tagline or whether he really truly thinks his series is ultra-bleak existential horror is unknowable.
