#Nobodycaresaboutanotheropinion

[fadingmidnightsun]

Disenchantment, disenppointment

There's nothing quite like the feeling when something you've been looking forward to for a while now, turns out to be a massive let down.

I'm only 3 episodes in and I'm ready to give up. I might ride it out to the end, just out of stubborn hope that it might somehow come round. But I'm not holding my breath.

I'll start with the obvious. The background and general world is gorgeous. It's amazingly well drawn and is worthy of any fantasy world. But that seems like that's where the entire mental and physical budget went. Because past that it's all downhill.

The artwork for the characters is lazy. It's just more mid era Simpsons standard. Not polished, and still basic. I know it's keeping brand familiarity, but they could stand to step it up a little to tie it in with the gorgeous scenery too. Don't get me started on the queen though. Pretty sure they just let a temp animate her. A particularly untalented temp.

The characters are all generic and flat. There's nothing endearing about them, no emotional investment. Bean is ok at best. But indecisive and insincere to the point of tedium. Elfo is pathetic. Sickeningly so. There is literally nothing redeeming about him. Dumb, needy and adds nothing but pointless complication to the adventure. Luci is just weak. It's a demon, but there's no edge, no spark, no life to it. Just a background character with about as much involvement as the generic "demon on the shoulder" for the odd decisive moment.

The voices are also lazy. Is John Dimaggio the only one cheap enough on the payroll to keep using? The king is just Mr Panucci. He was a gravelly New York pizzeria owner. It doesn't work for a king of a medieval kingdom too. You're a man with many, many voices. Use something new. Even the rest of the supplimentary cast are tired and familiar. Pretty sure it's just Kif from futurama half the time. At least throw Zap Brannigan in there, regardless of context. He's enough to make anthring funny.

On the point of funny, it's not. There hasn't been a single laugh yet. I almost smiled at a couple of clever bits, but there's been nothing properly amusing yet. I can't even remember half of what's gone on. The worst bit so far though, Bean's speech at her wedding. It was so flat and insincere, I don't know if it was meant to be a Mickey taking irony or if it was genuinely taking itself seriously.

They've just released a huge cloud of demons and evil on the world, I can't wait to see how this doesn't result in an interesting episode.