#anyways pirate the show it's SO GOOD-

[mia-talks-toons]

(S1E4) Infinity Train: How Companies Disrespect Animated Shows PART 2

This is part two to my previous post about The Owl House and how companies disrespect animation, so go read that first if you haven’t already! 

Infinity Train, oh where to start… Well, it first aired in 2019 on Cartoon Network and was created by Owen Dennis. It started as a 1-season miniseries but was quickly turned into an anthology series with a planned 8 seasons. As an anthology, it follows different stories set in the same universe, surrounding a common setting, which is the titular “Infinity Train”. The train, as you might assume, is a train with an infinite amount of cars, that goes on for eternity in a lifeless wasteland. It’s an unexplained place where those who have personal issues/traumas are transported and are able to work through them by making their way through each of the huge, unique cars on the train.

After 2 seasons, the show was moved to HBO Max (now simply called Max for some reason) and continued for 2 more seasons before getting cancelled. The 5th season, which was in early production, was canned for not having a “child entry point”, though the show is a mature cartoon, and is able to be enjoyed by people of all ages. The rest of the story, though bits and pieces have been revealed, will never see the light of day. 

Now here’s where things go even more downhill. In August of 2022, Infinity Train, along with 36 other shows (20 of which were originals, and 14 being cartoons) were being removed from the platform, many of which aren’t available anywhere else, meaning unless you have a physical copy of it, you have no way of being able to legally watch it. And such is the fate of Infinity Train. What makes it all even worse is that many people involved with the shows weren’t notified whatsoever about their removal, and the only reason for their removal is due to cutting costs. 

Oh, ANOTHER THING. While I was researching for this blog, I found out that according to a crew member, the first 4 seasons, the unfinished 5th season, and a Christmas special were all part of a singular season order. This means that even though 4 seasons aired, the writers were only paid for a single season's worth of content. This show has gone through hell and back, and if that wasn't enough on its own, the crew wasn't even paid fairly. Just... wow.

…When I was younger, I dreamed of becoming an animator, sharing my ideas with the world in the form of a cartoon show. That dream has long since been abandoned (though I still help other people with their projects, and work on my little original universes for my own enjoyment), but as more and more time goes on, and as stuff like this keeps happening not only to Infinity Train, but to so many other cartoons, I feel a sort of bittersweetness. I’m relieved that I didn’t make my way into an industry that would Thanos snap all my hard work away for no good reason, but it SUCKS that I have to feel good about not pursuing my passion. Art should be appreciated, not thrown in the trash to save a few dollars. Beautiful, mature, interesting and well-made art, no matter the medium.

So that’s all for this post. Sorry to end on such a downer, haha… Hopefully the next one will be happier? Actually, no. The next one WILL be happier.

[demaparbat-hp]

Any Momtara and Lu-Ten II sketches?

Just a boy and his mom a waterbender.

[somedecrepitcryptid]

ALL of my younger siblings are watching sonic.

Boys…… I might be next.

Im going to fall farther down the sonic fandom hole despite spending YEARS barely toeing the edge, knowing stuff about it but not getting into it. But now….. NOW????

[typheus]

Some of yall are too damn precious about your ocs being totally 100% original nothing else in the entirety of humanity like it.

N then the ocs is like. A human guy in a suit. Or a catgirl. Or some other extremely generic concept.

'Don't ever tell someone that their ocs reminds you of a different character cause it's insulting' you sound insecure. Like. Wildly so.

[arbitria]

me for the entirety of black sails up to the last 5 minutes: oh boy i can’t wait for mary reade to show up

me at 55 min into the finale:

[peppermintpegis]

netflix one piece live action feels a little like fanfic in that it makes sure it hits all the important notes but doesnt do all the work to make them hit which works in fic where the reader is supposed to bring all the emotional story investment from the original but doesnt work in a multi million adaptation that is supposed to be able to stand on its own or even serve as an intro to the series. it even does this in service to have more koby and helmeppo gay moments in this essay i w

[communistkenobi]

watching black sails now. sorry for being immediately insanely annoying but the opening title card is interesting, saying that all “civilised states” declared war on pirates. which is technically true! but only because Britain and other imperial powers entered into formal agreements with private companies to protect them from piracy, which before that point piracy benefited those empires because pirates would plunder ships and bring the goods back to Britain and Europe. “pirate” became a constructed class of criminal as a result of states nationalising (and therefore monopolising) violence as a state tool of regulating commerce

[swordmaid]

i love serious businesswoman pirate marina she's so real to me, love that for her !

yeah like she doesn't fuck around when it comes to her business!! she's a professional pirate - and merc on the side - she has a reputation to uphold!!!

like to me, the ~whole saving the world from the elven gods business~ is another gig she signed up for so she's treating it like one. she's very practical and pragmatic, and she does whatever she can to succeed in this particular endeavor. like she hardly banters with people when she's in business mode lmfao the only time she jokes around is when she's out of her office hours.

one thing that i wish for though is for the dialogues to be much more mean/stricter. i've gone past the weisshaupt quest and i wish you can be more mean on lucanis for flopping LMFAO like sorry king but to me marina would be sm harder on him since she hired him for that job but he didn't do it right, so what is he good for? if he can't do the one thing she asks for then she has no need for him, and she'd just get someone else. likewise i don't see her being sad about the prospect of davrin sacrificing himself when he's going to kill the archdemon bc that's like. why he's in here in the first place LMFAO like to me, marina would be like well this is what you signed up for 🤷 like she detaches her personal feelings from business. like in a personal level ofc she would be sad if davrin did die but in the end that comes with the job u know.... like she's so serious business woman to me she'd thrive in succession

[comradecowplant]

so Ivanova is nearly killed off, saved by actually killing off sweet baby space legolas, and now she's left anyway? AND my boy lennier is going off to "find himself" too? mkay.

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

Could I take fem!Nightmare to the Barbie movie? 👉👈🥺(<- has no money)

dw she'll pay for you<333

[saltlickmp3]

can i catch up on 20 years of dr who in time for the release of the new season? PROBABLY NOT

cos apparently the special gets released on christmas??? and i've watched (checks) 7 episodes?? and that was skipping nine? cos i started watching just for david tennant but now i'm invested?? and i feel like i need to know what happens to donna before and not just jump into the 14th dr season soooooo

(also according to google today is the day of the og first airing so hap birth dr who <3)

[boyapologist]

lmao are All members of big time rush terrible people irl

[ghostbustermelanieking]

..... yeah, there's a reason the lighthouse metaphor in ofmd appeals to me so heavily

[gracieo]

I hate inside out so much I HATE IT SO MUCH rRRAHHAUAGHAHGAH

[thecherrygod]

man knowing that there are parents out there controlling what their kids watch and read is. wild to me. like as soon as i was able to read subtitles i was sitting in the living room with my family watching whatever the fuck my parents wanted to watch. the first tv series i watched was sopranos i think, to the point its been long enough that i dont remember a lot of it. like. i feel im at the opposite side of the spectrum there

[lactosefreevanillayoghurt]

oh pirate tv show, we're really in it now