#it still wasn't great but i genuinely thought Topher and JFK getting into a stupid fight in a tiktok comment section was extremely funny | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

beauzos · 1 year ago

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last thing i’ll say about Clone High for now: i know a lot of people hated episode 1 (esp after it leaked online a couple months ago) bcs it was all about Cancel Culture after the 2003 clones have to readjust to 2023 culture, but honestly it didn’t bother me. some of it was kinda ~cringe~ ig but honestly it did a good job not just being like “cancel culture bad!!!” in that boring one-note conservative way a lot of shows do and showed the absurdity of all sides ig?

which is a centrist ass opinion to have i know but it’s a funnie comedy show and thats rly the best we can do in a show like this imo. Abe wasn’t right (they def showed that through Topher Bus and Ivan the Terrible supporting him through it but being terrible people that he shouldn’t get close with), the way the new clones handled Abe having a lot of outdated lingo and opinions wasn’t right, and the way Joan reacted wasn’t right either. funny enough i think Confucius was the one who was closest to getting it right, he just gets bogged down with his obsession with tiktok clout or whatever just to show how apologies / cancellation get wrapped up in this pageantry that’s pretty damn worthless ultimately

the episode could’ve been much stronger but i didn’t find it wildly cringe the way a lot of people did. it was just mad clunky like all the fucking episodes have been.

#Psy's no punctuation posts #clone high tag #i think in terms of the best episode so far my favorite was 2?#it still wasn't great but i genuinely thought Topher and JFK getting into a stupid fight in a tiktok comment section was extremely funny #but see i think that scene is a great example of the clunkiness #like i get part of the joke is likely how unfunny and longwinded their insults are but it didn't work for me #esp when Confucius corrects Topher's grammar with a really longwinded response #to me. this is an obvious joke but it would've been funnier if COnfucius was typing for a really long time and hits submit #and then when it cuts to Abe and Topher looking at the comment it just says *you're #that would've been so much funnier and more effective than the way they handled it #also i feel like Abe was just at Topher's house so the writers wouldn't feel bad leaving him out of the episode #cause man he did not need to be there #the inclusion of tiktok (or yknow the tiktok knockoff) felt very clunky and like How Do You Do Fellow Kids-esque #but like it can WORK bcs it's about the 2003 clones learning abt the new world and they do not do nearly enough with it

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