#the curator episode scene where he’s stuck between the train door and his escape is LITERALLY some emotional fanfic shit it TORTURES MEEEEE
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legitimately anyone who is a self described fan of children’s cartoons over the age of 12 needs to watch Infinity Train. it explicitly bridges the gap between the tone, tropes, and storytelling limitations of Y7 and the level of complexity than we want from it. every single person writing pages long screeds about character development and nuance in shows that are primarily marketed at a younger audience but have significant meaning to older age groups would get so fuckin much out of the themes and story of Infinity Train, which is explicitly a story about those more complex themes.
it gamifies character development as part of it’s core conceit. each season gets more mature as it deals with more complex issues of morality and ethics and it’s still a silly epsiodic show with fun gags. it grows up as the story progresses with each anthologic installment giving you more complex interpersonal relationships and issues. there’s on screen cop murder. cults. incredibly gay coded music duo from the 80s that are the most divorced twenty year olds you’ve ever seen. a story that grows with you.
and you can’t fuckin watch it anywhere bc the animation industry is a puppet at the whims of investors in love with the impossible horizon
Infinity Train is the result of a decade of shows like Adventure Time and Gravity Falls and Steven Universe, of animators and artists’s growing desire to tell stories that grow with kids beyond their designated demographic in the American cultural conscience. and you can’t watch it.
they were going to talk about alzheimers. the thesis of infinity train is that animation is a medium, not a genre. a vehicle for exploring complex topics in a way that live action can’t. it’s a therapy train that traumatizes it’s riders more often than not. they covered everything from divorce’s impact on children to trans-coded identity crisis to the realities of a Lost Boys experience. what it means to be human. they were going to talk about alzheimers
it’s literally a vehicle for character development . it’s the midpoint on the spectrum between children’s media and mature writing. it is everything you seek out of fan fiction being explicit in the text. and you cant watch it bc it being animated means it’s worthless
#IT is a fuckin tragedy. it was doing so much for animation . owen dennis i’m sorry the people in charge hate your message#so many things people love fandom for: in-depth character exploration of one’s who are simple in their original media. exploring themes more#explicitly. character oriented storytelling rather than plot. are just EXPLICITLY the point of infinity train#text✨#sorry been reading a lot of GF fic and getting frustrated that this kind of love doesn’t exist for IT.#bc everyone would love it SO MUCH. all the nuance and complexity toh have to dig for is RIGHT THERE#BECUASE THE ANIMATION INDUSTRY DEVELOOED SO MUCH IN THE LAST DECADE#and then the warner bros discovery merger ruined so much#* you can watch it if you dm/ask me for a link but . you should not have to do that. defeats the impact of the show’s message#anyway gonna rewatch s4 byeeeeee#the curator episode scene where he’s stuck between the train door and his escape is LITERALLY some emotional fanfic shit it TORTURES MEEEEE
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