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dravidious · 5 months

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Episode 2 of The Amazing Digital Circus came out yesterday (great show) and it got me to finally watch Murder Drones (great show) and the humor in that show is VERY dumb. Dumb and blunt and frequently things happen or characters say things that don't make sense for the sake of being silly (for example, a robot calling herself hormonal). The moment that made me realize just how good the writers are at doing dumb stuff was in episode 4 at 15:04 (warning for spoilers and gore (robot gore) (the gore isn't the funny part, that comes after) (text explanation below the cut that I wrote before pasting the link) (also the link is to 13:54 because the context is important))

The characters are around a campfire and are shown reading a book titled "Final Girl Survival Guide", and the character reading it references a horror trope from it. Then, a horror monster shows up and kills someone and the characters shout "Split up!" "I think I read that's good!" and they drop the book as they run, and the wind blows the book open and the camera moves to show the book, and the page reads "DON'T SPLIT UP!!!". Except I lied, it doesn't say that, I expected it to say that with all my heart but instead the page reads "THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BOOK SAID." Which makes NO SENSE and is SO FUCKING STUPID and subverted my expectations SO MUCH that it was the FUNNIEST THING EVER

#asks #both of these shows are. interesting in their tone #they flip back and forth between the dumbest stupidest jokes you've ever seen #and genuine serious emotional moments of suspense and character drama #both shows are pretty dark for my tastes but the ending of episode 2 of the amazing digital circus reassured me that it's not all dark #and murder drones is. interesting #characters die really frequently and casually in that show #well not “characters” mostly just nameless nobodies #major characters are so death-immune that the one time so far one actually died she came back in the next episode as a monster. kinda.#meanwhile there's been (off the top of my head) 2 fake-out major character deaths so far #in any case i'm interested to see where this is going and the writers are so good at dumb comedy that i'm having a blast #so the dark tone is okay

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