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Viv working on an animated Homestuck pilot isn't the worst thing to come out of this franchise.

Also, the Homestuck fandom is already toxic. The notion that it's going to become toxic because Hazbin Hotel fans are going to start getting into Homestuck is downright laughable.

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Gravity Falls needs no introduction, it’s widely considered one of the greatest television shows of all time by both critics and fans alike. So why does Roadside Attraction suck so much? 

I’m not the type of person who enjoys treading on old ground, I know this episode has been torn to shreds countless times. But I am kind of amazed at how terrible this episode ended up being when compared to the entire series. 

And yes, I am also aware that this episode aired right after The Last Mabelcorn (Another super polarizing episode) and that there’s been a huge debate over which episode is worse, but I’m not interested in that. I’m here to figure out why this episode is such a trainwreck. 

Alex Hirsch has admitted that he regrets that this episode happened late in the season, but even if this episode did air earlier during the season, it still would have been terrible. 

The concept of Stan giving Dipper bad advice that causes him to make an ass out of himself is a pretty solid plot, it’s just that the whole thing was executed extremely poorly. 

Dipper is meant to be in the wrong for flirting with various girls during the road trip, but the girls just come off as idiots for not noticing that his body is covered with various emails and phone numbers. I know that he could have easily lied and said that they were tattoos or whatever, but the episode doesn’t show him doing that. 

Candy’s crush on Dipper feels like a last minute throwaway to add in some sort of internal conflict and it just doesn’t work. It feels way too out of character for Candy to start crushing on Dipper this late in the series, and the fact that her crush on Dipper is immediately dropped during the finale just makes this whole plot point even more pointless than it already was. 

But I think the thing that bugs me the most about this episode is the basic premise. I don’t mind the concept of an episode not taking place in the titular town, but the idea just falls flat on its face. I can forgive Blendin’s Game because that episode’s plot wasn’t set solely in the future, but Roadside Attraction just feels like a gimmick for the sake of a gimmick. 

I don’t mind writers trying something new when it comes to a story’s core concept, but having an entire Gravity Falls episode not take place in the titular location just feels odd, you know? 

Last thing I’ll say regarding this episode is that I don't like the idea of paranormal entities being active outside of Gravity Falls, as it just reeks of the writers having no faith in the show's main theme. I get that Hirsch has said that every episode has to have a magic element, but I still think that the writers should have made Darlene a magic user who got magic powers after stumbling across a missing page from one of the journals. She didn’t need to be a giant spider, she could have just used magic to turn into a monster. 

Yeah, this episode sucks. 

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*Internal screaming*

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I genuinely don't know why some folks are surprised that Brock Lesnar is back in the WWE. This is the same company that fired Hulk Hogan for being a racist and then casually brought him back without any explanation a couple of years later.

Platforming shitty people is what this company does best.

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Actors in a series that was filmed in the 2000's/2010's vs the same actors playing the younger versions of their characters in a prequel series that came out this year.

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Nobody:

Every single character in Beastars:

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This year’s SDCC was such a nothing burger.

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I don't know if this is a hot take, but I kind of wish the Critical Role team went with a different art style for this series.

Phil Bourassa's style might have been exciting fifteen years ago, but it just feels generic now.

I just don't understand why every single adult western animated show has to look like a Rick and Morty knockoff or an off brand version of Young Justice.

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They whitewashed Alastor.

I'm fucking losing it.

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I’m sorry, but nothing will ever top MatPat giving the Pope a copy of Undertale.

Like imagine being the Pope and some guy who makes YouTube videos about video game theories comes up to you and says “You gotta play Undertale! It changed my life, here’s a copy.”

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Gundam Wing is 30 years old? Fuck, I feel ancient.

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At the end of the day, I'm glad that one of The Outsiders outlived Hogan.

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I feel like the biggest issue I have with the current state of indie animation is the lack of variety.

Why are there so many comedies? Where are the action shows? Where are the dramas? Where’s the horror? etc.

I keep seeing folks yammer on about indie animation as being a great alternative to the mainstream, but it really isn’t.

The majority of indie animated shows are either comedies or shows with comedic elements. There is no variety in terms of genres.

I’m not saying comedic shows are horrible by default, but the lack of variety when it comes to indie animation is really annoying.

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People rightfully give Instagram shit for all the Gen AI slop that's on there, but it's kind of infuriating how 99% of that app's userbase is soulless content farm pages that keep posting the same memes over and over again to feed the shitty algorithm.

Gosh, the modern internet sucks so much.

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While I am happy Superman is doing well domestically at the box office, those international numbers are bleak.

Yes, one could argue that Superman isn't that popular of a character outside of America, but I don't think that's the case.

Both Man of Steel and Batman v Superman did well internationally, hell, even Superman Returns did well internationally. The issue isn't that international audiences don't want to watch Superman movies, it's that folks are just tired of the whole "shared superhero universe" gimmick.

Also doesn't help that WB as a whole has had a massive image problem ever since Zaslav took over. I swear, everything that man touches turns into complete and utter shit.

I wouldn't say the DC Universe is dead on arrival, but the future ain't looking so good. If the international numbers for Superman are this abysmal now, then I can't even begin to imagine how bad the international numbers for Supergirl and Clayface are gonna be come next year.

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The Bust Down Keanu image being AI generated is infuriating because it's the type of image that could have been easily made in Photoshop, GIMP or Photopea.

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Trying to have everything under one umbrella is one of the reasons why the DCEU fell apart.

Keep the DCU and Matt Reeves Batman universe separate.