Thread 149065979

>2025
>I am forgotten

>>149065979 (OP)
Oh man I can't wait for a potential second season. I bet it'll have the same "scrawled on a napkin" writing quality ot worse.

I mean
it was forgettable

>>149065979 (OP)
Good. Let's keep it that way.

>>149065979 (OP)
Nobody carries about Genndy's Betty Bob kek elf fantasy with a dog

>>149065979 (OP)
This show is so trash. I wish someone would just pay him to make a 2D hotel transylvania cartoon instead of letting him make passion projects like this. Mavis and her family going on cute all ages adventures is where his talent truly lies.

>>149065979 (OP)
This definitely was a show

>>149067494
Genndy Tartakovsky only ever hits a wall when he's dealing with time paradoxes, and Unicorn was his most ambitious cartoon yet from a narrative standpoint. I'm all for the guy getting to make more original ideas rather than digging up his past projects, but he just needs to work to his strengths (action, tonal suspense, slapstick humor, etc.) and try COLLABORATING with seasoned writers who can actually make sense of his vague concepts if they're any more convoluted than your typical "cat & mouse chase."

>>149065979 (OP)
From this show people remember
>A Fox lady
>B How much of a wasted potential It was
>C Nothing at all

>>149065979 (OP)
They seemingly killed off June, so who cares anymore.

Sexo con Emma Fairfax y June Way

>>149067930
real

>>149066755
spbp

>>149067494
>I wish someone would just pay him to make a 2D hotel transylvania cartoon
I would love a series about Dennis and Winnie grown up. They were cute as fuck.

>>149065979 (OP)
he was writing this shit for 20 years ? wtf how

>>149065979 (OP)
Story was piss but great animation. Would've worked better as a short film or a tv movie

>>149065979 (OP)
I would never forget this show because of how much I love the magic fox lady.
And also how bad it was.

>>149065979 (OP)
The story should've focused on WINston

>>149065979 (OP)
Keep Winston and the Fox lady, ditch everyone else.

>>149069059
>wife gets body snatched and stolen to go fight some ancient ebil
>through sheer determination and willpower, he manages to track her down
>gets attacked by a werewolf and survives
>treats his newfound lycanthropy as a cool power-up instead of a curse
I'm going to be honest I think it would be really cool if he joins June Way instead after a betrayal or something. Both of them have the ability to shapeshift into canine forms, it just makes sense.

>>149068925
Writing it for 20 years is the problem. It's basically several notebooks worth of ideas and concepts loosely strung together.

>>149069092
I actually liked what we saw of Emma herself.

>>149069059
>>149069240
Winston was done right.

>>149069697
Yeah, I really expected them to abandon the guy after the first episode so that was a pleasant surprise

>>149067446
>Betty Bob

So what was his deal?

No currency?

>>149065979 (OP)
>Elf King says the bloodline is 2000 years strong
>Unicorn has been fighting the evil since medieval times (we've seen them possessing vikings)
>It's been over a thousand years and the king is still "too young"
>Unicorn has also been around since ancient Egypt as well
Was the bloodline just a recent thing relatively speaking?
What the fuck was the forest like before 2000 years ago?
How long do elves even live?

>>149068925
>>149069276
Its one of those situations where nobody greenlit it at the time and then the ideas he had which were novel became passé and so he began to subvert his own ideas to keep it fresh without reinforcing what they were replaced with.
Which led the show to being in tis current messy state.

>>149071777
Be assured that no one on the show's staff thought about these questions.

>>149065979 (OP)
>It was hyped like crazy and had multiple threads at once.
>Nobody actually watched it and are now shocked when it's put on the back burner for Fixed and Heist Frogs.
This is why I don't listen to people online. You're told one thing and literally the opposite happens.
I thought this was gonna be a hit with 5 seasons but nobody cares I guess.
The animation was top notch though, kinda confused to why it didn't catch on.

>>149071834
>>Nobody actually watched it
Fake and gay there were threads for each episode as it aired and they became progressively more negative on the show and it became more and more clear it was bullshit.

>>149071834
Genndy proved the test audiences for Snow White right.
Most people just cannot take toony figures seriously.
Which Ironically makes UWE the show where if you do like it your tastes most closely align with Genndy himself.

>>149071855
I just said it had multiple threads at once. And when I mean by nobody watched it, I meant the general population and not /co/ or animation Twitter users.

>>149071732
As the other posts say, I don’t really think even Genndy actually knew what the fuck anyone was supposed to be doing
Which is too bad because the open some interesting ideas like Otto seeming like he had a hand in the building of Copernicus I’m the future. Plus whatever was going on with him and June
What was the purple Dexter gloves having ass doing with the magical fox lady, Genndy?!!

>>149071888
Cartoony animation doesn't work with serious stuff unless it's as stylized and unique. It honestly feels like that time when SpikeTV greenlit a bunch of cartoons from Nickelodeon creators and artists and all those shows just fell flat, they looked good (except Gary the Rat) and were stylized (NOT Gary the Rat), but they had awful to mid writing.

For example there's a reason there hasn't been a super successful attempt of an adult Ren and Stimpy reboot because it doesn't work as an adult show because they aren't held back and aren't as creative getting around the rules.
The fun of having adult jokes snuck in was because they had to get creative and actually think, with adult cartoons you can just do whatever within the TV14-MA rules and it just loses its charm and humor. That stuff is only funny if it's like a 4 minute video, not 22 minutes.
It's why I prefer they get really experimental with Adult animation, show me something I've never seen before. Stop making comedy dramas and wannabe Family Guy clones. And quit making faux anime crap and copying what the Japanese do.
That's why when there's an adult cartoon it always takes either the Family Guy route or Vivziepop route.
I just hope Pinkie Davis's new Fox show breaks that trend.

I rewatched this a little while ago because enough time had passed since I last seen it. All the problems I had with it originally were still the problems with it I had on my second rewatch. This show's plot becomes total fucking dogshit the moment they live the city, get on that retarded pirate ship, go back to the city, go and meet Otto, leave the city again, go into the Negative Space dimension only to again cut BACK to the city just to go back to the Negative Space dimension and it ends on a cliffhanger

When your best set location is the victorian city that you keep cutting back to it that is a sign that maybe we should focus on this one local.

>>149071777

My theory is that the Elven Society existed long before pockets of human civilization began expanding into their territory thats why I always find it strange how there is an interconnected railroad that leads from the city to the Elven compound and the Elves dont consider this a blantant violation of their territory being expanded upon by humans. My only theory is that the Elves likely see the railroad as a path to human civilization and as long as humans stay in their side of the industrialized zones and dont expand further into their territory there is no problem since Edric is with the Unicorn.

>>149065979 (OP)
Maybe it should have been more memorable then.

>>149071732

He's a grossly underutilized character because Merlin is a fucking retard who caused the negative energy monster to take control of his Ex wife and he refused to take responsibility for it deeming it to be Unicorn's permanent responsibility.

Its all one gigantic complex allegory for Merin refusing to sign the divorce papers and pay child support.

>>149067662
The annoying thing is that the nugget of an idea at the center of the show (ordinary people get bodysnatched into crazy millenia-old magic war and have to deal with the consequences) is great and has so much potential for interesting storytelling and character arcs and they do almost NOTHING with it because it immediately sidesteps the issue for all but one character, and even for that character they wrap up the conflict early into the season.

I have Genndy fatigue and I think a lot of other people do as well. You know going into it the ending is going to be shit so why bother

>>149073103

It also doesnt help how the latter half of S2 of Primal and all of Unicorn were not good and I could feel the crunchtime in regards to both since both projects felt like they were being worked on at the same time its why how after Spear beats the viking were taken on that horrible side trip with the Egyptian Queen who has no personality outside of just being a bitch.

>>149069240
I would've gone on a killing spree if I'd gotten this stolen from me on our wedding day.

>>149071732
>introduced in a cool way
>seems like he might be a cool character
>killed off after five minutes of screen time
This could describe pretty much every single fucking character in this fucking show, I swear.

>>149065979 (OP)
It looked nice and started off promising the first few episodes, the show's only saving grace from then on were the occasional funny moments. It doesn't surprise me it doesn't get much discussion but what does is that it wasn't renewed, it did well view wise and streaming. It really felt like Genndy was trying to cram in as much as he could in the case that show wouldn't get renewed or whatever honestly.
>>149074466
This and that the Tony the tiger guy except he wasn't as cool and got killed off screen.
>>149070233
Same. The show seemed to drop things left and right, even the very idea of this being a reincarnation or whatever gone wrong with the other characters besides Emma.

>>149073103
>being "fatigued" for man who hasn't premiered a new cartoon in 2 years
Based retard

HOLY SHIT, UWE SEASON 2 FOOTAGE LEAKED

>>149068991
June was great.

>>149074312

>Fantastically wealthy
>Her parents are pillars of the community
>Loves music. Fantastic at playing it
>Supportive

Now think of Winston. Winston at least in the eyes of her dad is a perfect husband. Like its the perfect gathering of WASP's.

>>149074466

I think the general idea of S2 is if the timestream is fracturing they will find him either in the past when he isnt as successful as he was then or late into the future when he finally figures out how to actually make Copernicus.

Uniculo

>>149065979 (OP)
I really liked this cartoon

I'm open to a second season, but please, PLEASE make Emma/Melinda have facial expressions other than >:C
Shee constantly looks like a 4yo whose parent told her no ice cream today

>>149074312
>>149077088
whhoa

>>149074312
>its REAL
wew

>>149065979 (OP)
Why didn't it take off like the rest of his works?

>>149080208
Because it wasn't very good.

>>149080208
because he can’t write fucking endings

>>149080517
>implying it didn't fall off the rails way before the ending