Thread 150958981

Episode 1 is out:
https://youtu.be/7FrOovt5QvU

This channel actually makes really good shortform stuff.

The line work on this show really annoys me for some reason. Maybe it's the lack of line weight.
Beyond that this series seems pretty promising

>>150958981 (OP)
Not half bad, though I think it should've focused more on the main character herself then spending time on the Star-Trek parody bit. It was good overall though, I'll keep a eye on this.
Diners in space seem to a weirdly common trope now that I think about it.

>>150958981 (OP)

That was fun! Hopefully we get more of the main character.

>>150958981 (OP)
What's it about?

>>150958981 (OP)
This studio has amazing animation but the writing is very basic stuff

>>150958981 (OP)
So the premise is a burnt-out waitress is forced to work in a diner situated on an event horizon?

>>150959435
Millenial writing has killed most fiction for me. Like let's summarize the 'jokes' in this short
>service jobs suck
>"I quit", "no you won't"
>Captain Kirk is a womanizing jerk
>alien was milked for fuel, compared to sex
>Captain Kirk does not care about co-worker
>"I'M A DOCTOR, NOT AN X", oddly "Jesus" is the least funny madlib for this
>Captain Kirk fucking dies
>surviving crewmate gets hit on by the alien
And that's it. That's your pilot episode. It's all jokes you've already heard before, and heard better. All from an animator who clearly is projecting his lack of a career path onto his art, to his own detriment.
When Spongebob writers used the Krusty Krab to bitch about service jobs, it was witty. Here it's just whiny.

>>150959642
>All from an animator who clearly is projecting his lack of a career path onto his art, to his own detriment.
This is by the independent animation studio MAKE, if you're going to criticize at least get the creator(s) right before resorting to baseless ad hominem out of nowhere.

>>150959642
>service jobs suck
yeah, comedy always comes from reality
and not even millenial writing, the "teenager in a sucky fastfood job" has been a fixture in TV and movies since the 80s

>>150959717
It's literally about how people can't get out of the service industry, i.e. an animator's day job.

>>150959718
Comedy used to be about other things besides "I work at a restaurant and oh boy does it suck". That's millennial's only life experience.

>>150958981 (OP)
i know it's only 2 minutes long but nothing of substance happened.
the wasted time on the unfunny star trek bit took up the majority of the ep only for them to be zucc'd into the blackhole.
both unfunny "i hate my job" humor and unfunny star trek humor have been done a million times over by now. and gross out sexual humor isnt the way to go...
this is the 1st of 6 at least so lets see if it gets more interesting as it goes on, hopefully...

>>150958981 (OP)
I liked it despite how short it was. Kind of wish the lineart for the characters was thicker, but the actual animation was very nice, and some of the aliens looked pretty cool too. The blue captain guy was funny, shame he had to die here

>>150958981 (OP)
Might give it a look

>>150959746
Again, thats not unique to millenials
Crappy low wage jobs is a universally understood thing
It did not start with millennials and it wont end with them

>>150959718
yet it's interesting that media 20+ years ago does the "my job sucks" joke far better than media now
maybe zoomzooms and millennials just don't have the energy to tell the joke

>>150960705
nothing has fundamentally changed, people still make the same jokes because the nature of work hasnt changed

>>150960508
>Crappy low wage jobs is a universally understood thing
When you're a teenager, not when you're in your 30's. I can name a dozen shows with "crappy low wage job", and most of them have plots that involve something other than that crappy low wage job because the showrrunner had a life outside of shoving grease from one table to another. Whether it is Spongebob (his friendship with Patrick or Sandy, hobbies like jellyfishing, or general events around the town), Rocko's Modern Life (main character works a dead end job at a comic shop, the show is about him frustrated with modern tech or culture however), or even Beavis and Butthead (Beavis works at a burger joint, the show is about their misadventures however); they all are about things other than complaining about what it is like to have no economic mobility.
But the only thing a millennial knows is
>dead end job
>useless college degree
>no friends
>social media
>boomer hate
And that's the whole of their world. The vapid shallow subtext of their art is a reflection of this.

>>150960742
I didn't say people don't still joke about how their job sucks, I'm just saying that if I put on a movie or TV show or something made in the 90s or 2000s about a guy who hates his job, usually the joke is going to be built up over a scene or episode or whatever and it's going to be written by someone who actually understands comedy vs. whatever OP posted that just feels like it's trying to be a Regular Show without understanding what makes RS good to begin with, let alone trying to pull off the "my job sucks" joke with any level of success.

>>150959435
It has to be since every episode is like a minute and a half long

>>150961039
Regular Show is a good example of how to do a "my job sucks" correctly. The shitty job is just a launching ground, or even just 'the setting', for the events that transpire after. Like this show could be good if the format was
>just another day at black hole diner
>but then this traveler walks in
>the main character is then roped into an adventure where she tries to escape with the traveler, but ends up back where she started
Instead what we get is, as has already been stated, bad Star Trek jokes that have not only been told before but don't involve the main character other than the part where she smugly watches the ship be destroyed while thinking "serves you right shitlord". The main character isn't even an active participant in her own show, she's an observer.

>my job sucks :(
This is all millennials know how to write but they can never make it interesting like Office Space or Fight Club. It is so tiresome. Fucking faggot generation.

>>150958981 (OP)
Very stylish, but I'm not sure what story there is to tell here. So far Sunny Side Down feels like it can't exactly do much with its literal setting. You can only do so much within the confines of a simple diner

>>150959746
There arent cartoons with a protagonist working in the factory because that people never interact with people, they always are repairing machinery or conveyor belts.
This is why characters always work in service jobs.

>>150961286
This. As if it weren't bad enough that the base scenario for the MC is derivative, she barely even does anything!

>>150958981 (OP)
There's potential in this but they really should drop the Rick & Morty ball

>>150959297
It's a pretty fitting trope. Diners are on roads in the middle of nowhere and space is literally the middle of nowhere.

>>150958981 (OP)
She should clean herself up

>>150961446
You aren't working so who cares

>>150958981 (OP)
Seemed like a neat concept, but the humor is just crass and swearing.

>>150958981 (OP)
Flat

>>150961165
I think you can make better scripts even within that time.

>>150965440
flat is best in life