Why is this an animation?
Why is this trying to be funny in the "generic animated comedy" way in spurts?
A live action actor can make nuanced expressions that would actually convey something during all the long pondering shots of Carol's face. Attempts at being existential and substantive are undercut by cheap outdated jokes like "look, naked old people!"
I was intensely bored by what I watched. I could see a core of real emotion and ideas in there but the chosen medium heavily obfuscates it. This should have been a live action short film or else just a comic.
I want to support it because in terms of content it is actually trying to be just an adult story told through animation but I keep coming back to it just not being a good story for animation...
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>I was intensely bored by what I watched.
Are you talking about the trailer or is it airing already?
It's out today, I watched the first episode and didn't care to watch any further.
damn
I think it's a matter of animation being more akin to theater than film. You gain freedom of expression in exchange for losing the subtleties of a close-up film performance. This lends it to stories and styles and actions that are big and bombastic and over-the-top and emotional sequences that break reality and favor visual symbolism over direct emotion. With enough money and the right director you can have incredible and impossible scenarios play out to get across your message (Paprika comes to mind as something that really takes advantage of animation as a medium), but this seems to be a very personal and grounded story that would benefit more from small subtleties than big sequences.
I've never thought about it that way, but well said. There isn't enough action, insane setpieces, or physical comedy in Carol to warrant being animated.
On the other hand, I do feel the overly geometric designs and almost robotic character animation style help sell the feeling of monotony and routine that the MC is caught up in.
I thought it was alright there's some bright spots throughout the deadpan awkwardness. But definitely skip the surfing episode, massive waste of time I don't care what anyone says.
6/10 better than Inside Job
Spoil the ending, anon.
All the workers in the office go to Applebee's.
The End.
>But definitely skip the surfing episode, massive waste of time I don't care what anyone says.
Yeah, it basically has one joke that drags on for 30 minutes. It might've been more tolerable if they moved it earlier in the season.
Not watching this but curious to know how does the story eend? What's the big lesson?
I'm on Episode 9, will let you know. So far I like it
I hate to be that guy but any fappable characters along the way?
Lots of naked women but kinda of a ugly art style. I fapped to Carol's mom who is naked all the time but i am into gilfs.
>kinda of a ugly art style
Why do so many American toons for adults have ugly art anyway?
anon, it ends in a cliffhanger
It doesn't end and there's no climax or lesson
It just kind of stops
I'm not a big fan of overly geometric designs myself (big nitpick I have with Gumball's later seasons), but I don't get all the hate for Carol's design. She's just a cute awkward older lady. Her, Mel Rodriguez, and that single dad she hooked up with all look fine. It's the side characters where I start taking issue. Some of them look almost grotesque.
There could've been a little more restraint with how stylized the crew chose to go, but this show definitely doesn't count as "another ugly adult cartoon." It feels like there was a lot of genuine thought behind the art style, just maybe not the best decisions for the supporting cast.
Eyes touching on a human is just offputting, you image is better as there's at least SOME space
heck I've seen "front-facing sonic" as a meme a few times, so it isn't just humies
I think it's fine in stuff like Cathy. It just doesn't work here because the iris/pupils are goddamn enormous, which only highlights the bizarre eye shape in general.
another case of concept art being vastly superior to the final style
all I see when I look at Carol is a sad Beagle
I mean, that's kinda what they're going for innit? An older, frumpy, depressed woman.
>(big nitpick I have with Gumball's later seasons),
The designs of Gumball weren't heavily changed since season 2 you moron
Calm the frick down. I meant to specify the one-off designs getting overly geometric the longer Gumball ran. It's a stylistic trend that's become more common in French comedy cartoons, and I've grown sick of it. Everything starts feeling TOO abstract if you push it hard enough.
Anon, Gumball's animation is mix media animation it uses different types of animation and therefore it has different types of character designs, you're argument is that most of the one off characters are geometric in the latter seasons which isn't even the case, considering they use puppetry, live action, and traditional in character design more than overly geometric like you keep spouting about
I was only referring to 2D incidentals, not ALL multi-media incidentals. The 2D characters in the show became increasingly geometric and shape-based, which carried over to later shows staffed with some of the same artists like Ivandoe, Elliott from Earth, or Dead End. It's not THE WORST THING EVER, but just a nitpick of mine. I was just bringing up my own personal preferences when it comes to stylized designs to defend the few main characters' looks on Carol. I don't find the incidentals as appealing. They're almost all circles and cylinders and stocky fridge bodies. Reminds me of Pinky Malinky.
Skill issue. Anything can be interesting when animated, but in order for people to want to watch boring and calm stuff in animation, it has to be pleasant to look at. This is ugly
>Cinemaphile doesn't like this show
finally have proof that Cinemaphile is shit
it's better to be a guiding star than a burnt out husk
what did you like about it, anon?
I don't know how to express my opinion, guess that makes me an AD or something
It makes you a moron that likes trash shows.
I presume you liked it?
I want your take on whether it worked effectively as a drama, comedy, or both. I felt that they conflicted.
I'm on episode 4. Carol is fricking CUTE
Lame ending. Would’ve been better with a climatic moment of destruction and acceptance like don’t look up
>He liked don't look up
Lol, Lmao.
Cate Blanchett tho
Hey, I never said I liked it. Just that a similar ending would’ve been more cathartic
That's not what the point of the story is though.
Show don’t tell. Less is more.
pianist made me lol
For me it was Dennis in episode 2
shows like this are animated because you can get a lot of varied locations, setpieces, big effects, etc. for way cheaper.
If you want a masterclass in animated acting, watch this. Boring fat woman is not an appealing concept to me.
You're not going to get animation like this today, I'm afraid.
sponge bob
It was made by Carbunkle Cartoons in Canada. It's possible.
She reminds me of a barrel eye fish.
>neckbeard
>can't read stylized designs
ngmi
I find it funny how you guys are all shitting on Carol for its art style but were silent back when Captain Fall was still a thing.
I think I watched that shitty Melancholia movie at too impressionable a time for me, and it turned me off from “What would YOU do if you knew the world was ending??” kinds of stories. I just can’t get interested in them, and in this one the artstyle and lackluster everywoman MC isn’t helping.
I honestly think the main idea is more interesting when applied to an individual character with a terminal disease or something. If the story needs to compare and contrast other characters’ experiences, they can just have the main character meet other terminal people, since that’s something sick people do.
Though with the timing of this particular show, I get that the covid pandemic obviously must have had some kind of influence, and the “we’re all in this together” aspect was probably essential to that.
I think the show makes fun of that idea. The point is that Carol doesn't do anything and starts a generic office job.