I liked the mystery and intrigue of Book 1, personally. Three was a nice mind-frick but I feel like the series jumped the shark when it started explaining the rules of this magical technical interdimensional ghost train.
That's the fundamental difficulty with mystery stories. We love to learn and explain things, and it's very difficult to write a compelling story in which the setting is not detailed much further over the course of an entire season. However, the mystery itself is intriguing.
Book 1 was mid as frick and Book 2 was okay, so that one. Book 3 is an abomination in terms of writing and characterization and permanently tarnished the show and Owen Dennis for me.
The fact the Book 4 protagonists aren't even here is a bit sad, it shows how forgettable it was to some people. It had flaws but it was still better than book 3. Most things are.
>Tragic damnation arcs are hard to come by.
You shouldn't like badly written tragedies just because they're rare, you're just lowering expectations and embracing mediocrity instead of asking for something better. If you want actual well written tragedies go watch adult cartoons like Arcane and Invincible, not this shit.
I still haven't watched Book 4.
I don't know why, I should. I just haven't.
It's good but I dunno, the fact it was so easily forgettable by everyone just proved IT didn't have the strength people thought it did.
>cute waifu protag >uglified corrupted form of cute waifu protag >less cute overage waifu protag >dude protag
They really went downhill with each season, huh? And I had high hopes.
>Boring autistic girl protagonist >Shaved dyke protagonist with added male >Mature even split man and woman protagonists >Two guys in their twenties and most of their problems came from the woman side-kick
More like it got better and based
Book 2. I liked the interactions between Jesse and Lake. Book 1 was okay, Book 3 rubbed me the wrong way with how they wrote Simon and I barely remember anything about Book 4 except for Ryan flirting with The Cat.
Book 2. I liked the interactions between Jesse and Lake. Book 1 was okay, Book 3 rubbed me the wrong way with how they wrote Simon and I barely remember anything about Book 4 except for Ryan flirting with The Cat.
I think book 2 is peak comfy because of the two protagonists. Like you said they had great chemistry, it helps Jesse was fun to watch, and they both go through decent character arcs, with lakes being the stronger of the two.
>What was your favorite book?
Book 1. Maybe I'm basic but I like Tulip approach towards the situation but after that I lost much of my interest. Lake and Jesse were fun but besides the brutal death of one of the agents I didn't really care for book 2. In book 3 I didn't buy the redemption shit for a second so that really didn't help me enjoy the season.
I haven't checked book 4 yet.
Favorite is 1 becaus of the Sci Fi vibes it gave out. I fell in love with the show when I heard the OST when Tulip ran from the house with the beutiful background art, and that was before the train part.
Best one is 2.
i watched it all in one go semi-recently, so im free-ish from Cinemaphile discussion bias.
book 2 probably. show hits its stride, good dynamics, more nuanced themes, did a pretty good job of keeping an abrasive character sympathetic, so it feels unique.
book 1 is okay but not all that noteworthy.
same for book 4 but for different reasons.
book 3 is pretty good until it isn't due to character assassination. you can feel them suddenly get cold feet about making a black girl look bad / suffer, and hamfistedly shove everything "bad" (i.e. interesting) about grace onto simon out of nowhere. really frustrating since it had so much potential.
Book 1 was crippled by the running-time cut to 10 half-length episodes. They didn't do a good job adapting it to the shorter length. Can't say if they could have.
It's criminally insane that this show only only consists of the equivalent to one seasons of Avatar. Even with the 8 planned seasons, it would have only been the same length as Gravity Falls.
Having a strict 10 episodes a season really hurts the show, Book 2 plays with that pace perfectly but the other seasons could really benefit with more episodes to flesh out some characters and cars
It's criminally insane that this show only only consists of the equivalent to one seasons of Avatar. Even with the 8 planned seasons, it would have only been the same length as Gravity Falls.
What's crazy about this show is that even though there's only 24 permutations, it feels like I've never seen two people agree on a season ranking. Everyone likes the show for different reasons, and the seasons were distinct enough that almost everyone has a season they don't like and one they do.
1>2>dogshit>3=4
1, was the only one that managed to feel like someone actually got closure and developent while still managing to give screentime to minor characters and make the world whimsical and mesmerizing.
2 finished with Jesse still being a pushover moron, he was more of a npc for Lake, who didn't grow up at all, she just killed her assailants. Also, I can barely remember any side characters besides Alan Dracula and the mirror guys.
3 was probably the worst, but maybe it just numbed me enough to not notice if 4 was worse than it. Grace was literally Simon's origin story, she lied to him for years and fed on a predatory authority over him from having seen the machinist with her eyes, yet killing him was "gud" because the writers can't create a compelling peter-pan syndrome villain. The train being a solved puzzle to apex also removed most of what felt good about watching the show anyways.
4 is either horrible or pure genius. It's horrible because the pair's problems are solely dependant on lack of communication on an autistim level that rivals anime, which kinda makes sense if they're asian, but only one of them had helicopter parents. Their numbers should go up, not down, considering they just became more and more co-dependent on each other. You could only consider this good if it was somehow foreshadowing that one one didn't know his ass from his elbow when it comes to solving human problems and further seasons approached people who were actually harmed by the "epiphany machine" the train is, but I don't think the authors have that much foresight.
>2 finished with Jesse still being a pushover moron >the same guy who basically told Grace and Simon to frick off >the same guy who almost hit some kids for his metal waifu >the same friend who put his body between his waifu and her persecutor (yes, he just ended up hurt but hey it's the intention that counts)
I prefer 10 times the fricking toad that at least came back with a different reason but still in character than the gem that nobody remembers besides the DDD parody, the flower wife or the dinosaur with a bat I still hate him just because he is voiced by Owen but is still more interesting than the other denizens who are secondary characters too
I liked the mystery and intrigue of Book 1, personally. Three was a nice mind-frick but I feel like the series jumped the shark when it started explaining the rules of this magical technical interdimensional ghost train.
That's the fundamental difficulty with mystery stories. We love to learn and explain things, and it's very difficult to write a compelling story in which the setting is not detailed much further over the course of an entire season. However, the mystery itself is intriguing.
Book 1 was mid as frick and Book 2 was okay, so that one. Book 3 is an abomination in terms of writing and characterization and permanently tarnished the show and Owen Dennis for me.
The fact the Book 4 protagonists aren't even here is a bit sad, it shows how forgettable it was to some people. It had flaws but it was still better than book 3. Most things are.
I still haven't watched Book 4.
I don't know why, I should. I just haven't.
Book 3, frick you I liked it.
Tragic damnation arcs are hard to come by.
>Tragic damnation arcs are hard to come by.
You shouldn't like badly written tragedies just because they're rare, you're just lowering expectations and embracing mediocrity instead of asking for something better. If you want actual well written tragedies go watch adult cartoons like Arcane and Invincible, not this shit.
It's good but I dunno, the fact it was so easily forgettable by everyone just proved IT didn't have the strength people thought it did.
Seconding Arcane here, it’s actually a damn good show and it definitely was written by the French that animated it since riot games is full of hacks
Loving, passionate sex with Simon.
>cute waifu protag
>uglified corrupted form of cute waifu protag
>less cute overage waifu protag
>dude protag
They really went downhill with each season, huh? And I had high hopes.
>Boring autistic girl protagonist
>Shaved dyke protagonist with added male
>Mature even split man and woman protagonists
>Two guys in their twenties and most of their problems came from the woman side-kick
More like it got better and based
Absolutely. Book 4 above all
Best duos
Min-gi once again proving he's the best of the Book 4 duo.
Minchads rise up
>Waifugays turned this season down because it didn't have girls they could coom to
Once again Cinemaphilecels have no taste whatsoever
Two because its objectively the best one. One was basic, three was moronic and four was too pussy to just make them suck eachother's dicks
>One was basic, three was moronic and four was too pussy
that's a good way of putting it actually
Book 2. I liked the interactions between Jesse and Lake. Book 1 was okay, Book 3 rubbed me the wrong way with how they wrote Simon and I barely remember anything about Book 4 except for Ryan flirting with The Cat.
I think book 2 is peak comfy because of the two protagonists. Like you said they had great chemistry, it helps Jesse was fun to watch, and they both go through decent character arcs, with lakes being the stronger of the two.
>Book 1:
Great
>Book 2:
Holy shit, this is amazing
>Book 3:
Also okay
>Book 4:
Hey, remember how good Books 1 and 2 were?
Just Jesse and Simon hating communist pig
Why does Jesse and Simon hate communist pig?
Good shit. Blog?
no blog, I'm content throwing shit around anonymously
Cute. Love how you draw Simon.
>Pig baby grew up to be a communist
of course the little shit did
>What was your favorite book?
Book 1. Maybe I'm basic but I like Tulip approach towards the situation but after that I lost much of my interest. Lake and Jesse were fun but besides the brutal death of one of the agents I didn't really care for book 2. In book 3 I didn't buy the redemption shit for a second so that really didn't help me enjoy the season.
I haven't checked book 4 yet.
Book 1. Frick Book 3.
From the storyboards I could tell Book 5 would've been my favourite, feels bad.
3 > 2 > 1 > 4
No, 3 is always at the bottom
why do we even need a prequel to what we already know? The show was gonna lose its anthology nature if it became the Amelia show
Its not about the desti-something. Its about the whatever
Book 2 Best Book
onion-breath lovers, homos and fujos can suck a dick.
Is this who Amelia / Samantha / One will murder?
I sorry what?
It’s confirmed that either Amelia, One or Samantha would’ve killed someone in Book 5
>Amelia or Samantha would’ve killed someone
Nothing new then
>It's called 'mortal middle management' kitten
>That board of Amelia using the stewards eye guns to frick shit up
Would’ve been so good
Book 1 (why are they called books frick off) was a fart and I dropped it.
Book 2 easy. They had great chemistry
Favorite is 1 becaus of the Sci Fi vibes it gave out. I fell in love with the show when I heard the OST when Tulip ran from the house with the beutiful background art, and that was before the train part.
Best one is 2.
What's sad is that Simon was taken by the train younger and with lower number than Grace.
i watched it all in one go semi-recently, so im free-ish from Cinemaphile discussion bias.
book 2 probably. show hits its stride, good dynamics, more nuanced themes, did a pretty good job of keeping an abrasive character sympathetic, so it feels unique.
book 1 is okay but not all that noteworthy.
same for book 4 but for different reasons.
book 3 is pretty good until it isn't due to character assassination. you can feel them suddenly get cold feet about making a black girl look bad / suffer, and hamfistedly shove everything "bad" (i.e. interesting) about grace onto simon out of nowhere. really frustrating since it had so much potential.
Book 2 > Book 4 > Book 3 > > Book 1 > > Cancelled Toilet Paper
Book 1 was crippled by the running-time cut to 10 half-length episodes. They didn't do a good job adapting it to the shorter length. Can't say if they could have.
Having a strict 10 episodes a season really hurts the show, Book 2 plays with that pace perfectly but the other seasons could really benefit with more episodes to flesh out some characters and cars
It's criminally insane that this show only only consists of the equivalent to one seasons of Avatar. Even with the 8 planned seasons, it would have only been the same length as Gravity Falls.
Anyone have a mega link to this?
The main MEGA has been down for a while now, if I had the documentaries I'd put up a new one but unfortunately I don't
What's crazy about this show is that even though there's only 24 permutations, it feels like I've never seen two people agree on a season ranking. Everyone likes the show for different reasons, and the seasons were distinct enough that almost everyone has a season they don't like and one they do.
It's objectively 3>2>4>1
Nope. 1>4>2>3. Fight me.
That's the magic of anthologies, each season has its own strengths and weaknesses
>book
It is a fricking cartoon can you morons stop this fricking Avatar nonsense please?
Their book when?
Never
6 years
When the series gets picked up again
All the books are good IMO. 3 > 4 > 2 >> 1
1>2>dogshit>3=4
1, was the only one that managed to feel like someone actually got closure and developent while still managing to give screentime to minor characters and make the world whimsical and mesmerizing.
2 finished with Jesse still being a pushover moron, he was more of a npc for Lake, who didn't grow up at all, she just killed her assailants. Also, I can barely remember any side characters besides Alan Dracula and the mirror guys.
3 was probably the worst, but maybe it just numbed me enough to not notice if 4 was worse than it. Grace was literally Simon's origin story, she lied to him for years and fed on a predatory authority over him from having seen the machinist with her eyes, yet killing him was "gud" because the writers can't create a compelling peter-pan syndrome villain. The train being a solved puzzle to apex also removed most of what felt good about watching the show anyways.
4 is either horrible or pure genius. It's horrible because the pair's problems are solely dependant on lack of communication on an autistim level that rivals anime, which kinda makes sense if they're asian, but only one of them had helicopter parents. Their numbers should go up, not down, considering they just became more and more co-dependent on each other. You could only consider this good if it was somehow foreshadowing that one one didn't know his ass from his elbow when it comes to solving human problems and further seasons approached people who were actually harmed by the "epiphany machine" the train is, but I don't think the authors have that much foresight.
>2 finished with Jesse still being a pushover moron
>the same guy who basically told Grace and Simon to frick off
>the same guy who almost hit some kids for his metal waifu
>the same friend who put his body between his waifu and her persecutor (yes, he just ended up hurt but hey it's the intention that counts)
I prefer 10 times the fricking toad that at least came back with a different reason but still in character than the gem that nobody remembers besides the DDD parody, the flower wife or the dinosaur with a bat I still hate him just because he is voiced by Owen but is still more interesting than the other denizens who are secondary characters too
For me its the parasite denizen, leaving that little fricker in a car full of food is just an accident waiting to happen
Frank’s my favourite minor denizen, the Docent is a close second