Ottoman said:
After reading all the complaints about 'radical' and the speech, I have to say that apparently most people around here have no sense of irony. Which is rather a handicap on the internet.
As for complaints about the intro. . . it's a style, you wouldn't understand (except for the '. . . live audience' bit, that needs to die.). Same goes for the animation (though that could use moar energy / motion, regardless).
The personalities are a bit flat at the moment, but I think Gary was the only one I found unenjoyable to watch. Time should fix this.
The dialogue needs moar balance between the characters (yes, Bethany's boobs are nice, but she can't just be a static cutout off to the side). Also, work on making it feel moar flowing and natural; it's all quite stiff at the moment.
As far as humor is concerned, none of the dog puns made me cringe, and while the jokes were by no means spectacular, none seemed notably sub-par.
Overall, I stand by my opinion that it's a series with lots of potential and a solid basis. Steps towards greatness appear to be rather stumbling and slow for now, so I think Russ just needs to put some real effort behind it, and it'll be set.
PS: Still better than should-have-been-forgotten realms. Fuckin' hell.
Ugh, people that think they're better than everyone else because they "get" the humor are worse than this show. It's not irony, it's just bad characters and bad writing. They could have been trying to go for that, but they missed the mark by a pretty long shot.
And the intro, it isn't style, it's just needlessly long. So I guess I don't get why they made it needlessly long. When you have a six minute show, a minute of it shouldn't be credits. The opening credits shouldn't be any more than 10 seconds and preferably only 5 seconds and then they can keep the ending credits 30 seconds if they want. They can even keep the random bad Gary bit that is completely out of place in the ending credits.
Just like the credits, Gary would be better if he came in smaller quantities. His rant just became boring because he kept going. I know someone could say
well, that's his character! but to that I just say
then change the character to something that's actually good!
I have no idea why the writer is so in love with Gary, he's not half as entertaining as they think he is.
The writers just need to learn to cut everything down. If that episode were three minutes and contained all the same information, it might have been
decent and I might even say
hey, it has room to grow.
Even the bit with Bob, he could have been hilarious. I thought he was funny in thing where Gary was answering emails and I thought he was going to be funny in this too. He started out funny, but then he stayed there and then he started talking and then he kept talking.
Congratulations Russ or whatever the name of the person that wrote this, you took something funny and made it boring.
Even the animations reeks of some terrible amateur flash animation on new grounds or whatever the hip flash site is these days. It isn't stylish or anything new and the art itself is bland and easily forgotten.
This whole show just reeks of fail and the first two episodes put a terrible taste in most peoples mouth. I'll be surprised if anyone even remembers this show in 6 months except for the people making random jokes to the insiders.
