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What the fuck did I just watch?
No, seriously, what. When do we get a season 2.
I had that playset
Beastman was like the worst one with his fuzzy fur. Not sure if I got more slime or just kept using what the set came with.
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Tippy-top of the list is how everything on this planet is trying to kill the humans and it's like 4 episodes in before somebody makes a fucking spear. No, not some gardening tool kinda repurposed as a spear, a spear spear. I absolutely cannot stand the trope of humans too stupid to have basic survival instincts, and every person they've shown would absolutely have the knowledge that, in a survival situation, a basic fucking spear is going to be a big help. And the near-total lack of survival instincts in these people is really grating. Suspicious terrain? Yeah, let's walk the fuck all over this without keeping an eye out. Place looks fine because it doesn't instantly attack you? No worries, nevermind the odds fungus balls floating around. Racing through a crushing death wall? Oh, I saw something shiny over there, let me come to a dead stop and investigate more closely while the wall keeps closing.
Next is that everything seems to want to kill the humans in a gruesome way that borders on fetishistic. Every time they show somebody dead or killed, it's happening in some ridiculously gruesome or painful way. Nobody is allowed to die in any way that isn't wretched and doesn't have guts or blood or horrible noises involved. It's just getting predictable at this point and it's getting kinda creepy how much the writers are obsessed with making sure every death is kinda nightmarish in some way.
Finally, this ecosystem just pisses me off. It's clearly designed entirely to be Rick and Morty type of weird, with zero thought given over to how any of this shit would work as an ecosystem. Every other critter is a predator which just doesn't work in terms of simple biomass. Most everything else is a fungus or planet, and apparently anything non-predatory is somehow in the minority. And everything predatory seems suicidally interested in killing and eating humans, zero fear involved. Why the fuck can everything eat humans but apparently stuff is toxic to humans? Also, way too much of the shit on this planet is basically designed for a purpose; I'm going to be genuinely annoyed if it turns out this is supposed to be a "natural" ecosystem rather than some alien-designed world left on its own for millions of years. Air-filter fish-things that stick to your face? Big helicopter bugs with outright handles on their tails? Or my favorite stupid one: glow-balls that you can only get by cutting open a big grazing animal (which literally does not care you sliced it open), climbing inside its guts, rearranging some organs, and then blindly reaching into an organ to pull out the glow-balls. Then you climb out and the animal is... completely fine. How the fuck does that make any sense? How does anybody know they can do that?
Those gripes aside, interesting show. Waaaay more about artsy conceptual stuff than scifi, it's really more like a series of neat short stories than a coherent single story. Only six episodes at the moment at about half an hour each so it's certainly worth a shot.
Yeah, they're gonna learn some things but they'll be things like that blue stuff will kill you in five seconds if you eat it or don't climb the trees when they turn red. But the first episode has them rebuilding a sophisticated radio from organic shit they find, like vines (which can apparently reliably carry voltage) that they can "weld" together by sprinkling them with some gunk from a random critter. And using "breathing masks" made from critters that live on the underside of logs that you can pop open to put on your face and they just... work. Critters you can stuff in a pocket but when you jam your hand into them, they turn into a balloon that can carry an adult person dozens of meters straight up safely. Even putting aside the absolute biological absurdity of creatures naturally evolving to have functional uses this specific (and to work with lifeforms from another planet, for even more absurdity), just how do you find that stuff out? Ever? Nobody goes around trying to stick animals on their faces to see if they can breath through them. Maybe if these people had been there ten generations of something and there was a bunch of knowledge passed around, but 8 months? Nah, it's dumb.
"Weird for the sake of weird" just doesn't do it for me when the show isn't a comedy like Rick and Morty. I'd appreciate the show a whole lot more if they'd at least attempted to apply some amount of reality, or at least rules, to the design of the flora and fauna.
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The series doesn't go as hard on the biotech and includes much more of a plot, which doesn't suit the 'Don't Think About It' style of the original. I think they either should've dropped the biotech and focused on survivalist elements, or gone way harder on the biotech while addressing how it doesn't all make sense naturally as part of the plot. Have creatures that plug into other creatures to make all kinds of absurd biotech machines. Play up the 'This planet is a puzzle' line. Make it clear this place can't be natural, that someone or something is controlling and designing the different creatures, that they're all pieces of some colossal, planet-sized alien living machine and the humans are just caught in its gears.
Sad that she died. I'm holding out hope that the organic goo growing in her somehow pulls all her pieces back together.
I was looking forward to this!
7 minutes in:
Especially "Klown Bitch" and "2 Minutes Notice" (aka Fuck You)
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I mean the entire concept of tea makes no fucking sense when you think about it.
"Hey Vern, look at this pile of twigs and leaves and dirt I scooped up off the ground. What say we dump it in some hot water for a bit and then drink it?"
I mean, soup is just chewy tea.
It took modern humans around 190-something-thousand years to get out of the stone age. Up until writing become commonplace in most populations, the vast majority of knowledge was an assortment of random shit written down by people who survived experimentation.
8 months on an unknown planet with funky-ass nonsense biology might get you as far as "I can eat these 7 things and not die. Immediately. Also, I can drink water from that stream. Most of the time." If you're lucky. You definitely don't have enough time to figure out that you can safely climb into the exposed innards of an animal to yank out what amounts to glow sticks or find out that a variety of vine is perfect replacement for manufactured power cables made from purified metals.
It's just a peeve for me. Nobody knows anything about this planet and it's basically an endless pile of things that are impossibly functional or impossibly useless. Now if they had a catalog of the shit people had figured out from scientific expeditions? And/or it was a known thing that some long-dead species had designed the ecosystem and it had evolved back to being wild? Totally different story.
Weirdly, it reminds me of Metroid Prime, specifically because MP actually gave thought to things like ecosystems and predation and why a weird crawling turtle-thing that just eats moss needs a nigh-impenetrable hide or why this stuff that looks like grass is trying to disintegrate your armor. I know all that biology is just as impossible, but the fact that they bothered to think about it was enough to get me to buy into the world.
Well the most logical assumption is the leaves had a pleasant scent and they thought tossing them in hot water would spread that scent then somebody drank it and didn't die
I love chai tea!
Yes, because twigs and leaves can be delicious and nutritious provided you know which twigs and leaves to boil.
Yes! I was hoping someone would remember that bit.
He was the best secondary Spider-person. Best extra would Spider Horse.
Rest in Peace, Mull, rest in peace.
I am eternally puzzled by onions.
“Hey, this thing really makes my eyes hurt if I cut it. Imma put it in my mouth.”
2 Minutes Notice is now my favorite song from Helluva Boss and not just because it's a banger. It's also pretty relatable for anyone that isn't one of the fuckers at the top. Just like Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take, it's a song that could easily be the anthem for the masses that are tired of being exploited by greedy ass bastards. Also will not be surprise if this is a song that manages to make it way out into the broader, that isn't even remotely aware that Helluva Boss exists.
Yeah! I've listened to it about three more times.
Also, Crooked is adorably sweet.
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I figure the first person to eat an onion was merely satisfied that it tasted better than the dirt around it.
Nah. Onions do a ton of good shit, but the best thing about them, at least for an ancient civilization, is that they have very little moisture and a built-in self-protecting shell. ie They last for a LONG FUCKING TIME if you just drop them in a box or something. When it's the dead of winter and everything else died months ago, onions will still be around. They're also mildly anti-biotic, so one of the earliest things people figured out to rub on wounds and shit to help them heal.
Now, if you want to talk stuff that how the fuck did we figure that out, look up Egyptian pregnancy tests. Pee on wheat and barley seeds. If either sprout, you're pregnant. If wheat first, it's a boy. If barley, a girl. The latter part is pure hokum, but there's a hormone specific to pregnant women that seeds apparently love enough for that to be a pretty accurate test.