I wanted to look up if disenchantment was getting a season 2 (yes) but like, the first search results were all about how bad the show is
I mean, it’s not SPECTACULAR or game changing but it’s fun? the music is good, I like all the main characters, the joke aren’t offensive and almost always land even if they arent gut busters, the main character is a bucktooth drunkard princess who can hold her own in a fight and doesnt wear heels (standard outfit is a tunic, pants, and practical boots)
I cant really think of a show with a female main character, a show for ADULTS, and she’s, just not really “sexy” in the way cartoon women usually are. She’s also proportioned like a person, her waist is, well, it’s got girth to it, and she’s a fucking princess.
like, look at the difference between Bean and her mother (mother, thin, oval face, smaller neck, lips. Bean, tummy pudge, no lips, buck teeth, square face, thick neck)
it’s a fun show, i think reviewers are taking it to seriously or were expecting the next big thing
it’s not a very cerebral show, it’s entertainment, and it succeeds at being very entertaining
add to that, the animation/art is honestly good. standard matt groening character designs which arent my favorite but good none the less, but the scenery? off the charts in my opinion
Like damn??? beautiful??? and i realize this is a shot of the cave specifically but even people’s offices are detailed and amazing???
idk i just feel like it’s a good series!
And I mean, Futurama and The Simpsons didn’t have an over-arching plot structure like Disenchanted does. Groening’s other shows are more episodic in nature, held together by the setting than a main story, (with the possible notable exception of Futurama’s Season 5/ feature length movies).
I think people go into Disenchanted expecting an oblique comedy like Futurama or The Simpsons, rather than to critique it as a separate series all together. It really actually stands out on it’s own as a fantasy adventure series with some actual dramatic plot sewn right into it. It comes down to how your experience is framed when you decide to get into it.
and now I’m wondering how in the hell Lilo came to the conclusion that there’s a peanut butter loving fish god who demands tribute or else he’ll murder your family.
When massive trauma hits, some people try to find any way to make sense of what seems senseless. Find any semblance of control, of responsibility.
Lilo may be blaming herself (unfairly) for her parents’ death. This was the only connection she could make, the only thing she could have had any control over, so to her it must have been her fault. If only she was a good girl. If only she did the right thing. Then maybe…
It’s very very hard to lose a mindset like that even when it’s the most irrational thing, even when it hurts you, because then you’re left with nothing.
And when you’re six your pattern recognition skills are a work in progress. Lilo sees that type of fish one day and as it swims away it starts to rain; connection made.
“Lilo may be blaming herself (unfairly) for her parents’ death. This was the only connection she could make, the only thing she could have had any control over, so to her it must have been her fault. If only she was a good girl. If only she did the right thing. Then maybe… “
This movie had some of the best scenes cut out of it.
Even with some scenes taken out, this movie is unsettlingly heavy.
Every time i see a post about lilo and stitch either about it’s delete scenes or noticing a small detail that drastically changes the movie in a good way I love it even more
