Jennifer Jensen

As an independent project Hazbin Hotel is very well made, it has beautiful fluid animation, amazing original character design, great voice actors, and an interesting plot. But from a film perspective the pilot is very jumpy and too fast paced to follow properly. I feel like I had to force myself to sit through the entire episode to be honest. There wasn't a moment of silence where characters weren't talking at any point. There's no breathing room between each person who talks to think or let what they've said set in. I would have LOVED to just take a second between characters to truely get a moment to actually process what just happened or to see what the setting is around them instead of having to worry about missing what they will say next. There isn't even any gap when they move from one scene to the next, it just skips straight to the new setting with different characters with less then a second of silence in conversation. They also verbaly explain each thing that happens instead of giving their audiance a chance to pick it up from context clues or from the setting, or maybe even just a characters expression, and they really have some beautiful expressive faces and cartoony anatomy that they could be using to achieve this with! I understand that this was just a pilot and that they may have felt pressure to cram as much plot as possible into the episode, but I really think that if they had paced this properly that so much happened in this episode that it could have taken place over two or three episodes and I would have felt more connected to the characters and world that they are set in. I really wanted to love this with how popular it has become and how amazing the art is, with the level of detail and love that clearly went into the concept. But unless they slow it down a bit I don't think I will make it through another episode completely.