Michael Schafer

I had high hopes for this after the first episode: art is great voice acting is great… Then I realized it was falling into the current fad of “all female leads” which is fine, but been done by Star Wars recently. SPOILER ALERT Then in the last episode the shock-deaths are just that…seemingly done for cheap shock value. As a teen we used to joke about making a movie where the hero dies unexpectedly at the end (like crashes his car on the way to save everyone)…this feels just about as clever as we were as teens. Part of the game is making it great while keeping with the rules…and it comes off as cheap and easy to just “break the rules.” Like writing a good haiku, the struggle is to write something original while keeping with proper meter and subject matter…this just can’t pull it off so it adds an extra syllable and breaks into modern imagery (to keep with the haiku metaphor). My point? Delivered at first, then petered out due to lazy shock writing