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[Bob Barbas]

New teaser video dropped.

 

[Tinnitus]

From the little info we got, all WDs start from those Pillbabies/Untrained Neural Networks, complete blank slates where the "parents" take care of, and...do something, most likely just raising it like a normal human child, until it grows enough to transferred into a proper WD shell body

Liam said that the WD reproduced by repurposing the factory where the Pillbabies were made and uploading their own codes into a single Pill.

There's still a plothole in Nori & Yeva's solver code being inheritable but the patch that prevents possession not being passed on.

 

[Vecr]

New teaser video dropped.

That does... Not look good.

Maybe they'll be able to pull it off in the full episode but I doubt it. Over/under on the therapy culture nonsense getting annoying some time in the series even if it's supposed to be a parody?

 

[BigJoey41X]

New teaser video dropped.

October 4 is the release date, only 2 weeks away huh?, here's my general predictions for what's gonna happen:

• Basically going to be an entire homage to Luigi's Mansion
• Pomni and Kinger will be the duo of this episode
• Zooble will be much more involved this time, she has way more lines than usual
• Jax and Ragatha are going to take a backseat in screentime
• Gangle will continue to be a useless single-gimmick character

Pomni has a pattern of accidentally going out of bounds away from the intended game space, Kinger is probably joining her too, he might drop some juicy info either about the circus or himself, or both, i think that will be the big reveal of the episode.

Zooble is a complete wild card and I have no idea what to expect from her, she has been given so little personality so far outside of apathy, this is the episode where she finally gets some much-needed fleshing out.

 

[BigJoey41X]

I mean i'll give him this, his insane, downright dumb, method of storytelling can be entertaining in a grab some soda and gummy bears turn your brain off way, if you have nothing else for that category, especially when combined with his monster girl stuff if you're into that sort of thing
and with the comparisons to kojima, who with him i'm also pretty sure he had a thing for pretty women similarly too, maybe liam just had bad rng and tries his best to replicate his Japanese inner spirit

I have seen a good portion of people just straight up admit the fact that they just enjoy the show super casually, never thinking too hard about whats actually going on.

Maybe thats why the standards were set so embarrassingly low.

In other news, the fanbase got into a mini civil war over the whole Tessa being a graverobber thing, some are okay with it, some people are saying it ruined her character, some are pretending that its not real, some are pointing out the drones did so much worse things.

 

[Dynamite Bean]

I have seen a good portion people just straight up admit the fact that they just enjoy the show super casually, never thinking too hard about whats actually going on.

Maybe thats why the standards were set so embarrassingly low.

In other news, the fanbase got into a mini civil war over the whole Tessa being a graverobber thing, some are okay with it, some people are saying it ruined her character, some are pretending that its not real, some are pointing out the drones did so much worse things.

I can understand enjoying it casually, though I don't see what it has that offers a strong contender for turning your brain off, action isn't that great, characters aren't entertaining and charming, only thing I can think of is atmosphere but other things offer that better and more, maybe the zoomies find the humor great i dunno

I also don't see how tessa being a graverobber is a big deal, ignoring that the drones have done abhorrent shit, robbing graves seem like a quirky thing zoomers would find cool, then again that is the first real "edgy" element of the entire show and I remember these are all the same people who probably think mass murder and killing is no big deal in media but the moment a boob, slur, or anything actually morally grey comes up on screen, their up in arms about how that's too far

 

[Bob Barbas]

In other news, the fanbase got into a mini civil war over the whole Tessa being a graverobber thing, some are okay with it, some people are saying it ruined her character, some are pretending that its not real, some are pointing out the drones did so much worse things.

I also don't see how tessa being a graverobber is a big deal, ignoring that the drones have done abhorrent shit, robbing graves seem like a quirky thing zoomers would find cool

I don't really get it myself. I mean, what the fuck did they expect out of a kid who has no friends other than a bunch of robots because her parents don't pay her any attention and do shit like chain her up in her room when they do? If anything it's a miracle she didn't turn out worse.

Now if she was a necrophiliac or something that would be a completely different story. Is it still morbid? Definitely. But I wouldn't say it makes her deserving of what happened to her or anything.

I can understand enjoying it casually, though I don't see what it has that offers a strong contender for turning your brain off, action isn't that great, characters aren't entertaining and charming, only thing I can think of is atmosphere but other things offer that better and more, maybe the zoomies find the humor great i dunno

See, I feel like I'm somewhat misunderstood here so this is a great chance to elaborate. The only reason I cared about MUH LORE in Murder Drones was because the series was seemingly trying to do deep lore shit despite being about as deep as a puddle.

I'm not opposed to media that just doesn't give a fuck as long as it's still entertaining to watch. I mean, look at some shit like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. That show is fucking retarded, but it's fun. Not to mention the show is already so consistently fucking insane that whenever some dumb "lore breaking" shit happens it's easy to ignore anyway because the show already makes it clear it doesn't give a shit to begin with.
Rule of cool exists for a reason. I honestly say you can compensate for bad or a lack of lore with entertaining enough characters, or fuck even good action. Sure, those problems will still exist but at least you'll have SOMETHING to compensate with. You'll at least have something still worth watching for.

Murder Drones unfortunately doesn't really have anything worthwhile to compensate with. Sure it looks pretty and has a nice soundtrack but sadly those are not things that can save a show. If it at least had good action or even interesting characters people would be more willing to look the other way. Sadly it doesn't. Other than the final episode the series has almost no action and what little action there is... is honestly very limp and poorly choreographed. (Even then the final battle's actual choreography was kind of dogshit but that's more me nitpicking most people probably wouldn't care or pay enough attention to care about that.)

 

[Dynamite Bean]

So apparently the digital circus is getting a manga of all things with the first chapter coming out next month

Show has only been out for like what, a year and 2 episodes and it's already getting this much love(a manga, nendoroid), meanwhile murder drones that's been out for years is done with and has nothing else going for it

I bring it up because this leads me to believe that murder drones really did not appeal to as much of a wide audience as the fans of it want to believe and think, which further makes all their arguments completely void and it ultimately appealed to a small section of people, and among other other conspiracy theories I can't think of right now since my head hurts

already seeing murder drones fans ask too why didn't murder drones get a manga lol

 

[Bob Barbas]

So apparently the digital circus is getting a manga of all things with the first chapter coming out next month

Show has only been out for like what, a year and 2 episodes and it's already getting this much love(a manga, nendoroid), meanwhile murder drones that's been out for years is done with and has nothing else going for it

I bring it up because this leads me to believe that murder drones really did not appeal to as much of a wide audience as the fans of it want to believe and think, which further makes all their arguments completely void and it ultimately appealed to a small section of people, and among other other conspiracy theories I can't think of right now since my head hurts

already seeing murder drones fans ask too why didn't murder drones get a manga lol

Not to mention again, TADC always seems to immediately jump to the trending tab whenever a new thing drops whether it's a teaser or an episode whereas Murder Drones only started picking up that kind of steam near the end. Around episode 6 or 7. (And even then it started tapering off a bit, for instance episode 8 took about an hour or so to reach trending I think?)

TADC is just the money maker it seems. I obviously can't say for certain it was the case but I would not be surprised if the decision to cut MD short was for financial reasons. It would not surprise me.

 

[Dynamite Bean]

Some Murder Drones fans aren't very happy about TADC getting a manga

Even better is that i'm learning it's a third party doing it, so the Japanese love the clown girl so much their the ones making a manga
even more insulting is that Murder Drones doesn't even seem to be a thing over there, anyone who knows anything about the Japanese knows that they love their robots hence why Mecha and related things are huge there, yet in all my time of actively searching I have never seen a japanese artist or person give a shit about it

Not to mention again, TADC always seems to immediately jump to the trending tab whenever a new thing drops whether it's a teaser or an episode whereas Murder Drones only started picking up that kind of steam near the end. Around episode 6 or 7. (And even then it started tapering off a bit, for instance episode 8 took about an hour or so to reach trending I think?)

According to this tweet

So yea, with how TADC being so beloved it's getting a manga despite being only 2 episodes in and has a shitton more views, I feel this really puts a hole in the coping people have about MD and how we don't understand it, it's just objectively kinda a shitty messy show and there's good reason why when TADC arrives it immediately stole it's spotlight without trouble and is getting much more love and steam from everyone

 

[BigJoey41X]

I have never heard of a western animated series getting a manga adaptation, and especially one that has barely even started yet, has anyone asked gooseworx on tumblr about this?

What is it going to be about anyway?, Is it just gonna be a retread of the original plot but now in 2d form, or maybe its SoL hijinks unrelated to the main story, because as much as it looks cool, I fail to see why we need a manga.

Murder Drones is actually the one I feel that needs extra content, its literally unfinished and left so many things up in the open, not even counting background stuff, not going as far as needing a separate adaptation imo, but we need something, I can understand why some fans feel jealous about this.

I bring it up because this leads me to believe that murder drones really did not appeal to as much of a wide audience as the fans of it want to believe and think, which further makes all their arguments completely void and it ultimately appealed to a small section of people, and among other other conspiracy theories I can't think of right now since my head hurts

I don't recall anyone in the fandom ever saying this, in fact, some people (particularly on /co/) are proud of the fact that MD is a niche thing, saying that people got "filtered" by the first episode (as if the rest of the series isn't also a dumpster fire lmao)

But Murder Drones would have been far more popular if there wasn't shitty writing that turned off a lot of potential fans, this is one of those shows where you have to ignore and/or tolerate a lot of shit to truly enjoy it, that's not an example of a good show at all, I dont want to do that when I watch any piece of media.

 

[BigJoey41X]

Murder Drones was definitely cancelled, or at least, was never meant to be go for only 1 season, someone in the team, either LV or someone else at Glitch didn't want to work on this anymore, maybe if TADC didn't exist, or didn't have another series that they would have be working on, they would have tolerated greenlighting a 2nd season just to keep the business running.

The Amazing Digital Digital Circus is just an all-around pretty good show, its not the best, but I don't mind seeing it be the most popular web animation series right now, certainly way better than whatever the modern western cartoon industry is pumping out these days, I can perfectly understand how it clicked for so many people all at once, the premise is a good idea, it ACTUALLY knows when to be funny or be serious WITHOUT completely breaking my immersion, the character are all (mostly) believable people who would reasonably act that way if placed in that situation, they actually have real, tangible feelings that get people to attach themselves to them.

Just...why couldn't Murder Drones be like this man

 

[Dynamite Bean]

What is it going to be about anyway?, Is it just gonna be a retread of the original plot but now in 2d form, or maybe its SoL hijinks unrelated to the main story, because as much as it looks cool, I fail to see why we need a manga.

From what I gathered the first chapter is a retelling of the first episode, though their might be some extras here and there so who knows
A murder drones graphic novel adaption I think would be good actually, it'd probably be way cheaper to make and could fix many things, it's clear there's a lot of things liam wanted to do and for reasons we will likely not know, couldn't go through with, a cheaper medium with maybe less eyes might allow him to go all in with what he wanted, who knows

I assume /co/ is a vocal minority because the twitter and subreddit side seems to differ, and to clarify i mean a lot of fans truly believe the show is actually good and you're just nitpicking or too dumb to understand if you don't like it and the fact that it didn't take off at all compare to TADC seems to paint a different picture that I don't see how they can deny

Just...why couldn't Murder Drones be like this man

That's what I was trying to figure out when looking through those leaks and I sadly just couldn't find anything. I really do hope someday someone spills the beans on what exactly happened because I refuse to believe if it was always meant to be this way

 

[Pixy]

Just...why couldn't Murder Drones be like this man

They didn't have a troon on staff.

 

[Bob Barbas]

A murder drones graphic novel adaption I think would be good actually, it'd probably be way cheaper to make and could fix many things, it's clear there's a lot of things liam wanted to do and for reasons we will likely not know, couldn't go through with, a cheaper medium with maybe less eyes might allow him to go all in with what he wanted, who knows

I would read it. Or at least try to just to see if it actually fixes things wrong with the series were it to exist.
You can get away with a lot more exposition and such than anywhere else in readable format. It's part of why I sometimes enjoy novelizations of games or movies since they sometimes allow you to get more insight into the characters that simply couldn't exist due to the restraints of the medium. Like for a game, budget but also gameplay, or for a movie, usually runtime and budget.

That being said you'd basically have to rewrite the entire series to get a coherent plot out of it. Or at least a pretty large chunk of it. But on the flip side Liam could cram in as much of his autism lore as he wants to.

 

[Bob Barbas]

What the fuck

Fucking Netflix now?

 

[Dynamite Bean]

What the fuck
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Fucking Netflix now?

murder drones fans taking it about as you'd expect
I was somewhat shitposting months ago about an autistic rivalry/hatred between the two fanbases but I think that might actually happen

 

[Bob Barbas]

I was somewhat shitposting months ago about an autistic rivalry/hatred between the two fanbases but I think that might actually happen

It's extra funny because it feels like trannyworx knew this would happen. Case you didn't catch it before up until the finale premiered Goose was making posts being like "Okay MD fans please be chill." and made that post from a few pages ago saying some shit like "You better watch the finale or i'm gonna kill you with my car." or whatever. I'm thinking he absolutely saw this coming.

Though at the same time I think people also need to consider that it could also be Goose is just a faggot sell out and Liam just didn't want any of this stuff. Given their focus on independence and such I think the deal was probably "We won't do anything with your creation without your approval." and honestly I can see why Liam would be hesitant to splurg on all kinds of merch and advertising given he is seemingly aware of the show's issues. If even he knew the show's writing was kind of dogshit I completely get why he'd say no to a manga, or a fucking netflix deal, ect. Not to mention he strikes me as the kind of guy who prefers to not be famous or popular considering how reclusive he seems. Any time he's not answering questions he just vanishes into the darkness.
I can kind of respect that actually.

 

[Dynamite Bean]

It's extra funny because it feels like trannyworx knew this would happen. Case you didn't catch it before up until the finale premiered Goose was making posts being like "Okay MD fans please be chill." and made that post from a few pages ago saying some shit like "You better watch the finale or i'm gonna kill you with my car." or whatever. I'm thinking he absolutely saw this coming.

Though at the same time I think people also need to consider that it could also be Goose is just a faggot sell out and Liam just didn't want any of this stuff. Given their focus on independence and such I think the deal was probably "We won't do anything with your creation without your approval." and honestly I can see why Liam would be hesitant to splurg on all kinds of merch and advertising given he is seemingly aware of the show's issues. If even he knew the show's writing was kind of dogshit I completely get why he'd say no to a manga, or a fucking netflix deal, ect. Not to mention he strikes me as the kind of guy who prefers to not be famous or popular considering how reclusive he seems. Any time he's not answering questions he just vanishes into the darkness.
I can kind of respect that actually.

When you put it like that it does make perfect sense, he does come across as the hermit type who just wants to have his stuff in peace with no extra baggage
makes me once again even more curious what happened behind the scenes and I hope the fanbase acting like tards doesn't cause any issue for him

 

[BigJoey41X]

The most likely reason Glitch is significantly more aggressive in their marketing for the Digital Circus is they are trying to milk it all of its worth, I won't blame them for that, a show that gets this popular and borderline mainstream is a rare phenomenon, they're investing more because they know it brings them even more attention and money.

This is now their flagship product, MD did fine, but it really was a niche series for a niche audience, and honestly it was for the best considering the current state of that show, if it gained way more traction, we would have seen a much more negative general reception with normalfags not getting what the fuck is going on or get turned off by the narrative.

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murder drones fans taking it about as you'd expect
I was somewhat shitposting months ago about an autistic rivalry/hatred between the two fanbases but I think that might actually happen

holy KWAB behavior, be a fan of a better show next time