I mean, starting political pissing matches and going back and negrating us asking what your deal is isn't really proving otherwise.
If you want my opinion; the jokes don’t land, the artstyle isn’t good, the characters aren’t visually distinctive, there isn’t anyone to root for, it tries to be edgy as if it were the 2000s, the characters are horrible stereotypes, and there’s just no soul or originality in it. Say what you will about Rebecca Sugar or Alex Hirsch, at least they put their hearts into their work.
Okay,
that helps us understand your issues better. ...Doesn't really explain why you're so against Vivzie as a person and doesn't explain the whole SJW/Trumptard thing that you kinda just avoided in the next part, but I'll take what I can get. That said, I'm still gonna have to disagree with you on a few things.
- Not funny and extremely edgy 2000's humor - Yeah fair, that kind of stuff isn't everyone's cup of tea. Hell, I agree that the constant edginess hinders Hazbin a LOT. It's why I think Helluva Boss is the much better
webseries: it's still there but it's definitely not as bad, but again: that's a matter of taste.
- The characters are horrible stereotypes - This is a much more common criticism of it I've seen in general, and I get why a lot of people bring this up, but, and I'm gonna say this until I'm blue in the face: that's the point. They are literally in Hell and are demons. You're supposed to think they're horrible, and the show itself later explains and shows that the characters are much more multifaceted and open to redemption, or in Helluva's case, empathy and understanding (not sympathy, that's the important part here). The only reason why we've only seen it through supplementary material (i.e. the comics/Addict) in Hazbin is because they're currently working on the full season right now, with Helluva acting as a way to show how said development will occur within the show.
- The show's not original - I just...don't understand this, and this feels like you're being flippant with the show: what about the show isn't original? I know there's other shows that feature Hell and all that, blah blah blah, but what other show has a princess of Hell opening a hotel to redeem wayward demons, a passion that's financed by the main antagonist of the show. Helluva Boss I get, because it's just The Office but with demon adventures. Hazbin not being an original I have a harder time understanding.
- No passion; Rebecca Sugar or Alex Hirsch put their hearts in it and Viv didn't - This I don't have anything to say other than, again, this just seems like a personal attack of Viv as a person. You can not enjoy the show if you want, you can even hate it and her, but saying there's no heart or soul to it whatsoever, and ignoring the work of her and the rest of her team did is just absurd. That's just wrong.
“You don’t like Trump or Viv? Must be derangement syndrome.”
Do you consider people who post in the TDS as enslavement syndrome by that logic? While you can’t judge the series as a whole the first impression is the most important. Plus Helluva isn’t exactly helping in that regard.
Well when you keep derailing the entire thread in order to talk about her and Trump Derangement instead of the
actual fucking cartoon, and not separating the art from the artist in this one specific instance, then yeah people may think you're a teensy bit obsessed.
Felix Cosgrove’s animation is more fitting for the indie title. Hazbin Hotel isn’t all that impressive from a technical standpoint, especially considering it’s been in development for five years.
You mean Felix Colgrave? The guy who's worked on animation for Off the Air for Adult Swim?
I mean, it's definitely much more experimental and technically impressive, I'll give you that, but it still feels like you're comparing apples to oranges here. Colgrave thrives on creating weird visually enticing animation with basically no plot which is cool, it can - and has - even worked for television bumpers, but it wouldn't really work as an actual adult animated
show. Maybe a variety show that thrives on showcasing weird stories and visual/audio experiences, but not as an actual full-fledged serialized show where a shitload more stuff needs to be accounted for (storyboards, pacing, scripts, voice-acting, character interactions, a defined setting etc.).
Cartoons
like Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, and Hazbin Hotel aren't trying to be that: they're trying to create a functional well-defined world, complex character motivations, stories that work within the realm of those worlds, and collaborating with hundreds of people in order to get their shows on television. Hazbin doesn't
have that luxury the other two had of being able to work on it in-house; its team is much smaller, it doesn't have access to overseas animators so it all has to be done by hand from actual independent creators, and the entirety of both projects was paid for through Patreon. Helluva Boss is never going to be anything more than a webseries so whatever; Hazbin Hotel was just a
pilot, where everything about it is subject to change, especially after getting picked up by A24, as they try and find ways to allieviate the pilot production issues so the show can be made faster. It'd be like judging...say, the Powerpuff Girls' pilot for taking 3 years to make for a then-fledgling Cartoon Network, and then comparing it to
the then-still being worked on The Thief and the Cobbler.
And even with the above examples, it still takes them nearly a full year to make a season's worth of episodes. It isn't technically impressive for its development time, but you're kinda missing the forest for the trees here.
Plus being off model isn’t all that bad; it shows that the art direction allows for creative freedom. Not to mention most animations are self aware of what they are.
There isn't if you're a boarded show, or if you REALLY want to make it a pain in the ass for people overseas (or even fans) to draw. The shows can feel stilted, but doing something
like a Felix Colgrave for Hazbin or Helluva feels like you want this show to be something it's not. Which again
is fine, but you should also recognize that's up to your own personal tastes rather than the show and Vivzie being terrible, and picking that particular hill to die on.