But that's a GOOD thing, it means they're purging themselves of wrongthink!
God, it's as depressing as it is predictable... just like those 20,000 "better" identical tumblr-fest toons...
This is what happens when politics beats the FUN out of an artist, or rather, they LET it happen.
If you watch the podcast of the crew behind
Hazbin, you can tell they're having a blast messing around with animation, they love the art, and it shows in the fact they made a show about Hell 10x funnier and more enjoyable than a million attempts at DiVerSIty and InCluSIon shows with space lesbians.....
You can't hide the fact when you HATE what you do.... and all the hate for
Hazbin is clearly because the Tumblr people who sacrificed everything to appease the Woke Lords ended up losing while those who did it the "wrong" way (Actually write and animate from the heart, about stories you WANT to tell, not what you THINK others will shallowly applaud you for) won.
Hell, the
Hazbin people made a four-armed personification of vice and debauchery whose coked-up all the time ENDEARING by following the traditional rules of animation, character design and story, no matter how "problematic" and it works.... for me anyway. Yeah, it's an adult cartoon, but....
Re-watch the part where Charlie's on her phone
,
Now. If you're a sharp-eyed animation fan, you'll spot all the things done RIGHT in that scene. The framing? The pacing? The voice acting? Dialogue? Music? It's all solid. And it's in the middle of a show about demons and Hell, full of gross-out humor and over-the-top violence and no swear filter... But even if you didn't know, that little bit still stands on it's own as a complete story . In just 20 seconds they convey, with clarity and brevity, what kind of person Charlie is and what her motivations are without being heavy-handed or treating the audience like morons. There's no exposition on how her Dad likely doesn't approve of her and her Mother is probably barely better, it's all hinted at with just enough clues for the audience to make the connection (The plaintive "You must be busy" as the reason why her calls have gone to voicemail.) She doesn't have to have expospeak with another character and just say it while she and whoever she's talking to just stand there as 2d statues. Chuck Jones said that really good animation is one where you can tell what's happening without sounds (decrying Hanna Barbera TV toons as "animated radio" ) Watch that bit again, with the sound muted. While you can't tell EXACTLY what's happening, you can read Charlie's emotion from her body language and immediately get the general gist that she's unhappy about something, there's a bit of joy of discovery as it all "clicks" for you as you watch, you don't see that kind of care very often.
To me it shows that they KNOW what they are doing, as opposed to most animators these days who are making cartoons they don't understand for people who don't like them in the first place, who don't want to be entertained as much as see their political values affirmed and parroted by pop culture.
What you see in the
Hazbin pilot is what animation
used to be before it was darn near ruined by Cal-arts beanmouths and Family Guy "bro-humor" , whose elemental blandness and utterly bankrupt writing backing it up has turned modern western animation into a cesspit that can only be truly seen in all it's horror when the two fused together to make the disaster that is
Star Trek Lower Dreck
I couldn't be happier for the crew of that show, they deserved it more than any of these other badly animated badly paced and badly written piles of garbage that don't even KNOW what they're doing.