As much as I'm writing this to get a grip to writing in English again, what drives me to this series is (or was) general intrigue about the subject.
So, what is this nostalgia-trip for generation z? It's essentially a series of six shorts, made public through Youtube, and each one of them talks about the fun! interesting! and most importantly, educating! adventures of three fellows: a red Chewbecca, a yellow Fortnite player (ah ah) and a green duck. Oh yeah, and it's a horror series, but I guess that's not important.
As much as this series is one of the greatest memes ever, even thanks to some genuinely funny moments, this is an obvious example of "fake innocence", which is then used to create full-on horror. Doki Doki before it was cool. Proto-Doki?
I could say that it's just shock value, and it kind of is, in the most technical way. But shock value is a tool, and just as every tool, it depends on how you use it: a technique that the creators love to use is buildup through sheer eeriness, like the use of the black color in the first short, the foreshadowing of the song in episode 6, the sudden repetitions in the song of the fourth one... the autotune in the fourth one. Yeah, I guess that wasn't the use that the creators envisioned for that tool, but I'm fine. That's what makes the shock so effective when it comes, as a natural ending of a progression of events more than it is a random change in the middle.
Obviously, it's a horror with layers... or maybe not. The main focus of the series isn't metaphor, as it is the way in which mass medias send us contradicting, and sometimes even wrong messages, and expressing the concept through the use of an educational show. Every subsequent interpretation is cool, but it kind of ignores the main focus, which is the distortion of the general concepts themselves in every episode (except the sixth one, which is... plot based, I think?).
So, I can't really give a precise rating to this. So, let's say that, as a horror product... it's probably one of the best things I've seen in a while. But why am I telling you? These videos have a whole lot of views, you've probably already seen it.
Best scene (to me): from episode one, everything that the Sketchbook says.
Best scene (to everybody else): the ending of episode two. Talk about a cool horror punchline...
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As much as I'm writing this to get a grip to writing in English again, what drives me to this series is (or was) general intrigue about the subject.
So, what is this nostalgia-trip for generation z? It's essentially a series of six shorts, made public through Youtube, and each one of them talks about the fun! interesting! and most importantly, educating! adventures of three fellows: a red Chewbecca, a yellow Fortnite player (ah ah) and a green duck. Oh yeah, and it's a horror series, but I guess that's not important.
As much as this series is one of the greatest memes ever, even thanks to some genuinely funny moments, this is an obvious example of "fake innocence", which is then used to create full-on horror. Doki Doki before it was cool. Proto-Doki?
I could say that it's just shock value, and it kind of is, in the most technical way. But shock value is a tool, and just as every tool, it depends on how you use it: a technique that the creators love to use is buildup through sheer eeriness, like the use of the black color in the first short, the foreshadowing of the song in episode 6, the sudden repetitions in the song of the fourth one... the autotune in the fourth one. Yeah, I guess that wasn't the use that the creators envisioned for that tool, but I'm fine. That's what makes the shock so effective when it comes, as a natural ending of a progression of events more than it is a random change in the middle.
Obviously, it's a horror with layers... or maybe not. The main focus of the series isn't metaphor, as it is the way in which mass medias send us contradicting, and sometimes even wrong messages, and expressing the concept through the use of an educational show. Every subsequent interpretation is cool, but it kind of ignores the main focus, which is the distortion of the general concepts themselves in every episode (except the sixth one, which is... plot based, I think?).
So, I can't really give a precise rating to this. So, let's say that, as a horror product... it's probably one of the best things I've seen in a while. But why am I telling you? These videos have a whole lot of views, you've probably already seen it.
Best scene (to me): from episode one, everything that the Sketchbook says.
Best scene (to everybody else): the ending of episode two. Talk about a cool horror punchline...