>>46865417The topic of your bait thread doesn't matter given the nature of the dullest franchise in the history of cartoon franchises. Seriously each episode following the autistic blue cat and his pals from Elmore Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the constant pop culture references, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and somewhat unique artstlye, all to make cartoons mundane, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Cartoon Network vetoed the idea of the Americans primarily directing the series; that made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable zoomer humor for the company's books. The Gumball series might be anti-Chinese (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Wander Over Yonder series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
"a-at least the jokes were good though"
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the jokes were terrible. As I watched, I noticed that every time a character talked, the author writer instead made them speak like a tumblr user thoroughly immersed in post irony culture. I began marking on the back of an envelope every time wink wink nudge nudge 4th wall humor was used in the place of an actual joke. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous
Bocquelet's mind is so governed by cliches and dated references that he has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Gumball by the one and only Seth McFarlane. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are watching Gumball at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to watch Family Guy." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you watch "Gumball" you are, in fact, trained to watch Family Guy.
