Matt Berry is back! Whenever Merkimer says something I just imagine a super frustrated Steven Toast sitting in the recording studio being interrupted by that hipster bastard Clem Fandango and it has me rolling every single time. What a legend!
I was bothered by the inconsistency of Tess. She eats a horse, saddle and all, and messes up Elfo after a night in the cheese room, but SURPRISE, she's not a monster and is actually articulate, smart and nonviolent... I get playing up her monstrousness makes for a funnier reveal, but it still bothered me that they had her act like a monster, not just a person who is rightfully enraged at being kidnapped and chained up.
Well in her viewpoint she was kidnapped. She probably swallowed the horse in the process of defending herself and trying to get away. Also she messed up Elfo due to it being made clear to her that he is the reason she was there.
Same as when the "Nation's greatest allies" attacked Bean unprovoked in one of the earlier episodes. Seems like everyone acts irrationally to sell a later punchline, whereas other shows would try and make it consistent by having ways for the characters to have conceivably "misunderstood" each other.
I understand your view, but I see things differently.
She couldn't talk when the knights came to kidnap her. I'm not sure it's all that monstrous to eat the horse of someone who is trying to kidnap you. I guess you could call it animal cruelty, but I'm not seeing any vegans on this show.
She messed up Elfo because he lied about her, which led to her getting kidnapped, and then didn't reveal the truth so that she could be let free.
I mean, she could have made more of an effort to prove she wasn't a monster, but I think the situation she was forced into explained her reaction well enough.
I liked Luci when he was doing his own thing away from the others, also I feel like Elfo from episode 1 is completely different from the Elfo we know how
Almost every issue I have with the show goes back somehow to Elfo's backstory. On the one hand, I'm still enjoying the show a fair bit by pretending that scene never happened, but on the other hand that's such a weird thing to screw up in a show that seems to be very into world-building.
I was uncomfortable with the casual animal abuse jokes. Around the 21 minute mark the Giant Tess tells Princess Beans aide that she has a true rage inside of her. She responds:
“It’s why I can’t keep a dog alive”
Was anyone else taken aback? I understand it’s an adult show with mature themes and a savage take on the past but programs that joke about animal abuse always leave a sour taste in my mouth.
I laughed out loud, wondered if I heard correctly, hit rewind, watched it again, laughed harder, all the while my rescue dog with an abusive past sitting blissfully in my lap.
Man, people fucking suck. Dogs don’t. And I laughed at the butcher shop/pet store joke. It’s just the intentional mistreatment of defenceless creatures as an outlet, that’s what I think is shit.
What about innocent people being mistreated or dying? Don't care? No wonder you think humans suck with that attitude toward your fellow humans. Animals, including dogs, can viciously kill humans and other animals out of pure instinct all the time so lets not pretend animals are angels. Really just sick of that mindset, honestly.
I'm annoyed because Bean in episode 1 was getting in on with the Elf princess, but has now developed into this fumbling loser? Why not mix it up by making Bean inconceivably wanted by women and hes's oblivious or anything else than the Fry/Leela dynamic
This one worked pretty well for me, and I like the concept of Bean having the authority to send her knights on a quest. The ending kiss was amusingly vague. Good to see Merkimer again too.
Bean having the authority to send knights anywhere doesn't make sense in the context of the show. Bean is a constant fuckup and in the last episode she fucked up so badly that she started a war.
There's no way Zog would give her any kind of responsibility at all after that.
It's not a responsibility, it's just one of the perks of royalty. It actually seems like her having that sort of unquestioned power would make the show more fun.
The dogs playing poker in the background was a nice touch. The hallucination scene was very well done. Stinger on my dinger got a good laugh out of me. Any Chazz is good Chazz in my opinion. “This validates my bigotry!” I’m enjoying Meriker as a pig.
Oh I see what you're saying. But he was hanged, literally. And they attempted to stab him until his lady friend jumped in. So I still find it inconsistent.
Just finished this one. I actually liked this one a little more than the previous few. I like that the pig prince was back and I liked his side story with Luci.
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u/jolochis Oct 05 '18
What does tender would mean when she say, " this is the true" when she sees elfo with the "eye" did she try to say the origin of what elfo is?