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Turned on the Net Flix, yesterday...
4 years ago
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...and it had a new show to promote. High budget production. Evolving plot line. Live action. And extremely furry.
Sweet Tooth. About a slightly future world where yet another disease has ravaged the world. Humanity is dying. (As badly as Captain Trip's did in Steven King's The Stand.) However, this disease has another goal. To mutate Humanity into a diverse, animal planet. And we're led on this adventure by a deer.
I'm now on Episode seven and didn't even realize how easily I had marathoned Season one. It's written in my kind of plotting style, too. And I've rewound a few time with the sub-text on to see the show is self aware about being Furry. Like this one moment that was eating screen time. Some Human survivors were playing charades. And they are going for a classic movie. Guesses easily wrangle down to 'fur'. And someone just blurts out something like, "Know what furries are?" (Or similar) We got a family with the last name fox...and has photos of foxes on the walls. An entire tribe of kids whom are so Lost Boys. Many, nudge-nudge references going on.
Anyhow, a must watch of 2021. And, hopefully many years down the road.
I also appreciate how it's engineered to dodge Rule 34. All hybrids are 10 years or younger. Yet this show is very much not a kids show. (Man, the classic tunes, alone...)
Sweet Tooth. About a slightly future world where yet another disease has ravaged the world. Humanity is dying. (As badly as Captain Trip's did in Steven King's The Stand.) However, this disease has another goal. To mutate Humanity into a diverse, animal planet. And we're led on this adventure by a deer.
I'm now on Episode seven and didn't even realize how easily I had marathoned Season one. It's written in my kind of plotting style, too. And I've rewound a few time with the sub-text on to see the show is self aware about being Furry. Like this one moment that was eating screen time. Some Human survivors were playing charades. And they are going for a classic movie. Guesses easily wrangle down to 'fur'. And someone just blurts out something like, "Know what furries are?" (Or similar) We got a family with the last name fox...and has photos of foxes on the walls. An entire tribe of kids whom are so Lost Boys. Many, nudge-nudge references going on.
Anyhow, a must watch of 2021. And, hopefully many years down the road.
I also appreciate how it's engineered to dodge Rule 34. All hybrids are 10 years or younger. Yet this show is very much not a kids show. (Man, the classic tunes, alone...)
As for myself...not really quitting. After all, I knew that I was Furry before ever hearing about any kind of movement. Just not active, anymore. Downright in a rut, even. The kind of day in/day out rut that will see me to the retirement years...those deadly years. I'm now able to sit back, more mundane and numb, while the world progresses in ways I could only imagine. I did my part when this fandom was more obscure. Now, for better or worse, Furry has become a household word, so it seems. I can afford to let these tails just hang on the shelf and silently sweep past these hippie-grade haters IRL that I know do exist. Who knows what the future may be. But, for now, I'm mostly retreated to my writings. May be a good sign that I have also begun a couple commissions. Got this mini comic in the works with a really great artist and I plan on releasing that when all the pages are ready. I try to never put any deadlines onto any of this. Feels like artificial pressure. And nobody needs that.
She just finished up the Handmaid's Tale on hulu so she needed a new show to keep her off my back while I'm working in the garage. That show really grabs me.
I feel you on where you are at with the furry thing. I feel like you nearly embodied my exact feels on it, although it sounds like you were much more serious than I. I wish I had the gumption to write, since I write for a career I don't have the chi or whatever to do it for fun. Good luck with your endeavors. Furry seems to be what you make of it.
As for the narration approach...I just accepted it as being an art style that they chose. And probably means the whole show is going to end with our buck at age 75, telling the New Earth hybrid children about the world that he grew up in and why there are (very likely) no more of those hateful Humans around.
As for the antlers. What's going on is that when the pandemic hit, (I know why. But am trying to avoid spoilers.) Nature seemingly figured out the answer by making most...if not all the Human babies into hybrids. They are aging like Human children would. But, their genetics are very chaotic. It's like a sliding scale of what could happen. Those antlers could be aging at a very different rate over the Human half. We just don't know. Still...the kid's officially 10 years old. Ten years of antler growth? (We also don't know if this kid ever sheds them or not. Do they just grow in larger each year or is this ten years of growth in total?) However, I would bank on them not changing a whole lot. As I suspect this is some kind of physical head gear, concealed under a wig. It looks really good. But, 'I think' they aren't CG'ing at least that bit of the visuals.)
Anyhow, season one is doing a ton of world building without bringing anything too spectacular to the table that it hasn't already spoken about. Nothing too specific that I could point at and say why this show is great...just yet. It's full of promise. And there's a million ways it could have gone bad that I don't think it's fallen for.
As for reasons to avoid this show, I'd favor the bit about the extra expenses. NetFlix is just one of many streaming services that add up the cost to an already expensive monthly internet charge. Even I try to avoid splurging on these types of services. As curious as I may be about this Mandalorian show, I don't need the Disney surplus charge. Or any bills from those half dozen other streaming services that are out there. I'm fine with the several that are advertising supported with no strings attached.