Agreed! Glad you enjoyed it. It was my favourite animated show of last year.
It's on Netflix now and apparently they are considering picking it up for season 2 depending on how season 1 performs for them. Not sure how it's doing, it's only been like a week since it premiered on Netflix. Hopefully it does well.
Frankly I'd rather they didn't pick it up. It holds up alone, I can't really imagine a satisfying plotline for a second season, and Netflix doesn't have the best track record. A contrived extension would leave a bitter taste.
The end of season 1 is clearly laying a foundation for a new and weird season 2, I don’t think it would be contrived at all. I’m very eager to see more.
I didn't think so, it feels more like it's implying continuations of the themes already explored. I don't think actually fleshing out those continuations does much to enrich them more than laying the foundations and letting the imagination of the audience speculate on the possibilities. In fact I personally feel like trying to extend the ending to any canonical direction almost misses the central themes of the show.
I can't imagine a satisfying story that picks up immediately after the end of season 1. I could maybe imagine a halfway decent story that picks up a long, long time after, but even then I doubt it would be as satisfying as the open-ended implications of the ending we got. It's like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, or the Noodle Incident in Calvin & Hobbes: no finite answer could be as powerful as the open question.
I think that’s very fair. Given their performance in season 1, I think it’s a question raised that they could potentially answer in a way I find satisfying.
If they planned a second season from the start, and if they get the time and resources to do it right, I'd love to see it.
But the thing about first seasons/albums/films/etc. is that the official production time isn't really the production time. The real production time includes the entire life of the artist(s) up to the official beginning of production, accumulating ideas and refining them over years and years. If they don't plan a second installment, they pump all their ideas into the first one. If they get commissioned for the second, now they have a compressed timeframe in which to try to repeat a lifetime spent crafting their magnum opus.
Yep, really enjoyed it too. Some parts reminded me of Miyazaki too.
Yeah, a lot of the creatures made me think of Miyazaki if he went sci-fi horror and I loved it.
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