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So that was gen:Lock, or as Mochi and others have called it, gen:ERIC. And it is a wonderful example of ambition exceeding grasp of a studio, with a lot of behind the scenes drama that would never have occurred had the ambition of the series not been so grandiose. Actors with several Emmy and Oscar nominations between them, plans for a tie-in comic, and who knows what else? The problem is, barring all the behind the scenes horror stories, barring all the other drama, what we really have is a generic real robot show that when compared against the prequel to Gundam The Origin shows just how flat and boring Western attempts at the genre pale to their Eastern counterparts. In eight episodes we know Jack crap about the Union, their motivations, why war was declared, something that the Origin manga answered in its prologue. We have...Rooster Teeth’s usual QUALITY. Here’s an idea, instead of going out of your way to hire Arya Stark, look at how the Japanese have made CG animation work. There was no reason not to invest your money in that and hire the usual VA pool instead of getting Killmonger. So we don’t know anything about the world, the animation is ass, and the celebrity voice cast wasn’t even advertised save some vague statements. David Tenant is acting his ass off as per usual but everyone else doesn’t have two craps to give about this animu crap. The end result isn’t incompetent. It’s just thoroughly mediocre and was blown up into something it was never meant to be. And the writers performed the classic screw up of saving explanations for a second season that will never be made.

The rumor is RT will be folded into Cartoon Network studios.

No, she was a pedophile and dumped from the project, the show threw all the buzzwords but no one cared, and the staff apparently gave up rather than continued pushing. As for gen:Lock, I’ll save my feelings on that for the morning.

Gun X Sword 10-11.

The documents said that while publicly it was a resignation, privately WarnerMedia said “leave on your own or you’re going to be thrown out.”

The war is kicking off, and dammit, people want to see it!

That and he apparently pulled something from the old playbook of Cannon Films, misleading investors by taking money from other projects and distributing to gen:Lock to make up for the budget shortfalls. This is why, allegedly, the rank and file at Rooster Teeth don’t want to work on the show anymore.

And so ends gen:Lock, what was supposed to be the Western equivalent of Gundam but instead turned into a massive clusterfuck that may have doomed Rooster Teeth’s future as an independent studio. Full review to come.

It’s better people don’t immediately compare it to Promare.

Say what you want I heard that was pretty fun.

The fact remains regardless of what you call it, gen:Lock’s creator was an incompetent tyrant, Cannon Busters’ was a thief, Twelve Forever’s creator was a pedophile, so if you want to watch a cartoon on Netflix, watch Kengan Ashura.

Well I can never go back to Fire Force. Just...wow.

Technically no. American creator and writing staff, without an original thought in its soulless, money stealing run.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-09-19/weekly-shonen-champion-reveals-baki-beastars-creators-are-father-daughter/.151301 Dad and daughter both have Netflix shows. Huh.

Gun X Sword is pretty cool from the 11 episodes I’ve seen so far if you like your space westerns with giant robots. Which...well I do.

Imagine Trigun and Gun X Sword without originality or likable characters.

Most likely. Not that Season 1 was any good. There wasn’t a single original idea in the entire thing.

https://sea-roach.com/2019/09/18/individuals-bout-mad-as-h-about-the-cannon-busters-kickstarter/ Won’t exactly mourn its loss but yeah.

Content wars heat up.

Given everything why would his counsel start making good decisions now?

Looks like gen:Lock was down this week, not that it matters, given what hit today (alleged siphoning of funds, the show’s creator being such a tyrant that the rank and file allegedly refuse to work on the series any more). Should have gotten Shield Hero instead...

We are assuredly seeing more SAO. At least the live action SAO is MIA.

More evidence and alleged accounts have emerged corroborating the Clownfish TV source. It alleges mismanagement, a hostile work environment, and fund appropriation which only ended when WarnerMedia came home and reviewed the books.

It makes sense if you actually use them. If you have them do the talk show circuit and mention the show. How hard would it be for Asia-Kate Dillon to go on a show and go “Yeah, I’m doing two new projects, Billions’ new season and this kickass cartoon called gen:Lock”? If the Toonami promos go “Michael B. Jordan and David Tenant star in - gen:Lock!” But we have DeMarco and his galaxy brain handling the promotion, which means generic as hell ads that don’t play to the show’s strengths (Its A list cast) but instead its weaknesses (wack ass animation whose mere presence causes 50 armchair experts to immediately post “But Arc System Works found out how to simulate 2D animation with Unreal Engine!” Hooray for them). If you weren’t going to use the cast, then they should have just hired normal VA’s.