The pilot “Knights of Guenièvre” brings good surreal science fiction

For years, animation fans have claimed online New original works To fall in love with the darling IP and already established. After this summer Kpop demon hunters provided a little originality (and continuous)This momentum continues with Knights of Guenièvre,, of which the pilot was created last weekend on YouTube.

Created by Dana Terrace, Zach Marcus and John Bailey Owen, the creator and key writers of Disney Owl houseGuenièvre Immediately feels like his own distinct and bizarre thing while being informed by the previous (and truncated) collaboration of the trio. This is clear right away at the start, where a young girl named Olivia Park works on an Android in a dark room. When her father, Orville, signals her, Olivia brings Gwen behind her using cords coming out of the Android stomach, which resemble intestines and are covered with blue Goo.

When she is age, Olivia must inherit the park’s planet led by her father, a dynamic place with a Disneyland aspect which boasts Gwen as a key mascot, mainly as a princess but in additional outfits. The girl is in the face of stone while hearing this information, but after dragging her droid Gwen, the droid suddenly decides to escape by jumping from the building and falling into the ocean below. She only found years later by Frankie, a factory worker and a scavenger living in the city of M7 with her park engineer, Andi. Although he is not aware of the value of this specific Droid Gwen, Frankie thinks that this could help him rise above his station and to obtain a better concert from the Park planet.

Little information is explicitly distributed on Park Planet, to which we are kept at a literal distance in the past and the present, because it floats above the planet, sometimes pouring its garbage into the ocean below. Where the script does not tell us anything, the visuals transmit All; A mounting after Escape from Gwen recounts the rise in power of the park and glory, which is then contrasting with the Snarky fans comments on the Morphing Gwen in a Girlboss heroine and other controversies of the themed park. The city below seems to have no love for the attraction in orbit or any associated person and any real capacity, possibly due to a disease that some of its citizens seem to have.

As Owl house Or Steven Universe, knights of Guenièvre Use large plans and substantive details to transmit a story that the spectacle cannot (or does not want) to extend fully at this stage. Everything in the world of Frankie and Andi clearly explains why they would like to leave M7 by all possible means while finding comfort while living with each other. As a first 2D animated series by Glitch Productions (late The incredible digital circus And Gaslight’s district), the studio has chosen an excellent project to start. There are nuances of Owl In the world and the conceptions of characters while feeling like his own thing, and he never feels in his place when the spectacle goes from the real cold and grungy world to a better and happier world than the advertisements of Park Planet try to transmit.

The three main women are convincing in their own way, but the star of the play right now is Frankie. Michaela Laws and the design of the character will soak her with a lot of charm Scrappy and she seems to be the heart of the show because everything else around her threatens to collapse. The relations she has with Andi and the Gwen Droid will lead the intrigue and will seem very fascinating of what we get here, and the laws and actor of Andi, Zelda Khan Black, bounce very well.

As it is a pilot, the other characters get just enough equipment to make them interesting in the later episodes, in particular Frankie’s father, Sparky, and an old version of Olivia which is obsessed with Gwen’s “fixing”.

As for Gwen herself, the show throws enough breadcrumbs to invest or concerned in everything that has happened to him in the past and the present. Vocally, Eden Riegel gives a great Disney princess (and offers a big cry of nowhere), and with the way the camera persists on its decomposition form and its placid smile, it is difficult not to want answers on the way in which it came to this state.

Know this creative team and Owl‘s Affinity for the body horror, it is likely that the revelations of its entire agreement will be unpleasant without feeling unpaid or feel too there for the premise. Despite being an accessory desired by the other characters, it is treated with a good amount of sympathy in each scene in which it is, and it will be interesting to see how the spectacle also characterizes it through its perspective similar to a fairy tale.

Given how things were shaking publicly Owl And the very clear searches how Disney directs the princess side of her business, it would be easy for Knights of Guenièvre To roll on these blows while exploring the darker side of a massive society in a science fiction setting. As is the case, this is only part of the show rather than the whole, and what is more here than itself. So far, the metrics have shown that it is a success and that we have invested to see where it all goes.

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