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A good friend of mine made a post about fandoms and posed the question "What show/book/whatever do you think needs a larger fandom?" At the time I had no answer. I'm not even sure I want a larger fandom for this show, but I can't contain my love for it:
Moral Orel.
Yes. Moral Orel. I love this show to pieces, I really do. Why? (Warning: Some links contain disturbing imagery, click at your own risk.)
It's a show that ranges from disturbing,to heartbreaking,to adorable, and finally to darkly funny. Comedy tends to come from a dark place anyway, as a coping mechanism almost. It helps that all the characters are named after stop motion terms (which includes a lampshade on this with in the show when the name "Stopanimationname" was called). Plus it's got The Mountain Goats! The Mountain Goats you guys!
Yes, it falls into the trope of "All Adult Animation is South Park" with how disturbing it can get, but it has seriously beautiful visiuals (that get pretty fucking freaky in the third season) and has moments of brightness amongst it's own cynicism.
To skim over the show you'd get the impression that it's painting Christianity in a bad light, but as you watch the show it sinks in that religion itself isn't bad. It's people having power who really shouldn't that makes life bad.
Adult Swim cancelled the show after a particular episode was made that was really, really disturbing. Not disturbing funny, but disturbing, uh, disturbing. I won't go into details, but I skipped over a huge part of the episode because it made me uncomfortable as hell.
There is very little fanart/fic for this show and that makes me a little sad because I find the show to be really inspiring creatively. I do understand why the fanbase is small and lacking in activity; it's a show that's hard to create fanworks for. Some shows and books are like that. I can't explain it for the life of me (yet), but I have an easier time creating fanworks for other fandoms. Ah well.
At least the show itself gave Orel a happy ending.
Moral Orel.
Yes. Moral Orel. I love this show to pieces, I really do. Why? (Warning: Some links contain disturbing imagery, click at your own risk.)
It's a show that ranges from disturbing,to heartbreaking,to adorable, and finally to darkly funny. Comedy tends to come from a dark place anyway, as a coping mechanism almost. It helps that all the characters are named after stop motion terms (which includes a lampshade on this with in the show when the name "Stopanimationname" was called). Plus it's got The Mountain Goats! The Mountain Goats you guys!
Yes, it falls into the trope of "All Adult Animation is South Park" with how disturbing it can get, but it has seriously beautiful visiuals (that get pretty fucking freaky in the third season) and has moments of brightness amongst it's own cynicism.
To skim over the show you'd get the impression that it's painting Christianity in a bad light, but as you watch the show it sinks in that religion itself isn't bad. It's people having power who really shouldn't that makes life bad.
Adult Swim cancelled the show after a particular episode was made that was really, really disturbing. Not disturbing funny, but disturbing, uh, disturbing. I won't go into details, but I skipped over a huge part of the episode because it made me uncomfortable as hell.
There is very little fanart/fic for this show and that makes me a little sad because I find the show to be really inspiring creatively. I do understand why the fanbase is small and lacking in activity; it's a show that's hard to create fanworks for. Some shows and books are like that. I can't explain it for the life of me (yet), but I have an easier time creating fanworks for other fandoms. Ah well.
At least the show itself gave Orel a happy ending.
