Kamp Koral: An Underwhelming Mess

but if it was super bad, that would be one thing, it's just okay, like it's there, it's not surprising but it's not horrible, it's not the worst thing in the world, it's just the worst kind of reaction you would want a viewer to have . Speaking of camp choral, I talk about it a lot in the pod, we're going to talk about it again soon, so if you want to check it out, the link in the description is of course also on my related channels after all this time. We are sitting around waiting trying to get something that will confirm or deny our own individual thoughts.

We fear the bias of not getting much from anyone working on this project, from Hillenberg's passing to the Super Bowl incident, to Paul Tippett's tweet, to Vincent Waller's tweet, to the sneak peek of the other spin-offs on a birthday. , blow this sponge while you run that is so empty that I can come here knowing how little I've seen of seasons 10 to 12 and feel this feeling of emptiness, either it's a good episode but I still feel pretty empty after watching it or it's a bad episode and I feel quite empty after watching it and I think about what I'm talking about here people have written theories academic articles fan art communities a whole culture around spongebob I imagine the spin-off would be something worth seeing, but it's not on a cloudy night on March 4.

I look at my computer screen without having to speculate further and this is the first thing that greets me and I understand it, I'm sure. a lot of what I'm about to say is going to be canceled by get out of here, boomer, we get it, you were in '99 in the early 2000s when spongebob was making hits, of course you're not going to like Camp Coral . Of course, you're going to think the theme song is garbage compared to the original. You don't even like what they're doing now. They are right? I just do not get it.

I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of people came out and said, "You know, Jay, I don't agree with you here. I actually like Camp Coral, with the people I'm talking about, who are the people who will give you a fair chance to an open mind if you will because honestly at this point I don't know it's been so long since I heard about this that I don't know if I'm going to approach this with so much prejudice that I feel like I can talk about it and not feel like I'm selling. someone else's narrative right now, I mean, yeah, I could say no, my opinion matters here, but that's a bit of a cop-out, like the new generation sees this as their golden period because to me it just. feels so strange or is it supposed to be expected because I mean, after 20 years of not doing anything like this, surely this is just a new era, it's just a strange new feeling, like there's no way they could have done this and it wasn't like that.

I felt strange, right, it's like watching the new Tom and Jerry or Scooby-Doo, you know, evolving over the years, but you always love the classics and you can love the classics of those and appreciate them. modern incarnations just when nature calls. Well, let's start with the The first episode, why not the jellyfish boy? It starts with a montage of fields without SpongeBob jellyfish, but in the jellyfish meadow I assume there is a completely different or small section inside where the jellyfish roam. He is shown struggling a bit but eventually catching a jellyfish even with said jellyfish applauding his success only to find out that it's a dream and that it's not bad, like the idea that if you're going to age all these characters, a good episode concept would be spongebob's first attempts at fishing for jellyfish, that's a good concept, it's easy for everyone to understand it's also a good episode for fans who are moving on to this new spin-off, even if it makes other episodes now questionable as to what I guess you'd say they're wasting the history of two different shows. different pieces of the story, I get it, however, I find it interesting that despite being two completely different shows, they will gladly take any reference they can from the other show and deny that the other show's story exists.

Well, who cares? This is just a cartoon well, well, how's the animation, how's the art style, how's the music, patrick, today I'm going to catch my first jellyfish, tell the dancers, hey, I can say this, I can appreciate the music , how they kept it towards the Hawaiian nautical feel, I appreciate that. They put a decent standard in making references throughout this cabin and you know, the animation is very smooth, it doesn't have that big sponge drop probably best funded in the run, the character designs aren't that bad. okay in most respects but I feel like I'm missing something here and you know what it is, let me put a pin here, let's get this all out of the way before we start, ultimately up to this point I don't hate the show.

I don't care what anyone says about the program. I'm not part of the hate brigade. I'm not going to spend several months of my life hating every single thing that comes out of this. I have no desire. hits a threshold that shows child danger or the 10th season of strange parents arrived where it was so blatantly not what the show was about, the team that works on one show works on the other and you can get that kind of similar feeling, but in all parts. There's been a sense on the Internet that anyone who supports the show has some kind of capitalistic bias of broken loyalty or just a lack of respect for Hillenburg and as a person who hasn't met the guy but respects what he's done and dumped him. a good look.

His life, from what I read, sucks, it sucks when you want to give a show a chance like you have since you started reviewing, you have literally given every show a chance and you haven't written enough. This is a great test for that consideration. "How much I love SpongeBob SquarePants and for me to be one of the few who hasn't embraced this man who has overlooked other people, it really sucks that every time we do this we don't know that in the end we will win." I don't know what he thinks about the show, we won't have a first hand experience or first hand quotes about what he thinks about this now and it sucks every time we mention Camp Coral we have to mention Steve and what.

What bothers me about all of this is that we don't know what he thinks unless someone on the team can present definitive evidence. The most you will have is anecdotal evidence that many people cling to and develop their own foundations. opinion of the bragging experiences of a person who is not here being unapologetically beaten up by someone just because you feel entitled to hear what really happened, it's disgusting that when I post just a joke tweet you literally wouldn't be able to discover my opinion based on this tweet just a joke mocking the idea of ​​putting two groups of people together in one group the idea of ​​those who feel so strongly about this that almost everyone will never get a definitive answer but would have strong theories and opinions or juxtapose with another group of people who have strong feelings about something and almost none of them will get a definitive answer, but they will have strong theories and opinions about even the person who might have closed the door. mostly he doesn't want to talk about it because because a person died he no longer wants to deal with the emotions surrounding it so at this point even if you weren't going to watch you probably won't and if you were going to watch it then you would have done it regardless. of what that tweet would have been, but if you're on the fence about this and one of your biggest sources of contention is whether Hillenberg would have wanted this, you need to understand that you have to become comfortable with the fact that you won't know and if you see it or No, you don't have to think about that when you think about him.

He's done so many other things that we don't have to use them as this morality club, so I really hope that everyone who has subtweeted about this and about me, many of you maintain your interpretation of the perspective of a man who passed away along with a team that perhaps I will never finish crying for this man as his morality. shield and that's really disgusting now that that being said the show isn't that good either and I don't need anything more than this episode to show it to you so as much as I think the animation here is functional it's nothing spectacular and you get used to it. that word, in fact, almost everything here works on the basic level, but it's not really that good, it's not something that you would hold in high esteem or show as spectacular pieces of animation, even for television, even when it's something that It's considerably more difficult, like the way they handle fluids, it's not really that impressive, it's still a normal thing, in fact, one thing I don't understand about all of this is why is everything so dark and no, I don't mean dark, like you're happy now, dark.

I mean, dim, as I understand it, you put up this giant underwater flora to simulate the feel of the pine trees or any trees around the camp, but the camp is generally not known for being such a dark place like you don't know where your source of light is. lighting and Whatever program they use to model all of this, but it really makes everything look like it should be much better lit, they should add more lights, not only that but the backgrounds feel lifeless, maybe it's the fact that they don't move. but I see that they tried to salvage what happened here, I mean, changing the colors was a good move, but they don't feel right and I think a lot of that has to do with their immobile nature, a lot of it just doesn't feel right. true, it could be because it's now and I have to get used to it, but for now I don't know, but what I do know is that we see a lot of castmates returning to Camp Coral like Larry Bubble Bass, Kevin Mrs Puff and Cat Master.

Krabs and his daughter Pearl, let's hope Mrs. Puff and Mr. Krabs don't exist or this love story they have is going to be really a disaster, even the plankton here and he's the cookie. One small change in all of these characters is that they are all geared toward fulfilling the roles of what they will be for the camp, so for example, Squidward would generally be against doing any kind of job, even if it's for crabs without more pay, here he seems to be quite complicit in everything in the first episode. He doesn't exactly like everything that happens, but he just doesn't leave the frame and, therefore, he won't handle the rest of the episode.

Sandy is not treated as a discreet outsider nor does he along with Patrick seem to blend in and coexist with the rest. from the camp quite well, Larry and Mrs. Puff are workers at the camp, I also think it makes sense, but they have taken a backseat in the first episode, even more so, Mrs. Puff, but they both retain an interesting perspective on their characters , so we get our first look at the choral camp I talked about here and I won't do it twice, but they essentially tell the same joke twice and it's the worst kind of Spongebob joke.

Basically, they tickle a carrot in front of you of what you think it is. is going to happen next but then they take it away from you just to pass the time and they keep doing it back and forth and once they are ready to give it to you they will scold you for not wanting it sooner. example here patrick leaves comes back leaves leaves turns leaves now I want to turn this off and then scold Squidward for taking up his time when everyone was supposed to be fishing for jellyfish like five minutes ago one two oh I think I left the stove on Patrick, we don't have stove, what are you waiting for, your whistle blew and the main reason I never like this humor is because it always seems to be at the expense of the viewer or the people who are the protagonists, for example, spongebob meets the strangler, for example , the reason SpongeBob makes the Strangler uncomfortable works wonderfully because not only is he the antagonist but he's also a bad guy.

You're rooting for SpongeBob to make the Strangler uncomfortable because if he doesn't, then the Strangler will strangle SpongeBob to death, maybe look, it was different. It was fun back then but here a lot of times they do it and it's done at the expense of your time to see whatever they are trying to delay, it takes so long just to get a disappointing reward it makes me feel like I'm the Joke Aren't you an idiot for waiting so long to not be shown anything twice? Well, after that, we get to what this episode was really about: watching SpongeBob catch his first jellyfish, uh, hey, that's my college fun despite making really good animation.

Start to see the little things you feel about SpongeBob SquarePants that might be missed. Look here how they are actually very, very liberal about removing his iconic teeth or changing his eyelashes or not even giving him similar expressions that look like they come from Spongebob Squarepants or. Even how this sad Spongebob doesn't look like a sad Spongebob, yes, in a different medium of course, but in this medium, why does he feel this way? According to the books, today you will have SpongeBob known for his expressive animation and then you go to Camp Cora, where it seems that they don't want to break the checkbook to cry better, remember SpongeBob, all the glitter is not all that jazz, okay , forget everything I just said in that last look, why are you getting closer?

What's the matter? I don't know how to explain how disgusting this is.unintentionally. It looks like it's infected and is about to start crying pus. I never want to see that again. It's just kind of bad how swollen his eyes are. It doesn't look funny, it looks a little gross, and it's actually not that nice to look at. Look, never do that again. All is lost for the sponge as she consults the best person she knows, Squidward, after a really funny sequence of him sitting on Squidward's squashed body, asking him for advice on how to catch jellyfish, appealing to Squidward's ego.

By calling him the best camper, SpongeBob wouldn't have to do this because Squidward would have already taught him how to catch jellyfish, but I digress, Squidward points him to a cave and by cave I mean a free blender resource that they repurpose for the show like Ni It doesn't even look good, I know I paused it for you to see of course, but I noticed this the first time I saw it, I don't know if it's the lighting, the colors, or the observation that it looks like the cave. It was simply placed on top of the image as if on its own separate layer rather than within the same 3D modeling environment, it doesn't help that none of these plants move even slightly underwater, but speaking of questionable 3D models, Mr.

Tentacles, no. It was a cave. it was a hive of jellyfish ah never put that in my face again why does it look so gross it looks scary but you know for kids and of course the jellyfish hide behind spongebob in such an unnatural way because for children we lean towards the latter. halfway through the episode and it becomes night and the night sky looks nice, I would even go as far as saying beautiful, when to use individual lights to make everything look better, you don't notice how dark everything is because it makes sense for this moment. of the day and it makes sense for this lighting, this here confirms to me that the show is simply not lit in the best way and that if it is at night it will look better than during the day, I don't know why so many people go through this. and it still looks so dim that I wish I could stop watching it like they did and I know that's a really weird criticism of the show but here we are in 2021.

SpongeBob is really sad that he didn't catch a jellyfish, but Patrick. and Sandy team up to come up with a plan to help him, believe it or not, I really appreciate how despite being cabin mates, they care too, they've shown so far that they really care about this sponge and I think that's one aspect the one they got right, of course they should get it right so not much praise but they got it right and I never felt like they were stringing them all together with a story, we have to do something, how about we both close camp? step on it, cut it up and eat it, I don't know what Patrick's lowest percentage of funny jokes in 2017 is or the number of guys who have successfully slid into the DM of a girl who received a viral tweet we might have to analyze. the numbers on that, why am I doing this again? because you feel guilty for biting SpongeBob.

What else do you have? Because you'll do an amazing job selling the illusion of a jellyfish and you're the best dancer in camp. Two things, one rewind. In this video, Squidward's eyes weren't always pink, so it's a strange mistake. Secondly, it seems like Stewart's character has been relegated to being used for slapstick, which in this form of animation is fine, or the guy you manipulate into helping you by appealing to his ego is so close to that of a modern day squidward. and i'm wondering how this is all going to fit into his role as camp counselor since i don't understand why he has that specific role and yet squidward turns into a big, ugly jellyfish and lures spongebob into doing it. catch him doing the ancient ritual of the hum gods, too bad he forgot to read the ancient scroll to start the ritual, now he has to die, so now it's a good thing we're dead, they end up running back to the camp so that the monster rock can consume more children the monster devastates the camp destroying the camp activities the same ones that spongebob also destroyed demonstrating that such a monstrous force can be contained in a well-intentioned sponge we would even see plankton and Mr.

Krabs cooling off with plankton counting the money They have a very different relationship here and it's one of the more subtle things that I probably shouldn't have too much hope for, but I love it. I love to see more. I would love to see them expand here. I feel like it has to do with the fact that they are not competing with each other. SpongeBob tries to do the ancient ritual of the hum gods, but he also forgets to read the ancient scroll. Shame, shame, sponge, so now he dies too. Your name is spongebob, you ate my camp counselor, I'd appreciate it if you threw it up again, spongebob, okay, okay, maybe it didn't happen that way, but I think it would have been fun, right, right, no , just me, okay, whatever, then SpongeBob finds.

Squidward and they give him a little pep talk and tell him that he can't die yet, yes, he uses the word still and they decide that the best way out of this situation is with a bubble, a bubble that ends up saving the day now, a difference from Squidward's thighs. with just one bite, this bubble doesn't blow up the monster, in fact, it's fine and runs away after Sandy offers the monster the plankton sloth, although SpongeBob doesn't get the jellyfish badge he wanted this entire episode, catching his first jellyfish on the way. that he thinks he would like to receive another badge quote and save the counselor from a monster badge.

We'd probably also get the first funny joke towards the end of this episode, where Squidward is struggling to get out of this helmet and there's clearly an awkward nervous jellyfish trying to be confident and woo me. I think they got the gestures right, although again on the unspectacular side, but it says what it needs to do, comes out and is so concise, short and to the point that it made me want to see more, but he pushed it away instead of giving me too much and all the joke fails now if you're not mentally defeated by what this episode has offered you and you ask about this badge he got and why it's so specific, well is there a way to save a counselor from a monster badge?

Don't know. Sandy, one day I'm going to catch a jellyfish and when I catch it I'm going to release it. I guess all this time he's been catching jellyfish. but not in their web and they have been waiting all this time to be released, even when SpongeBob got stung in the hive or they got into him during the hive and what about when the rock monster threw him and chewed you? You know what I don't care, I don't care, this episode sucked and was a disappointing

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. Anyone who understands my verses from another controversial Spongebob disaster, please watch out for my next movie review and as always, thank you very much for your time thank you very much for your patience take care of yourself