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by The Mysterious 'H'
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I'm actually a bit worried now, what with all this talk about character development and making the show more accessible and not guaranteeing a huge fight in every episode. Also, the animation in those clips is so smooth and consistently on model and that's so different. I'm a huge fan of Season 1 of Superjail! and I hope that I like Season 2 as well. I hope they don't water it down from the adrenaline soaked, no holds barred, beautiful in its own way glory of Season 1.

Apr. 3, 2011, 10:38pm

by Jory
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Ahh, Jared was a little stiff, and Warden was pretty static when he was all cut up, but in the first clip Warden's design was all over the place. He looked like Popeye in a few drawings! It isn't quite Augenblick arbitrary but it's still pretty interesting to look at.

The thoroughness of the animation definitely has me looking forward to Titmouse's 11-minute Venture project.

Apr. 3, 2011, 11:52pm

by The Mysterious 'H'
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Still worried. A lot of it felt like a totally different show tonight. I mean, I can live with them not using Augenblick animation- it loses a lot of life but it's not a huge thing- but Jared with confidence and secrets? Barely any violence? The criminals actually being civil with Jared as Jared and treating the Warden with anything less than reverential fear? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see how the season goes.

Apr. 4, 2011, 12:21am

by Mike
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I don't think the animation looked any worse or better. There was less complete insanity but the animation that existed was out of control. Lots of off-model stuff and wacky things going on. I also like that it was done in Flash but there was almost no tells that it was via the usual ways. I don't think I have seen a Flash-animated show that went so far to avoid Flash animation shortcuts since Birdman.

The plot stuff I will give you though. I was kind of surprised that the inmates went after the Warden, or even that he was regulated to a punching bag running gag at all. I do appreciate them trying something new as far as the plotlines go though purely because all of the episodes in season one (with a few exceptions) are very same-y in that regard.

But hell, the show has always been a pretense for showing off ridiculous animation and they certainly seem like they are trying to bring that this season, so I approve of that for certain.

Apr. 4, 2011, 12:53am

by Jory
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"H", I kind of agree after watching the 'sode; even when the models were freaking out the individual drawings were never quite as fun or as complete as those from season one. A lot of shots were staged in a very compressed, three-quarter kind of view that the first season managed to avoid for the most part. Generally the colors were just as nice as those from before though, so we'll see in future episodes.

And I agree with both of you about the script, it was weird that it had so many dialogue and story based gags rather than the mostly sight gags of last season, and Warden's role didn't really jive with his character. Isn't he, like, the most magic guy ever?

Apr. 5, 2011, 3:56pm

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