Pupa Episode 03 - Tiger Beetle

*sigh*

So Pupa. What more do I really need to say? This is not the best way to start off your saturday. Yet I'm doing it anyways.

Let's just get this over with... it won't take long. I hope.

So, since we have like, three minutes of runtime here, the creators are really hoping you've been paying attention and didn't forget that three minute long thing that happened a week ago. That lady is still standing there with the cat as the loudest violin chorus plays. Oh and then broski there gets nommed a bit.

Then we're in the big city! Where the colors look like shit and there's video of a guy gutting a fish on every thirty foot TV screen in the city. Wait, what?

What world do you come from where you think this is artsy?
Also, how lazy do you have to be to put LIVE ACTION FOOTAGE
in your ANIMATED SHOW?!

But then after seeing fish guts all over the place (how subtle!), we see some dude on the TV screen because... I guess three minutes is just too long to try and animate something.

Thanks for wasting precious seconds of your running time.

So he talks about how someone would abandon their sister if it came to it... I guess this is the dad or something. She's all freaking out next to her shredded teddy bear going on about how when she wakes up her bro will be right beside her and this stupid nightmare will all be over. Yeah, I get the feeling I'm going to wake up at any moment and be glad this show was just all a bad dream. Oh but then the Teddy bear's severed head rolls over, flies up in front of her face, and starts talking.

The truth is... you had some serious acid.

Anyhow the bear is all talking about how she would eat her brother again if she woke up beside him, and gee wouldn't that just be neat? She'll just kill him and eat him again but hey, she's not going to accept that. Or even remember it as a thing that has happened. So she starts crying in the middle of this cityscape while some stuff that should be disturbing but honestly is just 'meh' flashes past as she tries to reconcile, y'know, reality with what she wants to believe. She doesn't want to walk around seeing people as just fleshbags to eat.

Oh but she is just ever so hungry, but then her brother cries out and grabs her from behind while a red butterfly goes past, and they have a tender little moment together I guess.

No, but you're still on that really bad trip.

He tells her not to worry, and then cars surround them and he's all "I'm gonna protect you" and we see a bunch of people. Kids playing in the park, some dude smoking cigarettes on a park bench. A sign that says "off limits" as we hear two people having sex. WAIT WHAT WHOA NO. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.

Okay it is happening. Some dude in a public bathroom who looks as though he is not enjoying the being devoured by a girl there. But who are these people? Gee I don't know, but there's enough blood splattered around for like three people. Also the colors still look like complete ass.

Quick, throw in some photoshop filters to make it look artsy!

Then we get to see the little girl basically nomming down on her brother's naked chest while she apologizes and he's all "nah it's cool I don't mind being eaten by my sister" and that franken-cat just kind of wanders in because... I dunno. It's a cat cats do whatever the shit they want.

But it turns out the cat has a robot eye or something and is totally observing this disturbing display of sibling... whatever the hell this is supposed to be, and they keep laying on the incestuous guro-love on pretty thick.

Shit everywhere!

So he says that he is 'just like a monster now, too' and uh... fade to black. The end!

... what was the point of this show exactly because nothing actually happened. Episode one, girl turns into monster. Episode two, girl eats brother. Episode three... I guess she accepts she at her brother? Sort of? But maybe he's not dead?

Yeah I cannot imagine why anybody thought this could be successful in this format at all. As if the story was horrible enough in every way imaginable, they've also made it impossible to decipher between shit art, gore-porn imagery, and bite-sized storytelling that can't stick to its own format because you cannot psychological horror in three minutes.

What a failure this show is.