Knights of Guinevere by Dana Terrace ( and Co.) Pilot episode . . .
Dystopian world premise. In a casual interview, she said that the main difference between creating a cartoon for Disney vs. creating a cartoon with Glitch, an independent animation studio, is that it is actually fun now.
Hmmmmmmm.
It just makes you wonder. Why can’t Disney make it be fun also? They’re already such a rich company, who cares if they make a show that’s not totally on brand, but more experimental? Or if they don’t, they should donate money to the independent animation studios. Out of the kindness of their hearts.
Anyways, so the dystopian world premise - POLLUTION, from factories producing merchandise relating to the amusement park in the sky. Serious health problems - also from the pollution from making products to sell. Pervasive poverty and a large working poor class - the characters seem to have to be working all the time. It’s stressful, and it’s a struggle to make enough money. Their living environment also looks dingy and dilapidated. Direct violence and pretty lies from the … ruling class, which is basically a weird dad and daughter duo. There’s a backstory involving a sentient robot (Princess Guinevere) trying to escape the evil dad-daughter duo.
Dana Terrace said she’s always liked the horror genre, and that she watched Alien when she was 4 years old. I don’t like the horror genre, although I appreciate dystopian stories. I hope more episodes come out soon. It would be interesting/fun if I start to want to use any of the characters for reference drawing since I’ve never drawn anything in a creepy style before.
Something that confuses me is - merch is *always* being made and sold, including for Knights of Guinevere. Usually, in the form of plushy characters or plastic figurines. So, doesn’t that cause pollution in the real world?
