i didn't even notice the plot armor thing and now that you have pointed it out i cant help but find that funny. for me the show seems more like a dark comedy. which might have been another thing they were going for. the comedy works with the characters and N is just so silly and awkward. and i recognize his voice but i cant remember from where...

I don't entirely think it's just liam vickers but also the other creators of the show, the people who made glitch studios, if you don't know which it seems you don't, they started out as Super Mario Glitchy 4 on KZfaq and murder drones is quite literally their biggest project yet and they're used to not being taken the most seriously so I would find it believable that they also lack some confidence in being able to pull something so serious off, especially given what they're primarily known for

As someone who doesn't prefer horror scenes, but loves story, I actually really like how the show doesn't really take itself seriously. It allows breather moments for me, which allow me to enjoy the show as a whole much better!

i tend to find not a lot of people not noticed the plot armor joke, i only noticed it when watching it for the sec time looking for background jokes and easer eggs

I didnt even notice the plot armor

I actually like those types of jokes the plot armor joke i didn’t notice until I watched it again those types of jokes aren’t very noticeable on the first watch and the joke when the bot was trying to say his name I think those I fine as well the only gripe I have with the show is how some of the jokes are misplaced or unnecessary like when uzi flips the gun around when fighting J it kinda seemed out of place and took me out of the experience but other than that it was pretty good.

"defensive irony" that's such a good term btw.

The show is literally if robot rebellion was combined with teenage rebellion, it has little intention or need to make you feel something.

The jokes did take some of the immersion away, but I love the pilot these a show I would definitely watch if it aired on cartoon network

The first part of the video KILLED ME I don’t even watch/read Harry Potter but bro that into XD

I mean to be honest, of the jokes listed the plot armour one was probably the most well done.

I kinda like it idk if its just me but i took it seriously and never broke emersion

I seemingly didn’t have this problem at all. I was _very_ immersed in it and wasn’t thrown back by the fourth wall breaking jokes at all, and laughed at them wholeheartedly, and was still able to go “Holy shit they died!” In shock, aw, and lots of terror, with a nice spoonful of Holy Fuck. And I am definitely invested jn these characters, even the side ones who died with maybe a minute of screen time! I kinda got the best from both worlds with this. Yeah, from a critical stand point, this is a bit of a problem, but as a viewer, I found it really good! And most of these jokes aren’t in your face, making the joke work much better in my opinion. But, if I’ve learned anything from Helluva Boss, don’t judge a series by it’s pilot (_VERY_ ironically) because the next 6 episodes that took up the span of nearly 2 years will make you go “Oh fuck, this is _good.”_ And while these shows are _nothing_ alike, they give off similar energy weirdly, like Undertale to Omori, literally nothing in common, but the energy is there. And both of those games had certainly slapped, and I’m expecting these indie shows to slap too! _holy fuck did I make this long..._ Edit: And I feel like they use the “Human like robots” to their advantage _super_ well. You can have them be goofy and exaggerated, and maybe even one note and works well since they’re humanly programmed robots! And with the job done by the writing team so far, I sense great potential! I literally feel like Palpatine when he said “We will watch your career with great interest”!

They’re pretty self aware for a bunch of fictional bloodthirsty robots. So boy, am I glad they’re up there and we’re down there.

I think my favourite thing is that its hinted in the pilot her mom might have been a disembally drone (murder drones) which I cant wait to see more about. Plus really cute murder robot boy *cough* cant wait for the r34

Cool video Mako. Didn't think I needed to know all of this but thanks

The thing is I find the 4th wall breaks in character for people who know alot about fiction so I don't find it bad Also the whole plot armour thing could be written in as something there workarounds for in this universe so things can be serious.

3:58 that is a flawless point, ima shut up and keep agreeing now.

To me, the "Self aware" jokes never really felt like jokes, and more like little quips from Cinemasins. They do their best to bring attention to the fact that they're utilizing an overused trope or cliche, but never actually do anything funny with said awareness.

I don't mind these jokes, and I kind of like them for the most part. Similarly to another comment in this comment section, I'm familiar with GLITCH's work and kept up with its advertising (they released that "plot armor detected" scene as a sneak peak), so I was expecting some humor like this and I don't think it ruined anything. It's also hard to make something so serious without anything looking cliché nowadays. Also, this is a KZfaq web series, so this stuff like this should be more expected when compared to other real TV shows, except for the ones you know are going to have humor like this beforehand such as Rick and Morty, The Amazing World of Gumball, or The Animaniacs (heck, even My hero Academia made a huge 4th wall break joke in season 4, even though it was just one time). This humor probably just isn't for everyone. Didn't bother me much or at all and I was still immersed the whole time.

I DONT KNWO WHAT THE 4 WALL IS AND I DONT GIVE A F IF THEY DO EPISEDS LIKE THIS GOOD IF THEY DO THEM ALWAYS FIGHTS AND STUFF NICE IF THEY COMBINE BOTH OK

Well who knows maybe the creator just wanted to create a none-serious 4th wall break dependent MemePool-like story.

0:45 YES

I felt like it had lego movie vibes just little. I do love the characters

I haven’t seen it yet but my friend and I always talked about how shows can fall apart or seem to be less interesting when there is clear plot armor on a character. I’m surprised the studio chose to add that. Unless it’s some kind of inside joke and there’s a legit reason why she didn’t die from the blast, it’s just lazy writing, doesn’t matter how fucking cool the animations look.

With the forth wall jokes in this pilot comes from a fellow reviewer “When you overdo it, you ruin it!”

Love spoopy Mako, good job.

i really agree with everything said here, this was alao my nitpick while watching this, like everything else is rly great i think i hope Liam gets to see this and takes it to heart

Are people already complaining about murder drones ? Jesus Christ.

Another successful video, good job Mako-Chan

I loved your videos but KZfaq hasn't been recommending them for the last 9 months, only watching them now as i suddenly wondered whether you are still around

Believe it or not, I think the entirety of the fourth wall jokes are a fourth wall joke on how bad they can be sometimes.

those raccoon eyes look like mine and i'm all on board

I love how he explain everything honestly without hesetate what other could say about. And his way to say things chilling around/lazy voice (I don't have other words in my vocabulary to explain it presicly). I love it. NO HOMO B)

I'm glad the later episodes are (mostly) dropping the 4th-wall breaking thing, because, yeah I would say it really makes it harder to get invested in the world. Which is a shame because there is SO much potential in this world to get invested in. A distant half-destroyed planet far out in space cloaked in perpetual night and perpetual winter, roamed openly only by remorseless killing machines that have been stacking a literal mountain's worth of corpses from the Worker Drones they've killed? And now one of them seems to have turned good by freak accident, able to protect the Worker Drone colony or its inhabitants but liable to dramatically snap back to a death monster at any given moment? Needless to say my lack of experience with Liam Vickers/Glitch productions storytelling and the Murder Drones trailer set my expectations quite a bit too high :_ )

This show is like if someone took berthold bert's style of story telling Yet didn't know anything about it

I want to pet the pretty kitty. I too have specific tastes. O.o

I like the plot armour joke however I think it would’ve worked better if it was saved for another time and if it was more subtle. It should’ve been among a larger hud and not so obvious.

what the fuck is this guy doing with his hands

HO, I was waiting for this kind of review! Absolutely SCATHING! I mean, the show was definitely good enough to watch even just for the animation, but I'm glad I could you to reflect my same criticisms off of. Personally, my problem was that my lack of experience with Glitch Productions and Liam Vickers led me to believe they would take this more seriously than their other shows. I had thought that this was going to be like a dark-comedy/survival-horror adult-animation show with a very clean PG rating, but it's essentially a Liam Vickers video in 3D which makes it more like a PG-13 Cartoon Network show (as some other commenters have mentioned). I have nothing against its content cleanliness (I'm all for it,) but I do have issues with the fact that it said it would be scary/horror and wasn't.

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honestly 100% agree, especially in specific cases. While I do think the ep was written well overall, it almost came across at some points like it was self-depricating. the examples like the ones in this video remind me of someone going "hey guys, look at me playing fortnite, aren't i cringey", its like you really dont need to do that, espcially for a dumb joke, just have some confidence in what you're doing. While i don't think the pilot would have been better had played itself completely serious, the humour was important in balancing things out and all, but when a character says something that no-one in any setting would ever say like "hope you're having important character growth" for a nudge-nudge-wink-wink joke breaks the immersion for me. hopefully these aspects get refined should the show continue, but other then that, ye it was pretty pretty good.

Instead if being a dark-comedy/survival-horror show, it was a comedy-action show with some horror-esque character designs. That's my biggest and only problem with the show. Survival-horror protagonists don't win or talk about winning, they only try to survive. If I had been more familiar with Liam Vickers' and Glitch Productions' works, I probably would have known not to take it that seriously.

i didnt notice the "stick my hands in his mouth" comment until i watched the episode and yes he really does stick the main characters hand in his mouth

why do i remember that surreal cowboy animation it feels like years since ive seen it

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Looks like we're not the target audience given the, "no but I love the meta jokes!" comments you're getting. I watched your vid up to the point you warned about spoilers, watched the pilot of the show, then came back for your conclusion. I agree with your point about the overdoing meta killing immersion. It's feels more like reading a tvtropes article than watching an actual show. Contrast with Galaxy Quest where the character panicking about not having a last name means he's disposable makes sense for the story. But the real buzzkill for me was the main protagonists being mostly unlikable. Friends I watched with are of the same mind. Which is sad, 'cause I feel like N deserves better than, "it's funny that he feels guilty about interrupting a card game, but not beheading people."

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I have to admit that i didn't laugh for murder drones as much as for cliffside now i see why though

Being honest I agree with your points sincerely I hate it but it can improve that good that a review of someone who saw that has seen clifside

ngl ep 2 is better

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Yeah the meta jokes are not that great when they're that constant. If they don't feel natural then its lame and it just breaks your suspension of disbelief. Homestuck^2 did this to me a little bit, though to be fair the 4th wall just not existing is specifically a large part of the narrative there. Still put me off too much to read it.

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I totally agree, meta humor can be funny but if half the jokes remind the spectators that they're watching a show, it gets really boring and your show starts to become Rick and Morty humor (bad). Very based video.

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