glad you enjoyed :D

In my opinion, the reason the life series was and is more popular than the crossover episode between Hermitcraft and Empires is because no one has to catch up to enjoy the life series. Everyone is starting from scratch and playing together all at the same time with no one being able to be on the server by themselves to do their own thing. There was so much LAW to catch up on between the crossover episodes that it made it sort of difficult to keep up if you weren't fully invested into learning about the "other server"

Jimmys giving protective little brother vibes with the “AND LIZZIE… and Lizzie, they just forgot Lizzie”

Jimmy screaming "I AM HBO!!" made me lose it 🤣

The timing of "but it did " was insane

The multi-pov aspect is definitely my favourite part. You can see so much in the creators style and understanding of it all and it adds a degree of unreliable narration to it all. I came into the series through Cleo and then jumped to watching Grian and Martyn as well and the difference in perspective is kinda shocking. My favourite example was with scar who from Grian's pov was kinda goofy and then from Martyn's pov was low-key terrifying

my personal favourite was double life, purely because no matter how many perspectives you watch and how well you know what happens watching pearl go nuts is still hilarious

I think the reason Last life surpassed third life (besides all the new mechanics) is that everyone had thier own story, thier tragic journey till demise.

At 10:08 to answer your question I think it was because for the crossover the Empires players were playing a certain character and had to act a certain way (and maybe it's the same for the Hermitcraft players, I don't really know), but for the life series all the players got to just hang out and be their normal selves. They didn't have to act out and stay in character or follow some sort of script. That's just my take on your question.

I think this did better than the crossover is because with the crossover, you had the empires fans and the hermitcraft fans. With this, you had a mix of individual people's fans, their respective smps' fans, AND literally anyone else unattached. Even someone who had never watched hermitcraft or empires or xlife or whatever could come in and enjoy the ride, which made it newcomer friendly.

I'd love to see a variation on double life where soulmates are randomized every session, so you might have to cooperate with your worst enemy in the last episode. Or perhaps if you are on green or yellow, and they're on red, you could sacrifice a life to nock them off the server. The possibilities are endless

12:00 tumblr terms. This is my understanding of them: Scrunkly: adorable yet feral. Gives you the cuteness agression and also possibly rabies. Squish their cheeks at your own risk. Eg Bdubs Scrimblo: underappreciated character who deserves better. Eg you and Lizzie Have a bonus term - blorbo: your ultimate personal favorite character. They are what makes the series/smp/movie/book great in your opinion. Can be a general fan fav or underrated character. For a good example of blorbos refer to the tumblr sexyman poll that happened last month.

For the questions jimmy had about the empires/hermitcraft, with empires it’s full of lore and the characters acting as if they didn’t know each other. But in the life series you don’t have that lore and get to see the friendships they have outside of the lore in the other smp.

The Life series feels more like a reality show filled with actors. Yeah we love your produced works but we also want to see you all just having genuine fun.

Secret Life is quickly becoming my favorite. I want to watch every perspective, where as with past series I felt I could watch my favorite of the teams and I’d understand what happened.

9:55 my problem with the crossover was,that it felt detached bcthe hermits doing their own thing,its suupose to be like the first day of the crossover where everyone from hc spread and help different empires

I like Double Life the most out of the series, and purely for the interactions. We got the duos we never expected but we secretly needed all along. The Ranchers, The Dessert Duo, The Boat Boys, Team Girlboss, Broken Hearts Club will forever remain some of my favourite group collabs ever

On the topic of popularity comparison - I think that the crossover felt like a... Visit, which it was. Of course all of people did something they can defy as their own thing, but in general - not much of a creation itself. In Life series it's always fresh new, and every idea feels personal. You can be a king one time and a shadow assassin the next, or ally with someone your viewers would've never guessed. That's why it's always such a great time watching these or waiting - the sheer excitement of seeing something crazy new and unexpected.

3rd Life introduced me to so many KZfaqrs - thats how I started getting invested in Jimmy, Bdubs, Etho, Joel, etc. Last Life was even better because I got more interested in Mumbo and Lizzie, too! These life series are amazing.

10:00 Maybe because in the Life Series, all members start from scratch, and they do it all in one session, so everyone actually participates. The cross-over was great, but people usually did their own thing with some collaborations sprinkled here and there. And because the border is small, everyone will have to compete for the resources, hence there's actually an alliance.

As a student in college I don't have a lot of time for You Tube, this means I am only able to pick a few favorite people to watch here and there. This is especially difficult when lore gets added in, even more so when it is compounded over multiple seasons. The nice thing about the Life Series was that I could jump in without having to watch everyone's side, or where they came from lore wise, to fully understand what was happening. I was able to just enjoy it.

I think part of the reason why the life series did better is because there are set recording and posting times. So when you watch episodes from multiple creators, you know what's going on with the whole server and you aren't getting confused about the time lines of episodes. Like with hermitcraft and empires you constantly don't know how many days it was filmed over or what parts of the episode are filmed on the same day. Then you have the fact that every creator records, edits, and posts at different times. So even if you watch multiple perspectives, it's hard to get fully immersed in it.

Last Life is definitely my favorite. (This may sound weird) but I love the story of all the suspicion and betrayal. And of course, I love the Southlands.

15:26 it was at this moment solidarity realised that he had become the one he swore to destroy

15:00 "you've become the very thing you swore to destroy"

I think the reason why the life series was better then the empires hermits cross is because the crossover was too close to Christmas and all the big name youtubers always take a month long break in January. So it was rushed and there wasn’t enough time for interaction between the two servers members. I think the crossover should have waited until March, April or May of 2023. Besides the Tagged game was too short. It didn’t get passed around a lot. I notice ever since Grian started the tag game it always increases the views. So I do hope the rift opens again. So you guys can finish tagged. But I think it might with what’s happened. With evil sausage running amuck and Shubble being possessed by the Sculk it is only a matter of time that Grumbot has to be restored. And with Mumbo back in hermitcraft it is the perfect time to do so

I loved the crossover, the reason I like the Life Series more is there are way more interactions. Take your POV of the crossover. It was often just you and scar. The Life Series you are usually getting at least 5 people all interacting from each POV each episode. And each POV is super unique. The Life Series is hands down my favorite series on KZfaq. Loving Limited Life so far!!

10:07 I can tell you why. The Hermits x Empires crossover was treated more like a funny haha drama with pranks and fun times. The Life series is all about betrayal and vile murders and fun kills. Every week people are watching with a sense of silly bloodlust like “who’s raging today?” I for one can say I was watching Last Life solely for the Cleo and Bigb drama, and I threw my fist in the air when she finally killed him. There was just no moments of triumph in the Crossover event. The most dramatic thing that happened was the battle of Fort Riftless, and that was played more as silly and joking conflict more than actual consequences. And that’s what it’s all about. Consequences. The higher the stakes, the better the story will do with the viewers.

I feel like I've gotten so used to Tumblr lingo that I forget that regular people don't know what words like "Scrunkly" "scrimblo" and "blorbo" mean ^^; And Animagician's description of the layered way you can watch episodes since they all get released at the same general time perfectly described my experience watching episode four of Double Life. I managed to hit this golden order of watching so that my experience only improved with each episode I watched, gathering bits of new information which recontextualized everything that came before it. It was IMMACULATE

Probably unpopular opinion based on the video: Double Life was the best. I think people don't appreciate as much because a lot of viewers may gravitate towards Grian because he is one of the biggest youtubers in the group and he made the life series, but in double life, Grian's content wasn't as interesting as the others most of the time (in my opinion) because he got paired with scar which he had already done in 3rd life. Even though Grian's pov wasn't that interesting I loved watching the interactions between Pearl, Scott, Cleo, and sometimes Martyn. There are probably other reasons why people think double life was the weakest so far but I loved watching it the most out of the 3.

The multi pov's are DEFINITELY one of the best things about the life series. It not only gives a lot of content to watch but also makes you see the events in a completely different manner. For example I started watching the life series with Lizzie on Last Life and it all seemed very calculative and sudden and sneaky, then (sticking with last life) I watched Scott that showed the side that was getting attacked quite a lot while still surviving and it showed the suspicion and paranoia and calculation that goes into it and a lot of the logistics of things. Grian showed a completely different storyline and made everything way more interesting as he was part of a big group where trust was vital factor and the way he was losing and gaining lives showed the foundations of how the server worked and the differences between how each life is treated and how one action could completely gain or lose peoples trust in you. Joel's was a different story, he was on red practically the entire series and lasted longer than everyone expected him to on red, it was very cool and new to see his pov and how his murder attempts were desperation and frustration because everything kept going wrong. Everywhere else Joel was the sneaky red name trapping and trying to kill everyone and made you side against him while his videos made you (slightly) pity him and side with him and to cheer for him at every trap even if you know the outcome. All the pov's showed a lot of emotion and true feeling and even the viewer can feel the adrenaline rush which is just absolutely amazing. The life series is definitely the best and I am definitely enjoying making my way round and watching the different pov's! And it's amazing to watch Jimmy reacting to videos like this as it can reveal details and things he may or may not comment on and uncovers secrets and explanations for things, it also helps to figure out who's pov to watch next if any of their clips are shown more. An amazing series and this comment turned out way longer than intended haha

The crossover was good! I think it's natural that it wouldn't be as popular as the Life Series (as other people already pointed out it's way more beginner friendly) but it was a treat to those of us who are fans of both servers. I think that was worth it. And I think people did end up finding new creators to watch through it too. I feel like it's fine to sometimes do things that aren't as popular (although I know it's kinda stressful if your income depends on popularity) because it helps keep things fresh and fun

15:37 you either die a hero or you live long enough to become your worst enemy

i feel like the life series worked better, in part because it takes place in a much smaller frame and everyone is online at the same time. which forces people to interact way more than they normally did on empires or hermitcraft. there, even with the crossover, players still played by themselves a lot of the time.

I started watching so many more members of the community because of the life series, that's the reason I started watching you!

The emotion of Jimmy being eliminated first in all three of them. How is it even a coincidence anymore

17:55 oh yea, I forgot! Grian is in the series, right. (But really he is amazing at pvp totally by accident! Have you seen his MCC triple kill, it’s an amazing moment

9:55 i think the life series also broke the expectations of the community about the collab, noone imagined all these people to come together for a frickin' BLOODBATH and loving it so much

The crossover interrupted story lines, but the life series is a fresh start server and despite needing to have their guards up, everyone kinda lets their guard down and relaxes quite a bit 😂

8:06 "They're literally naming the series just to annoy the community." This seems on-brand for anything involving Grian. XD

4:16 Can we appreciate how amazing this timing was?

17:00 EXACTLY! I’ve watched the life series’ from Mumbo, Grian, Joel, Jimmy, Lizzy, Etho, Impulse, BigB and even more people’s povs

14:45 I had rewatch it to understand what he was saying- I heard it but forgot to understand.. lol

15:05 you’re HBO, but free. And arguably with some better content

I do not mind the timed releasing, because I know you guys are all working on the new episode each week, whereas big corporations who release weekly (like HBO) generally have the episodes done, but withhold them to deliberately build suspense. I'm honestly impressed you all manage to get the content out together on Fridays - that's so much work!

See I think the reason the Life series works so well is because there aren't many other series that have all the players on at the same time. It creates a space to see everyone interact which doesn't happen on servers like hermitcraft. Most times on hermit craft there are very few points when all the players are together and because of that it doesnt feel like a group, whereas the life series creates this group atmosphere and you get to see players interact that dont get to interact much spend time together.

My theory on the crossover vs. Life series success, is that the crossover was too much information! There were so many people and you didn't necessarily know what everyone's deal was. And, since there were so many people, it was hard to keep track and hard to choose who to watch. Whereas the Life series, you didn't need to know who ANYONE was. You knew how many episodes you were in for and there were clear enough alliances to keep track of everyone. I imagine there were a lot of new viewers who came along for the ride.

10:30 I think the crossover didn't do as well because we want to see everybody together from start to finish, which the life series does. The crossover episodes happened very late into both empires/hermitcraft seasons.

it really has the vibe of old school mindcrack uhcs and it brings back so many memories

ive never cried from laughing but 15:32 had me in tears

14:52 “you ether dye a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” -Star Wars

I think there needs to be more series like these ones in the like KZfaq space. This video brings up so many good points and it’s honestly one of my favorite series to watch and I can’t wait for each new episode to come out every week, and the suspense of waiting after the short series is over for the next one to start.

Last year, what my friend and I called “Last Life Tuesday” is what got us through senior year. We would legitimately count down the days to it and celebrate at lunch when the episodes came out.

There’s many amazing things about the life series. I think it being so short makes sure no one can be bored of it because it doesn’t get repetitive, and having it uploaded once a week means people can’t get ahead and it makes fans wait. Another thing is we are deprived for so long that we are desperate for the slightest news of a new life series even though we know it likely won’t last long. Also I really like the names and I assumed it was common knowledge that they were meant to be numbered in random orders and generally confusing to new fans.

10:24 for me personally with hermitcraft, I am mostly just interested in at most a few individual creators, mostly just Grian. So when there is a crossover, I don’t really pay attention to it. But when you’re in a series like last life, it’s great to see multiple point of views of different people cause of the events that play out. That’s great, but hard and not viable to replicate in for instance hermitcraft.

I adore the Life series. The multiple pov's make the journey so much fun. You can hop around and see different pov's in different styles to catch all the drama. The shorter length makes it more approachable than something like Hermetcraft, which can feel overwhelming if you fall behind. I also enjoy how relaxed everyone seems to feel not having to worry about making mega builds and getting to have some fun planning silly traps and killing each other. Double-life was my favorite! I loved the dynamic of everyone pairing up and having to take care of each other while still fighting the others.

The life series showed me a bunch of people I’ve never heard of until that point, at the time I only knew Grian, Joel, Scott and BigB and I didn’t really watch them that much but I was hooked after watching the first episode from Grian’s POV

Great video, he makes a lot of great points in that video, and I laughed way too hard at 15:13

Last life was awesome, and so was limited life, but for me nothing tops the story of Scar and Grian from Third Life. When they had to duel it was tear-inducing... After all they had been through together...

Jimmy actually acknowledged it! The crossover between Empires and hermitcraft I think is less so an idea of the worlds not being compatible with different concepts, I think it is more so a factor of doing it without a start so you see a lot more individual content and it didn't mesh well as Empires is more structured while Hermitcraft plays more loose and fluid with how things are played so having it not start together was already a sort of lukewarm start and the factor that neither side really played to one world or another. The Crossover is also fairly fanon inspired as its one of those things the fandoms would only think of happening without expecting it, possibly thinking of people adapting different personas on Empire while everyone got to be themselves on Hermitcraft.The Life serieses have everyone start together as one group instead of mashing two seperate groups together. Like the personalities in idea can work and the idea of story crossover can work, I should know, I love writing Multiverse shit. In the Hermit Empires crossover my ideal way of how to do it would be a storyline built too unlike an aspect of everyone going together after barely resolving another loose plot on Hermitcraft. I would have structured it as more of a trickle through like the King's Minigame would have been ending, Ren escapes and the Diamonds are gone so everyone goes after him, some people find him at the Rift and it would be that Ren and another member or two from Hermitcraft would go through with a portal being opened for a moment before it closed, leaving the glass fade. What would come after would have been on the Empires side (KingRen being lost for a bit in multiverse shenanigans) with the hermits that came through being discovered by the empires and they get to start their own small empires for a few episodes before others come through, playing into characters instead of being the Hermitcraft version of themself, like maybe Cleo is one of the first and could have still gone with Joey, giving a mutiny before others came through like she did with X before Hermitopia. And again, Hermitopia was my biggest gripe as it felt like the Hermitcraft members mostly tried to stay with eachother instead of interacting with the wider server. Ultimately it would culminate in Emperor Grumbot fixing the polarity of the portal and allowing people to go to Hermitcraft. Both series are more long form series over short form so having the crossover being over the course of like 2 - 3 months instead of just over one month of hermits on empires would have been more creatively driven IMO. The Empires on Hermitcraft I see why it was just a month as the Empires side has a more continual storyline idea so the draw back has the allure to go back and if one of the members go through, most should as well. That is just my opinion of it, just the factor of it being a lot more condensed in what the HermPires stuff did. The Life Series had a different dynamic and has a similar reality aspect as Hermitcraft without having the storied anchor of Empires.

1. I agree. Out of the first three Last life was the best (although that might be because I really like the Scott and Pearl duo) and I can't really judge a series with only two episodes. 2. I think maybe the life series did better than the crossover because people interact *way* more, also it's just so different.

Hihi! Love the video. I do have my own opinion for your question in the video btw. The crossover between HC and Empires didn't really had much impact like Last Life Series. There wasn't much interactions, cooperative between both servers far as LL would do. LL makes everyone has to interact with each other more often, creating short story each episode with overall plot that is mostly still undecided until near the end. Really, I did find the crossover to be sort've lacking really too in story-wise thought process for me. I did expected Mumbo to be the one that brought them back, regardless of how many month and watch HC just absolutely overturn the balance in the Empire even further with their own project. I did want to see they make like a shopping center where the Empires would eventually take over after crossover because of how useful it would be for them, or just make them go raze it down because they don't like it. And I thought that Empire would band together and create something that is like god-like to leave their mark on the HC server, banding together to get all the materials as well diamonds to buy from the HC shops to do so. I wouldn't be surprised if there's drama in them doing that too and Hermits has to be the one that send them back home because they're just naughty. Also, there's another factor about the cross over. It's really short from HC side I usually watch since I'm not Empire watcher. Either way, this is just my own opinion. I just want to state it for some consideration.

I think there are many reasons why the life series worked better than the Hermit/Empires crossover, and a lot of them have been mentioned in the comments and the video already. Another one that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is I feel 3rd Life was released at a critical time, when DreamSMP was around its peak and still active. So you have this large viewer base that’s already been introduced to Minecraft server improv with some role playing that doesn’t take itself too seriously (at least that’s how dsmp used to be). 3rd life fit perfectly into the interests of that fanbase, so convert videos boosted the numbers alongside regular viewers of the creators involved and people who were completely new to all of it. Personally, I was a dsmp fan, and a friend who was also into dsmp at the tme recommended 3rd life. I watched Grian’s POV, then a bunch of others, and then I started watching hermitcraft. Now I’m a huge hermitcraft fan and it and the life series are 95% of the Minecraft content I consume.

Everything in the whole concept of the Life Series was honestly lined up so masterfully that it's hard to put into words. The fact that it was a gigacollaboration between people who were already friends and *constantly* asked to be the part of something bigger together, the fact that it strengthened an already strong network of sub-communities and got them all talking about the big thing, the ingenious iterative and adaptive model that can be expanded upon and added layers onto over time, the blank slate of the concept that has infinite opportunities and potentials to be built upon, the short running nature of it all meaning even if the series or one of its seasons faultered, there was always a room to regrow and try something radically different to keep the iterational experimentative cycle spinning, the super bingable nature yet expansive amount of content thanks to the multiple points of view, which is an extremely good model in of itself and the one that Hermitcraft has been thriving upon for over a decade at this point, the weekly episodial release animated series-esque model that has proven itself to be infinitely effective time and time again and creates both lots of breathing room for the content creators and a buffer downtime for the fans to go crazy and keep theorizing *and* for the extremely passionate and dedicated community to make fanarts, parodies and animatics to create even more investment and hype and feed into the self-sustaining loop of popularity......... It was a concept and a series that basically BEGGING to be created, and boy oh boy did Grian just take the opportunity of the century and make it real!

my take on why the Life series went better than HC/EMP crossover: in Life you started with no story line. We, the viewers, had nothing to catch up on. With the crossover, there were elaborated story lines, sometimes spanning multiple series (Pearl+Sausage, Grumbot arc) that left some of us confused.

10:36 He said it and it happened. We got Martyn on New Life!!!!

18:00 I didn't even notice that! That's actually a really good point!

9:05 the collaborations are the best parts

I just had an idea for a life series Turn Life A random amount of lives is given to each player, each recording the lives swap (probably alphabetically). So you could have 3 lives one episode and the next be on the red.

I think the collabs via life series work out a little bit better than the empiresxhermitcraft crossover has a lot to do with scheduling. Since you’ve all got to record at the same time in such a small and undeveloped map it forces the interactions With the crossover you guys were pretty much going into another’s territory that you may not be as familiar with and no one wants to step on anyone’s toes

"It was a gamble" For me it wasnt. I would literally watch anything grian does, because i know it will be quality and fun to watch no matter what it is.

I literally watched his video not long ago after being introduced to a couple other videos beforehand and subscribed just before seeing this I’ve now subscribed to your shorts channel and will be subscribing to your main as well

the way that everyone on the life series are so different is very amusing to me. like compare etho and joel together, or jimmy and tango, they are not duos that could've been expected but worked out amazingly! that's probably why double life was my favourite, just such unique unexpected duos that made me love it so much

12:40 OH MY GOD YES AGREED

The Life series is a separate entity, I feel this is why it works better than a crossover. I watch both Hermitcraft and Empires. I felt the crossover took away from the story lines of both.

10:12 my guess is that people can rewatch their favorites without having to find a video in the middle of a series to start with. If one person wants to watch someone they usually don't watch, they just need to be caught up to someone else's pov to understand the context for things.

Third life and those series are probably the reason I watch empires now. I was in a hermitcraft bubble and the crossover brought new people I thought were interesting to watch.

15:16 this is literally the funniest thing he said in the video,he’s become his mortal enemy lol-

4:50 so that's what was missing- lol

The life series really showed me so many amazing creators I didnt even know about I didnt even know Jimmy existed until flower husbands now I watch his videos whenever they come out this series also got me into hermit craft since I only watched grian before this but now i watch mumbo, pearl, and scar aswell all thanks to these amazing creators coming together and making these amazing series!!! I also believe the boogeyman really revived my want to watch this series, I love the suspense in the series and i was extra invested in last life since day 1. I remember being so genuinely anxious whenever one of the creators was boogey man or whenever red lives went near anyone for any episode past 1. The short episodes is what drew me in alot along with the unique ideas every season is, i can never guess what the next season will be like and every saturday i always open up youtube and see my notifications full of limited life at the moment but any series really. Basically the life series helped my find so many new creators, try out watching smps i havent watched before like hermitcraft and the boogeyman was the best part of all these series

I think the life series forces people to make alliances/enemies versus the crossover which was more of a tour for the different servers.

Secretly! 7:50 Secret Life…

I think the appeal of the Life series is that it's professional Minecraft players doing the early game, but badly. People enjoy watching their favourite MCYT CC's mingling, but also with the risk that anyone can die a stupid death at any moment due to not having OP end-game gear. Plus there's a real synergy between this group of creators, despite coming from differemt SMP's, they all seem to gel really well in an entertaining way. As enjoyable as long-term SMP's are (totally agree that Martyn needs to be a part of a bigger SMP), the main appeal of the Life SMP is that it's all about survival, and less about who can build the biggest mega base or most efficient mob farm. It's just raw survival. No overly complicated lore, just a bunch of players trying not to lose their lives. Everything a Hardcore series should be.

I think that the life series being recorded with everyone on simultaneously in a small world, is a big factor in its success. not only that but no one is ever really on by themself, so theres just so many interactions that can be seen from multiple POVs and its grreat to peice together the true story of what happened during the session. I also think that the fact that there are such a large ammount of players releasing episodes on the same day, creates an attention surge thats extremely good for the algorithm. there are honestly so many very important small little factors that seem to make these servers so successful, but really its also just a great roster of amazing people who are great entertainers, and even better when you all put your efforts together!

I think a possible explanation for the greater success of the life series verses the crossover is that it felt like a way more organic environment that wasn’t quite as forced or scripted as the crossover was

1:22 yes… I would

I love that KZfaqr, I’m excited to watch this!!

this whole video made me happy stim (i think that's how you spell it?) The Life Series as a whole is incredible and, me, someone who heavily enjoys lore, found that extra little bit of storyline in Martyn's episodes. I now have a Watcher!Grian cosplay because of that.

I wouldn't mind a permanent hermit/empire series I started watching hermitcraft and started empires through seeing all of you through them. I would love to see a more loooong term permanent world especially with some of the builds lately from both groups all of you have grown in your creativity immensely over the last five or so years!

I joined in double life, then I watched Scott’s POV of 3rd life, I guess I gotta start watching others now 😊

50k subs 🥳

I've only found this series in the past couple months, and I was introduced to it in it's current itteration "Secret Life". Since then, I've binged them all. Not every perspective,but still alot. That being said, Secret Life is by far my favorite. What might be the best part of secret life is that the community can affect the game by suggesting tasks.

...I’m just stuck on the fabulous use of the ballet Romeo & Juliet music in the background at 01:15. 😂 Love it. So dramatic!

15:17 lool 😂😂😂😂

Last life was the best,BUT minus the the alliance system,no loyalty like 3rd life,its not that bad tho

9:50 - for me it took so long to want to watch EVERYONEs POV, as cool as it was I had to catch up on a lot more episodes and POVS so I think that's probably similar to everyone else as well

Definitely have a TV show aspect to it. Generally speaking most SMPs do, but having all Minecrafters be connected at the same time as a bigger effect to it. Imagine a TV show, released weakly on different networks (HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, ...). But each network features a different character, and follows that person only. A show I've been dreaming about for over 30 years.

You either die a Hero or live long enough to become HBO

It pAHAssed the viewers test (Last life fans will get this)

The only thing I’ll say Ani didn’t touch up on much was the built stereotypes of each member. As he explained as Etho is quite a down to earth guy but you could hear the joy as he had murderous intent as the boogeyman. Take GoodTimesWithScar as an example. He is such a sweet, kind and clumsy soul. No one in their kind would expect Scar to live long in the series let alone win one (spoiler to Secret Life!) So the series keep people on edge showing different sides of the members and broke down stereotypes, and I think that’s really cool! :)