Narujen's Insane-ctuary

Silly dork that reacts and creates content. Currently addicted to MD and Nuzi.

[narujenreacts]

Hey there, hi there, ho there! c:

Welcome to my page! I'm Narujen, but you can also call me Naru, Jen, J or NJ! I'm just a silly dork that does reactions and makes content for Youtube/Tik Tok that consists mainly of Murder Drones with some Helluva Boss and other series. Specifically videos like: Things I noticed, Theories and Character/Ship Analyzing. In the future I'm planning on doing Funny Edits and Music Videos.

Whenever I have the free time I might also do the occasional art/doodle/sketch (even though I'm not that good lol).

~Fandoms I'm Currently in~

Murder Drones (hyperfixated yeah?)

Helluva Boss

Hazbin Hotel

The Owl House

The Amazing Digital Circus

~Other Socials~

Twitter

Archive of our Own/AO3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Thanks for stopping by!

Keep Burning Bright,

Narujen

[narujenreacts]

bro do you have any other murder drones ships you like BESIDES nuzi? im curious

I do lol. I also like Jessa, Vuzi, Vizzy, Manor eNVy, Nessa and YevaxNori.

[narujenreacts]

What did you think of the ten hour make out session between V and Lizzy in the finale?

Best part of the finale.

[narujenreacts]

i'm back :3

anyway

i love this line

I wish I could say the same lol. I'm working on a review for E8 and I feel like I'm going to upset a lot of MD fans with it.

[narujenreacts]

LIVE NOW!! Watch Party for MD EP 1-7, MD Merch Giveaway and Reacting to EP8!

Rewatching Murder Drones E1-8, MD Merch Giveaway and Live Reaction to E8!

Watch Party of Murder Drones E1-8 of Murder Drones and holding a giveaway once per hour before E8 releases where ONE winner can pick a singl

[narujenreacts]

I was joking when I said less than 28 minutes!

[narujenreacts]

naru do you have to be in the stream for the giveaway ^-^ u

Yes, you do. c:

[narujenreacts]

NARUUUUU HOW MANY GAMESSSS DO YOU HAVE TO PLAYYYY

Like over 20. XD

[narujenreacts]

oh naru, i will draw anything you want for ckc playthrough,,,, please,,,,

Sorry Wooper, but I'd only play it if I have nothing else. And I have a lot of games to play. XD

[narujenreacts]

Who else wants to join me? c:

Also, I just want to let you all know I'll be doing a livestream on my YouTube channel on the day EP8 premieres. I'll be starting 4hrs prior and for each hour I'll be holding a giveaway for ONE piece of MD merch of the winners choosing. Then after EP8 is done I'll continue streaming so we can all talk, rant, cry about the episode and MD as a whole together. c:

We also have a Discord server that has a dedicated MD section! One of the channels is even called "md-venting-and-coping-circle" lol.

Join the The Fire Famiglia Discord Server!

Check out the The Fire Famiglia community on Discord - hang out with 259 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[narujenreacts]

sigh,,,, naru,,,, the entire ckc fandom wants you to play ckc,,,, pwease naru,,,, i am a wee orphan boy from london and i am running low on food, so please feed me with a ckc playthrough.

Sorry tiny Timmy, no scraps of CKC food for you.

[narujenreacts]

Weirdly enough murder drones wasn’t the first time they were wonky when it came to a first season. Glitch almost pulled the exact same thing with one of their *other* shows, Sunset Paradise. Marketing is weird.

Yeah, their marketing isn't that good. :/ S3 for Meta Runner wasn't handled well either.

[narujenreacts]

My bingo card for EP8. c: I'll also be putting the blank template.

[narujenreacts]

Thoughts?

I saw Goose's full answer, where she also revealed that Murder Drones ending was 100% Liam's choice. I have quite a bit to say about that, but since this is an answer to what Goose said about TADC, I'll just focus on that. I'll give her kudos. At least she came right out and answered the persons question about a Season 2 for the series instead of staying quiet or skirting around it. While TADC only has 2 episodes, so far it feels like a much simpler premise and story, so I can see it working as a single season series with 9 episodes (unlike a certain other series...), so yeah! I look forward to seeing how the rest of the series goes!

[narujenreacts]

Murder Drones Watch Party, Giveaway and EP8 Reaction

Hiya, Fire Famiglia! For those of you who follow me for my Murder Drones content, I have exciting news! Just like I did for EP7, I'll be doing a livestream on the day EP8 premieres. Except this time I'll be starting 4hrs prior and for each hour I'll be holding a giveaway for ONE piece of MD merch of the winners choosing. Then after EP8 is done I'll continue streaming so we can all talk, rant, cry about the episode and MD as a whole together.

Keep Burning Bright,

Narujen

[narujenreacts]

Things I Noticed in Murder Drones EP8 Trailer is now out!

[narujenreacts]

My thoughts on Murder Drones ending...

I don't care what anyone says, Murder Drones does NOT feel done. The pacing has felt rushed, there needed to be more character development, there are plot holes, etc. Not to mention the Solver has been made out to be this Godly being that can travel from planet to planet and possibly even universes, and somehow the crew is going to figure out how to defeat it and do that in a SINGLE episode? Without it feeling rushed? Right. Sure. And DON'T even get me started on how Glitch and Liam have been calling Murder Drones "Season 1" all the way up until GlitchX, and even then, ep7&8 were referenced as the "SEASON finale." It was only RIGHT BEFORE the trailer for ep7 dropped that they started calling them the "series" finale. I don't know if MD has always been intended to be a single season series, but if it has, this is NOT how you market it. Call it a short series or, at the very least, when you see a fandom is practically foaming at the mouth for a S2, come out and say there won't be one and that it was never going to have one. Put the nail in the coffin. I'd rather have brutal honesty than have my questions be skirted around. And the fandom has been asking for months if there was going to be a second season. To say I'm upset, sad and disappointed is an understatement. And no, I'm not wanting a S2 because I love Murder Drones. I do love it. Undeniably so, but if a story feels told, the characters feel developed, the world explored, and it ends in a satisfying conclusion, I'm 100% happy with that. I'd rather a series end on a good note than be milked for money, but Murder Drones? A SINGLE season? With just 8 episodes? No. Just...no. I've been saying to my community that if MD ends with ep8, it's going to feel like wasted potential. And I was right. It does. Horribly so. I don't care how ep8 ends either, the story of Murder Drones had more to tell. Even if it took 2+ years for a second season to be made, I would've waited. Even if they only released merch in-between to help fund it, I would have done that. Happily. Sorry for the rant. I'm not trying to put down Glitch or Liam. I respect what they've accomplished with this series, but I just...I don't know. How I feel currently reminds me of when I'm watching a series and it gets canceled. Or when I'm reading a fanfic and the author stops posting. All I can think is, '...That's it? This is the end? There's so much more to be told.'

[haastera]

Murder Drones already had a negative reputation for abysmal pacing and a hard-to-follow plot, and that was when people still expected a Season 2.

What pains me is that Murder Drones could have been written as a high-quality short series if that was the intention all along. It could have been reduced in scope, less vague, and more focused on the core plot with fewer characters. Instead, it foreshadowed future developments that may now never be realized, posed questions that will likely not be answered, and deliberately gave the viewer reasonable expectations only to go nowhere with them.

[narujenreacts]

Exactly this. If Glitch and/or Liam say Murder Drones was always intended to be a single season, I'm not buying it. Because between the marketing and what they've said during Q&A's plus the writing of the series, it doesn't feel that way. And don't get me wrong. I'd be more understanding if this was Liam's first time writing, but it's not. He's written and made multiple projects since 2013. 2013! Were they all great? No. Of course not, but some of his old stuff's writing is way better than Murder Drones, and that shouldn't be the case. If Murder Drones was always going to be a single season, Liam should have had the knowledge to come up with a story that fit it. Heck, his previous series, Cliffside, would've been perfect. It's like Tom and Jerry. Episodic. No big plot. Just each episode is its own thing. I'm honestly surprised that's not what he and Glitch went with instead.

Or, like you said, Murder Drones could've been a much simpler story. And it seems that was going to be the case in the beginning, considering what Kevin said during GlitchX that they were going for a smaller story originally, then decided to make it bigger. Why? WHY if it was always intended to be ONE season with 8 episodes?

[haastera]

I think the ending of Ep8 will be illuminating, as there wouldn't have been time to scrap it and start over assuming the decision to not greenlight S2 came in early 2024 (after Glitch X). It should be fairly obvious if the ending sets up a S2 or not.

Liam Vicker's message was also interesting.

Saying that there's certainly always more to tell isn't really what someone totally happy and satisfied with where the story had ended would say, nor what someone who explicitly created Murder Drones as a single-season series would say.

I'm probably overanalyzing it, but to me, that's basically a polite way of saying, " I know it feels rushed and incomplete. This isn't my choice to end Murder Drones as a series here. I could keep going"

It sucks for him as, in the absence of any confirmation that a season 2 was planned or at least on the table, a lot of viewers are simply going to walk away from Murder Drones, the series, with the impression that Liam Vickers is a bad writer who created a confusing, poorly paced story too big for its runtime.

[narujenreacts]

Yep. It all rides on how Ep8 goes. How much is left unanswered. If the Solver is defeated fully. Oh, and if Uzi and N get separated. Either through sacrifice or being killed (I believe it'll be N sacrificing himself). Because that's how one of Liam's previous works ended for a finale and he dropped another season for it.

I don't know if Liam's message was him saying ending Murder Drones wasn't his choice, but it definitely comes across to me that he knows it feels rushed and incomplete and that there's more to be told. Oh, to be a fly on Liam's wall... I would love to know what happened behind-the-scenes between him and Glitch, but I doubt either side will say anything. I've had a few people tell me he did this just to get a finished show on his resume, but I don't think that's the case. I hope it's not, because why go for a single season with 8 episodes? Go for multiple seasons. Risk it for the biscuit. Especially when Kevin and Luke have said that if a story warrants more seasons, they'll do it.