Something I'm generally only now really thinking about with Glitch is how a lot of their pilots aren't really pilots as much as they're episode ones
I feel like if you wanna know what a show pilot should look like, look at The Amazing World of Gumball's, it was about Gumball and Darwin trying to break out of school, but their plan fails, and that's the end of the pilot, theres no deeper lore or implications about character relations or worldbuilding, it only had the varied animation styles, general character designs, just in general what you could expect with the show, two friends gettin' into shit with light homosexuality between bros along the way.
Even with TADC's pilot, it's not really a pilot as much as it's an episode one, whereas I feel like the teasers were better pilots. Yes, you learned basically nothing from the teasers, whereas the pilot tells and shows you how things will work in the show. I genuinely think if the teasers were instead combined, where its Caine going over all the humans and what they're about, and in-between we see how they react while Caine's doing all that, we could see Kinger tweaking out, we could see Jax abusing Gangle and Ragatha going to comfort them while Zooble smacks Jax upside the head, that kind of stuff, that would be an actual *pilot*
And honestly while you can definetly extend this to all of Glitch's other shows, but I think Game Overse is definetly where this idea can be fully applied. I haven't seen it, but from what I've seen, the premise is:
Kit and Kaboodle (very good names like I couldn't come up with these) go on adventures to stop video game protagonists from winning as if they do win, the world ceases to exist, and theres an evil gang trying to help the protagonists win.
Maybe, it's just like, the two arrive at a game, figure out whats happening, and they both go to the final boss to help them prepare, while we occasionally cut in to the villains helping the protagonist, K' 'n K' fail, the universe ends, and we learn why the villains want games to end.
From what I've seen, it is basically this but with a lot more steps. It starts with K' 'n K' failing to stop a dinosaur named Gobbles from completing a phrase and the world ends, and they escape with Gobbles. Where after some banter from Schlatt the enemy show up and start killing them, making them crash in a new game, where the gang is seperated, Kaboodle is trying to train the big bad, while Kit and Gobbles try to find the dolphin protag, stuff happens, the villians get their hands on the protag, the protag defeats the antag, the world ends.. I think.. Again I haven't watch the episode, but I imagine after that, the clip of Kit being sad and Gobbles, the weird child dinosaur with a 38 yo smoker's voice cheers her up.
Despite really shortening it, I know for sure I'm leaving quite a bit out, like a bunch of moments from the two lackeys of the main villian, where from what I've seen, we just get a bunch of moments about them really disliking each other.. couldn't we just, see that as they help the protagonist? Just have them subtly bicker while they help the protagonist out just so its like, they clearly only tolerate each other because they have the same job, you don't need two or three whole moments dedicated to it. Also, the emotional moment that happens at some point, cut it, why is this shit here? Just give Kit body language 'n stuff implying that they don't really get much success and she blames herself every time they fail. Have it be passing, not an entire moment. I also ask who this is for, gamers? I'm not really that big into this show, nothing particularly speaks to me outside of all the gamer talk. I saw a post on Twitter just calling the show Learning with Pibby 2, and lowkey, yeah I can see why someone would view it like that. And, the pilot just leaves too many questions for it to be a pilot. Why do games end when they're completed? Wouldn't it just kinda be nature? What about sandbox games? What about Rougelikes? What about a game like Minecraft where the game is a sandbox, yet it TECHNECALLY has an endgoal, being defeating the dragon? What about games where the hero succeeding means like, freedom for all? A game like Sonic, where Sonic failing means Eggman conquers the planet and enslaves everyone? Are they gonna ask something like;
"Would you rather have your friends live in despair, or die in happiness?" Judging by how they have an extreme emotional moment in the first episode, I feel like they're gonna half-ass the question should they ever ask it.
And honestly, one of the biggest.., I guess "red flag" about this show, is the body diversity, it's no secret that nearly everyone has criticized the show about it, nearly every female in the show has the same conventionally attractive physique, while the guys are quite varied. Kit, Mis Information, any of the other girls supposedly from Kit's game, they all look basically exactly the same, just with different attributes. I saw an image, I can't find it now, but it was of two cat people at like, a bar table, and one of them was a fairly hefty boy, and the other looked like Kit but older..
And appearantly those were Kit's parents..
The dad, was the bootleg Big the Cat, and the mom was the sleek one... Really? Really? Mis Information, seemingly human(?), she looks like if Kit wasn't a catgirl and a karen, like theres virtually no difference in body type, at all.
Actually I'm only now thinking of this but Game Overse has only supposedly had a "pilot" but theres already a shitton of merch for the show, and their new advertisement is basically just them saying
"BUY THE NEW MERCH BUY THE NEW MERCH BUY THE NEW MERCH BUY THE NEW MERCH"
Over and over, and, initally, when Glitch still wasn't very big, I'd believe the whole "crowdfunding" thing, but nowadays, where Glitch is getting one of their finalizes in THEATERS, and they're willing to shovel out merch for shows WITH ONLY ONE EPISODE, I think money has for the most part, stopped being an issue. And they're so persistent about merch, nearly every video that drops on Glitch that isn't a teaser or merch video has it's own dedicated merch video. I also don't really like these as outside of a few gems like the one TADC one where they sing, the rest are usually just "characters react to being turned into merch"
Anyways, in short, I think Glitch since conception has lost the plot of what a pilot is supposed to be, and Game Overse is a prime example of it.
(ONE MORE THING, THE WEBSITE ON MOBILE IS AWFUL EVEN SWITCHING IT TO THE DESKTOP FORM SUCKS)
