Corporation antics aside, it's just a really bad show. As I've indicated in the title, I've only watched the first episode since I genuinely cannot watch this show any further. I think I'll go over the broader issues first before I get on to the crux of what makes the show bad in my eyes.
The Artistic Choice
It's astounding how someone let this slip by. The artstyle is exactly like the generic and boring ones you see in a lot of crappy, poorly rated cartoons. Especially with the alien spaceship, the interior looks like it was drawn by a child. You can tell that they didn't put much detail into anything, especially the alien fleet at the start of the episode. Most of it looks like it was drawn by a toddler and then shoved through an AI image generator.
When you look at the actual characters, they have no features that make them stand out from the rest in any way. Most of their features are either very bland or even stereotypical of their personalities and roles.
The Plot
Within the first minute of the episode, apparently, aliens have wiped out the entire planet, all except Washington DC, for some reason. Then, some normal guy manages to coincidentally land on top of the mothership with a hang glider that was flown by a woman he just met, and only wins because he threw a grenade into the ventilation shaft, shutting down the entire fleet because it's a hivemind? What kind of an excuse is that? Not even the combined might of the world's militaries could stand a chance, but this guy does it? What makes it worse is that we get no buildup to this finale, or how they massacred everyone, it just happened at the start of the episode. So you're telling me that they even targeted people high up in the mountains and underground? Since they only used lasers in densely populated areas, I highly doubt it.
What's worse is that this same guy gets elected as president, even though he's a complete moron. And then 5 minutes later he pulls a Loid Forger and proposes to her (the lady he just met not too long ago) with the grenade pin. He then somehow gets this small group of like 8 people together, with most of them also being idiots, and only two actually having relevance to the plot. We even later find out that the aliens' only reason for invading and destroying most of Earth was to get a clean slate for their species, because for some reason only one of them lived and got captured. Since this alien guy is somehow THE general of the entire fleet and also SPEAKS FLUENT ENGLISH, couldn't they just have contacted Earth's world leaders and figured something out?
It has so many inconsistencies, it's embarrassing. Why did they cancel Inside Job for this pile of hot garbage?
It isn't as bad as Velma, I'll give it that, but the only rating I can give it is a 2/10.
Do not watch this show. Watch the amazing shows that horrible corporations like Netflix shut down and shove under the rug?
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