I really love this web comic. I’m very unsure how it will translate to anything beyond its current scope, which is essentially translation of individual “moments” into literal language. The shtick doesn’t have a chance to get old when it’s never a situation longer than like 6 panels. But I’m curious enough to be mildly interested.
And by all means, good for Nathan Pyle for cashing in on this. That’s awesome.
Yep, agreed with all that.
It’s definitely weird hearing the blue guys’ lines coming from modern over-enthusiastic voice actors. In my mind I guess I always imagined them talking like Coneheads or robotic munchkins of some sort.
I thought the point was to laugh at the world from an Asperger’s-y perspective pushed out to absurdity, because when you step back for a second our human habits and rituals really are goddamn bizarre. So hearing those observations not in some calculated alien monotone but rather fully dynamic cartoon pitches feels somehow jarring to me. Maybe I’ll get over it though.
But yeah. Congrats to Nathan for sure. Tiny trash! 🎉
Well, I think Dan Harmon being involved means it probably has at least a little bit of that absurdity still.
Well, it worked for 3rd Rock from the Sun. I see it as the outsider perspective which can be a plentiful source of material.
Seconded. This comic is a real gem. I’m glad to see it’s author do well from it, but I’m uncertain I would consume a Rick and Morty-style episodic instalment of moving pictures of it.
On that note, I’m not even certain the playfully literal language style of the comic can be sustained for 20-30 minutes straight, without getting old. I hope it can - in a similar vain it worked for the movie Home (though I’ve never read the Smekday book to know if that was invented by DreamWorks for the movie, or came over from the page)
Yep, agreed with all that.
It’s definitely weird hearing the blue guys’ lines coming from modern over-enthusiastic voice actors. In my mind I guess I always imagined them talking like Coneheads or robotic munchkins of some sort.
I thought the point was to laugh at the world from an Asperger’s-y perspective pushed out to absurdity, because when you step back for a second our human habits and rituals really are goddamn bizarre. So hearing those observations not in some calculated alien monotone but rather fully dynamic cartoon intonations feels somehow jarring to me. Maybe I’ll get over it though.
But yeah. Congrats to Nathan for sure. Tiny trash! 🎉
I agree. Apple does make good TV these days, so I’m hopeful this will turn out pretty decent.
It could be hilarious if they do a sort of Solar Opposites-like show or Coneheads.
The language is not verbose enough. That’s the whole point. And the voices don’t match the vibe of the comics.
Hopefully it turns out to be alright. Edit: on second viewing it’s not so bad. It’s kind of cute. But I’m cautious. Tiny trash 🎉
And the voices don’t match the vibe of the comics
This one’s a bit tricky since many people would have different interpretations of it.
It seems like we all were angling toward a more serene, robotic or alien voice. Something more neutral.
I found that interesting from reading the comments so far.
Yeah, I would expect it to be more monotone, less emotion in the voices.
I’m not really feeling it in the trailer sadly enough
Yep, I got definite “Elcor” vibes from the strips.
[monotone] Explanation: the Elcor are a race of beings in the Mass Effect game series that must describe how they feel as their voices dont really convey it well [/monotone]
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Oh god that would’ve been horrible
These are not the calm and soothing voices that I read those comics in my head with.
Looks cute though.
I trust Dan Harmon to do something interesting at the least, but man, this really doesn’t match up with the spirit of the original strips, at least in my view. Maybe this is what the creator saw all along.
For me it’s mostly the music and the narrator that ruins the vibe of the strips. It also makes me wonder if the many recent appearances of this strip on Lemmy is part of an astroturf campaign to support this show.
Nah, I’m the creator of this community and the person who’s been prolifically posting the comic, I’m not affiliated with Nathan in any way, just a fan of the comics.
That is what an astroturfer would say!
Keep posting 'em, they are funny.
Tbf, that’s all super generic trailer stuff, so I don’t really attribute it to the show. Being that generic isn’t a particularly great sign, though.
Or the creator received an offer they wouldn’t be able to reject.
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meh, has that “quirky animated comedy” vibe. Doesn’t match the aesthetic of the comic much. feels like just another generic animation that they had in the pipeline and they’ve just slapped some branding of a known comic ontop.
I agree. I feel like the obvious choice would have been these Aliens come to earth to observe our strange habits and, in the end, gives us a unique perspective of ourselves.
Wouldn’t that just be 3rd Rock From the Sun?
We could only be so lucky.
these are not the character voices that are in my head
More high pitched and mainly lacking of emotion? Because that is what I hear.
yes, like your stereotypical “take me to your leader” Martian voice.
I love the comic strip and am looking forward to this.
But apple tv? That sucks. For them, mostly, I’m just gunna have to pirate it.
I don’t want to sound like a corporate shill, but Apple TV is not a bad offering as streaming services go. $7/month and plenty of good shows, including Ted Lasso (one of my favorite shows of all time), Mythic Quest (made by most of the Always Sunny team), Shrinking (starring Harrison Ford and Jason Segal), Schmigadoon (musical-spoof that’s really fun), and more.
My biggest complaint with it is that there isn’t an Android phone/tablet app, but you can watch it in-browser on Android devices. Otherwise it’s available everywhere (including Android TVs). You don’t need any Apple devices to use the streaming service.
The browser version seems deliberately bad. They didn’t even have a search bar until this year. The shows are good, but the non apple interface is pretty awful.
I don’t like the company in general, so I don’t want to support them. You aren’t a corporate shill for not sharing that opinion, but I really don’t want to support them unless I think it is unreasonable to avoid doing so.
While it is “available” on non-apple devices, I’ve heard almost exclusively negative things about how it runs on the devices I do most of my watching.
Apple tv content is some of the easiest to illegally access content around. Almost no work and $0 is better than $7.
I don’t subscribe to anything I don’t already know for certain I’ll like anyways, I have trouble trusting reviews and other peoples opinions on media. I’ll watch on a friends account or something first, or not at all. Streaming services that don’t have a free with ads tier are not something I really approve of, it feels like buying a mystery.
Fair enough! Pirate Ted Lasso if you haven’t yet, it’s amazing!
It’s one of the cheapest and most consistent streaming services.
Just do what most people do and rotate something else out for a month or two so you can support the people who make this stuff. Writers don’t get residuals from piracy. And popularity on torrent sites doesn’t help them win renewals or better contracts.
If a show that I watched illegally is really good I make an effort to purchase stuff directly from the writers, or occasionally just give them a donation. Its not like the majority of a subscription would go to them either, just mostly in a CEOs pocket.
I could afford the extra subscription, it isn’t just about shaving down costs. I have a very good “user experience”, better than most streaming services I’ve used, when I pirate things. I don’t have any apple devices to watch on, and have heard it is unpleasant to use apple tv on alternatives.
Lastly, I just don’t like apple. Thats just my opinion, I don’t wanna support them.
The writers aren’t the only people that work on a show. Buying something “directly from the writers” may sound or feel like it’s an altruistic move, but those credits at the end of a show with hundreds of names represent all the people who won’t get paid by you buying something “directly from the writers”.
Also, paying for things is how things continue to get made. If Apple looks at the streaming numbers for something like Strange Planet and they’re very low, there’s no season 2. All the crew on the show may find other work, but similar concepts may be labeled as “unprofitable”, and the market for ideas like “here’s a quirky web comic that we all love, let’s try making it into a show” hurts for it.
A sliver of what you would pay for Apple TV+ would go towards Tim Cook, sure, but the guy is actually paid a significantly smaller slice of the profits of Apple than many other CEOs are paid by their respective companies, and the pie of an Apple TV plus subscription isn’t divided up to only one or two people.
It isn’t my job personally to worry about the employees of a massive corperation with more money at any given time than I’ll ever see.
I pay the artists writers sometimes not because I think they are owed something for their work, but because I want to reward well done art that I liked. It isn’t how I convince myself that piracy of media produced by large corperations is moral, I think piracy of media produced by large corperations is always moral because large corperations are inherently predatory on all public commons, especially when it comes to IP law. Just look at how they took away the entire concept of things entering the public domain from entire generations.
This guy thinks people that know how to download TV shows have “other subscriptions to rotate out”
It’s funny how people on this site want creatives to get paid but also think their work should be handed out for free.
These people live off residuals. It’s a big sticking point in the ongoing WGA and SAG strikes.
I think the biggest problem is fragmentation. Piracy is a service problem. Before all streaming split from Netflix I barely pirated anymore. Now it’s the most convenient option.
The problem there is you probably don’t want Netflix to be $90/mo. In order for every thing to be on one service, either the amount of content needs to go way down or the price needs to go way up.
This stuff is expensive to make, and it will get more so once the strikes are over and writers and actors start actually getting compensated fairly for content made for streaming.
Convenience means more subscribers means more money coming in. Your rationale of 90 dollars overvalued. Just look at the music business these days. Or ebooks/audiobooks for that matter. There’s no other reason to make everything exclusive to one streaming site other than greed.
Take a page from the games industry. Make new shit exclusive on your platform and then rake in the money via all streaming sites. The same way syndication works in the old days.
Ah yes, residuals, famously something that streaming services provide. Paying for a sub service isn’t supporting creators, it’s exclusively supporting an army of middlemen and marketers. If you want to support creatives, buy physical media (I own some blu rays even though no device in my home is capable of playing them) or merchandise.
I saw the artist at SDCC this year, so glad they are becoming so popular.
I don’t know if I will like this show, but I am happy if the comic creator got a bunch of money from it being made.
Is Nathan Pyle on Lemmy? Is that the OP of this post?
I’d be so stoked if he did an AMA here.
c/NathanWPyle is the “magazine” or sub this was posted on, not the author
Congrats to the creator for this big step!
I’m weirded out by you people saying that you pictured the comics in a calm voice. They are pretty clearly anything but. They get happy and exuberant over every tiny thing, taking joy in all the small moments. Reading it in a calm voice really seems to miss the point of the comic…
I read it as calm and clinical observation of small absurdities in human behavior, which made it funnier than if it was aliens being excited about things.
Yes. I’m aware as everyone has spent the thread literally saying that, which is why I made my comment. Thanks for the repeated input.
“You are welcome,” Dumbledoor said calmly.
Again, thank you for the utterly worthless engagement here. Clearly the dregs of reddit jumped over here too.
Since you’re here it clearly did
I’m weirded out by you people saying that you pictured the this post in a calm voice. It is pretty clearly anything but. Jase gets happy and exuberant over every tiny thing, taking joy in all the small moments. Reading it in a calm voice really seems to miss the point of the post…
Trailer looks fun and funny. I would watch it.
Will it only be on Apple TV or are other releases planed?
It will be out on the high seas within hours of release if that helps.
Hours?
I usually give it an hour or two because within the first hour people have downloaded it and watched the video and if there are issues there will be a repack version with sound and video issues fixed.
Ah, fair enough.
Aye Mate, sailing the seas is always an option
Apple TV doesn’t require an Apple device, in case you weren’t aware. I made this mistake myself a few years ago when I wanted to watch Ted Lasso. They don’t have an Android phone/tablet app, though you can watch in a browser on those devices. It works everywhere else.
I really hate the voices. In my head the weekend always have that nasaly cartoon voice
Congrats!
