The Stolen Hope Episode 1 review<\/p>\n
The Stolen Hope is a series created by\u2014oh gosh, I\u2019m going to butcher this\u2014gaLEMtido\u2026? It was first published on February 21, 2015. The first episode clocks in at 10:29, and boy, do I have a lot to say. I\u2019m Knightmare, and let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n
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So the first thing I notice is the narration. Right off the bat, we get a \u2018once upon a time\u2019 vibe and, I\u2019ll say this again, I don\u2019t like narration. Remember in all the writing classes we were taught to show, not tell? Well, you\u2019re literally<\/em> telling me right now. Ugh. What is with people\u2019s love of narration? So narrator begins telling us the story \u2013 ugh \u2013 and, wait, what did you just say?<\/p>\n 1;35 1:40 to bigger things like are and stealing kits \u2013 narrator lady, you just told us the tribes were constantly fighting each other. Obviously<\/em> they\u2019re already in war!<\/p>\n 1:54 one was called the lights, while the other lights were called the darks \u2013 let me guess, the black cats are evil and the white cats are \u2013 2:10 \u2013 yep. Original.<\/p>\n 2:25 Hey! It\u2019s the youtube VA god! Man, that guy shows up in everything.<\/p>\n 2:46 \u201canyways\u201d hold it right there, show. \u2018Anyways?\u2019 really?<\/em> That\u2019s the word you’re going to choose? That sentence would\u2019ve been so much stronger without<\/em> that word! Ugh. I don\u2019t know why, but this bothers me so much.<\/em><\/p>\n So we learn that this baddie ordered the death of two kits who were born into a poor family\u2014a very<\/em> poor family. Okay, look, you can use \u2018very\u2019 in daily talk, but keep it out of your writing, okay? It only makes your sentence weaker. As I was saying \u2013 this baddies wants these kits killed. Why? Who knows! Some elders learn of this attack and go to visit the kits and have a vision of some serious business, but how it\u2019s presented it doesn\u2019t make any sense for the baddie to know what the vision was about. Did the baddie have a vision, too? How do cats have visions of the future?<\/p>\n 3:02 \u2018of course no one believed the elder\u2019 seriously, then why is the baddie after them \u2013 what does he know that I don\u2019t? What is going on?!<\/p>\n 3:05 *sigh* oh look, one has blue eyes and the other has red. Must mean that blue eyes are good and red are bad! Jeez, who uses eye color like that anymore? *Viridis pops up* N-no, get out of here, no, shush, don\u2019t go where you\u2019re not wanted. *ahem*<\/p>\n We get narration of the kids\u2019 childhood. Like how the evil kit has meetings with the evil king\u2014wait what!?<\/em> Who is watching this kid? Where are his parents?? How did this relationship even start?? And didn\u2019t this evil king want them dead? What the hell is going on?<\/p>\n You know, it was at this point in the episode that I began to have hopes for the series. Maybe I was being toyed with, that the evil cat was actually the blue-eyed one. Maybe there would be a sort of bait and switch, and really catch me and viewers off guard. It could be really cool \u2013 and as someone who hasn\u2019t watched all <\/em>the episodes yet, I\u2019m still hopefully something like this will happen.<\/p>\n More exposition happens, evil kit eventually becomes ruler and then is dethroned by his sister. More kids are born, they are stolen by a cat-napper (hehe), and are never to be heard from again. But, wait, how many kits can this cat hold in her mouth? Jeez, I was under the impression that cats could only hold one at a time. Apparently, this story revolves around magic cats.<\/p>\n The narration is cut short\u2014thank the lord\u2014and it\u2019s revealed that this information is being told to a kit. Only so we can get more exposition through dialogue! And here I thought we were finally going to be watching the show, not listening to backstory central.<\/p>\n Speaking of watching the show, is this\u2026animation? I understand animating these things is ridiculously hard work, but man! It\u2019s just looping the same movements over and over while dialogue plays. There\u2019s some\u2026clever banter between the siblings, we learn the kids are being shipped off the train for the war, and, in the words of their mother (blah blah blah clip)<\/p>\n WHY DOES THE SCREEN KEEP FLICKERING MY EYES ARE BLEEDING FUUUUUUU<\/p>\n Also does this cat have earrings? How<\/p>\n How<\/p>\n The episode ends with our MC running off all sad faced to face whatever war has for her.<\/p>\n Maybe war has a cure for this twitchy tail hell SERIOUSLY WHAT IS THIS<\/p>\n Suffice to say, I\u2019m not a fan. I don\u2019t enjoy the writing and I don\u2019t enjoy the visuals. However, I do understand this stuff takes time and practice, so I\u2019ll review the rest of the series with hopes it gets better.<\/p>\n Do you agree with me? Maybe you hate everything I\u2019ve said! Let me know your opinion down below and suggest the next series I should watch. Thanks for watching, I\u2019m Knightmare, and I\u2019ll see you guys Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Stolen Hope Episode 1 review The Stolen Hope is a series created by\u2014oh gosh, I\u2019m going to butcher this\u2014gaLEMtido\u2026? It was first published on February 21, 2015. The first episode clocks in at 10:29, and boy, do I have a lot to say. 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\nThey always fought over little things like prey and trespassing \u2013 woah hold up, narrator lady! Prey is a big deal! That\u2019s their food.<\/em> That\u2019s not something little to fight over!<\/p>\n