data1701d@startrek.website 3 days ago
Love it. Pleasurably campy, occasionally actually quite good despite its comically bad animation.
But honestly, what animation have you actually watched? Infinity Train is a solid piece of television, with season 3 being one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever experienced. I find it weird to broadly dismiss animation as a general storytelling medium; there are some things you can do with animation that just doesn’t look good in live action.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 3 days ago
Campy is the best way to describe it!
‘Infinity Train‘? What is it, never heard of it.
“I find it weird to broadly dismiss animation as a general storytelling medium; there are some things you can do with animation that just doesn’t look good in live action.”
I could not agree more with you, never completely dismissing animation, or really any way to visual aide in telling stories. Just for me, it only really works for comedies.
data1701d@startrek.website 3 days ago
Infinity Train is an animated sci-fi/fantasy anthology series with 4 seasons. It’s set on the eponymous vehicle that runs in a barren Mars-like environment; each car has its own self-contained, often-surreal miniature world.
Each season focuses on a different person (or group of people) who has been transported to the train and their efforts to find a way off, but also usually contains some characters from the previous season. Kate Mulgrew of Star Trek: Voyager fame plays a recurring character throughout the entire series.
Seasons 1 is still quite good but the most tween-oriented, while season 2 gets a bit darker but still maintains some of that focus. Season 3 is a beautiful dark tragedy. Season 4 is okay; it’s a prequel to the other seasons. It got rated TV-MA despite being much tamer than season 3; I’m guessing part of that is season 3 was nuts, but it’s also really suspicious that it got this rating when it is the one season where they vaguely hinted the protagonists were gay.
Unfortunately, it got canceled and disappeared from most places for a while as part of the Warner Bros suicide for tax purposes a few years back; now, S1, S2, and S4 can be bought, but piracy is still the only way to watch season 3. Luckily, the whole series has been on Internet Archive for ages, and no copyright claims have been made against it.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 3 days ago
Sounds a lot like the train during Apolopitic (SP?) times, on Earth, movie & series- ‘Snowpeircer’ (SP?). While trying find the spelling for previously mentioned title, on DuckDuckGo, I found ‘The Last Train’ funny how there are more such stories, than just ‘Snowpiercer’ (SP?, LOL, I will get right one time, LOL), using old form of transportation & not like a flying city. Not saying trains are outdated or anything, just not the latest thing. I am loving the idea of flying vehicles, that are: as green as possible, not owned, but shared & driverless, unless choose to drive.