The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur

For the record, I don't dislike Mr Beast. However I don't want him appearing in an episode of a series I have fallen in love with and have always prided as being great for delivering different art styles and story lengths on a mainstream media platform.

The plot for this one isn't fantastic but I would have given it more of a chance if within the first 20 seconds I see and hear Mr Beast, who isn't a voice actor or actor, and made me instantly feel gutted that this show has sold out.

Would rather have seen it be Alan Cumming reprising his role in Spy Kids.

Anyway, I hope someone won a prehistoric Tesla.

Story is not bad and pretty easy understandable, cool gladiator setting in outer space. Visually stunning, the aesthetic of the clothes, patterns, and creatures (dinosaurs) is good. Delivers the core message of the hierarchy and the cruelty in humanity.

Unfortunately the pronunciation and tone of the voice over is so awkward. It actually ruins the whole experience for me as a native Mandarin speaker. Not really understand the reason why behind the voice casting.

Perhaps I will buy the original book since looks fun in the short episode, looking forward to digging the background and characters.

Seriously, all this talent and money, wasted on shorts that tell NO story. There is no deeper meaning, no grand concept. It is just naked gladiators fighting each other and a T-rex while riding Triceratopses on a wheel shaped space station to please some generic nobles. There is not even a surprise about who wins, you would never guess, it is the japanese chick who had any dialogue, unlike the others. But of course first she teams up with the black chick to kill the men, because girls gotta support girls. Not the white chick of course, she can die. And then black chick gets instantly eaten by T-rex. Also took no genius to figure out that maybe the nobles should not fly too close to the ground where a giant Dinosaur is.

I often wonder this rather lackluster series that only produced so far, maybe 4-5 good episodes in 4 seasons, could have been so much better if they took to the classics. Have them animate short sci-fi stories written by Lem, Asimov, Bradbury. Even short horror, written by King. Anything would have been better than wasting our time and their money on blood and nudity.

EDIT: I only learned by checking other reviews that the announcer guy was voiced by this Mr. Beast youtuber, a guy whom like Pewdiepie, I have never watched before, just hear people talk about him. I'd never have recognized him, he is just generic announcer guy. So for what it's worth if you do not know who he is, you'll never guess he is in this.

The episode in the technical department was really well done, nothing to say. I love this style of animation and would watch hundreds of shorts made in this exact manner.

The problem, however, was everything else. The story, in my opinion, is confusing. Honestly even now that I look back on the episode, I struggle to make sense of the whole plot of the episode. I don't even understand why there are dinosaurs, making them appear in my opinion without any logic (it seems like they were running out of ideas and said 'But why don't we put some triceratops and a t-rex, just to put something in?') Even the final twist I find absolutely without logic. I won't give spoilers but those who have seen the episode will hopefully agree with me.

In conclusion, nothing can be said about the technical department, it is really well done and thought out. The rest, however, is highly insufficient and makes the episode less memorable than it could have been.

This season has not been filled with hits, but this episode makes me not want to watch it at all anymore. After looking it up and seeing articles written about why they picked him for this, I have lost respect for the creaters of the show.

Getting a disgusting mysoginst as an actor just because he has love, death, & robots posters on his wall and they want his younger audience-who shouldn't be watching most of LDR's episodes anyway-is not a great way to get views.

If viewership is down, pay better writers. We stopped watching after this one and I don't know if we will finish the season, but there were only a couple of episodes that were worth it before this one.

Even without his character, it's not a great episode.