The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur

Why? Why do we need these appearances? Yes Mr Beast paid for it. It's just advertising in a show that's supposed to be about showing off the concepts and art of creators. Why? It's just irritating, I love the series even the low points are decent. I just really wanted to come on, watch a show and enjoy it without really having to think beyond the references, stories and comparisons being told and shown. And you'd think this would be like, criticising him. Which is should, for his exploitative content. But as soon as you bring him on it becomes just self referential media. Advertising. For a man who already has destroyed the minds of the young.

Mrbeast was clearly hired based on his name and not talent. I'm sure his youtube vids are cool etc but his performance here felt very flat. I know he did it for free, but I think it would have been better to shell out some dollars for someone with enthusiasm and acting ability.

Otherwise the episode was alright overall.

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.

Space aristocrats organize a bloody gladiator match in honor of their marriage.

This is probably one of the most Heavy Metal-like episodes of LD&R. It's got pretty much everything a teenage boy needs: dinosaurs, naked women, and bloody gladiator battles. As an added bonus, it's reminiscent of Taarna in some ways. Certainly not in plot, but it's got the whole "I'm a naked badass chick" thing in spades.

The thing is that there isn't a whole lot to it other than the naked badass chick, which was already done to perfection in Taarna. If you're going in this direction, you might as well push it all the way to 11. Although the art was great, thematically, this was not an 11.

On one hand, it seems to know that it's exploitation. However, it seems to be suffering from delusions of grandeur. This is especially true at the end, when you get this sentimental Big Message. Delivered by a naked chick.

I'm not really sure if Bai Ling was given the correct direction here. She seems to be treating this episode as if it's serious, creating a disconnect between the exploitative content and the serious voice acting. Did nobody tell her that her character was going to be riding naked on a dinosaur?

The announcer did not sound all that good to me. The delivery was probably better than I could have done, but I'm not a professional. It was only later that I saw that it was some YouTuber. That's rather disappointing. I would have thought that LD&R could appeal to big name voice actors.

The big upside to all these complaints, though, is that the art is quite good. It's fast-paced, action-oriented, and suits the story. The aristocrats are appropriately decadent, and the warriors look and act like badasses. It's got a comic book flavor to it, but mostly just in the sense of insane stuff happening for no reason (like dinosaur fights in outer space).

Although this is perhaps the closest LD&R has gotten to Heavy Metal, I think it's more of a pale copy than anything else. Why didn't they get better voice talent? Where's Alberto Mielgo and his incredibly creative, mind-screw episodes? Oh well. At least we got space dinosaurs.

To celebrate the betrothal of Jovian royalty, highly trained über-athletes compete in a hyper-violent dinosaur race around a vast track orbiting Jupiter. There is not much to the story beyond an excuse for lots of CGI (featuring physics-defying martial-arts, heroic posing, and stampeding styracosaurs) and for an annoying 'stream-of-thought' voiceover about some kind of interplanetary class-struggle. The CGI is good but after a while it all starts to look the same and the gladiatrix's final act of defiance was trite and predictable. OK as technological showcase but lacking as a stand-alone story (often a problem with this series). Since I don't know who 'MrBeast' is, I don't care that he is 'in' the film (but others certainly do).