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I ABSOLUTELY LOVE ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THIS THING THEY'RE SO DETAILED AND FLESHED OUT WHILST ALSO BEING OVER-THE-TOP AND HILARIOUS BROUGHT TO LIFE BY THE AMAZING CAST. Let's talk about the people who created this show, Phil Lord and Chris Miller. These people are brilliant filmmakers in my opinion- they tell stories in extremely effective ways using the tools of the cinematic medium and/or a diverse range of genre conventions/animation(or in this case all of the above plus the art form of television).

What I really want to talk about is how this episode (and every episode) is a masterclass in dialogue and writing- and telling the story on the television screen in a visual way... There's nothing I hate in TV shows more than bland filmmaking that distracts from a good script. Flashy camera moves that are flashy for the sake of it, don't tell the story and don't focus on the actors' performances when they need to because of awkward random framing and shaky cam that's cheaply pretending to be cinematic or something, you get the idea. The other thing I hate is bad dialogue- stuff that lacks subtext and visual storytelling is what's sometimes bad about certain Star Wars prequels for me (I love George Lucas' vision and there are some great scenes and world building in the prequel trilogy but too often the whole story comes to a stop simply because the dialogue is pointless and halting George's cinematic ideas). The Afterparty exists in a world where the characters spew their thoughts all the time in a totally obnoxious way- that isn't how anyone speaks in the real world. Firstly, this decision is genius because it's consistently used for comedic effect (like the musical episode) and it also works naturally for simply the way the characters are. However, Lord and Miller and the filmmakers also use these brilliant narrations to transition between flashbacks and visually shows us what's going on- in a perfect way for TV that doesn't at all rely on auditory exposition. The dialogue does not distract it adds to the story that is being told perfectly. The characters just naturally say the lines of dialogue but really the story is told from their facial expressions. I'm so excited for the finale of this thing- I kept going back and forth on who I think the killer is but now it's getting really interesting. CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS THING ENOUGH!!! The finale's most likely gonna bang there's no too ways about it- I can't believe how seamlessly this thing is coming together.

Robert Rodriguez doing more Alita: Battle Angel stuff! BRILLIANT action scenes.

I wish there was more completely new, innovative SW stuff in here. At times the exposition heavy dialogue is mid.

LOVE the colourful bikes tho! Best BOB episode yet (other than the Robert Rodriguez Mando episode with Boba).