My phone one complaint is really the same complaint lots of people had with Deathly Hallows Part 1, which is that in the end it's really a set up for a climax. And unlike the other pairs or trilogies (Black Friday, Imagination, God God Go) South Park has done this appears to be a season in the making. However, I also realized the reason I'm put off is because I have no idea how this will end, but I really, really want to. What's going to happen next? Who's responsible for gentrification? Has this entire season and its self- references just been an ad for South Park?
It's easy to compare this Trilogy against the best (Love not Warcraft, Tenorman must die) and say the series has gone down hill recently. To say this focus on PC is (as Cartman puts it in "Stunning and Brave" and "I'm a little bit Country") just Matt and Trey having their cake and eating it too. Trying to change their image after the mega-success Book of Mormon to be clean satire. But look at this episode, and frankly all the episodes this season, and see how efficient they are. How every scene has a few jokes that somehow make points and advance the plot and break-neck speeds. The in jokes were pretty annoying and pointless a lot of Season 18, but this time they really work ("shoot those kid!")
This episode made an already difficult plot line look immensely tangled, increased the conflict, and was really, really funny ("they could be your friend, your g-gardener"). I haven't felt this excited since Imaginationland part 2, and while they're probably going to have a lame anti-climax (because how else could they resolve these threads?!?) and not have much of a Moral point with a speech, a trend they've basically maintained this season (except for Reality and his party crash) for now, I'm hooked, hoping this last episode isn't a huge letdown. Because then the whole season would come apart.
It's easy to compare this Trilogy against the best (Love not Warcraft, Tenorman must die) and say the series has gone down hill recently. To say this focus on PC is (as Cartman puts it in "Stunning and Brave" and "I'm a little bit Country") just Matt and Trey having their cake and eating it too. Trying to change their image after the mega-success Book of Mormon to be clean satire. But look at this episode, and frankly all the episodes this season, and see how efficient they are. How every scene has a few jokes that somehow make points and advance the plot and break-neck speeds. The in jokes were pretty annoying and pointless a lot of Season 18, but this time they really work ("shoot those kid!")
This episode made an already difficult plot line look immensely tangled, increased the conflict, and was really, really funny ("they could be your friend, your g-gardener"). I haven't felt this excited since Imaginationland part 2, and while they're probably going to have a lame anti-climax (because how else could they resolve these threads?!?) and not have much of a Moral point with a speech, a trend they've basically maintained this season (except for Reality and his party crash) for now, I'm hooked, hoping this last episode isn't a huge letdown. Because then the whole season would come apart.
