The finale this time around didn't sit too well with me. Far too many plotlines going on at once without many of them getting wrapped up. Tried to capture PC Culture, Gun Control, Ads, and Gentrification all within this slew of continuity with Garrison, Principal Victoria, PC Principle, the Boys, etc...felt like a really muddy finale without much getting accomplished.
There's some pretty intense debate between South Park fans this season and the finale, if it's the best or the worst. But there's so many layers of subtext and allegory that no one is sure what Matt and Trey were trying to actually say or lampoon directly. Laughed a bit like always, especially at the Blade Runner reference, but not sure how confident I feel about South Park after this.
I thought the gun show joke was pretty funny, but yeah as a whole it wasn't as epic as I would have thought. The season kept building up to some sort of final showdown but in the end it just sort of fizzled out. There was no "big b(ad)" reveal or even a crab people. I would have thought we would have seen a bunch more people revealed to be ads or something. Considering how these episodes are usually produced a few days before they air I guess they just couldn't figure out how to tie everything up as well as we'd hoped.
I too enjoyed the gun joke quite a bit and couldn't stop from laughing as soon as I saw the Purina endorsement for the gun show and the various ways that guns were shown to be relevant in solving everyone's problems.
Stumbled on this article when I was coincidentally reading some stuff about Margaret Atwood adapted shows coming to Netflix and how Darren Aaronofsky was supposedly working with HBO to make an adaption of Oryx and Crake as well as the other books in that series. But I digress...
"Like the previous two seasons, this season features an episode-to-episode continuity. This season also has pre-planned "dark weeks", weeks where no new episodes will air, which has been done since the 19th season. These will be after episode three, episode six, and episode eight." - Wiki
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There's some pretty intense debate between South Park fans this season and the finale, if it's the best or the worst. But there's so many layers of subtext and allegory that no one is sure what Matt and Trey were trying to actually say or lampoon directly. Laughed a bit like always, especially at the Blade Runner reference, but not sure how confident I feel about South Park after this.
New South Park Game Trailer Pisses All Over Marvel and DC Superhero Movie Franchises
Xenu commanded it I bet.