Board Thread:PBS Kids/@comment-31322722-20170905200849

Yay! We got a trailer! Here's my opinion. Since I'm an animator, it only seems fair to start with...

Animation:

I actually don't mind the new style. It looks cleaner, and I'm fine with it, even if I miss the scraggly hand-drawn style of Fetch just a bit.

The lip syncing is not what it should be. I'm not sure how it was in the old shows, but this is...OK. It's choppy. That's what you would expect of ME, not a professional company like PBS KIDS. I've seen college students do better (Jaiden Animations).

Other than that, the movements are really smooth, and the expressions are good too. I wonder how big the budget was for this though.

Theme song:

It takes some getting used to, like the new PuriAra ending. But it is very unoriginal. Most of it is repeating "The Ruff Ruffman Show" over and over again. The tune is fast. The song seems extremely rushed and it will take me a few episodes to catch up to the speed. Again, I expected more from PBS KIDS. The original Fetch theme song was really catchy and original, yet this new theme song seems just like every other show on the network. Do they really not care so much about this show just because it's digital?

Premise:

YES OMG YES. While some people think that a Q&A show is lazy, I think it could be fun! It's the closest we've had so far to Fetch. And if we can ask questions, then lots of nostalgic questions should be popping up about Fetch to help the canon. And believe me, PBS KIDS doesn't care about hiding Fetch like they do with Dot and Dash. They even wrote on Twitter under Ruff's account about Fetch recently. I'm really excited.

So we have yet to see how this will turn out exactly. I think that if they ever decide to run it for more than one season, then they'll try aiming for two at max. 