The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur

Seriously, all this talent and money, wasted on shorts that tell NO story. There is no deeper meaning, no grand concept. It is just naked gladiators fighting each other and a T-rex while riding Triceratopses on a wheel shaped space station to please some generic nobles. There is not even a surprise about who wins, you would never guess, it is the japanese chick who had any dialogue, unlike the others. But of course first she teams up with the black chick to kill the men, because girls gotta support girls. Not the white chick of course, she can die. And then black chick gets instantly eaten by T-rex. Also took no genius to figure out that maybe the nobles should not fly too close to the ground where a giant Dinosaur is.

I often wonder this rather lackluster series that only produced so far, maybe 4-5 good episodes in 4 seasons, could have been so much better if they took to the classics. Have them animate short sci-fi stories written by Lem, Asimov, Bradbury. Even short horror, written by King. Anything would have been better than wasting our time and their money on blood and nudity.

EDIT: I only learned by checking other reviews that the announcer guy was voiced by this Mr. Beast youtuber, a guy whom like Pewdiepie, I have never watched before, just hear people talk about him. I'd never have recognized him, he is just generic announcer guy. So for what it's worth if you do not know who he is, you'll never guess he is in this.

For the record, I don't dislike Mr Beast. However I don't want him appearing in an episode of a series I have fallen in love with and have always prided as being great for delivering different art styles and story lengths on a mainstream media platform.

The plot for this one isn't fantastic but I would have given it more of a chance if within the first 20 seconds I see and hear Mr Beast, who isn't a voice actor or actor, and made me instantly feel gutted that this show has sold out.

Would rather have seen it be Alan Cumming reprising his role in Spy Kids.

Anyway, I hope someone won a prehistoric Tesla.

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.

Story is not bad and pretty easy understandable, cool gladiator setting in outer space. Visually stunning, the aesthetic of the clothes, patterns, and creatures (dinosaurs) is good. Delivers the core message of the hierarchy and the cruelty in humanity.

Unfortunately the pronunciation and tone of the voice over is so awkward. It actually ruins the whole experience for me as a native Mandarin speaker. Not really understand the reason why behind the voice casting.

Perhaps I will buy the original book since looks fun in the short episode, looking forward to digging the background and characters.

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.