The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur

It is like they hired Mr. Beast based on his thumbnails only to learn he is a terrible voice actor. He is so flat and unemotional when he is supposed to be some energetic ringmaster for gladiatorial games. The Mandarin voice over is also so flat and boring. It feels disconnected from the story. Later, the lead actress kisses another actresses out of nowhere that feels more Edgelord BS to shock someone than part of the story. We know nothing about these gladiators other than they are in great shape and can ride dinosaurs. So, I don't care when they each die or when one of them kisses another. Nor do I care when one somehow develops a kinship with a Tyrannosaurus Rex and suddenly becomes a wolf pack together.

In the end, it left me with "Ah, ok. Whatever."

What a fitting role for Mr Beast. Showing off people fighting against each other, killing each other for sport and the entertainment of the elite. Others have pointed out that he appears more human in this animation than he does in real life and for some weird reason that is true. He is a despicable thing in vaguely human form and having him appear in any form of entertainment makes me sad. Although, to re-iterate, the detestable role he plays here very much mirrors what he is doing in real life.

I did enjoy the ending, though. Other commenters said the whole thing doesn't make sense. I mean, fair. It's a very tiny glimpse into a world we know nothing about. But I also don't know what else you need to know. Where the dinosaurs came from? They were just there for the entertainment and for spectacle. There's nothing else to it. Sometimes you need to remember that it's just a story and you should really just relax.

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.

I appreciate the attempt to infuse the script with Chinese poetic language, but the result reads like superficial cultural appropriation. Take the wolf imagery: it bears no relation to the historical and literary symbolism wolves hold in Chinese tradition, nor does it follow any coherent narrative logic. The monologue is so disjointed that it borders on unbearable for a Chinese-speaking audience. I have to wonder whether anyone with a genuine grounding in traditional Chinese culture ever reviewed the text. The very passage that was meant to anchor the story instead lays bare its hollowness. Invest enormous sums and manpower in the visuals and, for a touch of "exoticism," sprinkle in Mandarin dialogue-yet show no concern for the cultural spirit that Mandarin inevitably carries. It's a dispiriting way to make a film.

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.