The Naughty Adventures of Scarlett May Blossom

I've seen some pretty rough reviews of SCARLET MAE, but I feel the series isn't being seen in the right light. To me, this jumps us back to the days of Burt Reynolds as Gator McClusky, The Dukes of Hazzard, "R" rated drive-in fare for on a hot summer night and Hee Haw. The series brought back all of those memories for me and so I watched it through teenage eyes and I had fun, which, I think, is the whole point.

Alot of attention is being given to the completely AI creation of the series, except it still had to be written and directed, and that didn't happen by computer. AI was simply a tool that Paul Davids used to bring his project into being; it was pretty much a massive solo effort for the documentarian, and that accomplishment deserves recognition. And Scarlet herself is quite a creation!

Special note should be made of the fun and bouncy tunes of the Metzger brothers (Russell was one of the producers). Those tunes are what carry NAUGHTY ADVENTURES right into Hee Haw territory where it very comfortably fits.

I didn't last long watching this nonsense. It is absolute nonsense.

NASCB is horrendous AI animation that, when viewed for the first time, is unsettling, disturbing and and weird. Most of all it is off putting. At first, I thought (and hoped) it was just a gimmick that was the opening that would last a few short minutes and then we would get on with whatever this is about. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

I would class this as clickbait drivel that tries to entice people to view it based on the title and the thumbnail. There was something profoundly disturbing about the artifice mixed with the mindless blathering of some woman.

Avoid.

Just when you think AI applications can't get any worse, along comes this piece of horrific slop. It looks terrible, it sounds terrible, the dialogue is terrible. Everything about this is slop.

Will the technology improve? Almost certainly yes. Will AI actors become cheap and readily available? Probably. But will anything be able to overcome the sheer emptiness and soulessness of the experience? Probably not.

I imagine there are huge profits to be made from this sort of material though, so the corporations will be pushing hard to make things to follow up on this. So, in the meantime folks, keep downvoting and boycotting the slop.

Going into The Naughty Adventures I had no idea that it was a show completely created by AI but also by a team that are so bone idle and lazy that the opening credits unintentionally features men with 2 right arms drinking from glasses from which their fingers have merged or the animation that is put to shame by free to play/play to win adverts.

Some of you may be aware of early Marvel cartoons that were lifted directly from the comic books and where a mouth would be super-imposed on them, well here we are 60 years later and we get virtually the same effect.

So the animation is terrible, but what of the show?

It's bad. It's so, so boring. We get bad animated talking heads intercut with AI scenes or traditional animation that looks like it was done on MS Paint by a Labrador moving the mouse around in search of a treat.

This isn't a show, it's psychological warfare.

There are and always will be bad shows and movies but some have the redeemable factors people involved cared, even a little. This looks like someone entered a list of prompts and took what was ever served up by their free to use AI tool - honestly there are people on YouTube who are producing better stuff than this and theirs is generally considered pretty substandard.

If you can get through a whole 25 minute episode without causing harm to yourself or others then you're a better person than I. Because it's awful.

There's going to be people that like it and people that don't. I think that may be because this way of creating is the beginning of a vast new arena at the doorstep of media -Ai created content.

Just like the drum machine freaked out drummers or the no mechanical keyboard on the first iPhone made me feel odd; our reactions to Scarlett May Blossom are reactions to a completely new way of creating entertainment.

Like it or not Scarlett May Blossom has entered in the very early stages of Ai content creation, and as such is definitely ground breaking.

Check it out for yourself. It's history in the making however which way your criticism goes.