Jello Reviews - Infinity Train (Patreon)

A review of Infinity Train. I wanted to like this show so badly, I'm sorry.

NOTE: After uploading this I'm pretty sure that I pronounced Min-Gi's name as "Min-JEE" instead of "Min-GHEE" literally the entire time and I feel like an absolute clown now. My bad.

I wanted to like this show so badly, I'm sorry.

This was a hugely popular request in our last poll for what I should watch and review next. I've heard that Infinity Train is an underrated gem for years. I watched the first season last year with my friend Keen and didn't like it very much, but he assured me it got better as it went on. I was especially excited for Season 3, which everyone told me was incredible.

Here are... my thoughts.

For those who have never seen the show, if you'd like an example of what I'm talking about when I mention my problem with the general dialogue, here's a really solid awkwardly bad exchange that goes on for way too long. Half of the dialogue in this show sounds like it was improvised on the spot by actors doing a dramatic long-form set where nobody was allowed to tag out the scene and it's painful. 

ANOTHER EDIT: Small note! Wikipedia says the writing process was as follows:

The process on each episode was that a writer would make an outline, an expansion of the outline, a script, and then would send it to a team of two board artists. The 'boarders' would have 5 weeks to make thumbnails, then the full boards, and then clean them up, before it would be sent away for animation.

Which is essentially exactly what I guessed was going on and talked about starting around 52:25. Vindication!