Watching this knowing literally zero about the game series, mainly because I found a DVD of it at a Half Price Books of all places. Surprisingly, since appears to be a prologue to the games, you can watch it pretty easily without context especially since it plays on so many tropes you've probably seen before: off-worlders feuding with Earthlings, a more sleek integrated mech suit with seemingly mystical and somewhat evil properties (cough Evangelion cough), a tsundere orphan girl, Tragic…

*Markiplier Voice*
"Ugh... being in this... damn tub... is worse than the Bite of '87... if only my darling whore Chica were here to... comfort me..."

Turns out, sometimes when I hear that something I feel is un-adaptable is being adapted into another format, I can trust my judgement! While I'm personally not really a fan of horror games in general, and especially not the minimalist Game Jam-esque ones that Szymanski makes (love Dusk though), the way the game can…

So why is this Lego? Other than how they look, there's nothing else about it that says "Lego". No people breaking apart, no building stuff, it's essentially just marketing.

Other than that weird little point, this shows kicks so much ass it's bizarre. Amazingly animated, wonderful character design, really blistering action for a show marketed to grade schoolers (which is honestly what kids need, to have a show you saw as having awesome action as a kid actually having that…

Up there with Snuff Box, Monkey Dust, Xavier and The Shivering Truth as one of the weirdest comedy series ever made. Despite the more obvious surreal elements of those shows, however, Jam might be the weirdest for how it takes sometimes more traditional jokes (a doctor asking to see your penis then taking his out, molestation jokes, annoying neighbors) and presents them in the most alienating, warped and honestly unsettling ways possible. I would say for the best comparison this…