Some of you probably saw the pilot when it came out some four years ago, but now it's a show! The first ep just premiered on the CN app, and there's going to be a 5 episode bomb of it starting August 5th. I just saw the first episode and it's looking super good.
Infinity Train
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Awesome. Been waiting for this!
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This is AMAZING! I cant wait for the next episode.
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First two episodes are up on the CN site! This is going to be a good week.
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When I get home I want to see how much reused corgi animation was done.
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Just watched the whole thing. Need to digest. Given the miniseries format I wanna see how everything holds up thematically when watched all at once.
One thing that I can’t wrap my mind around though.
! What will the next adventure focus on? A new character? New characters? The lore of the train’s origins? Tulip? Other season 1 characters?
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One thing that I can’t wrap my mind around though.
! What will the next adventure focus on? A new character? New characters? The lore of the train’s origins? Tulip? Other season 1 characters?
! There's still a lot that could be explored! Honestly I was feeling a bit bummed by unanswered the mysteries and wish we had more time to explore other cars, and I'm kinda thrilled that they're doing this through the lens of different characters.
! Some outstanding mysteries to solve:
! -Who built the train?
-For what purpose?
-How does it find people?
-Why are the cars designed the way they are?
-What's the deal with ghoms?
-How about that whole place that the train exists in?
-Who was The Cat?
-What are the tapes?
-How are The Cat and the tapes connected?
-Whatever happened to jiggle wiggles?
! There's a lot of ground to cover and I'm sure some answers will raise more questions. It's uncertain if there's some sort of end this is all circling, like the train being destroyed. At the very least, there are more cool character stories that could be told in this setting. -
Watched this yesterday and thought it was pretty good.
Rather intrigued by where the second season will go,
! I don't see any of the characters, apart from The Cat and maybe Amelia, returning for anything more than a brief cameo.
But at the end they do make a point of showing that Tulip really did lose her reflection, rather than it just being a wacky Train thing, so maybe something comes from that. -
I'm torn, I actually think the show would've been find just ending here and us getting a new mini series every year or so. I like Tulip, One-One, and Atticus enough, but I would also love to see the series have a new protagonist if they plan on having multiple seasons beyonnd season 2, since Tulip's arc felt pretty complete.
I'm curious how much of the second season was a planned thing and how much of it was it green-lit due to the series performing really well. Knowing Owen it's probably a bit of both, with him having a few idea's ready in case but not truly committed to the idea.
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Well, that was a fun little trip. Felt like something that could have been Adventure Timed out and been like 70 episodes to tell the exact same story, but the constrained format worked.
Interesting that the original pilot was basically left entirely intact as episode 3 and just sort of redrawn.
Real curious to see what a second season holds.
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Well, that was a lot of fun, and something I'll probably have to rewatch at some point.
I'm totally on board (Ha!) if they do a second season.
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Sorry for the double post, but…
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Oh, so THATS how its going to work when they wrapped up the main story.
Neat.
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So Book 2 is wrapping up tomorrow. That last episode that just aired went a path I didn’t think children shows would be willing to go down. Curious to see how everything wraps up.
I don’t think the series dropped quality imo.
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Can you PM me about what happened? I really want to know!
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Ok i wasn't expecting murder but…oh we went super dystopian. Wait AD was a passenger?! What type o mistakes can a deer make?!
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! Alan Dracula isn't a passenger, OneOne said he created him
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The first five episodes of Book 3 are out on HBO Max and they're a doozy.
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The first five episodes of Book 3 are out on HBO Max and they're a doozy.
Do they have the first two seasons as well? I missed them when they first came out.
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@No:
Do they have the first two seasons as well? I missed them when they first came out.
Yes they do! Infinity Train was one of the first shows on HBO Max and it's well worth watching the whole thing through.
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Yes they do! Infinity Train was one of the first shows on HBO Max and it's well worth watching the whole thing through.
Alright, thanks! I was really interested in the pilot and trailers, but missed its run and had trouble finding it anywhere later, lol
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I've watched the first two episodes, but an Internet video spoiled what happens to one of the characters for me, so…yeah, doozy indeed.
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S3 is enjoyable, because I didn't liked the Apex gang last season.
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I still don't like them, haha.
! I may be able to change my mind about Grace if she really is redeemed and doesn't have a redemption rejection, but, probably like most viewers out there, I just want Simon to fuckin' die horribly, painfully, and all alone, at this point. Haha.
! Even as I knew it was coming, my face after what he did must have looked something like D= :shocked::sad::cwy:
! That being said, I am loving the season itself. Hazel is so adorable. As is Tuba. (Poor Tuba.) -
Has Turnip made a comeback yet?
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Dont you mean Tulip?
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@joekido:
Yes of course. Here is my 16 characters.
But to answer your question, no, she has not. (Debated putting that in spoiler tags, but considering her story seemed pretty solidly over and there's not much expectation of her coming back, it doesn't really seem like much of a spoiler to me to confirm that she has, in fact, not come back, haha.)
I do miss her, though, and her companions. I've loved all the seasons so far, but Tulip, One-One, and Atticus remains my favorite group of main characters.
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Well, that was season
! Holy shit Simon's death was brutal. I mean, if this was still airing on Cartoon Network I'm not sure they could've gotten away with that.
! A part of me hoped he would eventually see the light, but…yeah, nah. Once he killed Tuba there really wasn't any going back for him. -
That finale was intense as hell! I really hope this does well enough to encourage HBO to greenlight more Books.
! The Gohm that killed Simon, it started to gain some color. It was vaguely redish with what looked like the Apex squiggle running along its side. I am very intrigued.
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Unfortunately show is on the ropes, HBO and CN are in doubt if they intend to green lit another book given that they are feeling the thematic to be too mature.
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I just finished watching season 2 and I have to say, Mirror Tulip ended up with possibly the worst ending.
There is absolutely no way she lives a happy life in the real world. Jesse's baggage even hinted at this, by depicting how cruel people could be just to fit in.
How did she think that she could have any semblance of a happy life in the real world? as a weird reflection thing.
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I just finished watching season 2 and I have to say, Mirror Tulip ended up with possibly the worst ending.
There is absolutely no way she lives a happy life in the real world. Jesse's baggage even hinted at this, by depicting how cruel people could be just to fit in.
How did she think that she could have any semblance of a happy life in the real world? as a weird reflection thing.
I don't know how you could reach that conclusion at all. On the most basic level, being on the train is a horrifying experience for any number of reasons and there's nothing to suggest that the life one could live there is actually good at all, but on top of that Lake's entire arc is about her finding a way off. As long as she lived on the train, she could never truly confirm if she was real or not, and that was eating at her from within. In many ways it could be said that her story resembles coming out of the closet. Lake grapples with her identity, and only through having it acknowledged can she truly be comfortable with who she is (she even chooses her own name when she comes out). In that way, her staying on the train would be like staying in the closet. Sure she wouldn't face any of the risks of leaving, but she would never be happy with herself either. Not to mention Jessie's on the outside to help her and she also wants to be with him.
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Gosh Simon was insufferable.
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I don't know how you could reach that conclusion at all. On the most basic level, being on the train is a horrifying experience for any number of reasons and there's nothing to suggest that the life one could live there is actually good at all, but on top of that Lake's entire arc is about her finding a way off. As long as she lived on the train, she could never truly confirm if she was real or not, and that was eating at her from within. In many ways it could be said that her story resembles coming out of the closet. Lake grapples with her identity, and only through having it acknowledged can she truly be comfortable with who she is (she even chooses her own name when she comes out). In that way, her staying on the train would be like staying in the closet. Sure she wouldn't face any of the risks of leaving, but she would never be happy with herself either. Not to mention Jessie's on the outside to help her and she also wants to be with him.
I don't know, the train isn't really that horrifying for the train denizens and unlike human passengers, she would have no actual things to want to go back to.
I pretty much looked at her choice from face value. She looks weird. She can't feel any physical sensations. Her body is made of metal and contains metallic properties. She's weird. And in a world where people are discriminated against and hated simply because their skin tone is a little bit of a different shade from others. I fail to see how she could have a happy normal life in that world.
At least on the train, no one other than flecs bothered her, and everyone pretty much accepts you for who you are.
I guess you can look at it from a metaphorical perspective and think of it as a coming out story.At the time, I just interpreted the story at face value. The show never depicted Mirror tulip's journey as a sexual identity kind of thing. In fact she seemed like she fully understood herself waay back in season 1.
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In season 1 Lake knew she wasn't Tulip, but in season 2 her sense of self was put into question by her pursuers. Just about everything starting with the Lucky Cat Car shook her sense of identity. and she spent the rest of the season so insecure and disturbed by her identity crisis that she took some pretty drastic measures to confirm her truth. It's clear that confirming her reality was worth confronting whatever consequences doing so would make her face.
Relating it to coming out is to say that even if doing so causes some amount of pain, the relief of being able to live comfortably as yourself is worth facing that for. But even then, I think it's a huge leap to think that Lake maybe dealing with bullying is the worst end for her compared to spending an eternity on a terrifying death train that everyone is trying to escape from unsure if she's real or some lesser existence subservient to the passengers. Not to mention that escaped passengers aren't guaranteed not to run into those issues or worse ones either in the outside world. At the very least it's bizarre to suggest that Lake achieving the thing she'd been striving for and getting to be with a person she really liked is at all a bad ending.
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In season 1 Lake knew she wasn't Tulip, but in season 2 her sense of self was put into question by her pursuers. Just about everything starting with the Lucky Cat Car shook her sense of identity. and she spent the rest of the season so insecure and disturbed by her identity crisis that she took some pretty drastic measures to confirm her truth. It's clear that confirming her reality was worth confronting whatever consequences doing so would make her face.
Relating it to coming out is to say that even if doing so causes some amount of pain, the relief of being able to live comfortably as yourself is worth facing that for. But even then, I think it's a huge leap to think that Lake maybe dealing with bullying is the worst end for her compared to spending an eternity on a terrifying death train that everyone is trying to escape from unsure if she's real or some lesser existence subservient to the passengers. Not to mention that escaped passengers aren't guaranteed not to run into those issues or worse ones either in the outside world. At the very least it's bizarre to suggest that Lake achieving the thing she'd been striving for and getting to be with a person she really liked is at all a bad ending.
Fair point.
Although, I still think from a logical point of view, she would have had a more fullfilling life living on the train(which is not as horrible as you are making it out to be) than in the real world.
Also, boiling down my argument to simple bullying is a bit disingenous. We both know that discrimination can have devastating effects on a person's mental, physical and spiritual health.
Lake, would be completely discriminated against in the real world 100%.
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Fair point.
Although, I still think from a logical point of view, she would have had a more fullfilling life living on the train(which is not as horrible as you are making it out to be) than in the real world.
Also, boiling down my argument to simple bullying is a bit disingenous. We both know that discrimination can have devastating effects on a person's mental, physical and spiritual health.
Lake, would be completely discriminated against in the real world 100%.
Lake was discriminated against on the train. By the Apex and by the systems of the train itself. The Apex and the Flecks both wanted to kill her for her existence.
Making light of discrimination isn't my point, but it's out of scope of Lake's narrative and compared to the whole spectrum of existential threats she faced on the train it's pretty inconsequential.
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Yeah, um…the idea that Lake somehow would have been happier or even better off staying on the train is a...very odd take. I never even remotely considered Lake's ending as anything other than happy.
First of all, she came from the real world to begin with, since she was the mirror image of Tulip. Sure, she didn't gain full sentience until Tulip entered that room on the train, but she clearly had some level of thought or awareness from when she was in the real world as Tulip's reflection, since she had memories of it, knew she was unhappy with it and wanted to be free. Getting to return to the real world, but this time as her own person who could make her own choices in life and even choose her own name, is the ultimate freedom she strove for.
Not to mention that Lake's growing relationship with Jesse was a major part of both of their arcs. At the beginning of Book 2, she was a loner; she warmed up to Alan Dracula, but part of that was because he couldn't talk and thus wasn't actively annoying to her. Jesse annoyed her to no end when they first met, but as they continued to help each other and learn each other's flaws, eventually they became close enough that both of them getting off the train together--so he could go home and she could be free, and they could do it together--was their driving goal. Jesse accidentally leaving Lake behind completely devastated both of them, him to the point that he got picked back up by the train again. For her to suddenly decide "Nah, I think I'd be better off on the train" would have been completely out of character for her. There's not even a guarantee she would have been safe there; she could have encountered the Apex, or someone like them, or more Mirror Cops might have come after her eventually after she killed Mace and Sieve. If anything, I feel like Alan Dracula had it worse, since both of the close friends he made left and got to be together while he was left there alone. (That said, it's still a big "if", since he didn't seem to particularly mind. But it's hard to tell with a deer who can't talk, lulz.)
Will she face some discrimination and weird looks? I'd think so. Does that mean it's not worth living in the real world? Nah, it definitely is. Real people IRL who face discrimination are still able to overcome and get past that every day and build great lives for themselves in spite of all the shit they have to go through; I have no doubt Lake can do the same, especially with Jesse by her side, and probably with his little brother, Nate, as a friend as well. Hell, Nate clearly gave no shits at all about Lake's non-human nature, and thought she was cool because of who she is.
Honestly, I've kind of wondered more than once if the people in this show's "real world" are less wary of things that seem supernatural than our real world. Sure, there probably aren't any denizens wandering around, but this is a world where a chunk of people randomly disappear, are gone for weeks/months/years, and then just equally-randomly return. It wouldn't surprise me if, at the very least, they don't find the idea of the supernatural, and non-human people like Lake, to be as strange and out there as we would if we encountered something simlar.
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So the fourth season is any worth? Because I got from the trailer less sympathy from the band due whereas one in clearly not so into it but to afraid to said than from the Apex guys. And i really disliked the Apex guys.
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Just binged season four. It was… eh. It was fine but nowhere near as strong as the earlier seasons.
It didn't wrap up any of the ealier plots really (and given they had an eight season plan, it feels very "middle") and just sort of moved along. The new rooms didn't feel as inventive and the main character drama just... eh. Very much "you the viewer know the rules, so lets go through the motions now."
The ending was decent, and overall it was... fine, but it was a really weak final season.
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It probably wasnt intended as a final season. Its more of a breather for heavier future seasons… that will never come... Poop.
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Yeah, its pretty clearly designed as a breather after how heavy the previous seasons got but… in these productions you ALWAYS have to assume the season your doing is the last. You can lay seeds for future stuff and have hopes and plans... but always try to bring your best to what you're doing.
This would have eben fine if they knew they were guaranteed for another 40 episodes... but they didn't know that. So making a breather season is just kind of... eh.
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Just finished the season and, as Robby said, yeah it's fine. Not great, but I enjoyed it.
I was hoping there'd be some big twist along the way, but no. It was all very conventional.
I hope we do get more seasons, but if that was the last season, then yeah, kind of a disappointment.