This Show Reeks Of Rotten Fish.
3.0
"Bad"
I already knew that I wouldn't be feeling this Disney t.v. project as much as I have some, certain others, based on the negative reviews I read on both here and other sites. And from the descriptions and explanations, it didn't seem like one of the shows that would really appeal to me, so I was never in any rush to see it right away. But I decided to search for when it airs on the schedule grid of the cable box and I caught a couple of episodes (2 segments each, bringing them to a total of four segments) over a couple hours ago, just so I can give me review too (had the volume on mute, but the captions were on). I agree that it's one of my least favorites (if not just my least favorite), Disney or otherwise. Walt Disney Television Animation has done some much better series than this and a few others.
One of my beefs with this series is the animation. I mean, most flash animated shows have the reputation of being hated on due to the movements of characters not being as fluid as other forms of animation and that a better place for them to be viewed would be online. The characters in the pet shop who don't live in aquariums or tanks, the cat, the mouse and the snake, I don't think I can even quite consider them to be flash animated. Those three appear to be real-life, cut-out, stop-motion animated and they seem cheaper looking that the aquatic characters, the cat is especially ugly. I miss Disney's own, signature, initial animated style and would like to see a show that has that again (but only if everything else about it hold my attention to get me engaged) and I'm getting fed up with the flash animated shows. Another gripe is the sometimes freaky content. One of the episodes/segments I saw was about the dropsies, and I finally saw the ending of that episode of what a reviewer mentioned on Common Sense Media. When Milo gets put into a tank with the really sick fish and the skin/scales of one sickly fish peels off the face and onto a casserole plate, exposing facial, muscular tissue or matter. I know freaky/disturbing stuff in cartoons is nothing new (Ren & Stimpy, for one), but it's just so left-field for Disney and not what one would expect, having known the studio/company for so long, this program would make it the first in which freaky moments occur. I'm not very big on freaky mess like that, so I haven't seen many shows that involve them in the contents. Also, at the end of the segment in which Oscar becomes a goth fish, and he, Milo and Bea land on the backs of some bunnies, the bunny on which Oscar lands turns around and has an ugly/scary face. Capturing that moment may give some nightmares (which luckily I haven't had, as I already seen a pic of that scene on TV Tropes). The humor, I can't comment on in that area, as I'm still not really much of an expert on that, but as an adult, I'm gradually (or hardly) still getting more of that now.
What else I concur on is that the airwaves are over-saturated with high school-set shows like this one. We got plenty of them and it's been overdone, let something that hasn't been done (or, at least, done in a long while anyway), take over the screens. I want go over what this is about, since others here have already, if y'all who haven't seen any of it would like to know, search for and read their reviews. Not among WDTA's best, sorry. Try again (or better yet harder) Disney (which I doubt they will at this rate). I'm not feeling it at all. Oh, how I yearn for the days of the good/better old Disney Afternoon, Disney's One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids blocks.moreless