I don't know whether it's even possible for traditional animation to have bottle episodes. The equivalent is probably a clip-show.

They're also made on the cheap, use standing sets, and typically only use regulars. Traditional animation doesn't have "sets", since everything has to be hand-drawn and animated, and from the looks of things this episode wouldn't have been particularly cheap to produce. Bottle Episodes end up being closer in style to…

Edit: It's a digital effect, but it's not undercranking (which is technically impossible with a digital camera, since they don't, you know, have cranks). It doesn't look like the frame rate has been affected at all.

Kitsch.

Um, no.

I'm pretty sure Qwerty doesn't survive — I think the fish changes at least once between episodes.

I think a big part of the problem is that there's no real consistency to the term's use. Sometimes it's used to mean someone who's typecast — the above article seems to suggest that character actors are a certain subset of this kind, where they can only themselves, essentially.

Yeah, sure? Why would that affect anything?

Yes that's offensive, on multiple levels. It's also not true.

Yes, I understand the reasons we have terminology, I just don't understand why we're bothering to a) pigeon-hole this show into some category, or b) why this will particularly help any kind of criticism.

Genre's are loose by definition. Noir usually takes place in a city, often has a dame seduce the lead into danger, might might be about an ex-cop. Ergo, Veronica Marz isn't Noir.

Yeah, uh, Talbot's still a pretty unrepentant racist. So maybe we're operating with some new meaning of the word "valourize", maybe meaning "do vaguely good things (when I bother to pay attention)."

But The Brink, UnREAL and Mr Robot makes…

Does A.S. not like Babylon 5?

2009, when he was the lead in Rob Thomas's attempt to reboot his own show, Cupid?

Oh, maybe I'm thinking of The Saboteurs then.

For what it's worth, Helix did The Thing in all but name just two years ago, and was aggressively shit about it too.

For the record: this is an excellent comment, the joke of which is sadly completely deflated by disqus's completely out-of-character decision to actually delete one of those fucking spam bots in a timely matter. Of course, the only time they'd do that would be when it _wasn't_ useful.

They're licencing it, not renewing it. It's produced, paid for and dependant upon a German television company.

She had someone fuck around with his programming, I believe. She says as much in the scene.