i was writing this whole thing about. listening to all the d&d segments of harmontown. and how it’s such a mess. how often the joke is just, jeff davis mentioning aids. and the audience cheering at that? ‘i fuck the giant fish so the fish gets aids and then it’ll die’ like god can u imagine having paid to be in the audience of that its such a low fucking bar? this was after, really early on, there’s this interlude about how like. Dan Harmon can’t tell jokes. so jeff gives him some jokes. one the punchilne is just aids again. the other is child rape. presumably the remainder of the show that isn’t d&d is like that, i guess. and like. uh. listening to it i’m so aware of how much i’m having to make myself forgive the show just to get to the next episode. but i got up to them dropping the t slur and i just can’t anymore. i don’t think i can even hatelisten past this point. liking spencer’s style of DMing, and, you know, erin mcgathy being a ray of sunshine, it’s, sadly not enough to motivate me to get deeper into this trainwreck. especially knowing that they always run with these jokes, but that’s arguably harmon’s on stage presence, and it seems like if you stopped and said, hey that’s not funny, let’s not joke about that, it could fucking kill him. like that, consent joke moment in harmonquest. can u imagine stepping on that ego it’s like a baby chick

i think. the biggest difference between harmonquest and harmontown is that, harmonquest had a network. it presumably had someone tapping everyone on the shoulder and saying, hey keep it clean, keep it at least tolerable. keep it something that a Real Life Human Being can sit down for a half hour to watch without wincing. and the jokes are pretty limited to, uhh, the running gag that dan’s character is coming to terms with being gay. i guess. so it was still a mess from the beginning and i’m, a fucking idiot for finding media i think i like. but now seeso’s fucking dead and buried, if it ever gets a third season i’m sure it’s going to end up being the same fucking, edgy lolrandom humour that harmontown ends up as. that rick and morty is. i think my main problem is thinking dan harmon that wrote community is like, still alive and kicking somewhere, and i’m looking for that painfully aware optimistic metahumour in some painfully unaware, bitter shell of a writer