are you okay do you have something you're dealing with do you need to travel to a pocket Dimension
to work through them well do I have the show for you may I offer you something called Infinity
train commonly labeled the best sci-fi series that no one is watching well more so now that
HBO Max has wiped it from the face of the Earth for whatever corporate tax benefiting
Reasons from the higher-ups the series focuses on a group of characters in every season some
already established some not and each season addresses different topics such as divorce
grief Prejudice personal identity trauma and so much more it's a visual cacophony of abstract
imagery and manifestations of internal problems that inherently sets the sturdy pillars for the
many heavy stories to come I'll admit that I was late getting into the show after hearing
about how great it was by so many people I decided to check it out and I must say this
show beautifully balances this line of fun and cool sci-fi elements but it's all held
together by the heart of the show the writing and the characters I found myself immediately
entrance by what the show had to offer so today let's take take a look at Infinity train well
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the show is wholly unique and is a character of its own the train itself being the literal on the
nose vessel for each character we focus on story of their own personal circumstances that they're
conflicted with whether that be soul-searching for yourself or finding the understanding to what led
you here to the train in the first place it really boils down to self-acceptance from the characters
we meet and follow throughout each series of the show as well as the main antagonist of the show
characters are written more intricately like how a real person isn't just good or bad they aren't
just one thing or the other there's a level of nuance that helps Define these characters and
the reasons they go about their Journeys or why they do or have done the actions they've
committed the point of this metaphorical train and I guess actual train as we see it represented is
that it is meant for you to work things out not the solution to your personal issues there's a
reason why once you do figure things out and the number on your hand that binds you to not leaving
the train fully hit zero that a door leading back to your home appears it's your stop the
train is the journey you take from the start of your self-realizations to where and who you
are after once you reach your destination sure it's a little on the nose about what the train
represents but just like most things in life it's about the journey not the destination and
infinity train is able to beautifully capture true feelings emotions and sentiments that you
can resonate with while being able to relate to anyone the show doesn't skew the writing to
accommodate for younger demographics while any age can enjoy the show it was made story first
and easily gained an older audience because of its writing and themes now let's take a look
at the different books or seasons of the show who and what they were focused on no one knows
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each season of the show would be its own new journey within the train new stories
new characters new personal dealings to work out book one The Perennial child focuses on the story
of tulip who introduces us to the world within the infinity train she's a young game designer
who is struggling with dealing with the reality of her parents recent separation leading Separate
Lives there's a lot of Kinks that need to be ironed out so naturally both of her parents
schedules are unable to accommodate driving her to a game-designed camp a few hundred miles away
her sense of reason is overcome by frustration and determination so she decides that she's just going
to walk herself to Camp she doesn't get very far before she runs into a train that's course
blocks her path in the middle of the forest she then wakes up in an unfamiliar place as well as
having an ominous glowing green number on her Palm she quickly befriends a robot and names
him 1-1 who is two robots together in one sad one and glad one together have to make sense
of the strange world and how to get home using her game design skills she's able to figure her
way out of the unfamiliar place to discover that she was just on one train car and running off the
train results in wealth death after some trial and error and making lots of friends and a few
enemies along the way with the inhabitants of each pocket Dimension train car she is able to grow and
work through her problems which reflects in the number on her hand going down when her number
reaches zero she is granted a special door back home having completed the task of some sort of
personal breakthrough of course it's not that straightforward season 1 offers a lot of twists
and turns and ups and downs we learned that one one was the original conductor of the infinity
train that was created in good conscious as a way to help people who are struggling in their lives
but a grief-stricken woman takes over the train and is trying to figure out how to manipulate the
train car dimensions to create a world where her deceased lover exists tulip 1-1 and our fave Corgi
King Atticus must work together to not only defeat the false conductor Emilia but also help her
reverse the damage that she has done so that she she may grow and learn how to deal with her grief
healthily Book 2 Cracked reflection focuses on a different main character in the first season's
episode the Chrome car we meet tulip's reflection who initially tricks her into swapping places with
her so that mirror Tula can be her own person in the real world they both escape and exist in
the real world parting ways but not before the reflection police who are able to physically
manifest in an effort to track mirror tulip or Mt and drag her back to where she's supposed
to be Creator Owen Dennis says that he didn't want to make the transition from season 1 to
season 2 to jarring for fans of the series that had grown to love Tula so we chose to tell the
story of another character that was established in the first season who inherently is not tulip
herself but comes from her Mt is quick to change her appearance and be her own person both as a
method of independent expression but also so that she isn't recognized as I wanted fugitive on the
train she meets lovable and wholesome jock figure Jesse and while he's open to making friends she is
initially abrasive and closed off he accommodates it's her due to them having made a mutual friend
in the form of an omnipotent deer the friend of a friend concept soon after Jesse learns who Mt
really is and decides to help her in trying to get off the infinity train to do so she must
obtain a number so that she can get it down to zero and be permitted entry into the real world
while also helping Jesse work through his personal issues involving his brother the two of them go on
adventures that draw them closer together they meet 1-1 and evade the police even more book 3
Cult of the conductor is one of my favorites centering around the social implications of
dropping people in a dimension without instruction because not everyone would assume you need to get
your number to zero Grace and Simon are our main protagonists we had met them briefly in the second
season as they run a group of kids called the Apex who have taken over and made their permanent home
inside of a mall cart they run a society basically where rank is determined by how high your number
goes they realize that the more Havoc they reek in each car seeing the sentient creatures
which they have named nulls in each car as Bay basically NPCs they commit intense atrocities
towards these unconventional civilizations they recruit and teach other passengers of the train
that the numbers are supposed to go up after being separated from the Apex cart after an
act of casual terrorizing Grace and Simon must travel together dozens of carts to find their
way home along the way they befriend a young girl named Hazel and her mother figure tuba the
instigator for Grace's moral dilemma comes when it's revealed that Hazel is actually a null her
true form being a turtle from one of the cards the false conductor Amelia made in an attempt
to recreate her life Grayson Hazel had already grown such a strong bond that Grace initially
doesn't hesitate to protect Hazel however things get very complicated when Simon finds out that
she had been withholding that information and basically lying to him having been traumatized
by a null that he befriended abandoning him his true reason for hating Knowles is revealed and
while Grace goes towards the light Simon goes towards the dark really really fast book 4 duet
is entirely focused on characters that we had not met or been introduced to in past seasons
in fact it takes on the more traditional form of Storytelling that was similar to how tulip's story
started at home in the real world establishing the real life problems that the characters are dealing
with main characters mingi and Ryan both enter the infinity train together I would also like to note
that the two characters were born in the 1960s and the time in which they are on the infinity train
would be 1985. the two of them having first met as babies and neighboring incubators had always
been best friends who shared the dream of being a successful musical Duo but when ningi decides
to take a more traditional route of University they split up leaving Ryan to follow their dreams
alone after having been split up and following different Paths of life for many years they are
reconnected and that's when they are thrown onto the train they immediately befriend Kaz a talking
Bell that proves to be very problematic but also incredibly loyal and pure intentioned they must
figure out how to learn lessons about themselves together their character flaws quickly becoming
obvious despite fighting so much and having to work through their problems they refused to
get off the train without the other one and both reject their doors waiting for the other's number
to reach zero they must also avoid all of kaza's enemies and figure out what her intentions are
with them as well the most impactful moment is not with the main characters themselves
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Infinity train was created by the Regular Show writer and storyboard artist Owen Dennis in
creating this series he sort of worked backwards so in knowing that every story at its very core
starts with a main character who basically is forced to learn something about themselves or
change in some way why not make a physical manifestation of that in the form of an
inescapable train where you literally must solve your problems that are attributed to a literal
number in order for you to return home in Dennis's words you are forced to face life or you die while
season one really focuses on the singular struggle of tulip we do get some slight World building and
a look into the other conflicts that are going on but season two and three are where things
really start getting a bit more interesting in the scope of the world and the concept of this
train is really picked apart we get to explore so many different stories in the inner workings of
the train and the consequences of making people work through their problems is really all laid
out on the table this is where I feel the best and most unique writing and storytelling is used
I think season one is incredibly important as it establishes the uni universe and sets the tone for
what's to come and it does it really well because there was this established place for characters
to work out their problems and develop Dennis only after started thinking about the characters
that would benefit from being put in this world from there he built the characters of tulip Mt
Grace mingy and Ryan for tulip specifically he was inspired by two women who visited Cartoon
Network as Google programming representatives and gave a talk when they were talking about their
experiences and their feelings he immediately reflected that onto tulip's character as a female
programmer on the train as a new experience visually he was influenced by The Matrix and
other things like Star Wars Starship Troopers and Jurassic Park he was also influenced by
the mysterious stranger a segment from the 1985 film The Adventures of Mark Twain there was also
more heavy inspiration from Over the Garden Wall this is evident in not only its similar
brief run times but also in the world building or within the interesting and strange characters the
series has a very approachable layout with only 10 episodes a season each episode being a around
10 to 11 minutes you can watch it in the way that Dennis would recommend it which is two segments a
night for five nights as a season similar to how Cartoon Network screened Over the Garden Wall or
you could do what I did and finish it in like seven and a half hours I have no self-control
whether that be binge watching a show or eating McDonald's the intro music itself has a heavy
synth and hair-raising mysterious sound the music of the series was made by Chrome Canyon who had
experience scoring in the past and had made an album named Elemental themes that Dennis
loved through and through Dennis reached out in Chrome Canyon agreed to compose the score for
the series they both were on the same wavelength and he took Dennis's request of a general mood
of creepy Adventure horror synth he referenced never-ending story it follows Nightmare on Elm
Street the mysterious stranger Blade Runner missed Majora's Mask Dune and more although the original
soundtrack has not been released Dennis answered that it was not up to him to release it but he
did make and post a playlist of the songs that inspired the music for the series found at his
Spotify account named Owen Dennis the infinity Train original 8-minute pilot episode premiered
on Cartoon Network November 1st 2016 and the reception was electric everyone was demanding
more kicking off with a premiere date of August 5th 2019 season 1 and 2 were both aired on Cartoon
Network after this the series instead premiered on HBO Max for releases over the course of three
weeks of season 3 and a large all at once drop for season four Dennis actually revealed in a
tweet that the plan all along was to air the series on HBO Max but because of delays in the
streaming services launch date the first two were aired on Cartoon Network instead I'd love to get
another season of this series and that seems to be the general consensus with fans on the
internet Dennis built his own gold mine with infinity train he literally set up infinite
stories to tell in infinite places to explore he has actually revealed that there were lots
of plans for the future of infinity train they wrote a movie that was supposed to be a season
5 but it was passed on by HBO Max because they believed it wouldn't have a child entry point
he also would have loved to fully dive into the story of Amelia and Hazel the two of them would
provide such an interesting relationship as Hazel is Amelia's creation that was born from
her grief Hazel also is very confused and alone not knowing anything about who she is and how
she was created and just in general she is a small child and Amelia is a lonely adult trying
to write all of her wrongs that she has done it would have happened in a few seasons Dennis said
he also mentions that they wrote a movie about Amelia's rise to power which also would have been
interesting to see and most likely is the season 5 movie that he referenced in a separate interview
but if it's not hey I'll never complain about more content there are also thoughts about future books
five six seven and eight which would have covered themes of grief guilt Revenge acceptance and even
Alzheimer's in addition to a Christmas special that they had plans for making there was also
a little development into creating a game not just a Flash Player Cartoon Network game but
a VR Infinity train experience where you could hang out and solve puzzles in corginia only 10
people were able to to play this game however but I would have loved to be able to experience it but
as Dennis reiterates many shows come back after cancellation just because it's not what Cartoon
Network is looking to make at the moment doesn't mean there's not a future for this series there
was actually an art exhibition in Los Angeles's Gallery nucleus that exhibited art by the crew
exclusive Infinity train merchandise and even a panel with Dennis himself so go ahead and show
support to the series where you can because this series is beautiful and could tell some
more amazing stories in the future if networks see how much people care about this show did Infinity
train ever draw you in with its unique world and characters which season or book was your favorite
and why let me know in the comments thanks so much for watching like And subscribe later foreign
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