hi uh i've tried making this video about three times now let's make it very simple to start
this is just my thoughts on camp coral as the show itself and comparing it to my enjoyment of
the original spongebob show and out of respect for steven hillenburg and all of the back and
forth about the reasons the spin-off show exists or not i want to just go into this discussion
purely based off if i enjoyed what they had to offer and was it worth it to make this a spin-off
with all that being said thank you for patiently waiting for a new video i am grateful for all the
kind support on my other content and i hope you enjoy this video hit that like button if you do
also in the comments please let me know what other shows and cartoons you'd like to see me jump into
all right as a big fan of spongebob and how it's impacted my life growing up there's a level of
protection that i unknowingly have towards the show i personally think spongebob works so well
as a 2d animated show with how expressive and sometimes demonic looking the sponge and friends
can be so the idea of taking spongebob to a 3d animated space did worry me a bit going into this
now there have been so many instances of spongebob tiptoeing into the 3d world with specials
movies and even the video games now i just want to play battle for bikini bottom again
for the third time this year please help and of course the newest spongebob movie sponge on
the run fully adopts the 3d look for the entire film and also in that film we even get to see
these flashbacks to camp coral but it's spelled differently from the show but whatever it gives
us a taste of what was to come so now we have paramount plus another new streaming service this
time featuring the whole lot of viacom's offerings which yes include spongebob sidenote i will say
paramount plus looks exactly like disney plus from its name to its layout they're the same picture
one of the big launch titles on this app is you guessed it the real world homecoming new york i'm
kidding it's camp coral camp coral places the spongebob squarepants cast of characters as
children in a summer camp there isn't much more to the premise than that seriously the show takes
a lot of other ideas from other shows mixes them around and gives you this smoothie-like concoction
that is equal parts sweet and sour if you took the concept of a show like camp laszlo a show about
kid animals at a summer camp who get into various wacky circumstances but instead of new characters
we do the whole baby vacation theme like tiny toons muppet babies a pup named scooby doo so much
more in fact we can even see it in more recent examples like total dramarama basically what i'm
trying to say is that the show doesn't feel new or fresh it feels like you're reheating fast food
sure it still has the allure of what it once was but it still never tastes as good as getting the
food fresh it oddly retcons and rewrites a lot of spongebob lore the main and most prominent
example of this being sandy and the original show spongebob meets sandy for the first time fighting
a giant clam and thus starts their friendship now would this be too much of a distraction to
take me out of what the show had to offer no there are things like this that i can get past as long
as the show makes use of having a character like sandy around and surprisingly that they do in fact
sandy is the key to making all of this make sense and i'll explain the best i can without spoiling
anything so don't worry about that please i first thought this show was somewhat of an
alternate timeline there are characters here as kids camp counters etc that at these younger ages
should have never met or at least don't make sense meeting beyond just sandy i kind of saw this as
what american horror story does same cast now in a new setting obviously in this situation though
they're still the same versions of themselves and not new characters in general but everything seems
to get explained that these are the proper origins of these characters we see the rise of plankton
and how he becomes the quote-unquote bad guy as we know it but also being a more tame and deep
character krabs as a single father to baby pearl is interesting to see him having to deal with his
greed versus caring for her at the same time being a camp director which okay i don't think
i'd ever see that happening but we need a reason for him to be here so why not in sponge on the
run it gives us the connective tissue confirming that the events of camp coral actually happened
even though once again the movie spells it in a different way and makes squidward even younger
instead of a camp counselor plus a plethora of other things that are for sure weird word all
clicks together is sandy like legitimately they take time to develop a so far micro storyline
explaining how she could be at camp with spongebob at this time even though they shouldn't have
met yet but even in the new movie it retcons how they met in favor of promoting the show again
without spoiling it for you this plot may come as an interesting surprise you'll either breathe a
sigh of relief or be disappointed and while there is still some logistics to work out whether they
explain it later or not this can still be the original timeline but also could be seen as a
branch universe path trust me i know how crazy this sounds but the show brings these themes to
the table of discussion not i o okay par part of it is me maybe i just looked too deep into things
but if you watch the show i think you'd understand where i'm coming from once you see how camp coral
presents what's behind the big wizard of oz like curtain i'm repeating we're not in kansas anymore
and now let's talk about the look of the show like i mentioned earlier i think this is where i feel
this look can be a bit uncanny at some points in the show it felt like i was watching cutscenes
from a next generation spongebob video game not that i can't get over that look it's more of the
inconsistencies and limitations that animation offers i will say the animation quality in
the overall look it's better than i feared it's weird to juxtapose something like this
in 4k or hd to that of let's say jimmy neutron where in which this style of animation was a lot
more limited as well as we most likely watched it on cable in standard definition or worse and
what i'm trying to say with this is that it both feels weird and exciting to see how far we've come
with 3d animation it's clean it looks nice but the transition from spongebob's original look doesn't
always work the expressiveness in animation is hard to replicate the show offers to the best
of its abilities a lot of faithful recreations and while that's fine and all sometimes you get
weird or awkward movements and stutters in the animation that you wouldn't have or see in its
original traditional art style and i'm not saying these moments are frequent or a distraction i just
ended up noticing certain inconsistencies here and there without purposely trying to look for these
issues i wanted to be as fair and open-minded as possible about this show as each episode went on
it did feel that the overall amount of these issues lessened and the animators got more
comfortable and confident in their abilities to create more vibrant moments the back three
episodes are actually a great example of the show finding its voice and establishing what to expect
going forward i truly mean this when i say this episode 3 specifically the second segment of this
episode cabin of curiosities is my favorite thing yet from the show it's where it started to click
where it started to be its own brand of weird and where the details are placed in the little things
in that segment spongebob and patrick want to get some new camp badges which has them stumble across
the quote unquote weird cabin late one night and this is where they meet a bunch of creepy fun
characters including kid ferratu which if you know spongebob the show is no stranger to nosferatu
so to see this it was already a fun idea but to have the animation masked with a black and white
filter with screen imperfections and noise as to stand out from the other animation surrounding it
was really cool and all he does is hiss and it's a perfect homage to the original show
and to nosferatu in general there is clearly a crew of writers here who know and care about
spongebob that know the references that know what older fans of the show would like to see in order
to share the enjoyment of camp coral if you grew up with spongebob and maybe now have a kid
of your own who enjoys spongebob and is into camp coral there is enough there so far to give you an
instant attachment feeling there will be moments when you're watching that you'll go full leonardo
dicaprio and point at the screen and also episode 3 has one of my favorite gags from the show so far
where in which mr krabs gets blown up and turned into code i genuinely thought that was clever and
funny compared to one of the first jokes told in the show which where you would expect a camera pan
or a cutaway to make the joke land instead we get told something is off screen and not getting
the payoff a little different but similar enough imagine the original show when if mr crabb says
except you you stay and the clown doesn't get the quirky zoom in that's how it felt at the same time
there's a general disconnect with the show kind of tackling more risque topics but still being a very
kid-oriented show for example i find it weird when stuff like episode 4's first segment in
search of camp nudist an episode about spongebob patrick and sandy looking for a nudist colony
i think something like this in a kid's show is weird i grew up with kids shows
that had adult jokes in them that i didn't get maybe until i was older but this is just
a little too blatant i don't know that's not up for me to decide i ain't got no kids and by all
means that doesn't even mean the episode is bad i think it actually leads up to what i consider
a pretty funny bit it's just that there's this weird tonal line that the show straddles ending
up in a product that tries to please both markets for younger and older viewers but doesn't quite
stick the landing it also combines that very fast and frantic-ness that you would see in a show like
teen titans go which is the energy that a lot of networks are looking for for their shows
these minute segments sometimes fly by so fast with nothing significant happening
aside from a random assortment of events with endings abruptly ending most times and as someone
who literally struggles with adhd this show can really hurt to watch because it's too much
going on so fast i can barely comprehend what just happened i already have a hard time focusing
on things now i feel i have no time to comprehend the show at parts because of that factor speaking
of adhd and i apologize that i'm using an issue i struggle with to transition here my
good friend adhd world or life depending on which channel you're watching them on who you
may know as the biggest spongebob fan and i were speaking about the show clearly i wanted to know
his take on everything since he is such a fan of spongebob and that led to him sparing us his time
now to discuss his thoughts on camp coral what's up guys and thank you so much jordan for having me
on the channel i appreciate it so much and when jordan first reached out to me about this video
i wasn't necessarily sure if i was the right person for the job i mean obviously obviously
i like spongebob but i'm a very big fan of the spongebob 2d animation and i wasn't necessarily
sure how it was going to feel about them bringing this 3d aspect into a tv show considering that
the movie in 3d wasn't necessarily my favorite either but i do like the idea of spin-offs and
i do like the change of animation in order to keep the show alive and keep it fresh because
as a long time fan of spongebob i understand that a brand doesn't stay around for 20 30 40 years by
staying exactly the same and need to make changes they need to innovate and they need to throw you
a curveball every now and then so keeping that in mind once jordan had reached out to me i was like
okay i'm gonna watch the entire show again so i rewatched the entire show and i'd save my entire
image on a change because of my outlook when i watched it the first time i was almost looking
for things to dislike in it whereas the second time i watched it i was trying to understand this
is completely separate and try to imagine its own separate entity from the original spongebob show
and yes the show being in 3d did make the show feel a little bit empty at some point but i think
there was almost a lot of 3d shows especially for nickelodeon like jimmy neutron or fanboy and
chumchen but if you look in the background a lot of those shows and the environment in general it
feels like there's maybe like 20 people that live in the entire area and i'd say in the original 2d
animation of bikini bottom i felt like you know because of the graininess of the artwork and the
way they design everything even when there's only two or three characters on screen it still feels
like there's this gigantic world out there whereas this show it almost feels like you can sense
a grid or the end of whatever environment that you're watching at that present time but other
than that i think did an amazing job with bringing back a lot of recurring characters
keeping a lot of the humor i mean obviously the voice acting is incredible done by the same cast
from the original show and i think they did an amazing job of still keeping all the life
of the characters and also bringing them to a youthful level without completely nick junioring
the entire show it still felt mature and like something you could watch at any age and still
get a laugh out of and have some entertainment value out of and what i'd like to see later in
the show is i'm gonna really develop the world add some more details make the world feel a little bit
more alive and yes it's never gonna replace the 2d animated spongebob but i think it could eventually
become a great show to accompany it and kind of create somewhat of a lore for the fandom to follow
for years to come but as a hardcore spongebob fan whatever they do i'm gonna keep on watching it i'm
gonna try and give it a shot because i love that sponge and anyway jordan thank you for inviting
me over here it was a blast thanks so much for stopping by my friend please check out his content
links will be down below so was this the offering i personally would want to see from a spongebob
spin-off not exactly i think spongebob works best in the context of 2d animation over any of the
3d looks they've given the expressiveness of the characters the jokes whether they land or not and
the overall fun-natured feel of the square dude to me just don't translate too well in this animation
style like i said earlier the overall animation itself isn't bad sure there are some awkwardly
static moments here and there but it truly looks i guess clean maybe the right word it's sparkly it's
brand new it's something different but ultimately this feels like a step back in quality when it
comes down to how it's written while adding a lot of nuance to the characters we already know
it easily falls into the flanderization trap like some of the later seasons of the main show i've
fallen into before it really doesn't offer much more than what spongebob proper already offers
if you are just making the same thing why make it you can't have two number one that makes 11. now
this was only the first six episodes for the first season so i won't judge the series as a whole
just yet let's come back and discuss the rest of the episodes once they officially drop so until
then all i have to say is yeah what else you got thank you so much for watching i really hope you
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