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@@tamaspapp225 who hurt you, its not his fault most religious animation hamfists messages over story telling that would help the messages work better, I'm religious and I don't care for most religious media, I don't see the problem with someone having honest criticisms about animations and their content
@@RobbinThaHoodlums No one hurt me. And I generally don't care about religious stuff at all. But it's a little boring hearing him whining about them all the time. And he just simply sounds biased, you can literally hear in his voice. He brings up that he grown up in a christian household all the time in multiple videos. Maybe he had some problem with religious parents or something, and can't let go the resentment. Back to topic. This show doesn't seems extremely bad or particularly that religious at all. But he doesn't recommend it, when he recommends way more bland, boring and flawed shows all the time.
But for real, the idea of a super scientist realizing his life (and potentially those around him) is crap and recognizing that it's because of internal problems and not external trying to go back in time to change himself only to fail because he's the product of his choices is a fascinating, almost Sisyphean concept and almost the antithesis of Rick and Morty
Honestly, the premise of an old man trying to make his past self a better person is different from Rick and Morty. It’s mainly similar dynamic but different premise. Also I didn’t know this was a mormon cartoon
@@ÖfkeliElma how about you mind your own business lol You don't know where they are in the world or their health or what kind of job and sleeping hours they have.
The elder Bramble does visibly run through an already-closed automatic door at 1:06, but the character designs are attractive and the animation is solid.
@@dinosaysrawr Watch the show. He's only in young Bramble's mind since in the show time travel isn't really time travel just sending his mind back in time to his younger self. "Solid" doesn't effect him
I worked on this show and their inspo was 100% gravity falls and Rick and Morty. I suffered a huge burnout after season 1 coz the animation industry is going to run it's course lol
The only reason I was aware of this show was becuase of a video called "Behold the Rivals to Lovers Trope...Apparently.". I find it funny how despite wanting to live a happy life, he is upset at the fact the his younger self fell in love and despises a future where he's married and eats tofu.
Bro is a super genius, I think he could develop ways to make tofu taste better to his wants. I doubt the show would've gone with that much foresight though.
I thought the time travel approach was neat. Adult Bennett doesn't actually physically travel back in time. He travels back to his consciousness at the time he aims for. So he appears in his younger self's brain like a hologram and no one else can see our hear him. Also I'm not sure if this is meant to rip off Rick and Morty. I think they're actually parodying Back to the Future but everyone's thinking about the newer thing.
the premise of a man who severely messed up and going to the past to try and fix himself is actually a really cool concept, but it also sounds like it would have to be balanced really well lol
I'm so glad someone finally covered this show! I worked on it for a year as a compositor and even though I know it has flaws I still think its a solid kids show and my kids love it. I was worried nobody would ever watch it or hear of it since it was on some random Mormon streaming site. Glad to read in the comments that some people are enjoying it. The studio was full of passionate artists and the animators, designers, and compositors working on this show put a lot of love into it. Though most of them wont be back for season 3 since the studio moved provinces after quebec animators started striking for living wages. Btw the Mormons were great clients to work for. Very polite and always very understanding. I really enjoyed working with them. Also, a correction, it was not animated in Flash, it was Toon Boom Harmony
Y’all did a wonderful job on animation. Religious cartoons usually look so rough. It being so ugly on top of bad writing and VA makes it unwatchable. I didn’t have my glasses on but I thought he was putting in clips from Disney cartoons (im not blind I just couldn’t tell if it was gravity falls or owl house clips he put in the animation is still so good!)
Sounds like your show did a much better job incorporating religious moral values compared to most religious shows that aren’t the Prince of Egypt or Veggietales. Not perfect, but at least it wasn’t condescending towards its viewers that aren’t as religious.
Hi coworker! I worked on this show as an animator and it was a great project. The client was indeed very respectful and the team was passionate. Thank you for correcting Saberspark regarding the software used. The correct term for this kind of animation is Cut-Out Animation, because of the process of cutting the character into a rig for animation.
Even with the not-so original story and writing, Saving Me still got the job done right with interesting concepts and characters. The team behind the series put A LOT more effort into it than the crappy ones. I would love to see you talk about Little Dogs on the Prairie sometime, that show is hilarious and secular!
Holy shit, someone actually remembers this show. My mom and I would watch it while killing time at our job cleaning houses. We'd have to wait to be dismissed by the owners and they would let us watch TV while we wait for them to come back and it was actually pretty interesting. I like the darker implications of Bennett being forced to come with terms of how he screwed up his life and old Bennett reflecting on his past and having great influence on his younger self. It's a genuinely interesting idea for a show, really sad it ended on a cliffhanger.
I found out about Saving Me from an "X Meets Y" page on TV Tropes which said that Hailey's On It was "Phineas and Ferb meets Saving Me and Pepper Ann" and I was curious about Saving Me, but I was a little nervous when I found out that it was Mormon. I decided to watch a few episodes, and surprisingly, it wasn't really preachy and didn't mention religion at all. You could pass it off as a secular kids show that happens to have messages that Mormons can relate to.
Honestly, a lot of the shows produced by BYU don't focus too much on LDS ideology. For instance, Relative Race is a genealogy show, and God is mentioned generally in a Christian way
Yep! They have plenty of great live action shows too like Ruby and The Well that don't have any religious messaging, they're just there to be fun family friendly stories
@@YokaiDisorderI feel like, dispite basically being the closest thing to being the main seminary the LDS have (actual seminaries in Mormonism are like Jewish Yeshivas where teenagers go to get trained religously), BYU is also pretty much the main university in Utah, (UofU is also around but seems smaller and more research based, idk I’m New Mexican) so if they make something, it’s gotta appeal to Mormons, ex-Mormons and non-Mormons or else be irrelevant
@YokaiDisorder And of course Studio C. That's a straight up sketch comedy show and most people who watch probably didn't know it was from a Mormon network.
Okay, but honestly, a show about a super scientist billionare who hates how his life turned out and goes back in time to help his past self is an amazing concept.
@Teacuperino What was it like working on that division for BYU? It was always interesting to me that the school made a genuine TV network with a lot of good production value on many of their shows.
Ya know, I only have this video to pull from, but it could have been interesting to have Old Benett's motivation slowly shift from "making myself a better person" to "making my friends and family's lives better" butterflying things in a subtle way that not only means he succeded in his original goal, but also makes way to keep going. We'd also need more scenes of Adult Benett's present/future to set uo the things he wants to fix, even "oh no, this girl I'm suddenly married to was so super happy with who she was with before, is her being with me the right thing?"
Yep. That would have been super rewarding! Not just in "he gains family/friends" but he himself getting happier. That way, you could have easily a set run-timeline (like Gravity Falls) and a nice big special for the ending. Maybe like. One thing that changes everything back. Or another timetraveler. And everything looks dire, but they pull through.
I actually watched hailey's on it while I was sitting in the hospital with my little cousin and it's a terrible show... good concept but holy crap, the writing was just so, so bad... Kids deserve better 😭
@@bob5253 no. That is a LIE. Hailey's a fun show. all you need to do is say 'I wasn't a fan' not outright LIE. stop trying to make the show sound as bad as Velma, because that is clickbait!
@@gracekim1998 it is like Velma in a lot of ways : the main character is a quirky girl, everything works out in the main characters favor, a lot of the characters have a crush on the main characters, everything goes her way and when it doesn't there are no consequences because everything gets magically fixed at the end, and finally they treat the main character as if she was some sort of hero all the time when both Velma and Hailey really shouldn't have that much influence I'm not saying it's just as bad as Velma but now that you mention it they do have a lot of similarities
Mormon here. This show could've gone so much harder if they had the guts to make the main character a worse person who really messed up his own life. For example: Fighting with his siblings. They should've made him estranged from his family because of something bad that he did and refused to ever apologize for. Maybe like stealing money or embarrassing them in some way. Something worth going back in time to fix.
Also A LDS Guy here , tbh I feel like it was supposed to be aimed more to kids so I see why they never really did anything too bad so meh. Good for what I watched ngl. And anyone seeing this please try to see from the other side, its clear that Saberspark has a opposing view, I can respect another person's view on stuff and always welcome it, I'ma just ask you guys too look through the other lens. Tbh I feel like most hard anti views of one thing can be softened or more understood if you look through both lens. just my opinion tho so take what ever you want with a grain of salt.
They didn't outright say it, but it's thoroughly implied that he's estranged from his siblings because he's an asshole and his mom is dead because of his selfish actions.
“Did you know that Animorphs is about child soldiers?” Hilarious (genuinely, no shade or whatever) to me every time someone learns this. Some of the books are a little goofy, it was for children, but it doesn’t hold back on the body horror and harshness of war. Series still holds up today, if a little dated. I think it’d make for a great animated show.
When Saberspark said he’d watch a show about the Animorphs finding God, I just thought “they did (sort of) in book 7 and various other times throughout the series”.
10:50 Funny you should say that. My Catholic school had Animorphs in the first-grade section of the library and I grew up with it. It's probably why I'm a furry. I tried to go to the book store to find the books my school didn't have and fill in the story gaps, but I was told they hadn't heard anyone ask for Animorphs in a decade
I thought I was the only person who was aware of this garbage. I didn't know it was a Mormon cartoon, though. The "Mormonism" must have been in season 2 because I only saw the first season.
It seems to avoid the usual pitfalls of a typical "religious cartoon" by not overtly cramming the religion into the show as an obvious message. Honestly this is probably the best way to do it. You can make a show that highlights your religion's values without ever once saying anything religious in it. All those braindead Christian cartoons could learn a thing or two from Saving Me. It might not be all that great, but it's far from the slop the Evangelicals shovel out to their kids.
It would be funny to me if the sister turned out to be a super villain with a doofenshmirtz origin that's like she's a villain now because her brother didn't play with her.
It reminds me more of the 2009 Dennis and Gnasher show. The main character's mum in particular for some reason. Dub a scene of her with a working class British accent and I'd be like "oh, it's the Dennis cartoon" without question.
@@Firestar-TV his name is Reginald Snodgrass one of the richest person in town and own all most all the town. he even steal other people tech and remake them into weapons to sell. plus other world tech as well.
20:45 I might be stretching here but I can't help but feel the reason for this is that they do want to imply he's made way worse mistakes and decisions but cannot go too far in saying what he did. On one hand, this may be because of a child friendly tone, but considering what plenty of sympathetic characters have done in shows like Steven Universe I think it's more a fear of moral grayness. A lot of religious children's media refuses to *touch* upon the subject of making your protagonists too flawed for fear of sending a "bad message" or making them "bad role models". This is really unfortunate because, not only does it stunt writing, but also goes against the themes of redemption which is supposed to be one of the most major pillars of Christianity. It doesn't work no matter the audience or perspective.
you are right on how he going back to chain things for the better, plus there is one KEY POINT IN TIME he is trying to keep from happening or chain how it happen to save the world or more to save his family.
I think the way you can make the sister stuff more impactful is not if he k"lls her, because then he could just turn back time and undo that, but if she ends up dieing because of a terminal illness that not even him could cure. That he is a genius and yet was left powerless in this event. And it would make sense why he'd want to tell himself to stop arguing with his sister then. Because he now realizes how every second he had with her was precious time that he wasted.
Season two plot twist: each change future Bennet makes just creates a new timeline, but he can only travel back through his own personal history. That’s why the emotional impact of the changes don’t seem to stick around. He’s creating potentially better versions of himself that branch off, but he’s incapable of seeing where they end up as they are no longer in his personal history
but then what about the cops busting in because he became a bad boy in the past? Wished it didn't, loved your idea, would have made so much more sense.
From what I understand, Older Bennett v1 travels back in time mentally to his younger self and that interaction leads Young Bennett to develop into a bazillion different versions of himself and Older Bennett v1 basically takes the place of all other versions of Older Bennett, which would explain why the cops were there when he became a bad boy (they wouldn't be there in Older Bennett v1's timeline) and why Older Bennett v1 explained to Young Bennet v??? that he doesn't just magically acquire the memories of the different life-times he's lived. It would also explain why the differences between timelines are alarming to him. Change and adjustment take time, and when you're faced with masquerading as this person who's lived a very specific life with very specific relationships who you encouraged to become better than you, trying to figure out how you can possibly measure up or face the fact that this universe has, as far as you know, lost this better version of yourself has got to boggle the mind at least a little.
Seems like it was developed as a 13-18 year old demographic, but written for a 5-9 year old demographic. The memory loss of character progression between episodes is more typical of shows marketed to kids.
You should review The Wingfeather Saga. It's another show made by Christian creators, but I actually think it's quite good so far. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
Why didn’t they make it so that the old guy was going back in time to stop his past self from accidentally killing his sister? Maybe somehow his awful relationship with her ended up causing her death, and so he spent the rest of his life inventing time travel to bring her back by getting his past self to be a better brother. That’s an automatic emotional character motivation that would just make him really interesting. May be a bit dark for a kids’ show, but idk, I’m not a professional writer or anything. I think it would work if executed in the right way. Edit: wrote this, unpaused the video, and Saber immediately said the same idea XD My point still stands though!
it more then stopping himself from doing one thing. there is a KEY POINT IN TIME he trying to chain when it come, but it start coming about one year before it happen.
I know a lot of people dislike this kind of art style but i always liked characters designed to be simple and easy to redraw, especially for an artist like me. Dunno if i'll ever watch the show but i think a lot of the characters are pretty cute tbh.
Honestly, this is a good middle ground in style. I tend to get very tired of the even more simplified examples like Powerpuff girls or Titans Go. (Not knocking those for any other reasons.) Visually, one of my favorite cartoons will always be Thundercats. (And for a ton of other reasons, but that's a main one. lol) Disney's Gummi Bears was always another fun one, imo.
as a former hardcore animorphs fan I was not expecting the show or books to be namedropped in this video XD I forgot how bad that show was lol the books went HARD tho and still do, Applegate is a legend (they're all free on her website btw go read them!)
The thing about fighting with siblings reminds me of Friendship is Magic’s BBBFF song. “We never had a single fight,” Twilight sings, and I honestly think that sounds really unhealthy. Like “one of them is going to kill the other with an axe” unhealthy.
I feel like maybe the thing to do here would have been to have Old Bennett travel back in time in the first episode to stop something terrible and then get stuck in the present and become a mentor to himself. The time travel being super casual opens up a lot of potential issues that are resolved if it's a one-and-done. You could also have a fish-out-of-water element as Old Bennett readjusts to the present and tries to rebuild his technology.
sorry to say there is no one and done bit with this show. there is a KEY POINT IN TIME he like to keep from happening or chain how it happen. but to get there he have to go back and fix stuff or make it happen in a softer way so it do not brake what will happen later.
I feel like there's some respect owed for using flash when there are a number of really simple but gimmicky and crap animation softwares available. It's not the easiest thing on the planet to work with but it really gives you creative possibilities and has been used in professional shows.
late in the video you mention that whilst his timeline does change older bennett's memories do not, i have to give the show a break on this little bit, its a common trope of time travel that time travelers are themselves unaffected.
i think it working both ways with how the memories are working in the show. Eddy 34 shows him what happen and then he go back in time to fix or make it lest broke when it happen.
Yeah same here though I have a feeling people who aren't lds think we only watch lds media which I'm sure in some housholds is the case but most lds households I know watch all types of media
I think the premise of this show would work a lot better if it did discuss the idea of the butterfly effect, and had at least one line about why he feels he needs to go back so far to stop something so minor to improve his life (i.e. explaining that he and his sister had a huge falling out later in life as a result of their bad childhood relationship, which lead to a depressive episode or lack of support when one of them needed it, and snowballing from there). Such minor explanations and ideas would both make the adult feel more scientific and logical (because he's overanalyzed his life to find the earliest moment in the chain he can actually fix) and explain why he's going back to stop his 9 year old self from being mean to his sister
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The concept behind this show (a terrible person traveling back in time to try to make their past self be better but failing because they're a terrible teacher) is actually really cool, and I'd love to see it done right someday
I watched this whole series around the time it first released and I never really made the connection that it had any sort of religious connection. All the morals just seemed like the standard things you expect from any kids show to me. I thought it was really nice especially since it's all free to watch.
if you look up the full song for the show, then you get more of a religious to it. to me the full song make it fill like God is helping you find your way home by letting your older self come back and help make it better.
Honestly, from all those other bad animated shows, this one seems to be the most competent one. It does not even look bad to be honest - it needed a bit more proper direction in the storyline and dialogue.
Old white haired science man has adventures with brown hair child? That’s copying Rick and Morty. But the actual bones of the show are not really connected to it.
Oh yeah, animorphs and pokemon being off-limits (or banned) because of evolution will always get a chuckle out of me. Because the two actually disprove evolution, since the changes in those two properties are instant and not gradual over generations. But that would require actually knowing what evolution is and, well, these banning groups tend not to.
12:55 - "I guess instead of going to therapy as an adult, it's easier to go back in time and change things." Considering that Rick Sanchez literally turned himself into an armless vegetable just to avoid going to family therapy, inventing time travel to avoid therapy honestly sounds like a very in-character for this scientist to do.
Kinda like the character designs in this one, to be honest. The Older version of the protagonist looks like a detective from a Neuromancer cyberpunk story. Maybe if they made two completely different characters (maybe a "Time Detective" who just get the help of a kid, like the Time Squad cartoon, for a quick possibility), instead of younger and older version, the conflict would be more interesting between them. Just drop few subtle moral lessons at the end of each episodes, like He-Man and Masters of Universe, and you got a reasonable better product.
Honestly, I'm really hoping they have another season where they explain how Bennett killed his mom, caused something bad with the alien alliance, started the apocalypse, and alienated all his siblings. I'm kind of expecting that he went down the route of being so focused on what he could do that he forgot whether he should do it, combined it with greed and became an intergalactic arms dealer and fueled an intergalactic war, rejected all his family's attempts to talk some sense into him with a heavy dose of denial and "They've never seen my brilliance, I'll show them!" and failed to be there for his family when war came knocking on their doorstep, effectively abandoning his family to some invading aliens, at which point his mom used her combat training to save them but lost her own life, and now all that's left between him and his family is the bitterness. I could see why he would simultaneously be too ashamed/pained to bring it up with Young Bennett, and desperately want to get his younger self more invested in and trusting of his family. It could also explain why he cares so much about becoming less greedy and more cautious around the use of his/their inventions. It would also explain why the alien alliance attempts to arrest him that one time *and* why the world looks like a dystopia. It would also explain the whole, "Mom's great, but I feel too guilty to spend a whole lotta time around her, and now I gotta cry," rant.
So the older guy is basically the bait and switch Zurg is really a future version of Buzz Lightyear somehow, but it seems better written than Lightyear.
Oh gosh, I've seen both and it's definitely better than light-year XD Saving Me can feel kinda meh at times, but the future version of yourself is definitely executed better here. I like how future Bennett has the goal of making his past self less selfish while continually failing to recognize that he himself is still acting selfish and needs to improve too
Sounds like a show with an interesting concept going back in time to fix things you regret could be interesting. Having it to where both versions of himself can learn from one another would be great as the older version knows things are wrong but doesn't always have the answers. Leaving it to his younger self to think about it differently. I know they wanted to focus on kids, but the concept would be cool to have focus on other parts in his life as well. I'm sure he regrets more things than just when he was 9.
10 out of 10 if this show had the guts to have young Bennett accidently kill the younger sister, and that was the twist at the end. That's the one thing he couldn't tell his younger self, or it would break space time or something.
I think the idea is really good, but the execution didn't have much effort put into it. I think having a specific goal in mind would be good. I also think having something that he hates that he did, but he can't remember when it happened. or like a specific thing he wants to fix in every episode. A death, fighting, bullies, maybe even a test that have he had passed he'd have a better life! I also think that he should have more character building, the sister getting nicer because he was being kinder to her, young Bennet realizing how bad he's been or the bad stuff he's done and feeling a ton of guilt. That guilt could build and build as he realizes more terrible things as his future self keeps coming back. and then a big emotional moment that leaves older bennet to not want to travel back, but he's conflicted cus he wants to get everything fixed, but the more he goes back the worse young Bennets mental health gets. i think that would be good for the show
Old Bennett invented time-travel through the mind, that his younger self have first think of it. so when he go back in time, only himself can see the older self.
Honestly despite the parallels to Rick and Morty, this is actually a pretty solid concept for a show. Especially if it’s got good messages without being too preachy. Honestly this could be really deep and clever if some of it was rewritten
He wast visited by his future self his future self was vacating in the past and Stewie happen to see him on TV and went out to find him because he thought that was his real dad
I personally think both shows are poggers It's not meant to be a rip off or a religious show. Just a family friendly sci fi show about a guy being really bad at helping his younger self be better because he himself is still self centered
It made me think of "Meet the Robinsons" more then Rick & Morty. Obviously with a twist and being the other way around. The adult trying to help the child version. Instead of how its done in Robinsons with it being his future family (not realising it's him) trying to push him to never give up his dreams. While this is the other way around with the adult trying to tell his younger self to not do the bad he's done because of the consequences he ends up with and regretting. While in Robinson's it's the other way with always feeling like a let down and no one wants him around. (failed inventions and not being adopted) Even though he ends up with a loving family and a brilliant inventor by "keep moving forward"
This is the first I'm seeing this, but I have to say, while it certainly does look something like Rick and Morty, it makes me think even more so of Gravity Falls. The animation quality alone surprises me, and looks great, or at least wayyyy better than I would have expected for a religious cartoon. But yeah, I figure this show will drive me crazy for the resetting effect like it does for you. I'm probably going to try watching it though. I've always had kind of an obsession with time travel content as well, even though it typically causes the worst chaos ever. Movies like 12 Monkeys are low key traumatizing for me, since it seems like the fact would be that even if we could ever time travel, we couldn't actually change anything, and everything is either predetermined or stuck in a loop for eternity. Or there's a mesh I tend to imagine, of Back to the Future with Rick and Morty, where if one manages to travel back in time, the very act of doing so instantly changes everything from that point on, or... so it seems, but that time traveling actually rips you into an altered reality, though you might not ever be able to tell until far later.
I'm not saying it isn't a crappy show, because I haven't seen it to judge, but we should probably try not to compare things to each other so much and call things a rip-off by all parties. The show was probably pitched with radically different ideas in a different tone, and producers and financiers probably got involved and made sure it had undertones of what's popular at the time, which is Rick and Morty. It happens all the time in media. An unfortunate homogenization. For instance, the show Solar Opposites has that rapid fire nonsense talking pattern that Rick and Morty does too but it's a pretty good and unique show in its own right if you give it a chance.
Amusingly I found out about this show from a RUclipsr reviewing the early episodes of Hailey’s On It. It looks like a fun show from the small bits I’ve seen. Though I got to agree if you’re going the time travel route you have to make sure you have everything planned out properly. Especially if the theme is about actions and consequences. I miss Animorphs. 😢
Yeah, the religion itself was not mentioned in the show at all. I didn’t even know it was made with religious reasons until now. I feel like he’s kinda making a mountain out of a molehill here, as at least it ain’t just reading religious book text out of the Bible lazily.
I actually think we should normalize parents being in love and affectionate with each other. That shouldn't be something they have to hide from their kids, with the exception of explicitly sexual stuff ofc. I always found it kind of weird that acknowledging your family have sex lives is so gross. They're just people.
1:54 oh snap, that is some cool animation emulating Prince of Egypt EXCELLENT JOB TO YOUR TEAM MAKING THAT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 i'm not sure Caleb and Sophia is something that I really look forward to. but that part was straight fire. looking forward to whenever the full thing comes out. 👍❤
I'm just glad to hear you're still working on the Caleb & Sophia video. Take as long as you need - I'm sure it will be awesome and I can't wait to eventually see it.
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Yeah, what a shocker. Another christian show that isn't that good for YOU!
So glad you got a new puppy!!!
@@tamaspapp225 who hurt you, its not his fault most religious animation hamfists messages over story telling that would help the messages work better, I'm religious and I don't care for most religious media, I don't see the problem with someone having honest criticisms about animations and their content
@@RobbinThaHoodlums No one hurt me. And I generally don't care about religious stuff at all. But it's a little boring hearing him whining about them all the time.
And he just simply sounds biased, you can literally hear in his voice. He brings up that he grown up in a christian household all the time in multiple videos. Maybe he had some problem with religious parents or something, and can't let go the resentment.
Back to topic. This show doesn't seems extremely bad or particularly that religious at all. But he doesn't recommend it, when he recommends way more bland, boring and flawed shows all the time.
But for real, the idea of a super scientist realizing his life (and potentially those around him) is crap and recognizing that it's because of internal problems and not external trying to go back in time to change himself only to fail because he's the product of his choices is a fascinating, almost Sisyphean concept and almost the antithesis of Rick and Morty
For real. I think the concept *actually* has merit/potential.
There's a TV show called "Being Erica" with sort of that premise; though in this case it's her therapist that's enabling the time travel
Agreed, the premise of trying to be your own life coach using time travel is an interesting concept to me. The themes that can emerge from that--
Exactly it like too loud being a rip off of the loud hose people’s latch on to the most superficial similarity and make a federal case out of it
I agree. It may not be the best, but once you get past all the Mormon stuff, it’s actually a nice and very underrated
You wasted the opportunity to nickname it “Rick & Mormy”
Jerry Smith should've been Joseph Smith
Rick and Moroni
THATS WHAT IM SAYIN
@@NicoEdgy 🎵"Joseph Smith was called a prophet, dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb!" 🎵
Thank God you said it I needed to know others felt this pain. It was right there
I was not expecting rapping Moses today
Me neither but I’m here for it! 😂
If I had a nickel for everytime Moses was in a rap battle. I would have two nickels. It's not a lot but it's strange that it happens twice.
Bro if you are in europe or easter sleep what are you doing at this hour! I care about your actıvity and body
Makes sense because Moses had a stutter.
what this has to do with a religious fairy tale figure
Honestly, the premise of an old man trying to make his past self a better person is different from Rick and Morty. It’s mainly similar dynamic but different premise.
Also I didn’t know this was a mormon cartoon
I gotta learn more about the things you were mentioning..
Wasn’t that the premise of Haley’s on it? Which was cancelled, because it was very good imo.
@@bearerofbadnews1375 Not really, because here the future self was a terrible person and want to create a better future for himself.
Bro if you are in europe or easter sleep what are you doing at this hour! I care about your actıvity and body
@@ÖfkeliElma how about you mind your own business lol
You don't know where they are in the world or their health or what kind of job and sleeping hours they have.
All things considered this isn't horribly animated for what it is.
Yeah, honestly you can do a whole lot worse with flash
I was actually surprised by how good this looks, compared to other projects Saberspark has covered.
The elder Bramble does visibly run through an already-closed automatic door at 1:06, but the character designs are attractive and the animation is solid.
@@dinosaysrawr I think its because he is a hologram or a projection
@@dinosaysrawr Watch the show. He's only in young Bramble's mind since in the show time travel isn't really time travel just sending his mind back in time to his younger self. "Solid" doesn't effect him
I worked on this show and their inspo was 100% gravity falls and Rick and Morty. I suffered a huge burnout after season 1 coz the animation industry is going to run it's course lol
Dang, burnout sucks. That's really cool you worked on this though
@@CheesyLizzyi remember seeing the designs and the notes from the client being 'BYU', and after looking it up I went '...uhoh' lol
I was just thinking dude looked like Stan Pines brother. 😂
looks like ford pines
I definitely remember feeling the GF inspiration from what I've seen of this, but that's not inherently a bad thing.
The only reason I was aware of this show was becuase of a video called "Behold the Rivals to Lovers Trope...Apparently.". I find it funny how despite wanting to live a happy life, he is upset at the fact the his younger self fell in love and despises a future where he's married and eats tofu.
Bro is a super genius, I think he could develop ways to make tofu taste better to his wants. I doubt the show would've gone with that much foresight though.
//lol same here!😂
I saw that one too.
He possibly had a very specific future he wanted to have.
Yeah I saw the same exact video
Moses dropping bars was not what i expected today
No... NOOOOOO!
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He dropped tablets, so…next step?
Gotta drop bars to build the ark you know?
@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 Noah built the ark.
I thought the time travel approach was neat. Adult Bennett doesn't actually physically travel back in time. He travels back to his consciousness at the time he aims for. So he appears in his younger self's brain like a hologram and no one else can see our hear him.
Also I'm not sure if this is meant to rip off Rick and Morty. I think they're actually parodying Back to the Future but everyone's thinking about the newer thing.
Rick and Morty itself is a parody of Back to the Future, so they were bound to have similarities because of that.
@Pipkiablo that's what I mean
@@PipkiabloI think only original doc and Marty or whatever was a parody
the premise of a man who severely messed up and going to the past to try and fix himself is actually a really cool concept, but it also sounds like it would have to be balanced really well lol
I'm so glad someone finally covered this show! I worked on it for a year as a compositor and even though I know it has flaws I still think its a solid kids show and my kids love it. I was worried nobody would ever watch it or hear of it since it was on some random Mormon streaming site. Glad to read in the comments that some people are enjoying it. The studio was full of passionate artists and the animators, designers, and compositors working on this show put a lot of love into it. Though most of them wont be back for season 3 since the studio moved provinces after quebec animators started striking for living wages.
Btw the Mormons were great clients to work for. Very polite and always very understanding. I really enjoyed working with them.
Also, a correction, it was not animated in Flash, it was Toon Boom Harmony
Y’all did a wonderful job on animation. Religious cartoons usually look so rough. It being so ugly on top of bad writing and VA makes it unwatchable. I didn’t have my glasses on but I thought he was putting in clips from Disney cartoons (im not blind I just couldn’t tell if it was gravity falls or owl house clips he put in the animation is still so good!)
hmm ok
Sounds like your show did a much better job incorporating religious moral values compared to most religious shows that aren’t the Prince of Egypt or Veggietales. Not perfect, but at least it wasn’t condescending towards its viewers that aren’t as religious.
Hi coworker! I worked on this show as an animator and it was a great project. The client was indeed very respectful and the team was passionate. Thank you for correcting Saberspark regarding the software used.
The correct term for this kind of animation is Cut-Out Animation, because of the process of cutting the character into a rig for animation.
Even with the not-so original story and writing, Saving Me still got the job done right with interesting concepts and characters. The team behind the series put A LOT more effort into it than the crappy ones. I would love to see you talk about Little Dogs on the Prairie sometime, that show is hilarious and secular!
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Rapping Moses?! That was sick!!
Honestly I agree low-key
God loves it ❤
Holy shit, someone actually remembers this show. My mom and I would watch it while killing time at our job cleaning houses. We'd have to wait to be dismissed by the owners and they would let us watch TV while we wait for them to come back and it was actually pretty interesting. I like the darker implications of Bennett being forced to come with terms of how he screwed up his life and old Bennett reflecting on his past and having great influence on his younger self. It's a genuinely interesting idea for a show, really sad it ended on a cliffhanger.
I agree
New season coming on june 2026 according to a report.
@@Raximus3000 Really? Can you send me the link to the report?
I found out about Saving Me from an "X Meets Y" page on TV Tropes which said that Hailey's On It was "Phineas and Ferb meets Saving Me and Pepper Ann" and I was curious about Saving Me, but I was a little nervous when I found out that it was Mormon. I decided to watch a few episodes, and surprisingly, it wasn't really preachy and didn't mention religion at all. You could pass it off as a secular kids show that happens to have messages that Mormons can relate to.
Honestly, a lot of the shows produced by BYU don't focus too much on LDS ideology. For instance, Relative Race is a genealogy show, and God is mentioned generally in a Christian way
Yep! They have plenty of great live action shows too like Ruby and The Well that don't have any religious messaging, they're just there to be fun family friendly stories
@@YokaiDisorderI feel like, dispite basically being the closest thing to being the main seminary the LDS have (actual seminaries in Mormonism are like Jewish Yeshivas where teenagers go to get trained religously), BYU is also pretty much the main university in Utah, (UofU is also around but seems smaller and more research based, idk I’m New Mexican) so if they make something, it’s gotta appeal to Mormons, ex-Mormons and non-Mormons or else be irrelevant
@YokaiDisorder And of course Studio C. That's a straight up sketch comedy show and most people who watch probably didn't know it was from a Mormon network.
@BluffsCastle I see a lot of people compare Hailey's on It to this show. I feel like both shows kinda suffer from the balancing though.
Okay, but honestly, a show about a super scientist billionare who hates how his life turned out and goes back in time to help his past self is an amazing concept.
Hey! I was in the BYU Animation program and had a professor that worked on this show. Thanks for talking about it!
Somebody closer to the top said they worked on it, too.
@Teacuperino What was it like working on that division for BYU? It was always interesting to me that the school made a genuine TV network with a lot of good production value on many of their shows.
Ya know, I only have this video to pull from, but it could have been interesting to have Old Benett's motivation slowly shift from "making myself a better person" to "making my friends and family's lives better" butterflying things in a subtle way that not only means he succeded in his original goal, but also makes way to keep going. We'd also need more scenes of Adult Benett's present/future to set uo the things he wants to fix, even "oh no, this girl I'm suddenly married to was so super happy with who she was with before, is her being with me the right thing?"
Yep. That would have been super rewarding! Not just in "he gains family/friends" but he himself getting happier. That way, you could have easily a set run-timeline (like Gravity Falls) and a nice big special for the ending. Maybe like. One thing that changes everything back. Or another timetraveler. And everything looks dire, but they pull through.
0:43 there’s a show that came out on disney channel not too long ago that has this premise😭 edit: it’s called Hailey’s On It
But that show sucked this show is actually pretty decent
I actually watched hailey's on it while I was sitting in the hospital with my little cousin and it's a terrible show... good concept but holy crap, the writing was just so, so bad... Kids deserve better 😭
@@bob5253 no. That is a LIE. Hailey's a fun show. all you need to do is say 'I wasn't a fan' not outright LIE. stop trying to make the show sound as bad as Velma, because that is clickbait!
Yoon, I know what you mean. it was a cool show that ended too soon. I have no idea why these two are lying out of their butts
@@gracekim1998 it is like Velma in a lot of ways : the main character is a quirky girl, everything works out in the main characters favor, a lot of the characters have a crush on the main characters, everything goes her way and when it doesn't there are no consequences because everything gets magically fixed at the end, and finally they treat the main character as if she was some sort of hero all the time when both Velma and Hailey really shouldn't have that much influence I'm not saying it's just as bad as Velma but now that you mention it they do have a lot of similarities
Bennett Bramble even resembles Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls. So that's two good animated shows it's ripping off!
That was my IMMEDIATE thought (I am a little bit obsessed your honor)
I was thinking the same thing
the art style is probably why as well
Yes! I thought the same.
Plant for a last name.
Mormon here. This show could've gone so much harder if they had the guts to make the main character a worse person who really messed up his own life. For example: Fighting with his siblings. They should've made him estranged from his family because of something bad that he did and refused to ever apologize for. Maybe like stealing money or embarrassing them in some way. Something worth going back in time to fix.
Also A LDS Guy here , tbh I feel like it was supposed to be aimed more to kids so I see why they never really did anything too bad so meh. Good for what I watched ngl.
And anyone seeing this please try to see from the other side, its clear that Saberspark has a opposing view, I can respect another person's view on stuff and always welcome it, I'ma just ask you guys too look through the other lens. Tbh I feel like most hard anti views of one thing can be softened or more understood if you look through both lens. just my opinion tho so take what ever you want with a grain of salt.
@ArosianStagg Glad to see another LDS person out here. We have got to make better shows so we can stop being teased
They didn't outright say it, but it's thoroughly implied that he's estranged from his siblings because he's an asshole and his mom is dead because of his selfish actions.
@@ccggenius Dang. They probably should've made that a little more obvious since its a kids show.
@@ajthewildwolf The only thing we got goin for us is Studio C bruh. We need better shows to our name 😭🙏
1:34 Soon? That’s an odd way of saying “2030”
I love when I'm in the middle of marathoning old Saberspark episodes at work and a new one pops up
This ain't a Rick and Morty ripoff, that's just Doraemon....but in Flash.
“Did you know that Animorphs is about child soldiers?”
Hilarious (genuinely, no shade or whatever) to me every time someone learns this.
Some of the books are a little goofy, it was for children, but it doesn’t hold back on the body horror and harshness of war. Series still holds up today, if a little dated. I think it’d make for a great animated show.
oooo now I HAVE to read it!
When Saberspark said he’d watch a show about the Animorphs finding God, I just thought “they did (sort of) in book 7 and various other times throughout the series”.
10:50 Funny you should say that. My Catholic school had Animorphs in the first-grade section of the library and I grew up with it. It's probably why I'm a furry. I tried to go to the book store to find the books my school didn't have and fill in the story gaps, but I was told they hadn't heard anyone ask for Animorphs in a decade
The author put them all up online for free!
FWIW, they're probably absent from the collection for good reason. I've seen the youtube reviews, shit gets WEIRD.
I thought I was the only person who was aware of this garbage. I didn't know it was a Mormon cartoon, though. The "Mormonism" must have been in season 2 because I only saw the first season.
I’ve had my own things that I thought only I knew too.
Yeah I saw this cartoon and I think it's okay it's definitely not good but just okay
There's no overt "Mormonism" in any of it. It's just a cartoon made by Mormons to be clean for kids & families. 🤷
It seems to avoid the usual pitfalls of a typical "religious cartoon" by not overtly cramming the religion into the show as an obvious message. Honestly this is probably the best way to do it. You can make a show that highlights your religion's values without ever once saying anything religious in it.
All those braindead Christian cartoons could learn a thing or two from Saving Me. It might not be all that great, but it's far from the slop the Evangelicals shovel out to their kids.
Mormons aren't always preachy you know, not everything they touch is religious its simply created for entertainment
It would be funny to me if the sister turned out to be a super villain with a doofenshmirtz origin that's like she's a villain now because her brother didn't play with her.
I see a heavy "Gravity Falls" influence, in the character design...
but maybe that's just me
It reminds me more of the 2009 Dennis and Gnasher show. The main character's mum in particular for some reason. Dub a scene of her with a working class British accent and I'd be like "oh, it's the Dennis cartoon" without question.
Nope, someone in the comments worked on the show, and said Gravity Falls was a major influence.
@@SewardWriter ha!...knew it :P
thx for the confirmation ^^
At 15:21 why does that guy have a strip of bacon sticking out of his head?
Dude got a comb-over with no bald spot lol
Don't know his Name but I'll call him Lord Bacon🙃
Or the Baron of Baconstein
@@Firestar-TV his name is Reginald Snodgrass one of the richest person in town and own all most all the town. he even steal other people tech and remake them into weapons to sell. plus other world tech as well.
20:45 I might be stretching here but I can't help but feel the reason for this is that they do want to imply he's made way worse mistakes and decisions but cannot go too far in saying what he did. On one hand, this may be because of a child friendly tone, but considering what plenty of sympathetic characters have done in shows like Steven Universe I think it's more a fear of moral grayness. A lot of religious children's media refuses to *touch* upon the subject of making your protagonists too flawed for fear of sending a "bad message" or making them "bad role models". This is really unfortunate because, not only does it stunt writing, but also goes against the themes of redemption which is supposed to be one of the most major pillars of Christianity. It doesn't work no matter the audience or perspective.
you are right on how he going back to chain things for the better, plus there is one KEY POINT IN TIME he is trying to keep from happening or chain how it happen to save the world or more to save his family.
ive seen youtube ads for this but i had no idea it was mormon
I think the way you can make the sister stuff more impactful is not if he k"lls her, because then he could just turn back time and undo that, but if she ends up dieing because of a terminal illness that not even him could cure. That he is a genius and yet was left powerless in this event. And it would make sense why he'd want to tell himself to stop arguing with his sister then. Because he now realizes how every second he had with her was precious time that he wasted.
Season two plot twist: each change future Bennet makes just creates a new timeline, but he can only travel back through his own personal history. That’s why the emotional impact of the changes don’t seem to stick around. He’s creating potentially better versions of himself that branch off, but he’s incapable of seeing where they end up as they are no longer in his personal history
but then what about the cops busting in because he became a bad boy in the past? Wished it didn't, loved your idea, would have made so much more sense.
I saw the 2nd season & that sadly ain’t the case 😭😭😭…
From what I understand, Older Bennett v1 travels back in time mentally to his younger self and that interaction leads Young Bennett to develop into a bazillion different versions of himself and Older Bennett v1 basically takes the place of all other versions of Older Bennett, which would explain why the cops were there when he became a bad boy (they wouldn't be there in Older Bennett v1's timeline) and why Older Bennett v1 explained to Young Bennet v??? that he doesn't just magically acquire the memories of the different life-times he's lived. It would also explain why the differences between timelines are alarming to him. Change and adjustment take time, and when you're faced with masquerading as this person who's lived a very specific life with very specific relationships who you encouraged to become better than you, trying to figure out how you can possibly measure up or face the fact that this universe has, as far as you know, lost this better version of yourself has got to boggle the mind at least a little.
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Honestly, I was just making a joke 😂
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I didn’t even know there was already a second season. I only first heard about the show from this video.
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Seems like it was developed as a 13-18 year old demographic, but written for a 5-9 year old demographic. The memory loss of character progression between episodes is more typical of shows marketed to kids.
Love that snippet of Moses rapping lol. Think I've seen it before, though.
You should review The Wingfeather Saga. It's another show made by Christian creators, but I actually think it's quite good so far. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
“M-Morty…W-we’re *burps* Mormons now, Morty!”
“Oh jeez, Rick…!”
“I’M MORMON RICK! I TURNED MYSELF INTO A MORMON, MORTY! I’M MORMON RIIIIIICK!!!”
"m-morty *burp* the mission-..*burp* the missionaries m-morty- they *burp* they got me morty"
I’m pretty sure Rick and Morty made fun of religion in that story train episode.
When do they not?
It's not Mormon Rick and Morty, it's Utah Rick and Morty
As someone who has lived in utah their whole life i can confirm
What's the difference?
One is in Utah, the other is Rick and Morty. @@lethauntic
Rapping Moses is actually so fire I want that on Spotify
Thought "Mormon" was "Mommy".
Might have to look in the mirror for a little bit.
yikes
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sekiy
*Abridged Luffy side eye*
The Caleb and Sophia video is gonna be your magnum opus, I can already tell. 😭🙏
Why didn’t they make it so that the old guy was going back in time to stop his past self from accidentally killing his sister? Maybe somehow his awful relationship with her ended up causing her death, and so he spent the rest of his life inventing time travel to bring her back by getting his past self to be a better brother. That’s an automatic emotional character motivation that would just make him really interesting. May be a bit dark for a kids’ show, but idk, I’m not a professional writer or anything. I think it would work if executed in the right way.
Edit: wrote this, unpaused the video, and Saber immediately said the same idea XD My point still stands though!
it more then stopping himself from doing one thing. there is a KEY POINT IN TIME he trying to chain when it come, but it start coming about one year before it happen.
Rapping Moses had the best and most fluid animation I seen in a while.
I know a lot of people dislike this kind of art style but i always liked characters designed to be simple and easy to redraw, especially for an artist like me. Dunno if i'll ever watch the show but i think a lot of the characters are pretty cute tbh.
Yeah, I think it's a pretty cute style. It reminds me of the 2009 Dennis and Gnasher show, which I quite enjoyed.
Honestly, this is a good middle ground in style. I tend to get very tired of the even more simplified examples like Powerpuff girls or Titans Go. (Not knocking those for any other reasons.) Visually, one of my favorite cartoons will always be Thundercats. (And for a ton of other reasons, but that's a main one. lol)
Disney's Gummi Bears was always another fun one, imo.
as a former hardcore animorphs fan I was not expecting the show or books to be namedropped in this video XD I forgot how bad that show was lol the books went HARD tho and still do, Applegate is a legend (they're all free on her website btw go read them!)
The thing about fighting with siblings reminds me of Friendship is Magic’s BBBFF song. “We never had a single fight,” Twilight sings, and I honestly think that sounds really unhealthy.
Like “one of them is going to kill the other with an axe” unhealthy.
I feel like maybe the thing to do here would have been to have Old Bennett travel back in time in the first episode to stop something terrible and then get stuck in the present and become a mentor to himself. The time travel being super casual opens up a lot of potential issues that are resolved if it's a one-and-done. You could also have a fish-out-of-water element as Old Bennett readjusts to the present and tries to rebuild his technology.
sorry to say there is no one and done bit with this show. there is a KEY POINT IN TIME he like to keep from happening or chain how it happen. but to get there he have to go back and fix stuff or make it happen in a softer way so it do not brake what will happen later.
1:46 im gonna need more of that please. Who made that? That animation is slick as hell. Also adults have been voting kids for years.
I feel like there's some respect owed for using flash when there are a number of really simple but gimmicky and crap animation softwares available. It's not the easiest thing on the planet to work with but it really gives you creative possibilities and has been used in professional shows.
Had no clue this was Mormon just thought it was trying to be gravity falls because he reminded me more of Ford than Rick
late in the video you mention that whilst his timeline does change older bennett's memories do not, i have to give the show a break on this little bit, its a common trope of time travel that time travelers are themselves unaffected.
i think it working both ways with how the memories are working in the show. Eddy 34 shows him what happen and then he go back in time to fix or make it lest broke when it happen.
i know it’s not animation, but i really want to hear Saber’s thoughts on The Substance.
Very intelligent whacky movie
ooh yes. intense movie i think Saber would appreciate the narrative
I’m LDS and I’ve never even heard of this
Same. I don't watch BYU TV almost ever.
Yeah same here though I have a feeling people who aren't lds think we only watch lds media which I'm sure in some housholds is the case but most lds households I know watch all types of media
I think the premise of this show would work a lot better if it did discuss the idea of the butterfly effect, and had at least one line about why he feels he needs to go back so far to stop something so minor to improve his life (i.e. explaining that he and his sister had a huge falling out later in life as a result of their bad childhood relationship, which lead to a depressive episode or lack of support when one of them needed it, and snowballing from there).
Such minor explanations and ideas would both make the adult feel more scientific and logical (because he's overanalyzed his life to find the earliest moment in the chain he can actually fix) and explain why he's going back to stop his 9 year old self from being mean to his sister
bro when you will review bunny maloney? bc of youtube algorithm is spamming sexual and weird everywhere like "bunny maloney becoming sexual for 7 minutes" type shi
The concept behind this show (a terrible person traveling back in time to try to make their past self be better but failing because they're a terrible teacher) is actually really cool, and I'd love to see it done right someday
I watched this whole series around the time it first released and I never really made the connection that it had any sort of religious connection. All the morals just seemed like the standard things you expect from any kids show to me. I thought it was really nice especially since it's all free to watch.
if you look up the full song for the show, then you get more of a religious to it. to me the full song make it fill like God is helping you find your way home by letting your older self come back and help make it better.
To be fair, many said Rick and Morty was a fusion of Back to the Future and Doctor Who.
This show is actually crazy good
Honestly, from all those other bad animated shows, this one seems to be the most competent one. It does not even look bad to be honest - it needed a bit more proper direction in the storyline and dialogue.
Old white haired science man has adventures with brown hair child? That’s copying Rick and Morty. But the actual bones of the show are not really connected to it.
Oh yeah, animorphs and pokemon being off-limits (or banned) because of evolution will always get a chuckle out of me. Because the two actually disprove evolution, since the changes in those two properties are instant and not gradual over generations. But that would require actually knowing what evolution is and, well, these banning groups tend not to.
You put in a rap battle. You've surpassed documentary and entered magnum opus, doctoral thesis territory
12:55 - "I guess instead of going to therapy as an adult, it's easier to go back in time and change things." Considering that Rick Sanchez literally turned himself into an armless vegetable just to avoid going to family therapy, inventing time travel to avoid therapy honestly sounds like a very in-character for this scientist to do.
Kinda like the character designs in this one, to be honest. The Older version of the protagonist looks like a detective from a Neuromancer cyberpunk story.
Maybe if they made two completely different characters (maybe a "Time Detective" who just get the help of a kid, like the Time Squad cartoon, for a quick possibility), instead of younger and older version, the conflict would be more interesting between them. Just drop few subtle moral lessons at the end of each episodes, like He-Man and Masters of Universe, and you got a reasonable better product.
Honestly, I'm really hoping they have another season where they explain how Bennett killed his mom, caused something bad with the alien alliance, started the apocalypse, and alienated all his siblings. I'm kind of expecting that he went down the route of being so focused on what he could do that he forgot whether he should do it, combined it with greed and became an intergalactic arms dealer and fueled an intergalactic war, rejected all his family's attempts to talk some sense into him with a heavy dose of denial and "They've never seen my brilliance, I'll show them!" and failed to be there for his family when war came knocking on their doorstep, effectively abandoning his family to some invading aliens, at which point his mom used her combat training to save them but lost her own life, and now all that's left between him and his family is the bitterness. I could see why he would simultaneously be too ashamed/pained to bring it up with Young Bennett, and desperately want to get his younger self more invested in and trusting of his family. It could also explain why he cares so much about becoming less greedy and more cautious around the use of his/their inventions. It would also explain why the alien alliance attempts to arrest him that one time *and* why the world looks like a dystopia. It would also explain the whole, "Mom's great, but I feel too guilty to spend a whole lotta time around her, and now I gotta cry," rant.
So the older guy is basically the bait and switch Zurg is really a future version of Buzz Lightyear somehow, but it seems better written than Lightyear.
Oh gosh, I've seen both and it's definitely better than light-year XD
Saving Me can feel kinda meh at times, but the future version of yourself is definitely executed better here. I like how future Bennett has the goal of making his past self less selfish while continually failing to recognize that he himself is still acting selfish and needs to improve too
Sounds like a show with an interesting concept going back in time to fix things you regret could be interesting. Having it to where both versions of himself can learn from one another would be great as the older version knows things are wrong but doesn't always have the answers. Leaving it to his younger self to think about it differently.
I know they wanted to focus on kids, but the concept would be cool to have focus on other parts in his life as well. I'm sure he regrets more things than just when he was 9.
BRO THE ANIMATION FOR MOSES WAS CLEANNN
Ah yes, my favorite cartoon genre, installation of religious fear and guilt in children
10 out of 10 if this show had the guts to have young Bennett accidently kill the younger sister, and that was the twist at the end. That's the one thing he couldn't tell his younger self, or it would break space time or something.
I cannot wait for Moses rapping, I loved Prince of Egypt and it looks so well animated
10:07 those who know 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Ok brainrotted one
I think the idea is really good, but the execution didn't have much effort put into it. I think having a specific goal in mind would be good. I also think having something that he hates that he did, but he can't remember when it happened. or like a specific thing he wants to fix in every episode. A death, fighting, bullies, maybe even a test that have he had passed he'd have a better life! I also think that he should have more character building, the sister getting nicer because he was being kinder to her, young Bennet realizing how bad he's been or the bad stuff he's done and feeling a ton of guilt. That guilt could build and build as he realizes more terrible things as his future self keeps coming back. and then a big emotional moment that leaves older bennet to not want to travel back, but he's conflicted cus he wants to get everything fixed, but the more he goes back the worse young Bennets mental health gets. i think that would be good for the show
At 1:08 time stamp, the older guy goes right through the door after it closed. Wtf.
He's not traveling in time physically. It's a hologram
Which I think only the younger version can see @@jordanloux3883
Bc he's supposed to be like an apparition
Old Bennett invented time-travel through the mind, that his younger self have first think of it. so when he go back in time, only himself can see the older self.
The series should have taken at least one thing from Rick and Morty: have some fun sci-fi episodes that have nothing to do with providing a message.
brave mlp reference at 5:57
Honestly despite the parallels to Rick and Morty, this is actually a pretty solid concept for a show. Especially if it’s got good messages without being too preachy. Honestly this could be really deep and clever if some of it was rewritten
Family Guy did this idea too. Stewie is visited by his future self, who is a loser and he tries to make his older self cool, changing the timeline.
He wast visited by his future self his future self was vacating in the past and Stewie happen to see him on TV and went out to find him because he thought that was his real dad
I can’t wait for the video I didn’t even know was coming Moses rapping really sold it to me
Rick and Morty is Poggers. And nobody can change my mind
I personally think both shows are poggers
It's not meant to be a rip off or a religious show. Just a family friendly sci fi show about a guy being really bad at helping his younger self be better because he himself is still self centered
I’m a Christian and I’ve been watching your content for years! Rapping Moses was NOT something I knew I NEEDED
I just know rick and Morty would make fun of this series in the future
It made me think of "Meet the Robinsons" more then Rick & Morty. Obviously with a twist and being the other way around. The adult trying to help the child version. Instead of how its done in Robinsons with it being his future family (not realising it's him) trying to push him to never give up his dreams.
While this is the other way around with the adult trying to tell his younger self to not do the bad he's done because of the consequences he ends up with and regretting.
While in Robinson's it's the other way with always feeling like a let down and no one wants him around. (failed inventions and not being adopted) Even though he ends up with a loving family and a brilliant inventor by "keep moving forward"
I misread the title for a second, I thought you called him a Moron 😂
This is the first I'm seeing this, but I have to say, while it certainly does look something like Rick and Morty, it makes me think even more so of Gravity Falls.
The animation quality alone surprises me, and looks great, or at least wayyyy better than I would have expected for a religious cartoon. But yeah, I figure this show will drive me crazy for the resetting effect like it does for you. I'm probably going to try watching it though. I've always had kind of an obsession with time travel content as well, even though it typically causes the worst chaos ever. Movies like 12 Monkeys are low key traumatizing for me, since it seems like the fact would be that even if we could ever time travel, we couldn't actually change anything, and everything is either predetermined or stuck in a loop for eternity. Or there's a mesh I tend to imagine, of Back to the Future with Rick and Morty, where if one manages to travel back in time, the very act of doing so instantly changes everything from that point on, or... so it seems, but that time traveling actually rips you into an altered reality, though you might not ever be able to tell until far later.
I'm not saying it isn't a crappy show, because I haven't seen it to judge, but we should probably try not to compare things to each other so much and call things a rip-off by all parties.
The show was probably pitched with radically different ideas in a different tone, and producers and financiers probably got involved and made sure it had undertones of what's popular at the time, which is Rick and Morty.
It happens all the time in media. An unfortunate homogenization. For instance, the show Solar Opposites has that rapid fire nonsense talking pattern that Rick and Morty does too but it's a pretty good and unique show in its own right if you give it a chance.
Amusingly I found out about this show from a RUclipsr reviewing the early episodes of Hailey’s On It.
It looks like a fun show from the small bits I’ve seen. Though I got to agree if you’re going the time travel route you have to make sure you have everything planned out properly. Especially if the theme is about actions and consequences.
I miss Animorphs. 😢
You keep talking about religion in this show but I haven't heard a single thing about God in the show
That's what I'm saying is the show about family.
@sethmunoz3608 agreed
@@luckyswordsmen991 Plus BYU is all about family friendly content.
Yeah, the religion itself was not mentioned in the show at all. I didn’t even know it was made with religious reasons until now. I feel like he’s kinda making a mountain out of a molehill here, as at least it ain’t just reading religious book text out of the Bible lazily.
I actually think we should normalize parents being in love and affectionate with each other. That shouldn't be something they have to hide from their kids, with the exception of explicitly sexual stuff ofc. I always found it kind of weird that acknowledging your family have sex lives is so gross. They're just people.
The mom is kinda cute
Aw jeeze, Rick
“I can see through your window”
Man, I’m on the toilet 😐
is it worse then the later season of rick and morty tho?
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oh snap, that is some cool animation emulating Prince of Egypt
EXCELLENT JOB TO YOUR TEAM MAKING THAT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
i'm not sure Caleb and Sophia is something that I really look forward to. but that part was straight fire.
looking forward to whenever the full thing comes out. 👍❤
Haileys on it ripped this show off if anything
I'm just glad to hear you're still working on the Caleb & Sophia video. Take as long as you need - I'm sure it will be awesome and I can't wait to eventually see it.