Review – Outer Space Astronauts
Outer Space Astronauts – SyFy – 11:00/10:00pm Tuesday – USA
May I begin by saying that I will watch anything; I think by reviewing Tool Academy, Surviving Suburbia and the sixth season of Entourage proves that I’m willing to sit through any old crap television can throw at me. Something like The Beautiful Life comes along and I can see that it’s stupid but I don’t hate it. I don’t want to ever watch it again, but it doesn’t fill me with a raging ball of hate and flames.
Outer Space Astronauts, on the other hand, I hate. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE Outer Space Astronauts. (I apologize to Roger Ebert for stealing his bit, but I had no other way of expressing how I truly felt about OSA.)
A bit of background; Outer Space Astronauts is animated SyFy series that follows a hapless team of Star Trek style heroes as they go on wacky fart filled adventures around the galaxy. The first episode sees the ‘Outer Space Astronauts’ come across an alien vessel that politely asks for a tour. The aliens evil but the Astronauts are stupid so they let them come on board. They get shown around, they want to see where the weapons are kept, there’s a hot alien wants to hook up with one of the Astronauts and OH WHO CARES I HATE THIS SHOW.
All you need to know about OSA is that it has the worst animation in the history of animation. As you can see from the picture above we’re not dealing with animated faces. The heads are of actual humans while their bodies and everything else around them are poorly animated. It’s like you’ve unlocked one of the cheats in GoldenEye and now the whole show is stuck in Big Head Mode. With proper animation you don’t get irritated that the characters aren’t really looking at anything because they’re eyes are just big round white circles with black dots in them. Here they have human faces, human eyes and aren’t looking at ANYTHING. Characters seem to be talking to each other but look off into the half distance like Al Pacino in Scent Of A Woman.
I wanted to pay attention to the fart and boob jokes that were going on but I couldn’t pay focus on anything any character was saying because the animation was so incredibly distracting. Outer Space Astronauts makes an Adult Swim series animation look downright sophisticated. It makes Family Guy look like Fantasia. It is so awful to watch it makes you feel that Saddam Hussein on South Park was an incredibly graceful animated beauty. The mere fact that Outer Space Astronauts even exists in the same universe as Futurama is an embarrassment to mankind.
It’s probably a blessing that you can’t pay attention to the script most of the time because when you do listen to what’s going on there’s not a single joke you haven’t heard before. The captain has to use a thumb scanner to unlock the self destruct mode, and then he has to scan his face, and then his BUTT. HAR HAR. There are jokes about alien boobs. There are jokes about an evil floating sock puppet because that’s the sort of shit that makes stoners laugh.
I think I’d prefer OSA to have dodgy sets and dodgy costumes, and you know, look like Red Dwarf, rather than have to look at this hideous animation. Forget for a moment that there isn’t a single joke that appears that wasn’t already covered a decade ago in Galaxy Quest, or even Thumb Wars for that matter.
Outer Space Astronauts looks and acts like a bad YouTube clip. It is awful. It is pathetic. I hate it. I hate this show more than I hate the fact that SciFi is now spelt SyFy. That’s a lot of hate.
Good, Alright, Bad Or Ugly?
Ugly
You sound like a miserable douche. Stop reviewing things. OSA rules.
Yes, well you’ve probably made an accurate assessment of me based solely on the most negative review I’ve ever posted. Now let me just assume things about you based on everything I’ve read that you’ve done. Hmm, you said that Outer Space Astronauts rules… now let me make a giant leap and claim that you’ve got shit for taste and should stop commenting on things. Isn’t the internet fun?
No, I think Ted had it right. I’m an OSA fan too and your reaction to it is just… weird. I found this review by googling Outer Space Astronauts, so I haven’t really read your other reviews, and won’t, seeing as how you write like a ranting lunatic about a show that isn’t trying to be anything but silly and fun. It also isn’t all fart and boob jokes, otherwise I wouldn’t be watching it, not my thing. The sock puppet wasn’t there to be random to make stoners laugh, it was a joke abut how the guy was low on oxygen and getting kooky. Forget it, I’m not going to try to explain it to you, it’s not your thing and you made it clear. But…. have fun with all that hate.
At least you were more diplomatic in your insults Allison. Which is all I ask. I totally get that I sound like a complete loon in this review but I really had no other way to express how Outer Space Astronauts made me feel. Like I said I hate hate hated it.
I get that the “joke” was the guy was low on oxygen and getting kooky and started seeing things, but just because you put a random sock puppet in context doesn’t stop it from being a random sock puppet. You can defend the show for being ‘silly and fun’ and that’s fine, but watching a panda sneeze on YouTube is silly and fun but you don’t want to tune in each week for it. Outer Space Astronauts wants to be stupid and succeeds. If that’s all you want in your TV than good for you, I like my stupidity with a bit more brains behind it.