I’ve been hoping his recent stagnation (imo) is cause he’s still trying to figure out his new EDM inspired sound, and/or just making a safe album and a few features to solidify himself in the mainstream before going back to experimental stuff. But idk anymore
I am genuinely so happy these cornballs are finally getting the hate they deserve
You can really see his AoT inspirations shine through in Pirate Clark, his scenes, demeanour, and design as a whole perfectly capture the uncanny valley. Both the titans and Pirate Clark have this viscerally inhuman look and feel about them. The bulging eyes especially freak me out. There’s just something so horrific, so primally unsettling about a creature that looks like but isn’t a living human eating another human. It’s like the closest thing we can get to early what early Homo sapiens might’ve felt encountering potentially predatory species of other human. Only it’s worse because they look like they evolved specifically from us, and like deformities we instinctively avoid only so extreme that they can’t possibly exist.
I also loved the opening shot, because if you’ve already seen the YouTube series it specifically plays into your expectations. The whole movie shows you nothing but brief glimpses of a dark tall figure that’s doing all the killing, which an older viewer (heh) would assume is the bactiera/mold creature, and it even plays into that for the first couple seconds cause the peg leg and tricorn hat give him a similar silhouette. The chase sequence itself was more cool than scary (except for the soundtrack), but the dread I felt when I realized I was looking at something completely different than what I thought stuck with me way after I left the theatre.
It also really reminds me of the way titans kill and eat in Attack on Titan, which I definitely think is intentional considering his history of posting fanmade AoT war footage.