{"id":14468,"date":"2023-04-19T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2023\/04\/19\/no-snarks-on-mars\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:57","slug":"no-snarks-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2023\/04\/19\/no-snarks-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"No Snarks on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was dismayed to see that HBO is launching an animated program about a guy going to work on Mars — disturbingly close to the theme of the comic strip I’ve been working on.<\/p>\n

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But the trailer makes it look like yet another modern animation that’s 100% snark, like it hates its characters and hates its subject.<\/p>\n

At first I felt like, “Oh well, there’s my thing gazumped,” but when I sit with it… My thing is full of flawed people (my ideal would be something like Commedia dell’Arte, or <\/span>Twelfth Night<\/em>, which is pretty much straight-up Commedia), but hopefully still has a heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As a kid, I loved space anything<\/em>, so imagining that setting revives my feelings of hope, wonder, and play.<\/p>\n

It’s the same with Apple TV’s “Hello Tomorrow”: I should be its prime audience member, but it’s so cyncial that I stopped watching it. Again, it seemed to have nothing but disdain for its characters and their world.<\/p>\n

Hell, if you don’t like this, why should I?<\/em><\/p>\n

Somewhere along the way we mistook “nasty” for “funny”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was dismayed to see that HBO is launching an animated program about a guy going to work on Mars — disturbingly close to the theme of the comic strip I’ve been working on. But the trailer makes it look like yet another modern animation that’s 100% snark, like it hates its characters and hates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}