The Narrative Separates and Divides Main Characters So when she didn't win, they had to rush around in circles to try to come up with what to have happen in the show.ġ. And it seems like the show's creators had a season-long story that was based around Hillary Clinton winning the election. That's the problem with trying to do political satire of what's going on at the moment - it's impossible for a show that takes so much effort to animate to keep up with everything that's going on in real time during an election.
None of the crazy headlines that came out of the 2016 election seemed to make it into South Park, so real life ended up feeling more entertaining (and sometimes, funnier) than fiction. But this season's was lacking, for whatever reason. South Park has done amazing political satire in the past. Trump is a person with much more satirical potential than this season of South Park gave him. Garrison's character in this season was a one-dimensional, boring character, about whom the show makes the same joke over and over and over ad nauseum.
How many times did it need to be restated that Garrison had no idea how to be president, for example? Like the member berries, Mr. Garrison as Trump has been said about Trump before, and they repeat the same jokes at his expense over and over again.
Garrison as a stand-in for Donald Trump becoming president and having no idea what he's doing, and. Basically nothing this season does to Cartman even makes him angry, in contrast with how angry he used to get over very minor slights. But if you want a big return to the comedic sociopath Cartman was in earlier seasons, you will be disappointed. The problem? Cartman figures out that girls on Mars will keep men as slaves for semen and jokes, so he bails. Cartman and Butters are in a love rivalry for Heidi, who figures out how humanity can go to Mars to escape internet trolling.something, and being somehow connected to this destabilization of the world, but their part in it all is never made clear and their story also goes nowhere. A showdown where the Danish guy tries to destabilize the world and use the trolls for whatever it was again? I have no idea what he even wanted.And any person who knows writing will tell you that a bland villain makes for a dull story. Matt and Trey do better at making fun of evils that actually exist in the real world (North Korea, terrorists, Saddam Hussein, etc.) and using their laser-guided satire on them. They're just too bland and mellow to become believable as any kind of villainous cabal. You can't make me afraid of Danish people. Do we root for Gerald, knowing that he was a troll who heartlessly bullied a woman with breast cancer? Then the trolls Gerald befriended all end up trapped in Denmark in a convoluted James Bond -esque world domination plot that didn't make sense and just wasn't all that satisfying to watch. Kyle's dad is a troll called SkankHunt42, so he does not want this secret out, obviously, and he goes to absurd lengths to protect this secret. Danish guy, who wants to make it so that anyone can search for anyone's entire internet history, ending anonymity. A major source of conflict towards the end of the season involves Gerald, Kyle's father, locked in a battle against some.