Infinity Train

Cartoon Network | HBO Max | Release Date: August 5, 2019

9.3	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 21 Ratings

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piglordofallhamSep 22, 2022

So after finishing the first season, I was met with a very finale-esque episode that sent our MAIN CHARACTER home permanently and tied up all loose ends (considering this is the character whose narrative we were introduced to from theSo after finishing the first season, I was met with a very finale-esque episode that sent our MAIN CHARACTER home permanently and tied up all loose ends (considering this is the character whose narrative we were introduced to from the get-go). Which was rather strange considering that we had no other developed characters on the train and her story arc was complete, but their were still three more seasons left. This show gave me "post" Season 4 Adventure Time blues, a.k.a. when the show started going downhill and became this strangely serious blend of growing up/ adolescent emotional crap that basically ruined it. Likewise I had never even heard of "Infinity Train" until it was cancelled- now I'm starting to see why.

Though the morally gray area premise is certainly interesting, the show is too melancholy and the narrative is far too thin to hold out for twenty-two minute episodes where goofy side-characters (as well as far more interesting scenarios) show up literally before the episode actually starts. In one intro, a car full of baseball playing dinosaurs waves GOODBYE to our main trio, only for me to ask myself, "Why didn't they get a whole episode unto themselves?" The lack of identifiable or relatable characters places the show in an oddly stagnant position where we have to be told (as the audience) what lessons the main character has learned, whereas an intelligent show for children or young adults would leave that up to us to figure out. Hence the "glowing numbers" of good deeds accomplished or lessons learned ends up being a ham-fisted way of telling you what the moral of the episode was, which is usually fairly obvious stuff to anyone with two working brain cells.

The only other point I'll bring up (since the show obviously wasn't that popular) is that I wasn't a fan of the female protagonist, because she is written to act basically like a young teenage boy. I found it actually quite insulting that the main character is female, but comes off as a young girl written by an alien who then paraphrased that character to a male writer who then wrote down condensed notes like, "must be spunky," or "must act like a boy," or "overly emotional about everything." While a lot of these things are accurate for cartoon characters, they aren't necessarily true about every female protagonist and it may have actually hurt the show's demographics by featuring no strong male characters. If you thought Steven Universe was not dark enough, then you'll love this show. For anyone who liked the first two seasons of adventure time or the first season of the regular show, you might like Infinity train at first, but then it'll get too preachy or pretentious and lose your interest entirely.… Expand

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