THOHXXXII
I actually liked THOH31 a lot and still do. And part of that is that it actually seems to do that one thing a lot of older THOH's did; just be pretty silly about the whole thing. I don't like the "serious" ones, especially noticing how the whole "anyone can die" thing isn't entirely true and they're actually pretty picky (not counting THOH30 since she wasn't even in discomfort onscreen, let alone dead, we haven't had one of Shauna. And pretty sure there's never been an offscreen death for the Spucklers, another of the modern team's darlings). And that like the Bond segment, two of Thankgiving's and a bunch of other later segments, they tend to use a bodycount in lieu of anything actually like... fun or interesting. Maybe I could say something about horror movies but it'd be a bit hypocritical when my favourite horror film is John Carpenter's The Thing and that was bloody as shit. Speaking of, The Thing but at the power plant or whatever? That'd be a kickass segment... potentially.
That and, thinking about it, a lot of the segments I found either funniest or most impressive or interesting tend to have kinda minimal if any deaths. The Bart Zone, Bad Dream House, The Genesis Tub, and so on weren't actually that violent. Even in Nightmare Cafeteria the deaths were mostly offscreen save for poor ol' Willie. So uh, given the Telltale Bart bit I think I just saw the best part by far and just can't confirm it yet.
Parasite: Speaking of that bond "parody" that seems to be where this is going looking at the poster. Maybe with less bodies I could've thought it'd be murders to keep covering the murders to cover the other murders and so on. Like how I play Hitman. That one cap with Lisa lifting Maggie is cute though. *shrug*
Bambi: Is this even a segment? I mean, no promo pics, not on the poster, did it get cut and someone forgot to say? Hard to speculate on something I can't even be sure is real.
Trees: Not counting on this to be another more than another bloodbath. The concept might be neat and maybe original though. And I'll give it that of all the things on the poster, this one's part actually was effectively disturbing.
Telltale Bart: Well it's not really speculation but we saw the whole thing. It was decent. Half of me wants a THOH where all the segments use differing animation styles, that'd be a pretty neat theme to go with.
The Ring: Calling it, despite being a phone addict that's unceasingly shoehorned into school scenes whenever possible, Shauna will be conveniently absent in this one. Also that since Grey was asking around for a halloween name, probably means the twins die which... I really wanted to be wrong in suspecting they were only kept on to die more. Even if that happened to someone like Shauna that'd feel like a horribly spiteful way to treat characters tied to a late cast member. Best case scenario, the candles and such maybe mean Lisa's trying to pre-emptively summon our Sadako stand-in before it can kill the kids at the party and/or Grampa but the ghost Milhouse says otherwise... Unless he died of totally unrelated causes like an asthma attack on the way home, in which case I'll admit that'd be friggin hilarious. Either way, looks like we're also getting a Danger Things/Geriatric Park/Last Thanksgiving lazy "happy" ending out of it.
Either way, none of this except Telltale looks like it'll be good. From an approximate 22 minutes it means a lot of these segments maybe have 5 or less minutes each and... well, I'll point to the recent Disney-based shorts for that one. On account of that and the last one, something tells me I'm best off not watching. Though it'll probably ruin the uncharacteristically positive mood I've had lately and uh... I wish I could have hanged onto that for longer.
The Wayz We Were
Not much of an opinion on this yet. Bringing back Maya seems neat but not entirely sure the "permanent" thing will really work out that way, see; Mary Spuckler. Neato if it does though.
Lisa's Belly
Joking aside... there's potentially interesting material like it being a stealth Patty & Selma episode. I don't think those two have gotten much lately. And I'll be corpsing at swole Bart because that sounds beautifully nightmarish. Given how opposite they are, sounds like the two plots might be connected too. It would be kinda funny if Lisa ends up encouraging body positivity in the others and getting popular. Then Bart "gets swole" to try and steal that crowd back, that would be fittingly petty for him.
That said, the way they've drawn Lisa is a little... uncanny. Characters like Bart or Martin do have weirdly skinny limbs still but when there's no extra weight on her face at all while being about as fat as the latter, she just looks really weird.