Alright...
First, for the video. I found the characters to be annoyingly enjoyable, perhaps because of my knowledge of them from watching TTA. The art style did seem slightly less refined than TOME Episode 1, but this was just a quick episode, so it's excusable. The humor wasn't entirely to my taste, but I didn't find it painful either. Over all, it does a fairly good job of establishing Rockoon and Doubling, and I can appreciate it for what it is, so not bad.
But there's still the problem of the people who are giving their "criticisms".
So, this time I forced myself to read all the previous negative reviews before writing mine (something I should have done with my review of TOME Episode 1), and then went back and watched the flash again, keeping in mind all the criticisms that had been brought up. And doing so was very enlightening: It showed me that these flame bombs thinly veiled as constructive reviews hold no bearing on the video, because none of them effected my ability to enjoy the flash, and in fact I barely noticed any of them. Seriously people? You're going to criticize his lip syncing and voice acting?
First of all, the voice acting is far above average for an internet video, and yes, the characters are annoying. They're supposed to be. Second, if you're going to let something as minuscule as the lip syncing put you off the whole animation, especially when the old loop mouth cycles were use in conjunction with proper syncing as a time saver, then you have no business watching videos on the internet in general.
I also have read a lot of bile about him using gradient shading in the first episode. So what? I didn't care that it was gradiently shaded, and neither did 95% of the people who reviewed it, and while the art may not have been crafted out of pure inspiration by the hands of the god king of artists, it wasn't even on the same planet as what you guys are describing it as being.
Next up is the criticisms about the plot of the series. If you were intelligent enough to do any research, you'd realize that most of your plot grievances are coming in about 7 years too late, because this series is a reprisal of his older series, TTA, and is thus going to follow the same general plot. The humor, while not the best, was also not as abysmal as you people make it out to be. I'll even admit that it didn't particularly get to me, but I understand enough about human beings not to count that as a negative, because humor is as varied as the people who come up with it, and this isn't meant to be the kind of humor that you die of asphyxia laughing over it anyway. And to DamonandSky, you should go do a little research about Kirbophers previous series, TTA, before you go telling him how hackers do and don't work in his fictional world.
In short, perhaps it's not Kirbopher, our us, who is the problem here. My advice to all the negative reviewers is to stop watching these videos if they upset you so terribly, get that stick the size of the World Tree you have stuck up your ass removed, and try to enjoy things without having to nitpick the hell out of everything that 95% of people barely even notice, much less get upset about, because as much as it must hurt you to hear this, not everyone has your incredibly snobby sense of art direction, and they're going to do things their way, because even if you think it's ugly, the majority of other people enjoy it.
On a final parting note, I do understand most of the criticisms you people bring up, and acknowledge that they are, in fact, valid issues. The problem is that they are all very small issues, noticed and cared about by few, and which overall don't detract very much from the enjoyment of the flash by the majority of the people, so while your arguments are valid, they should not be making you so upset, and you certainly shouldn't be stating them so strongly, so often. Kirbopher wants to do things his way, so just respect that, let it go, and if it bothers you so much, you have no obligation to watch any more.
