Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-14138255-20161023230031

Terminus99 wrote:

I don't see why you'd think a guy who eats human eyballs he probably took from people is funny.

In all seriousness, it wasn't meant to be funny so much as lower a viewer's guard for the wham line. I take it back: I don't want him to be equal parts funny and terrifying, I want him to be mostly one thing with a streak of another (and since he's the villain, I think he should fit 'terrifying' more), makes his character more solid. I'm okay with him being funny as long as it is in a dark way.

Like, making jokes that are of terrible taste, but actually kind of funny when you think about them. That first part was just me firing back for not thinking it was funny considering the subject matter. Sort of a playful ad hominem. At least someone tell me the jokes I put in the OP review were funny :(.

As for Tyrian's humor, the only joke he's cracked was one he said 2 times and laughed to like it was the funniest thing ever, which wasn't very funny at all (not even disturbing except for a small bit near the end with his laugh, immediately before the jump cut). If they want him to be funny a little, they need to up their game, and if they want to make him more evil and creepy, they need to do the same thing. Part of what made Kimbley intimidating as a psycho in Fullmetal Alchemist was that he was like a real life sociopath: perfectly reasonable and calm with a clear method to his madness, but clearly sick beyond comprehension (whereas in FMA '03, they made him a stereotypical giggling madman like Tyrian, and that worries me).