Pretty much, yeah. They feel like they're from a saturday morning cartoon from the early 2000s. I honestly don't understand how the director of Cowboy Bebop and a director of John Wick churned out something like this. Just like I don't understand how the music is as bad as it is.

This should have been knocked out of the park. It should have at least been pretty good, if they fumbled hard. I don't understand how it was fumbled this hard.

Yeah. I just watched the two episodes that are out and I kept looking for redeeming qualities and trying to give it a chance to catch its stride, but every time it sort of feels like it's going to it just doesn't land right.

Honestly I think the biggest problems are these: the cinematography isn't great, like it's trying to be dynamic but it uses bad CGI backgrounds to do it and it really would have been better served with rougher static backdrops and less dynamic motion of the viewport; it doesn't use color well so shots look washed out and it doesn't create any kind of vibrant contrast between the focus of a scene and the decaying world behind them; the music doesn't match the scenes well or feel like it has any energy or soul behind it, it's just kind of going through the motions and not even a way that conveys a sense of a character being mired in numb decay and just going through the motions themselves. I could forgive silly writing like the US and China both abandoning their veto powers in the UN because they got mad at a guy for saying "climate change bad" (this is an actual thing that happens: he says climate change is bad and they go "harumph, we're taking our veto and going home " and walk out on his speech) if it felt like the story itself had anything to actually say or had any themes that related the story to its characters, or even if it was just wrapped in a visually stunning package and given a good soundtrack (like with Solo Leveling, where the blandest, most derivative, and most vapid story with the most flavorless characters ever gets elevated into a wonderful spectacle by its lavish animation, stylishness, and soundtrack), but it just doesn't feel like it's managing that so far.

In short, it's just not stylish enough. It's neither a gorgeous spectacle nor a deep and meaningful story, and certainly not that rare blend of both that the very best series manage.