The future of Indie Animation on YouTube looks bright with new animated TV shows like Glitch Productions’ Knights of Guinevere incorporating Arthurian lore into a dystopian commentary on real-world companies like the Disney corporation.
A few nights ago now, I was searching through NYCC’s Thursday panel lineup and a voice actor from Lackadaisy caught my eye. I jumped down The Amazing Digital Circus rabbit hole for two days and last night, Glitch Productions’ newest 2D animated series Knights of Guinevere popped up on my YouTube sidebar while I was watching TADC theory videos.
I clicked on it, and was not disappointed.
The Knights of Guinevere: Pilot Review
Knights of Guinevere is Glitch Productions’ latest animated series based on Arthurian legends and Disneyland’s broken fairytale facade.

Created by Dana Terrace, John Bailey Owen, and Zach Marcus, Knights of Guinevere follows childhood friends Andrea and Francesca, who live in a world ruled by the ruthless Park family’s Disneyesque Empire that floats in the sky and is headlined by Princess Guinevere – an abused android (who may have once been human?)

So based on the unwritten context found in the story, the set designs, and the lore being built within the universe – my own interpretation of the story thus far is that Orville Park is an android-human hybrid with an uploaded, stored consciousness who brought his daughter Olivia the theme park so that one day she could “rule over” the Empire.
Princess Gwen seems to be an android modeled after Olivia’s mother or their original child if it wasn’t Olivia. I say this because Orville gifts Olivia the park before apologizing for an earlier, unspecified traumatic incident.


Given Olivia’s cold, cruelty toward “fixing” the android that keeps running away from her, the Princess Android was meant to serve as a ‘replacement’ for a loved one recently lost, or maybe a stand-in mother in an image Olivia could recognize, but has seemingly grown to hate.
The Princess Gwen android is not only to spread “joy and happiness” in a fantasy built in the sky that only the wealthy could afford while the rest live down below in the poverty of Planet Park’s glow – it serves as a high-tech surveillance device.


The Gwen android has many iterations, and each one that appeals to a target demographic has facial recognition technology built into its software so that it can “remember” every encounter it has with park guests – including Frankie and Andi as kids.
Also, based on what Sparky mentioned, and Andi’s contact and then infection by the man coughing up blue blood, it seems the android’s blue blood is being marketed as an illegal street drug attractive to more than a few freaks around town.


The “blood and fear” that machines run on must have something special to it that the substance can corrupt and kill the human body. Not to mention, these dystopian androids are highly advanced and capable of their own cognitive functions and sentience – as evidenced by the fight between Olivia’s giant goon squad retrieval robot and the OG Princess Gwen robot that was pursuing Andi and Frankie while at the labs underground, underwater base.


But, tell me your thoughts: have you watched the new pilot for Glitch Productions’ animated show Knights of Guinevere? Do you think Princess Guinevere was originally human, or somehow related to Olivia or even her mother?

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