The Earth-bound aliens in the animated series Solar Opposites are back for the show’s third season, and a new trailer suggests they’re trying to up their familial attachments.
It’s been just over a year since Season Two of the show dropped on Hulu, and it looks like there are plenty of new shenanigans in the upcoming episodes, not least of which was a gun that turned things (including people) into gargoyles, Korvo (Justin Roiland) turning into a giant Thomas the Train, and the team deciding to blast a-holes they meet into outer space.
The trailer above includes a lot more, so give it a watch if you’re so inclined. And if you need a refresher of the premise of Solar Opposites, a series that comes from Rick & Morty co-creator Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan, here’s the show’s official synopsis:
Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens who are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome. Korvo (Roiland) and Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone) only see the pollution, crass consumerism, and human frailty while Terry (Thomas Middleditch) and Jesse (Mary Mack) love TV, junk food and fun stuff. In season three, this alien team strives to be less of a team and more of a family team.
You can see this team fam it up when Season Three of Solar Opposites drops on Hulu on July 13, 2022.
A note from your friendly neighborhood grammar curmudegon:
Dear Tor.com headline writer(s):
Once again I am disappointed at your appalling tendency to commit inaccurate English usage. The device portrayed in the accompanying (highly amusing) video clip is not, by any reasonable standard, a “gargoyle gun”. (The author of the article, Ms. Thompson, clearly understands this and is not to be blamed for the erroneous usage.)
Acceptable modifiers for the word “gun” may fall into several categories, none of which can be said to apply in the present circumstance. The illustrated weapon is not, for instance, equivalent to an “elephant gun”, which is a weapon designed for hunting elephants. It is not equivalent to a “Gatling gun”, a weapon whose invention is credited to a gentleman named Gatling. Nor is it equivalent to a “laser gun”, a weapon which fires a beam commonly known as a “laser”. Note that the formulations “gargoyle ray” or “gargoyle ray gun” avoid this problem, although the more elegant solution is the use of an appropriate coined descriptor – as for instance, “Gerbilizer™, illustrated here. One must also acknowledge that the English language is not fully consistent in this respect, in that “elephant gun” is arguably acceptable usage even though it does not describe a gun which fires elephants.
This is all the more concerning because the world of Solar Opposites is clearly one in which one might reasonably find a weapon which could, in fact, reasonably be called a gargoyle gun – that is, a weapon designed for hunting gargoyles, one invented by gargoyles, or one which employs gargoyles as projectiles. The fact that the weapon illustrated in the provided video is none of these is even more disappointing under these circumstances.
We must also acknowledge here that in most fictional universes, most especially a certain fictional universe created by Greg Weisman and his colleagues under the Walt Disney umbrella, a weapon properly labeled a “gargoyle gun” would be appallingly unethical and inappropriate for family-friendly programming. The universe portrayed in Solar Opposites, however, obviously reflects a different creative standard. We will also acknowledge here that a part of us was secretly hoping, on reading the headline, to find in the video clip a weapon which did in fact employ gargoyles as projectiles. That part of us apologizes to Mr. Weisman and the characters of Gargoyles for this lapse.
We trust that you will take the proper lesson from this well-meant and constructively framed missive and endeavor to write more accurate headlines in future.
(signed)
John C. Bunnell
English major, grammar curmudgeon, and friend to gargoyles everywhere