Good voice acting and premise - weak stories

I think it takes a lot of effort to put together a podcast script and voice act lines, and so I rarely criticize those components so early on in a production. I can tell already each of the characters are really distinctly styled in terms of voice and each person is trying to get a feel for the character and define them not just by voice but in manner of speaking (how bugs bunny and daffy duck for example both have different layers to the way they speak that build their personality).

However as of episode 2 I find the stories are told just too boringly. Maybe the work picks up in later seasons, but as of season 1 the characters themselves are too weak and have too little personality to make the basic humour (a gambler who is bad at gambling but really into gambling for example) seem witty, creative or charismatic. Plus episode 2 (spoilers) focuses on landing on a planet where its revealed a monstrous looking creature was created purely to eat other creatures of the same make, which sounds psychologically horrific in theory but it’s a huuuuuuuge leap to assume a creature that demonstrates in the show to have all the intelligence of a typical cow (chasing a mandible bone is the equivalent of a dog chasing a squirrel) to be in existential hell over this reality. There isn’t enough new to make the show interesting. Which sucks because the voice acting is quite enthusiastic.

The sinkers were the toilet humour of ‘talking about poop’ in a way that was very Y7 TV and the I have a low bar for humour but if your characters are delivering stiff script, toilet humour should be left until you’ve delivered some other humour successfully. And the show isn’t dark enough yet for the bible verses to come across as weirdly… preachy instead of ominous and maybe philosophical.