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Yeah, they made two back to back. Apparently they're gunning for a fourth one, but I really don't see that happening any time soon. Shame, they kind of sort of said they'd bring Gandhi back from the freezer.
I have watched some more of it and collected my thoughts on the two new sequel seasons, mostly because I was genuinely curious on just how skewed Youtubers' opinions can be. Overall I think both seasons are pretty much average TV entertainment. In some ways, despite the massive downgrade compared to S1, they're still leagues above whatever other "animated comedy show" (read: cartoons get violent and swear a lot) is airing these days.
The objectively best aspect about the show is the animation department getting a huge monetary shot in the arm. All the scenes have something going on with them and the characters in general are way more expressive than in S1. Some of the more crazy scenes are way more fast paced than the original ever managed to be, they kind of remind me of some of the best parts about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. This however is sometimes a detriment to the show, considering that it only really works with the cleaner designs for the characters from S1. In general, the newer characters are not only rather ugly from a design stand point, I'd say they even fail at portraying a caricature of the historical characters they're supposed to represent (pic very much related, the new Harriet is supposed to be the pink haired negress). Whenever they're on the same set as the original incidentals, it has basically the same jarring factor as seeing celebrities on the Simpsons interacting with the cartoon characters from the '80s. The only two designs that have any sort of merits in my opinion are Topher and Frida, but only in so far that they at least follow similar choices to the rest of the original cast (and in the case of Frida, that only extends to her face). It's really unfortunate as the bump in the animation quality also reflects on the backdrops being really imaginative and much more lively than in the original.
The biggest issue with the sequel however is the pointlessness of it all. Clone High was airing on a network that celebrated a lot of the high school drama tropes that the show would completely beat to the death with a cartoonishly large anvil, revive and then beat to death again. The "littering is fine in moderation" episode in particular was one that I keep remembering, given how utterly retarded the moral was, but the writers managed to pick all the usual schticks associated to HS dramas and make it the natural conclusion that the protagonists would reach. Abe was the aloof, socially awkward teen protagonist, Cleo the mean girl, all the same guys populating shit like The OC. Compared to them, all the new characters bring absolutely nothing to the plot by themselves, even when it revolves around them. Frida is artsy and apparently cool, Confucious is unpopular but loaded, Harriet is just the token pink haired nigger all shows have to put in nowadays, the blonde bitch is really just Scudworth minus one. Topher is the only character with any meaningful bite to him, since he has an actual parallel that really exists in shows AND real life, a basement dweller, terminally online Twitter user afraid of cancel-culture and having to show how much more tolerant he is by being an awful person (until he embraces it himself). Most of the scenes worth watching barely even factor in the new guys, which is why the show can be either somewhat similar to the original or completely forgettable. The humor has also taken a nosedive, there are still some fun moments and nice visual gags, but the problem is that the show's pace is so fast that the jokes don't really linger on enough to meaningfully land, or they overstay their welcome. This also reflects poorly on the writing, since the lack of new personality types to make fun of also limits a lot what the characters can do, which is why the solution has been to just mix and match different characters with different social standings, Joan is the most prolific at that since she ends up with or against the entire cast depending on the episode, yet this also runs really counter to her personality. Funnily enough, Scudworth is the only memorable performance throughout the series, since he had always been a walking cartoon character among parodies of actual teenagers.
tl;dr the show is passable, but no one will really even remember the other two seasons if not when talking about the absurdly long wait time between seasons.