YMMV / Confinement

• Angst? What Angst?: Played with; while Connor does frequently express angst over how being the Foundation's prisoner makes him feel lonely and depressed, he never shows signs of any long-term mental trauma from all the extremely violent deaths he's experienced or witnessed, which is apparently because he's suffered so many gruesome killings that he became desensitized a long time ago.
• Audience-Alienating Ending: After 4 years of waiting for Episode 8, the series ultimately ended on a sour note when it was discovered that instead of it having an actual plot, Lord Bung animated four minutes of a naked Connor getting into NSFW situations and then deleted their channel, and consequentially the episodes, off of YouTube, leaving a Google Drive link with what was left of Episode 8.
• Awesome Art: The series has a rather cool and intriguing art style, and the animation noticeably improves with each episode.
• Awesome Music:
  • "In the Pines", the series' Theme Song which perfectly captures the creepiness and dark tone of the SCP Foundation.
  • "Anomalies!", a fast-paced catchy song which matches the sinisterly manic energy of the Salesman as he tries to con the old lady Annie.
  • "Fine and Dandy", an upbeat-sounding song with a darkly comedic edge that perfectly captures the series' Black Comedy tone and sums up Connor's character.
• Bile Fascination: Most of the reason for watching the notorious Episode 8, which is literally just four minutes of Black Comedy Rape gags. Not to mention it's the final episode of Confinement, which only adds to the bizarre mystique.
• Broken Base: The series potentially continuing with an entirely different crew is understandably divisive. While many are happy to see Connor potentially have his story continued, others have pointed out that it feels strange to continue development on it with a crew of essentially fans and that it very likely won't have the same feel to it. How the project has been marketed received additional criticism, with the fan project asking for money and also marketing itself as "under new management" despite having zero related crew with the original series, with it being pointed out as potentially misleading.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Connor is arguably one of sorts, not in Confinment itself (being the main protagonist of that series), but to the wider SCP Foundation fandom; despite technically not being an official character from the SCP Wiki itself, he's now a fairly popular subject for SCP fan-art and memes.
• Memetic Mutation: "That's it? That's the last episode?! THAT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF SOFT-CORE PORN! LORD BUNG BETRAYED US!"
• Moe: Young Connor is absolutely adorable.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Outside the SCP community (and even to many within it), the series is only particularly notable for its relation to Lord Bung's very public fallout and subsequent disappearance from the internet.
• Unexpected Character:
  • The first SCP Connor has to deal with? SCP-082 (Fernand the Cannibal). Quite a few SCP fans were pleased with this, as many would have expected them to start with the more well-known skips.
  • So far, just about every SCP featured prominently in the series is one of the more obscure ones, be they the main focus or just in the background. Episode 2 even features the extremely obscure SCP-2427-3, who doesn't even have an image depicting it.
  • Not so much a character, but a location: in Episodes 6 and 7, Connor goes up against SCP-3008 (A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA).
• The Woobie:
  • Connor. He's spent his entire lonely life being raised as a human guinea pig inside a secret lab/prison, where he has been almost totally deprived of freedom, friendship, and love. It's no wonder where his cynical attitude comes from.
  • SCP-1836 (Sanna) had a rather miserable past, and has spent so much of her long life being trapped alone inside an iceberg in the middle of nowhere. It's no wonder why Connor empathized with her.
  • Annie from the "Anomalies" music video, being an old widow whose greatest desire is to be reunited with her husband and child. And then she ends up being killed by SCP-1879 (the Salesman) just so that he can make a sale at the cost of her (literal) life and limb.

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