And then when you are finally hyped that season 2 is going to be packed with surfing, they announce its cancelled
Remember when flashbacks used to take 10-30 seconds instead of interrupting the story by spending an entire episode going into pointless detail about things you’ve been given no reason to care about yet?
Anime: “how long for what now?”
Anime:
- 2m30 opening song
- 2m recap
- 2m last scenes from previous episode but not considered “recap” for some reason
- 10m actual episode content
- 2m30 ending song
- 1m funny “outtakes” or banter
- 30s spoilers for next episode
Anyone else remember that one season of bleach where 15 minutes of every episode was a recap of the entire series up to that point for padding?
Slightly better than another horrible filler arc.
- 10m actual episode content
More like…
- 4m45s actual episode content
- 15s mid episode card
- 15m ad break
- 15s mid episode card
- 45s scenes from just before the ad break
- 4m actual episode content
Drag On Ball Z
12 episodes establishing the motivations for the bad guy, 10 episodes of questing for the dragon balls, 5 episodes of just screaming and glowing…
Though the anime that blue balled me the most was Inuyasha. Naraku was such a dick of a bad guy, I just wanted to see him get his comeuppance and they just started doing more and more filler episodes that weren’t connected to the main plot at all.
In the defense of Dragon ball they did eventually make Kai for Z. No gucking clue about super though, I absorbed the non movies through xenoverse since it didnt spike my interest. Except for the Goku black arc.
I watched nearly a thousand episodes of One Piece before finally giving up when they did a 17 episode flashback for a story that could have been told through exposition.
Frankly if the Oden flashback isn’t for you then one piece might not be for you
It’s my wife’s all time favorite show, so I really tried. Some of the early arcs were a drag (cough, cough, Arabasta, cough). But from Water 7 through Marineford it just got better and better, and I really enjoyed it. Even after the time skip Dressrosa and Whole Cake were for the most part engaging. But man, Wano was such a slog. By the time they finished the flashback, I just didn’t give a shit about that island anymore. I’m tempted to just skip to Egghead, or give One Pace a shot.
Did you mean: 40 second elevator scene?
Did you mean: slow pan across still frame?
Did you mean: three-frame loop for internal dialog?
And a season would be 36, maybe 72 episodes long, for syndication. Nowadays you get 10. Maybe another 8 if it does super well. And then that’s it, because Netflix is fully “no take only throw” about time-sinks like The Office.
Seriously. Parks n Rec, too, which took 2.5-3 seasons to really find it’s footing and voice for its characters would’ve been doomed if it was released nowadays.
IIRC the shorter seasons were a union demand after the '07-‘08 writers’ strike.
Wow would that be an own goal.
Some of me even have eight for the first season.
Honestly this is why I liked the live action Cowboy Bebop. It wasnt great, but it was fun.
Did it start off with the jazz ensemble?
Yes! They actually made a pretty good replica of the original intro. Not identical but same style and clearly a homage.
The only thing I didn’t like was the Vicious scenes. I found them kind of cringe (nothing against the Julia and Vicious actors, they acted their lines as best they could). But the scenes of the crew doing adventures I generally found pretty fun and engaging.
That was my opinion on it too. I didn’t like how they changed his character. Everything else was fine.
I absolutely hate how nearly everything is serialized and not episodic these days. Everything is dark, and gritty, and edgey, and moody, and serious. And nearly all of it is absolute garbage. I barely watch TV shows or movies these days because there is very little that I think is even good.
Serialization’s cool, but the problem is it deamnds more of my attention than I’m willing to give it
Thank the writers union for that all you union boot lickers.
Looking at you, Supacell. Could have done the series in 2 episodes.
