Told ya so... S9E3 · 2:25pm Apr 15th, 2019
And the Tree's back.
I told you it'd be back at the end of this episode. I know hack kiddie show writing, and I know the direction it ALWAYS goes. They CANNOT permit tension to last for long. The writers of the show are incapable of telling any type of more sweeping dramatic arc. That's all there is to it.
They should have just quit with the Big Bads, since they just keep handling them more poorly with every passing season, and stuck to slice of life world-building.
Maybe, you know, SHOW US ZECORA'S HOMELAND!!! Maybe revisit the Diamond Dogs... no one ever tried to reform them, and they're not really all that 'bad', just dumb. How about an episode with Steven Magnet, perhaps a friendship problem between dragons and sea serpents... old ancestral conflict based upon their opposing elemental natures: fire vs water.
They have so much material they've done nothing with, but perhaps it's simply because they have no idea what to do with it.
If you want good stories, stick with japanese manga and animation derived from it - they at least have a beginning and an ending, and more often than not are great stories.
Examples for which scanlations exist in english:
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou - or something like it, it is pure slice of life at the end of the world.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - 'nuff said. It can be bought or seen now in the west.
Get Backers - manga only, it has a great story that was cut off from the anime.
Dragon Ball - not Z or after, just the original. It can be bought or seen now in the west.
Zatch Bell - manga only, differs greatly from anime.
I could go on, but I am certain that you're a busy fellow, so I'll leave you to it.
Eh... maybe we'll see it in gen 5
5044830 SOME manga do. I've followed quite a few. There are more than enough which lose track of where they're going and crash hard.
I could point to "Bleach" and "Naruto" as two big-name contemporaries which lost their way. Then there was "Fairy Tale".
Then there are those which just suddenly stop, for various reasons.
I'm currently following "One Piece", "My Hero Academia", "One Punch Man" and "Mob Psycho 100". But there are others I find interesting as well. Some are just simple, whimsical little slice-of-life: "Hakumei to Mikochi", for instance.
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Those weren't all that good to start with
5045254 I would argue that both were restrained enough at the start that they COULD have become good stories. But they succumbed to power creep and far too many characters, as well as not having a clear end point set ahead of time (Tite Kubo even admitted he had never planned out "Bleach" ahead of time... that's a bad idea with a long-running series with an ongoing story thread).
"Bleach", especially, had a great build-up in its first 50 or so episodes, culminating in the reveal of Aizen working with the Hollows. It set up so much potential for exploration... only to quickly collapse once the Hueco Mundo arc began and dragged on for far too long.
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This is best anime
5045723 Naw dude...
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Bestest!
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Ugh, Fairy Tail.
5046645 Alondro now knows your weakness...
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And I couldn't care less.
5046653 Tonight you shall be visited by 3 really lame dragooooooons! Wooooooooooo!