>show starts as monster of the week with a wacky premise
>gradually devolves into janky continuity lorefaggotry
Show starts as monster of the week with a wacky premise
Jordan Roberts
Andrew Anderson
Have you heard of the high elves?
Camden Kelly
Stop! You violated the law!
Hudson Ward
>The lore stuff is kinda interesting
>Shows shifts to "abstract for the sake of abstract" and the writers imposing their real life problems and angst into the episodes
James Cooper
>what is any superhero TV show ever?
Brayden Cooper
at least the waifus didn't decline in quality
Ryder Barnes
Throw in a love triangle and you're golden (assuming gold = feces)
Nathan White
You're talking about the pickle show, right?
Carson Edwards
In retrospect the Godzilla cartoon is pretty good in that it never strayed from Kaiju of the week.
Jayden Butler
You're talking about Adventure Time and Regular Show, right?
Juan Ross
>lore and plot gets super interesting
>wastes half the episodes doing monster of the week shit again and rushes the main plot's conclusion
Sebastian Allen
Most of them still kept to a MOTW format
Nathan Smith
Steven Universe?
Jackson Watson
The two devils.
Brayden Diaz
hi emmett
Adam Perry
I'm genuinely blanking on examples of this aside from Regular Show and Adventure Time.
Adrian Evans
You better not be talkin shit about Big O. I will destroy you.
Lucas White
if a show continues, they run out monsters to do
Luke Edwards
Sounds like AT 100%
Henry Reed
who the fuck is this guy in the bad shirt?
Leo Martinez
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part 3?
Christopher Powell
Monster of the week is only feasible for little kid shows this days, since it's a model used for viewers that can only tune in to watch once in a while (like little kids that can't yet control their watch history).
In older times, when you couldn't just catch up to things with online services, shows took in account that you may have missed the previous episodes, but this days no one starts watching a show from any episode that isn't the first one.
Shows now have a linear story and lore because that's just how we consume media now. Serial one shot stories are no longer a convenient model because they lack a sense of progression.
Jonathan Evans
is that a cartoon, retard?
Jose Perry
no, but it was on toonami so I can see why it would come to mind
Jace White
The three parter episodes with the aliens and the original godzilla as a cyborg were excellent too,
Austin King
>monster of the week show has a bunch of minor background lore that was hinted at even at the start of the first episode
>final season eventually leads up to exploring said background lore
Nathan Nelson
fuck you
Sebastian Hall
fuck you too