That's your opinion. I rather not be stringed on for multiple episodes, expecting an exciting conclusion, only to have a dissapointing payoff after all the buildup.
Why do modern cartoons need to have an overarching plot? What's wrong with episodic plots?
Jaxson Campbell
Josiah Butler
Because they try to rip-off anime and forget that some anime shows are episodic too.
Jordan Williams
It's an incredibly easy tool to keep viewership up. There's less pressure to make every episode well-written or entertaining when you constantly tease viewers to keep tuning in for that elusive payoff.
LOST taught everyone how easy it is to make a big profit this way, so lots of people followed suit. Then others felt that you couldn't compete unless you had a serialized plot, and it became the norm.
When you add consumers like who think "if it's trendy it's inherently better," you have a big mindless market demand for serialized plots.
It's not so much a reflection of changing times as it is just a gimmick that's convenient for the industry.
Blake Sanchez
They don't, the writers just want their dumb gag-a-day and monster-of-the-week shows to have the same 'deep lore' as anime or straight-up action cartoons, so they try and mesh the two and fail.
It's kind of amazing how Felix The Cat: The Movie could be considered a prototype of every modern cartoon in this respect.
Caleb Morris
Yeah the characters are pretty well done and so is the dynamic between them (Which seems harder for some artists to do with Scooby-Doo for some reason) The humor's not bad too, if that's your jam. The art style really is a shame though.
Alexander Mitchell
>Why do modern cartoons need to have an overarching plot
Most of them don't
>What's wrong with episodic plots?
Nothing. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. All depends on how well they're executed.
Dominic Sanchez
Wander over Yonder was forced to spread it's lore out across the seasons (to the point where we'll never see what they had planned) because the higher powers only wanted episodes that could be re-run, I reckon that's the case for other shows as well, if you want lore you need to space it out across something with a bit more slice of life.
Isaiah Gomez
Tons of people. Mostly the fags who want to cut out major elements out of settings because "lol nobody cares."