Which is worse: Your favorite show getting cancelled in 1 season with no resolution? Or your favorite show lasting for several years to the point that there's more bad episodes than good?
Which is worse: Your favorite show getting cancelled in 1 season with no resolution...
Ian Smith
Lincoln Garcia
At least with more episodes you can have closure at a certain point and stop watching.
Henry Perry
As long as the plot points I care about get a satisfying resolution, I would pick the latter.
With the former, your just left unsatisfied; with the latter, you can at least say that they wrapped up the plot strands you did like and be have the option to say "show should have ended here, I'm just gonna stop watching new episodes"
Henry Powell
favorite show lasting for several years to the point that there's more bad episodes than good
Jordan Miller
1 season
you'll always think of what could have been
even simpsons and spongebob are still considered good cartoons, even if everyone says "BUT ONLY THESE SEASONS"
I'd rather live as a villain than die a hero
Owen Mitchell
I think, “What might have been...” is better than “Well that sucked.”
Adrian Green
this
Nolan Sullivan
If it has a good ending I don't mind if the bad episodes count higher than the good ones, but if it ends badly I would prefer to remember it as it was.
Also, I think it depends on whether the show's format is episodic or an overarching plot.
Pic related; this episode (and the season overall) was a better ending for JLU. That being said, the season after it had a few exceptionally good Flash episodes.
this.
Owen Reed
Better to leave the audience wanting more than less. That's my philosophy any way. Plus with shit like all the Nickelodeon revival movies and SJ season 5 there's always a glimmer of hope that it could continue.
Logan Nguyen
the first one.
Zachary Garcia
It was a good ending for JLU but it was an absolute shit ending for Batman Beyond
Connor Cook
Cancelled early. I don't think people talked shit about Samurai Jack until S5; the show was for the most part fantastic and point point, but apparently the last few episodes were enough to sour some viewers' opinion on the whole series
Carson Watson
The later. I just can cherrypick my favorite episode and make a way to watch the show, avoiding most crap episodes and having a decent conclusion, for instance I made that with fairly oddparents.
Symbionic titan just got cutted right in the middle, with unsolved plots.
Nathaniel Russell
OP pointed "with no resolution", it's implyied we are talking about a show with an overarching plot that didn't get finished.
Connor Cox
HOT TAKE: Netflix has the right idea. 3 seasons is enough, cut seasons in half to get more mileage out of the most popular shows.
Luis Bell
lasting for several years
Ryder Diaz
Some shows can start out episodic and then be retroactively shoehorned with overarching plotlines when the studio execs order more seasons. It's a given that Pen Ward didn't intend to be working on AT for so many seasons, I think.
Hell, I wouldn't say a show has to necessarily have an overarching storyline for it to have unresolved plots across self-contained episodes. That's just my opinion, though.
Agreed with very few exceptions.
Ryder Barnes
Which is worse: Show getting cancelled early with unresolved plot points or show going on long enough to see those plot points ruined but getting closure?
What if Nickelodeon cancelled Korra for some reason so that it only got ten episodes? The last two episodes was the finale and you found out that Amon was a fraud. So without those you still got a 10/10 villain but no resolution to his plan.
Gabriel Cook
The second. I can choose to ignore the dogshit episodes/seasons. But the great seasons will always be great.
Robert Davis
Any show that turns into a zombie has a point where I can consider it dead and move on. There are too many shows where I only have that single season, that I'm never able to see them fully realize their potential.
Austin White
> getting cancelled after one season
Happens often to few action cartoons, it's either a dramatic cliffhanger or an bittersweet ending with some unresolved plots.
>more bad episodes than good in later seasons
Pretty much the worse.
Angel Myers
A little bit of both. Cancelled after season 1, only to return years later, and they shit it all up.