jarring said: doctor who is episodic and is considered by MANY if not MOST people one of if not THE best show on the planet. also this girl deserves her own post she is fucking gorgeous and has the best voice, most adorable scottish accent, and best personality. You spelled The Wire wrong. 12345678910 |
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DEGOZAURUS said: jarring said: doctor who is episodic and is considered by MANY if not MOST people one of if not THE best show on the planet. also this girl deserves her own post she is fucking gorgeous and has the best voice, most adorable scottish accent, and best personality. Its ranked #97 on imdb so id say youre rather wrong that proves nothing. are you seriously that dense or are you just trying to fuck with me |
Johnnyd3rp said: jarring said: doctor who is episodic and is considered by MANY if not MOST people one of if not THE best show on the planet. also this girl deserves her own post she is fucking gorgeous and has the best voice, most adorable scottish accent, and best personality. You spelled The Wire wrong. 12345678910 my best friend is into that show. i watched a couple episodes with him and didn't like it. being an addict myself, i actually kind of find it offensive. |
jarring said: that proves nothing. are you seriously that dense or are you just trying to fuck with me That proves its NOT considered the BEST show on the planet by MOST people. And people on imdb are probably a better indicator cause theyve seen more shows then most TV watchers(on average ofc). I havent seen it but the consensus definitely isnt on its side. |
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DEGOZAURUS said: jarring said: that proves nothing. are you seriously that dense or are you just trying to fuck with me That proves its NOT considered the BEST show on the planet by MOST people. And people on imdb are probably a better indicator cause theyve seen more shows then most TV watchers(on average ofc) oh my fucking god no it doesn't. and really? people on imdb watch more shows than tv watchers? this makes absolutely no sense. I'm done talking to you. |
jarring said: my best friend is into that show. i watched a couple episodes with him and didn't like it. being an addict myself, i actually kind of find it offensive. You spelled Band of Brothers wrong. This should work :D |
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Johnnyd3rp said: jarring said: my best friend is into that show. i watched a couple episodes with him and didn't like it. being an addict myself, i actually kind of find it offensive. You spelled Band of Brothers wrong. This should work :D i like how this guy totally took out a couple words of what i said and is trying to prove me wrong "one of" and "many" apparently he doesn't understand how the phrase --if not-- works in speech. |
jarring said: i like how this guy totally took out a couple words of what i said and is trying to prove me wrong "one of" and "many" apparently he doesn't understand how the phrase --if not-- works in speech. If you consider entries around the 100th place to be 'one of the best' then alright but that makes your statement very vague and pointless. Ofc you dont understand that imdb users watch more if you couldnt comprehend blatant facts from earlier. An average imdb user feels interested in movies/series enough to create an account and rate shows there, its safe to assume he has seen more than the average TV series watcher without an account there. Simple logic. |
| Oshii is probably the only director that loves dogs. He thinks he's a dog himself. That's right, its slime! It will dissolve your clothing slowly before my eyes! |
DEGOZAURUS said: jarring said: i like how this guy totally took out a couple words of what i said and is trying to prove me wrong "one of" and "many" apparently he doesn't understand how the phrase --if not-- works in speech. If you consider entries around the 100th place to be 'one of the best' then alright but that makes your statement very vague and pointless. you are clueless. just stfu already. |
| I think it gets boring eventually. I find it a bit ironic that you bring this up and your profile and forum pic are from JoJo. During Stardust Crusaders I pretty much just read the synopsis of all the episodes of the second season until I get to the pet shop episodes. I didn't miss a thing. There's no way I could've managed to sit through another season of enemy of the week. |
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jarring said: DEGOZAURUS said: If you consider entries around the 100th place to be 'one of the best' then alright but that makes your statement very vague and pointless. you are clueless. just stfu already. I know you feel overwhelmed by arguments but theres really no need to be upset. I corrected your wording mistake and thats all. You can like doctor who, no one cares whether you get hard for some scottish redhead or not but saying its considered one of the best shows by many people is either bending the meaning and making these statements so vague theyre pointless or factually wrong. An average imdb user feels interested in movies/series enough to create an account and rate shows there, its safe to assume he has seen more than the average TV watcher without an account there. Simple logic. |
| Oshii is probably the only director that loves dogs. He thinks he's a dog himself. That's right, its slime! It will dissolve your clothing slowly before my eyes! |
DEGOZAURUS said: I know you feel overwhelmed by arguments but theres really no need to be upset. I corrected your wording mistake and thats all. You can like doctor who, no one cares whether you get hard for some scottish redhead or not but saying its considered one of the best shows by many people is either bending the meaning and making these statements so vague theyre pointless or factually wrong. An average imdb user feels interested in movies/series enough to create an account and rate shows there, its safe to assume he has seen more than the average TV watcher without an account there. Simple logic. honestly, i'm just happy your idiocy isn't contagious. my wording mistake lol |
| Episodic is toxic to me. Time and again I've picked up highly recommended shows within genres I like only to find out the only reason it's highly rated is because it's episodic, which the heavily outnumbering US audience on MAL are accustomed to. Such as the most overrated show on MAL, Kobato. (Didn't even know it was Madhouse until I watched it unfortunately, if I did I would have avoided it) Slice-of-life should never be episodic with new side characters every episode, I consider it a genre failure point because the whole value of slice of life is interactions between recurring characters leading to character development. It can be empty as all fuck apart from that, but they need to know what the important characters are and focus on them. The whole Kobato/ Death Parade formula bullshit is really mindboggling to see so many like. I'd rather watch Doctor Phil. You CAN make it work, like Star Trek or Quantum Leap, but there needs to be overarching goals and main character development or it FLUNKS. Chobits and NGNL were alright though. |
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| Fully episodic might be bland but a dragged-out series with constant cliffhangers in which the episode division makes little sense in the first place is bad as well. It depends on execution: sure. But if every episode has something to tell you or simply feels like a unity by itself is certainly a plus. In my opinion many series just maintain the same status quo throughout their airing time, character interactions barely change, etc. And maybe some of those aren't episodic per se, but rather stagnate at some point for mere convenience.. @Red_Tuesday I'd never have said Kobato's problem is being episodic but rather being uninteresting as a whole (from premise to every single character), murderously slow and plainly boring in everything it attempted to do, lol. |
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OneNaughtyBear said: I think it gets boring eventually. I find it a bit ironic that you bring this up and your profile and forum pic are from JoJo. During Stardust Crusaders I pretty much just read the synopsis of all the episodes of the second season until I get to the pet shop episodes. I didn't miss a thing. There's no way I could've managed to sit through another season of enemy of the week. I sat through it all, just saying that you missed a couple of great moments. |
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jarring said: doctor who is episodic and is considered by MANY if not MOST people one of if not THE best show on the planet.  also this girl deserves her own post she is fucking gorgeous and has the best voice, most adorable scottish accent, and best personality. Since when is that considered the best by anyone? It's mostly a guilty pleasure for your typical brit |
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jarring said: *waits for long drawn out reply from try-hard poster* "long drawn out replies" He's just typing more than one sentence because he has arguments. I'm sorry reality is so hard to accept, but "she makes my dick hard" isn't a good argument to prove that "most people think it's maybe one of the best shows ever". You might think backing up an opinion is trying too hard, but if you want to interact with functional human beings on a forum, you'll have to do a lil' bit of effort :-3 @RedInfinity oh yeah please help me this will be gud :3 |
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| There's nothing inherently boring about an episodic formula. If it's got a great cast and setting it can maintain my immersion. Heck, an episodic formula can honestly be beneficial to the latter since there are different facets of the setting that shorter individual stories can showcase in detail (Ghost in the Shell: SAC is a great example of this). |
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| It mostly works on comedic genre but tbh I'd rather watch Subaru from Rezero die, reset and find another way to progress than watch little to no story or slow paced development shows. (my thoughts on it) |
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| nah i enjoyed death parade even that it was episodic |
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| Maybe, since most anime is adapted from manga, it's up to the mangaka to come up with new, interesting stories. Anime that's original, or adapted from visual novels or light novels may be different. Then you might see some formulaic type stories, but that's true of most entertainment nowadays from movies to TV shows. I haven't gotten too bored from this yet though. |
| I don't mind episodic shows. I watch a lot of episodic shows. |
Clebardman said: One user said it here: if it's not tied to "the main plot", it's a waste of time for him... Isn't watching anime always a waste of time Oo? If you enjoy it, then of course not. By your logic, anything that isn't directly productive is a waste of time. I just can't enjoy an anime if the plot is going nowhere, so that's why I think watching episodic format shows are usually a waste of time. |
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| Why are we talking about Doctor Who again? Anyways I think it is fine. I like episodic shows too. Well some of them bore me time to time but overall it is good. |
| It isn't if it is executed correctly, say Sakamoto desu ga? |
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| I tended to hate on/drop shows for no reason until I ended up analyzing why I gave it such a rating to later find out they were coincidentally episodic, so yes it affects my enjoyment. Though I do discriminate between episodic formats; if there are new characters introduced (Death Parade), character progression (Death Parade), if it's a comedy masterpiece (Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou), or if there's an objective and you feel the characters are drawing nearer to it (Death Parade's mystery; not like One Piece's One Piece, for example) - then I'll not be as susceptible to dropping. It is definitely a criteria that affects enjoyment for me; some people don't mind, however. I don't know if I'd use the word "boring" - in my case I get irritated / impatient / start lacking motivation to keep going. |
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| I wouldn't say boring, but I would say they are often less entertaining than a show with long, singular, and linear storyline and also limited by what they can accomplish with the short amount of time of a single episode to tell a whole story. I've liked both episodic and linear shows though. Even doing both at once can also work such as in the cases of Witch Hunter Robin and Kiddy Grade whose main stories start about halfway through and would definitely not have been as good were it not for the episodic half building the characters. |
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Noesnecesario said: If you're accustomed at watching/reading reviews of anime, it's sure you encountered this argument: "Has an episodic format so it gets boring after awhile". In all years that I've been watching anime, this hasn't occurred to me ever, in any case for me is more entertaining if there's a new situation in every episode than just following the same thing for god knows how many. Of course,this involves a certain variety in all cases and a little bit of re-inventing itself. What do you think? Do you find episodic anime to be boring after a certain time? well, speedwagon, I have to agree with you to an extent. An episodic anime can be very interesting if each new story is engaging enough. I know the 4 episodes of Detective Conan I watched were exciting because even though each case was different, the underlying plot remained. I like stories that have some form of progression, so I dislike episodic series that have no continuity. Series where a major event occurs in an episode only to be forgetten/brushed aside in the next have no place in my heart. |
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_Poochyena_ said: Noesnecesario said: If you're accustomed at watching/reading reviews of anime, it's sure you encountered this argument: "Has an episodic format so it gets boring after awhile". In all years that I've been watching anime, this hasn't occurred to me ever, in any case for me is more entertaining if there's a new situation in every episode than just following the same thing for god knows how many. Of course,this involves a certain variety in all cases and a little bit of re-inventing itself. What do you think? Do you find episodic anime to be boring after a certain time? well, speedwagon, I have to agree with you to an extent. An episodic anime can be very interesting if each new story is engaging enough. I know the 4 episodes of Detective Conan I watched were exciting because even though each case was different, the underlying plot remained. I like stories that have some form of progression, so I dislike episodic series that have no continuity. Series where a major event occurs in an episode only to be forgetten/brushed aside in the next have no place in my heart. Some episodic shows do drown in stagnant water. It's actually the much-praised Mushishi that lost, because although it had cool ideas it didn't have enough variety, enough room for these ideas to move. Compare it to Humanity Has Declined which does it much better. |
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| Not if the episodic formula has enough interesting ways it can be spun in each episode. |
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| i would answer with the best and common answer all time "depends on execution". if done well, its not boring. if done badly, then its boring xD |
| Not really, it works really well with Cowboy Bebop. El Cazador too but there's always a bit of continuity like 5% update on story, for a while and then the story stops being episodic. |
| I have always hated episodic format, but then I watched Rick and Morty and I found out why the episodic format is usually not well received. In Rick and Morty, the episodes generate suspense, you think something big might happen (like a death of an important character or the destruction of the world) But in other episodic series like Kekkai Sensen this suspense doesn't exist. Everyone is happy and you know that when the episode finishes, it will be just the same as the beginning. Other case is Joker Game. The problem with this one is that (almost) every episode had different characters, and that made me don't give a fuck if one of them died or something. (But JG had 3-4 eps that were masterpieces) |
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| Not necessarily, some of my fav anime are episodic. |
| Like everyone it depends. South park etc are good because it's episodic. |
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| That is a very interesting question, so I regret my inability to give as interesting an answer. It depends entirely on flexibility, direction, and characters. Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, Golden Boy, Nichijou, and The World God Only Knows are examples of episodic shows I really enjoyed. On the other hand, watching To Love-ru was exhausting and painful after about 5 episodes. I really shouldn't have watched it to the end. I also found that Sakamoto Desu Ga? did a very poor job as an eposodic series, since it told only one joke (that was the same every time) 3 times an episode. You then have shows that fall into the awkward middle ground like Pokemon. The formula had just enough variation to keep the target audience (children) interested. It did not however do anything particularly well. I would argue that another show in this category would be Jojo Stardust Crusaders. It's formula wasn't uninteresting, and there was enough variation to keep it interesting... if you watch it as a weekly series. Stardust Crusaders is not particularly fun to binge, unlike the other Jojo arcs. |
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| it depends. I like episodic supernatural psychological mystery stuff. Episodic comedy is good too. But episodic action wouldn't work out as well... |
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| At this point considering my watched amount, the episodic formula gets me burned out easily and possibly makes me fall asleep as it's too predictable at this point and lowers the enjoyment factor. |
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| Some of my fav anime have an episodic style |
| I don't. Episodic is okay. I like gunslinger girls, aria, and much more. Monster of the Week however, especially if the methods of defeating them is the same like Revolutionary Girl Utena, is BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!! |
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| A show like Lucky Star must drive the episodic haters NUTS!!! LOL |
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