Forum:The Puppies Needed at Least Two Episodes

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I obviously love Adventure Time since I am a member of this wiki but I must admit that the inconsistencies caused by different people writing the episodes can be kind of a downside to the show. Have you ever noticed how a story arc started by one team of storyboarders and writers ends up getting sort of snubbed or cut short by another? The puppies episode is a good example of this as is the 13 year old princess bubble gum episode and even the Lich season finally/opener trilogy.

When the show is just telling random little self contained stories it is often at its best because it really lets the creativity of the different teams of animators and writers shine and do their own thing but when they start trying to put story arcs together they often come off as inconsistent. Some of the teams excell at writing truly touching dramatic stories, others are good doing the surreal abstract stuff, and others are great at getting a laugh. The trouble starts when one of the dramatic writer/storyboard teams starts a pretty serious or emotionally touching story arc and then its given to a different team to finish. I love adventure time and part of the charm is just how crazy and unique each episode is which is in part due to the fact that there are so many different little storyboarding and writing teams but I think it would do them well to have a single team create episodes that are related to one another via story arc. For instance I think "Jake the Dad" would have been better as 2 or 3 episodes done by Rebbecca Sugar and Cole Sanchez who were the ones who began the Jake is going to be a dad story arc.

Often when one team writes another team into the corner they use a dues ex machina to snub the previous team's story changes which always comes off a bit unfufilling. Jake becoming a dad definately did throw off the whole show's buddy dynamic but instead of snubbing it in a single 11 minute episode by ending it with "they grew up overnight" I think it would have felt far more satisfying if they had maybe 1 or two more episodes spanning maybe a couple of weeks time showing Jake with his rapidly maturing children. They could have had this episode as their toddler stage, the next as their childhoods and a third to wrap it all up with them becoming young adults and leaving the nest a month after their birth. -shrug-  I guess it's really easy to critisize rather than create. It's still a great show, one of my all time favorites. That's just my two cents.Melting Sky (talk) 00:26, January 9, 2013 (UTC)