Serial > Episodic

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>>94381156
Of course. That's why most of the best cartoons were serialized from the start, and those that weren't adopted it later on in several cases.

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Ahem.

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>>94381238
Here, let me help with that nasty cough of yours.

>>94381156
I enjoy some episodic shows from time to time. I can just jump into it for laughs or a short story instead of having to binge watch to understand what I just watched

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>>94381184

>>94381829
It's not bait you dumb fishposter. Those along with >>94381278 are my top 10 favorite cartoons, by far I might add.

>>94381278
>>94381850
Batman:TAS >>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Batman.

>>94381850
No offense, but your opinion is shit and you're a subhuman pile of trash with no redeeming qualities

>>94381902
Got those backwards there anon, but agreed on the number of arrows.

>>94381916
Tell us how you really feel.

>>94381156
>MUH NARRATIVE COMPLEXITY
it's the cancer killing fiction right now, comic books are fucked by decompression, cartoons try way too hard to be deep and adult using the nareative form and end up with shitty rushed storytelling, even the new Star Trek has abandoned their most tried and true format for this bullshit.
FUCK SERIALIZATION. It just gives us dead air time filled with shitty character writing, bad romance and unsatisfying plots.

>>94382001
You sound like a manchild.

>>94381184
The only like half of those shows are actually serialized. Using serialization for an arc or two is not the same thing as having a serialized show. And trying to use Samurai Jack as an exampke of of serialization is better than episodic is retarded because the serialized eps suck in comparison

>>94382030
You're on /co/ posting about cartoons, you might wanna look in the mirror

>>94381931
You're saying this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWBIGd6BvKs

Is better than: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVC2zCC5qA

>>94382077
>>94381931
>>94381902
>>94381278
Brave and the Bold is by far the best you fags

>>94382073
I'm not posting about cartoon, I'm just calling you a manchild.

execution>idea

>>94382077
A million times better. First time I saw TAS's intro I immediately thought it was shit, after realizing it wasn't just part of the first episode that is (which took some time).

But the first intro to The Batman is pure gold, it's better than all the other Batman cartoon intros combined.

>>94382166
>I chastise people on a 4chan board about comics and cartoons, I'm obviously much more mature and sophisticated than you
Sure thing champ

>>94381156
I agree. Problem is people from tv network prefer episodic because you can start at any point in an episodic show. And serial show tends to loose audience as they go.

>>94381156
I think classic Dr Who had the best combination of both with 4-8 episode stories.

>>94382054
The first 3 episodes of the serialized SJ season are amazing, everyone agrees on that. The fact that it went downhill afterwards doesn't change that, and it happened for very different reasons.

>>94382221
>serialization hurt the show but that doesn't mean it hurt the show!
What the actual fuck are you talking about?

American kids are too low IQ for plots

>>94382187
Acting all snarky won't change the fact that I am, bud.

>>94382054
GF, ATLA, TT, TMNT, and SDMI are consistently serialized, that's already more than half. SJ and KP adopted the format later on.

And all 9 of the shows on that grid had plot threads that make them better watched in order.

>>94382273
>Teen Titans is consistently serialized
Are you fucking kidding me? Maybe the second half of the last season?

>>94382247
It didn't hurt the show at all. What hurt the show was shitty writing in general causing problems like poor pacing within individual episodes themselves and too much or too little focus on certain characters, all of that would have happened even if it stayed episodic.

>>94382259
Jesus christ it must hurt to be this unaware of oneself

>>94382302
You're not a bright one, are you? Every season has a major arc that you'd have to be fucking retarded or something to watch out of order.

Consider the following:
Real Literature >= Real Movies > Real TV > Cartoons

And Episodic Ratings > Serial Ratings

You know. Since we're ranking things.

>>94382313
Bull fucking shit, the show became harder to pace because they had to manage the story over more episodes. The characters became harder to write because they had to stretch the development over many episodes. Directly caused by the cancer that is narrative complexity.

>Thinking one format is above the other in the first place
>Not knowing it's all about the execution
This is why nobody takes you seriously, /co/.

The best shows do both at the same time.

>>94382419
How the fuck do you execute an episodic format well without it devolving into comedy?

>>94382324
You're one to talk

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>>94381156
Think both have their merits. A cartoon shouldn't strive to create some cockamamie plot if the story just isn't set up for one.

>>94381156
But if a show is serial then you have to deal with idiots comparing it to Game of Thrones because they've never heard of another serial show before.

>>94382340
>"real"
What do you mean by this? Because looney toons is a hell of a lot funnier than most "real" comedies today, and almost every Superhero cartoon is better than the shlock of the MCU and DCEU. Hell I'd rather watch Moral Orel to have my emotions affected than read about some drunk faggot waving around a knifegun courtsey of a hack like Bronte, or some kid with consumption suffering at the hands of Charles Dickens

>>94382450
I've admitted I'm a manchild since you charged me with it. You're the one who miraculously believes sitting on a Micronesian Zoetrope forum lobbing insults isn't manchild behavior.

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>>94381156
the only genre that benefits from being episodic is comedy
>pic related

everything else is better off with a long story

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>>94381156
I see what you did there, OP.

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>>94381156
>tfw started perfering episodic anime over overarching story

>>94383148
is that code for liking slice of life shit

>>94383125
>Picks a show with sub par writing, carried by setting and atmosphere

>>94383067
Man that's just bullshit. Samurai Jack got worse when it was given the long form treatment. You think the new Star Trek is gonna benefit from the serialization? You think twilight zone would have been better?

>>94381184
Continuity isn't the same as serialization.

>>94382340
1. Literature is inferior to movies and cartoons
2. Cartoons are not inferior to movies or what you call "real tv"

>>94383285
>Samurai Jack got worse when it was given the long form treatment.
correlation does not imply causation

>You think the new Star Trek is gonna benefit from the serialization?
yes

>You think twilight zone would have been better?
you got me there

>>94384033
Then what's the difference, wise guy?