When A Show Overextends... It Tends to Turn Downslide or EVEN TRASHY!!!!!!!

Here's a little bit of truth... some shows get overextended and they tend to turn downhill or even go trashy?  Examples?  Here are they:


I watched MMPR as a child.  Okay the first season wasn't so bad but the popularity of MMPR made them extend the show until it got boring.  TBH I began to yawn at it when season three came. Then the Zordon arc came which overextended the characters.  I guess that's why Amy Jo Johnson left the set.  And oh yeah, even with Kimberly around for some time, MMPR season three just made me yawn too much.  Everything went downhill.  From MMPR down to Zeo, it was going down the yawnhill.  So yeah, I just end up rewatching season one-two but sadly, it had no definite conclusion.  Kids wanted the "same familiar image" but really, it just had to go down.  I wonder if Saban ever learned from the mistakes of Japanese shows since he was really just repeating the same mistake?


Another is the Dragon Ball trilogy.  Some people started to complain of its deteriorating quality.  I agree.  While nobody really cared so much of Dragon Ball's extension at best, however the story started to go downhill IMO in the Majin Buu saga.  Plenty of wasted potential.  For Dragon Ball GT, I didn't even like it as much as Z.  Hmmm Frieza and Cell were the only real villains I ever admired, the rest nah.  Buu saga had so much power-ups introduced but never got to be fully utilized to the max and just a toy sales season.



To be honest, this show Spongebob should have ENDED already with the movie.  It was really funny before the movie but post movie episodes started to make Spongebob annoying.  It would have been nice to just CANCEL the show to save its quality.  After all, people will still buy his merchandise even without new episodes.  Sadly Viacom could be getting greedy already.  Maybe I'm just getting too insane over him.  Still I'm starting to have mixed feelings behind Spongebob 2019 too.  If Spongebob wants to save itself, cancellation may be the best solution like what Dragon Ball Z did so it doesn't turn into a memorial of trash.  So maybe I'll show mercy to the yellow dude in Super Sentai vs. Nickelodeon by redeeming him by doing what should have been done- get rid of Mr. Krabs, declares his show's cancellation and save the world!  I would really say enough is enough, let Spongebob rest already!


Gatchaman 1- The first season was really overly extended it's a pain to rewatch.  I did start to complain about Berg Katse... he was totally just a clown and why would Sosai X even extend his stay?!  Gatchaman II and Gatchaman F having shorter runs (up to around 50 episodes) managed to get a more direct story than the first season.  Gatchaman F my personal favorite also had the criticisms of a burnout though I could disagree because Toshiki Inoue took Egobossler and made him Jetman's main villain Radiguet (while not copying Sosai X due to many Sosai X inspired villains in the past, presumably) and that in Gatchaman II, the character Sylvie Pandora got chosen over Dr. Nambu.


Or my old shame Lion Voltron.  The popularity had it overextend to canon contradiction.  And yeah, it got really boring I ended up thinking Golion is MUCH better than this show that turned from good to crap.  Zarkon, Hagar and Lotor could have been killed, end show, make a second season with Merla as the main villain but sigh... it was killing itself literally!



The Transformers G1 TV series.  At first it was cool then somehow, the show began to deteriorate within itself.  I began to think that the show met its real burnout with the Beast Wars saga and not the third season with Galvatron losing his Megatron personality (which was later restored in Headmasters).  Beast Wars IMO was just not my favorite part of the G1 series.  Running out of personality ideas, Beast Wars ended up copying/pasting too much of the personalities like Optimus Primal is really much of an Optimus clone with no distinction, Cheetor is kinda too much like another Hotrod (fortunately Cheetor didn't become Cheetorus Prime or it'd be redundant) and well there was Beast Wars Megatron who I think wasn't as good as his predecessor of the same name.

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