Seasonal Rot: Difference between revisions

*While ''[[Futurama]]'' is consistently good, it has an in-universe example in the form of ''Everybody Loves [[The Hypnotoad|Hypnotoad]]'', which has been going downhill since season three.<ref>according to someone immune to the mind control which is its main draw, anyway</ref>

**Fans of ''[[Show Within a Show|All My Circuits]]'' are also split about Bender's run as Calculon's son. Younger viewers loved his [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|glamorizing views on smoking and burglary]] while parents despised him as an [[Moral Guardians|antisocial rolemodel]].

*''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' fans generally consider Season 3 to be this, since they changed the [[Big Bad]] from the awesomely creepy Slade, who was Robin's archrival but still had personal beef with the rest of the Titans, to Brother Blood, who started off perfectly menacing but spiralled into [[Villain Decay]] quickly, and had limited interaction with any of the Titans besides Cyborg, and having a weak story that only got two episodes and a two-part finale worth of exposure.

**And, to a lesser extent, Season 5, probably due to it coming directly after the extremely well-received Season 4. It's still generally accepted, though, mainly due to its awesome [[Grand Finale]] (the two-part final battle, ''not'' the [[Broken Base|controversial]] actual last episode.)

**Seasons 8-11 get some flak from fans, due to some inconsistencies, plot holes, continuity errors and some bad episodes, like the infamous "Edward Strikes Out". However, these seasons aren't necessarily considered bad and do have a handful of supporters.

**Season 12 gets a lot of flak, mainly due to Sharon Miller taking over as head writer and the poorly done mix of CGI animation with a live-action model set. This season tends to have a [[Broken Base]] among fans. Some consider it to be on par with Seasons 8-11, while others consider it to be as bad as Seasons 13-16.

**Thankfully, the rot got reverted during Seasons 17-21 and the series returned to its former glory of the classic era when Andrew Brenner replaced Sharon Miller as head writer.

**Sadly, the rot relapsed during Seasons 22-24 (AKA "Big World! Big Adventures!") when a lot of changes were introduced to the series that didn't go over well with fans, like removing Edward and Henry from the Steam Team, the introduction of two new female characters Nia and Rebecca after complaints that the series was not divisive enough, having Thomas travel around the world (while not a bad thing in particular, was poorly handled) the introduction of imagination sequences, faster paced visuals and the mix of cartoon physics with realistic physics.

 

*To some, season two of ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' is this, thought YMMV. Over focus on romantic side plots, less focus on their battles and less action. Thought the ending managed to fix that by revealing [[The Masquerade]], leading to it [[Growing the Beard]] in Season 3.