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** 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.)
*''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' took a considerable drop in quality after Season 7, the last season of the classic era, due to the loss of Britt Allcroft and other original crew members and HIT Entertainment outbuying the series.
** The New Series era, lasting from Seasons 8-12 tends to get a lot of flak from fans. However, while Season 8 isn't too bad, Seasons 9-12 come under criticism for continuity errors, plot holes, incorrect portrayal of how railroading works, weaker writing, increasingly repetitive and formulaic storylines, like the infamous "three strikes formula", where one of the characters makes a mistake three times before realizing their error and setting things right and introducing a bunch of unnecessary characters just to sell toys, most of which only appear in one episode and are never seen again.
** Season 12 itself is a low point for the series, with the introduction of CGI animation. While this wouldn't have been too bad on its own, the mix
** Seasons 13-16 of the CGI era is a major low point, as they worsened the problems of Seasons 9-12. These seasons suffer from terrible writing and storylines, massive flanderization of several characters, loads of bad episodes, like the infamous "Wonky Whistle" and the introduction of infamous characters such as the Logging Locos and Charlie. These problems and others are due to Sharon Miller's run as head writer.
** Thankfully, the rot finally got reverted during Seasons 17-21. With Andrew Brenner replacing Sharon Miller as head writer, the series was set to recapture the charm of the classic era and the Railway Series Books.
** 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 diverse enough, having Thomas travel around the world (which, 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.
** The trailer of the upcoming reboot, ''[[Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!]]'' has received severe backlash from fans, due to the transition from CGI to 2D animation, change in characters,
* 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.
* Even the most staunch of its fans will admit that so far, season 5 of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' has been complete and utter garbage. Apparently, it's not enough to deter the execs, who have already ordered a season 6 against the wishes of many people who would rather see that time and effort put towards a second season of ''[[Titan Maximum]]'', the show Seth Green unceremoniously self-cancelled to increase his focus on ''Chicken''.
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