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TV back then vs now (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 51 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Remember when flashbacks used to take 10-30 seconds instead of interrupting the story by spending an entire episode going into pointless detail about things you've been given no reason to care about yet?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Anime: "how long for what now?"

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Anime:

    • 2m30 opening song
    • 2m recap
    • 2m last scenes from previous episode but not considered "recap" for some reason
    • 10m actual episode content
    • 2m30 ending song
    • 1m funny "outtakes" or banter
    • 30s spoilers for next episode
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Anyone else remember that one season of bleach where 15 minutes of every episode was a recap of the entire series up to that point for padding?

    Slightly better than another horrible filler arc.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Drag On Ball Z

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    12 episodes establishing the motivations for the bad guy, 10 episodes of questing for the dragon balls, 5 episodes of just screaming and glowing...

    Though the anime that blue balled me the most was Inuyasha. Naraku was such a dick of a bad guy, I just wanted to see him get his comeuppance and they just started doing more and more filler episodes that weren't connected to the main plot at all.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I watched nearly a thousand episodes of One Piece before finally giving up when they did a 17 episode flashback for a story that could have been told through exposition.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Frankly if the Oden flashback isn’t for you then one piece might not be for you

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It's my wife's all time favorite show, so I really tried. Some of the early arcs were a drag (cough, cough, Arabasta, cough). But from Water 7 through Marineford it just got better and better, and I really enjoyed it. Even after the time skip Dressrosa and Whole Cake were for the most part engaging. But man, Wano was such a slog. By the time they finished the flashback, I just didn't give a shit about that island anymore. I'm tempted to just skip to Egghead, or give One Pace a shot.

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