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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 18, 2023 19:48:55 GMT -5
I know it was due to originally being a miniseries but Legend of Korra comes to mind with how season 1 is basically an entirely self-contained story then season 2 has to hastily undo everyone's character development and make them all giant idiots to justify continuing to have a plot.
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Post by Ash Kingston on Dec 18, 2023 23:54:15 GMT -5
Similar with Castle (another police officer teams with mystery writer). Detective Becket finds out her killed her mother, why, and gets revenge. Then it keeps going on for a couple years as a murder of the week show. Still good, I like it. Just odd that the rest of the series didn’t have a big story to focus on anymore. They did introduce a new villain (the "real" Mastermind behind the person who killed Beckett's mom and who also killed her former teammates from the FBI when that was briefly a thing), but it felt like that was done to explain why they prolonged the whole "Castle and Beckett getting married" thing as anything. Plus, that last season was freaking miserable for multiple reasons.
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Post by thechase on Dec 19, 2023 0:16:54 GMT -5
Power Rangers In Space wiped out most of the show's regular and recurring villains and ended the life of Zordon...the ratings were so good it saved the show and it continued to run for several more, albiet more self-contained, seasons.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did this too across several versions.
-The Fred Wolf Original ended it's eighth season with the final permanent defeat of Shredder, Krang and the Technodrome. Then the last two seasons saw the Turtles fight a new villain, Lord Dregg
-The 23K series saw the Turtles defeat The Utrom Shredder at the end of season three. Several other Shredders would take his place, but he wouldn't show up again until the crossover movie finale
-The 2012 series resolved the Kranng and Shredder storylines in season four, and the fifth season was largely an anthology series of standalone arcs
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Dec 19, 2023 3:44:00 GMT -5
Death Note famously brought Light and L to a head at the end of its second act and then limped for another arc that I've yet to see anyone deem remotely necessary.
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Post by Andee9001 on Dec 19, 2023 4:56:44 GMT -5
Season 3 of Veronica Mars did things differently compared to season 1 and 2. Instead of having a season long mystery they had one for the first half and then the second half had a second mystery and once that was solved the season continued without an overarching plot until the end.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 19, 2023 13:04:13 GMT -5
DBZ continued on after Frieza, despite Toriyama wanting it to end there.
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 19, 2023 13:13:53 GMT -5
DBZ continued on after Frieza, despite Toriyama wanting it to end there. And given how the character has been brought back and powered up, I wonder if that's still his plan
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Post by ZERO on Dec 20, 2023 6:24:13 GMT -5
Power Rangers was brought up in here.
I'm reminded of the Super Sentai series Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters (adapted as Power Rangers Beast Morphers).
A standard-length Sentai at 50 episodes. They defeat the big bad, Messiah, in episode 30. The whole thing feels like they did the finale early.
What follows, is a 2-part crossover with the new Space Sheriff Gavan (as a means of promoting the movie), and a retooling of the show for the remainder of it's run.
Retools are more common than people think (the sheer volume of cameos in Gokaiger the previous year wasn't the original plan), but Go-Busters' poor performance in Japan clearly had Toei panicking and it made the change in direction glaringly obvious.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Dec 20, 2023 10:20:15 GMT -5
X-Files would seemingly resolve the alien conspiracy storyline every couple of seasons, only to bring it back with increasingly diminishing returns Which is why the best episodes of X-Files are the monster of the week.
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Post by thechase on Dec 20, 2023 10:52:20 GMT -5
Jackie Chan Adventures ended the demon portal saga and soundly defeated Shendu super early in the second season. Season two was the longest of the five series that it had. A great deal of the episodes were self-contained, introducing a new recurring villain who would become the third season's big bad. The show would go on to have a different lead villain every season, with the bungling Dark Hand henchmen the only original series regulars, though without their boss Valmont (voiced by the late Julian Sands, who proved unavailable, and a retool of the character with a different voice actor proved unpopular, so he was dropped), I think by season five even the Dark Hand were dropped too.
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Post by peaches1 on Dec 20, 2023 16:27:21 GMT -5
X-Files would seemingly resolve the alien conspiracy storyline every couple of seasons, only to bring it back with increasingly diminishing returns Which is why the best episodes of X-Files are the monster of the week. I think some of the early conspiracy-based stories were good, especially if you judge them individually without worrying about how they tie into the over-arching mythology, but yeah, the one and done stories were where the show really shined.
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