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[10ebbor10]

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Probably not. It was never intended as a cohesive whole, so I think it's going to remain 4 separate stories with interconnected references.

[Karlito]

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Probably not. It was never intended as a cohesive whole, so I think it's going to remain 4 separate stories with interconnected references.

Production on books three and four (collectively, Season 2) began at the same time, so we might see a bit more continuity between them.

[WillowLuman]

Holy crap, they're pushing this franchise to a close fast. Book four premiers online in just 18 days (October 3rd).

[Zangi]

Did they stop airing Gravity Falls or something?  Cause last I checked... there ain't any new episodes....

As for Korra, the pacing has been crap and the baddies just plain dumb.  Especially the last season's group.

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Totally annihilate the Avatar.
Kill all the world leaders.
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Victory!

[Neonivek]

Gravity falls is on a haitus for a TINY bit, but they are releasing episodes albeit slowly. Last one was Sock Opera which was rather funny.

Also yeah Season 3 started off with such promise but it just became stupid near the end and onward. Genuine threatening villain with interesting traits and gimmicks...

But ultimately they became cartoon villains.

[penguinofhonor]

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Yeah, I was really hoping they'd want something with Korra besides killing her.

[WillowLuman]

A bit disappointed with the finale as well, but I still really liked this season. I think it ended with a lot of good potential for the final book. And I would disagree on the pacing (unless you're talking about the airing schedule.)

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Aside from them just wanting to kill the avatar, I didn't find much wrong with their plan. Presumably they have people like Aiwei hidden all over the world, ready to act. Eliminating leaders seems like a logical step in achieving total anarchy.

[Neonivek]

A bit disappointed with the finale as well, but I still really liked this season. I think it ended with a lot of good potential for the final book. And I would disagree on the pacing (unless you're talking about the airing schedule.)

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Aside from them just wanting to kill the avatar, I didn't find much wrong with their plan. Presumably they have people like Aiwei hidden all over the world, ready to act. Eliminating leaders seems like a logical step in achieving total anarchy.

Except you know...

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People will always try to reestablish order. what sucks about their plan is that there is no POSSIBLE way it could have worked even temporarily.

Think of it this way... If the President of the united states died... would the US fall into anarchy?

Now if they... Somehow uses the Avatar to somehow propagate the spirit forests ALL OVER THE WORLD to force the issue, because it destroyed all the cities in the world and spirit forests are nearly impossible to build on. Now THAT would have been a plan that could have seen some success

[WillowLuman]

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No, but the US has an established chain of command of 200+ years. Many countries frequently fall into civil war whenever a leader is assassinated. Of course, the result is eventually the establishment of a new regime, but that doesn't stop IRL total anarchists from arguing their philosophy.

[Neonivek]

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No, but the US has an established chain of command of 200+ years. Many countries frequently fall into civil war whenever a leader is assassinated. Of course, the result is eventually the establishment of a new regime, but that doesn't stop IRL total anarchists from arguing their philosophy.

Except we are talking about places with

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An established chain of command. The Earth Kingdom for example is a Feudal Monarchy, Water Kingdom is an Elective tribal council, Republic City is Elected official with powerful council, and the Fire Kingdom is a highly organized Monarchy with chain of succession.

They would have had to KEEP killing people to keep anarchy.

[WillowLuman]

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We have no evidence for a chain of succession in the Earth kingdom (and not much for the Water Tribes), and the Queen had no heirs. With large groups of people already pissed off at her rule, it was a powderkeg situation. The President had low approval ratings amidst an ongoing crisis, so it would seem like an ideal time to convince people of a change of government. Deska and Esna might be a bit despotic from what we've seen of them, but we don't really know enough about the other water tribe or the Fire Nation to say how feasible their plan might be there, though.

Given the number of leaders, they probably did intend to keep killing people.

[Mageziya]

And now for something completely different.

Watched the fourth episode of Gravity Falls season 2.

I'll just say this: I wasn't expecting him to return so soon.

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We did, we did.
I'm pretty sure the whole reason the sock puppet part of episode happened is because they needed something to play in the whole process of Bill tricking Dipper and a way for Dipper to communicate.

Also, some people have pointed out that Bill kept some of his old posture habits in Dipper's body.
Bill's Neutral Pose. Note his arms.
Bill Dipper. Look at Dipper's arms.

This episode was very odd in general. It had parts that were what make it a kids show (Sock Puppet shenanigans.) and the overarching plot stuff that makes you question why this is considered a kids show. (Bill.)

Also, very first time I've seen a show utterly destroy a plot device only the second episode after it was introduced.

[Neonivek]

Oddly enough the only new episode of Gravity falls I didn't like was Golf War, which is pretty much everything that could go wrong in the season in one episode.

With Sock Opera and Scary-Oke being my favorites both being hilarious AND actually advancing the story a little. If "Into my Bunker" didn't have weird sudden character development from outer space it would be one of my favorites too (to admit Scary-Oke also had weird sudden character development... but it ended too perfectly to bring me down)

Steven Universe is progressing well, sure I didn't like "Steven and the Stevens"... but the show is pretty good.

Honestly check Steven Universe out, it is surprisingly not terrible... Which I thought it would be first going through. It sort of has the adventure time-esk "If you pay close enough attention, you will know a lot more then they tell you". Though quite a bit more obvious. I won't lie there are early episodes you will dislike (I really disliked Frybo)

I am unfortunately a fan of "The Amazing World of Gumball" which I am embarrassed to admit... I also miss the character's original voice actors, even going through puberty they still had a lot of style and personality that I feel the new ones just don't match exactly (Not enough Sar in your Sarcasm!).

Adventure Time continues its odd trend of practically running through its plot points at light speed...

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I actually am starting to like the 11 minute episode format if ONLY because it almost consistently doesn't waste time like a lot of shows do with the full 23 minutes.

Mind you I guess I would prefer each episode actually be two 11 minute episodes... so that there could be more consistent 2 parters.

[WillowLuman]

Gumball... yeah it might be dumb, but you can't fault it for creative animation.

[Neonivek]

Gumball... yeah it might be dumb, but you can't fault it for creative animation.

Favorite episodes are probably: "The Helmet" and especially "The Plan" (assuming The Plan is the one with Daniel Lenard)

Episodes I dislike the most probably: "The Allergy" (It is probably the biggest "Been there done that" episode... it feels like other episodes cobbled together... but not in a fun way) and "The Date" (Which is just joyless)