that comparison to season 7 is a really good one – i don't particularly like season 7, it's not a standout to me, but there are some great, hilarious character moments ("i'm not a geographist" is, bar none, my single favorite tucker line, and i vividly remember crying from laughter over church deleting his short-term memory the first time i watched it) and the plot is... functional? ish? in the way that scraps of plot throughout BGC were mostly functional. it doesn't do any heavy lifting, but it also doesn't really break anything. hard agree on the e!tex fight being the canary in the coal mine for 9 and 10, though.
i know a lot of people really seriously disliked season 11 when it was airing, but to me it felt like a reversal of "animation killed the machinima star" and i was so relieved that i loved it immediately. (plus i really loved wash nudging tucker towards some growth, caboose's grief being actually addressed, the hints of chorus as a setting we got... etc. etc. etc.) it was back to basics and it was sorely needed, after the whole. everything. it was BGC antics with a touch more maturity in the first half, and a pretty well-done ease into Plot in the second. it worked the way (and the reason) 9 and 10 didn't. man, it just really sucks that seasons 9 and 10 were, on the whole, Just Not Good.
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Date: 2019-08-22 03:34 am (UTC)i know a lot of people really seriously disliked season 11 when it was airing, but to me it felt like a reversal of "animation killed the machinima star" and i was so relieved that i loved it immediately. (plus i really loved wash nudging tucker towards some growth, caboose's grief being actually addressed, the hints of chorus as a setting we got... etc. etc. etc.) it was back to basics and it was sorely needed, after the whole. everything. it was BGC antics with a touch more maturity in the first half, and a pretty well-done ease into Plot in the second. it worked the way (and the reason) 9 and 10 didn't. man, it just really sucks that seasons 9 and 10 were, on the whole, Just Not Good.