Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20150201074641/@comment-24152851-20150221120939

Hope they learned to not do what they think people want, and check what it actually is they want. Which is what the whole point of the feedback is. Even if some people can accept the resulting episode, the behavior itself cannot be excused. I get what Codyfan said how SMS was a mixed bag, and if you ignore the Courtney-killing it was an okay episode, but the action is still unjustifiable, even if it didn't take up the whole episode. I still can't understand how it managed to be so impossibly bad. If you don't try then usually something will just be boring, but it's like they went to every effort to screw everything up possible. Aside from Gwen: We've got Mal who was already hated enough as it is, but they managed to make him even more terrible than usual, just running around and dropping things on others. That line: "If you can't beat them, beat them up" is like they're final attempt to rub in what a atrocious antagonist he is. And then with Zoey they didn't even pretend they were trying to hide the fact that she's godplaying. Uh, she squashed Squatchy's eggs → the tree falls over → slides all the way to Chris → Zoey wins. Pathetic.

It's still in very poor taste, but it feels like they did it for the kids. Though that by no means excuses it or gives their argument any weight, and most definitely still qualifies as "Dude, Not Funny". The balloons blowing into the sun is just plain, sadistic, black humor.

This season certainly did get treated as the crapper. Regardless of whether it was intentional or not, every BS idea ended up making it's way onto the screens. She did answer a few responses today so she might have forgotten the Flush. I guess you can bring the new questions up now.

Great, give me a heads up when you're about to post it and I'll see what I can make of it. Sometimes that lot just needs a non-aggressive explanation, but sometimes can still remain stubborn. We'll see what happens, but there shouldn't be a lot of people rushing to SMS's defense even if they found it tolerable. I did see that, a while back I managed to come across a very old SMS blog and saw the magnitude of the backlash that episode stirred up. Even worse was that wasn't the end, it was just the beginning.

Really hard to admit just how terrible the season was when the promos hyped it up to be so good. I eventually came out of denial and accepted it for the piece of crap it was. The Unholy Trinity has that name for a reason, it is the lowest of lows in the entire franchise.

Not expecting something big from it, but an acknowledgement of the complaints and doing something different (even if it's a one-time thing), has tweaked my curiosity.