Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20150201074641/@comment-1037137-20150219052237

Exactly, my friend. Whatever it boils down to in terms of which was the "least bad", there's no question that all of those episodes were bad. And that particular episode, not to mention the one you also hate with a similar passion, are beyond heinous and are exactly the kind of episodes that no series should ever be putting out under any circumstances. My intent is to address the plot they destroyed with that particular episode in question, and the character development, and supposed redemptions with it. If you saw my comments there on the voting page, there simply isn't an excuse for an episode that spurred so much resentment and outrage, and even heartbreak among fans. And one thing I definitely intend to spell out is exactly what you said, the "It's for kids" excuse holds absolutely no water in regards to that episode and does not justify or even call for any of the things that lend themselves to the gravity of its offenses. Nothing about the whole "It's for kids" thing has any credibility in explaining why we were greeted with an episode like that. And while your most hated episode, Booty-ful, definitely applies under that argument in a lot ways, SMS is an episode where no context of "It's for kids" pardons it for anything, and is the worse of the two offenders when it comes to the bias we saw play out there.

I would very much like to tackle Booty-ful, if not now, then later for sure. But SMS, I intend to emphasize the great distress it caused to so many people and to ask why they'd sabotage one of their own major plots if they had no intention of seeing it through after nearly a full season of focus. I've met so many people who were disgusted by that episode and quite a few of them were hit very personally by it.