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My issues with the Beyond era

Well, this took awhile to get out, but I finally I did. I'm going to share my issues with the Beyond era as I promised in my last discussion where I talked about my thoughts on the new Eddsworld Patreon tiers.

To be honest, I had plans on doing this topic for awhile, but I never got around to it until now. Beyond has been interesting to say the least, so let's go over my issues with it shall we.

Oh and before we start, I would to say that this isn't a "Beyond sucks" type of discussion. I want to see the era succeed, but there are just some things holding it back.

Without any further delay, let's begin.

My issues with the new Episodes

You think I was going to rant on the quality of the episodes? Nah, I'm not. This topic is actually the least problematic thing about the era. Shocking I know.

Beyond started off pretty strong with the release of Fan Service 2 and Casting Call. It was so strong that I gave both of these reviews positive scores and gave the top spot of where I ranked them at. Well, my thoughts changed abut Fan Service 2 overtime but that's basic human nature. It's not a terrible episode, it's just okay.

After these two episodes, the quality kinda shifted downwards. We would get episodes that are good and sometimes we would get episodes are, well to put it lightly, mediocre. I'm not counting the Youtooz figure promotional video and Zombeh Picnic since they're not really episodes. They're just filler.

I'm not saying that Beyond is the only the era that has a lot of mixed episodes. Both Legacy and Classic era also had their far share of stickers. Remember not every single Eddsworld episode out there is a 10 out of 10 episode. Some people have their favorites and some people have their least favorites. So don't get too bummed out when someone tells you that they hate an episode that you like. It's called an opinion after all.

Anyway back on topic, the episodes that Beyond has can vary in quality. It mostly depends on the person.

Next is the jokes and I was going to make this into its own section but decided not to because they fit into the quality of the episodes so let's talk about it.

I'm going to be very honest, the jokes in later Beyond episodes so far have been a mixed bag for me. Some of the jokes are alright and sometimes they can come out as flat. Sometimes there's no joke at all and sometimes the joke that being told just drags on.

I do want bring up two episodes to use as examples.

Let's start off The Chronicles of Santa. At the first glance at the episode started off strong. We got we got to see Santa again and it gave us a look at the first Christmas which took place during the Stone Age. My only problem with the episode is how brief it was. I expected to be a bit longer considering that Santa didn't have a proper translation for the stone cravings, but no, it just ended there. It didn't feel like an episode and there was nothing funny to remember it by. ....Okay, that last part was a lie. I've laughed a bit when Caveman Santa threw two heavy boulders at Caveman Edd and Caveman Tom, but it was more of a snort than a funny haha type of laugh. Is there anything else that was funny about this episode? Hmmm, let me check....*flips several pages*..... Sadly no.

Surf n Turf Pt. 1 was an improvement over Beaster Bunny considering that it had a lot more time in the oven and it wasn't rushed to be released before a holiday. It's not a perfect episode, but it's a step in the right direction. However, when I had to write my review on this episode I would often skip one scene. It's the scene with the scientist guy who had a cure to everything. The joke was that he was avoiding different objects that could easily kill him and make him drop the cure to everything. It sure was a joke alright, but did it really have to drag on to the point where it just slows the pacing down to a crawl? Look, I get what you trying to do, you don't have to spell it out for me, Matt.