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[–] Alcyonaria@piefed.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

Hunterxhunter, when the exam arc finishes

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

First season on Parks and Rec is not good. Redid the concept and one character season 2 and was awesome season 3 onwards

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Parks and rec has the same issue trailer park boys has.

Season 1 is absolutely pure to the format and is therefore technically superior, but the characters and situations you love dont materialise until later.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Bob's Burgers, Season 3.

Seasons 1 and 2 the seeds were there, but on the other hand they were trying to be yet another Adult-Swim style "edgy" show in the wake of Family Guy. Once that phase passed, the show found a real heart while the humor and storytelling grew up a bit. Now, it's been one of the most genuinely special things on television for a long time.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Invincible. Halfway through S1 it's like they fired all the original writers

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not TV, but I've told people to skip the first two books in the Discworld series, Sir Terry doesn't really get into his stride till a little later, but book three is where his talent starts to shine.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, though even then there's a lot of growth. Comparing The Theif of Time, Thud, or I Shall Wear Midnight to Sourcery just feels unfair to the latter.

Or start with Small Gods, everyone who likes discworld likes Small Gods. It stands alone, it's clever, but has some of the early book style, and it's regularly referenced by the fans.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

The Good Place gets good in the season 1 finale

[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Season 1 of the wire is definitely this. I tried to get a friend to watch it and we started with the pilot and I could tell he was like “this is so boring”. It’s definitely a slower show but when shit pops off it pops hard.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

After the first season: The Office

Late first season: Breaking bad maybe

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not a show, and typically one would play that game of "never read this" fairly unironically. But the webcomic Homestuck starts off REALLY slow and takes a few hundred pages to really even become interesting. It was so long ago, but I'm guessing page 246 was when I started to legitimately be interested in it. And I would say it finally gets good at page 1149.

So why did I read 245 pages of a story I wasn't very much interested in? The music, pretty much. I had already known Toby Fox had worked on something called Homestuck because of the history behind Another Medium (YouTube), and then I encountered this track (YouTube) in the wild and decided to read it at least until I reached the page this music is from.

Also, if you look at it purely for the ratio, getting good 1/8 of the way through is a little better than standard.

[–] bunnyBoy@pawb.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Pleasantly surprised to see the track you linked wasn't megalomania but Beatdown instead! Homestuck's music is amazing but I always warm people, if you like the music and wanna know where it came from you're gonna have a lot of reading to do.

[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

I remember putting on Kevin can fuck himself, and being super bored and not sure wth was going on. What was I supposed to be watching here. I turned it off. Wasn't until I heard someone describing it's message, and I dived back in. Man that was a ride! Pure brilliance. I love that it ties up, too. It was never made to be a long run, they don't do that tired thing of teasing new concepts, to never answer them, because they were beating a dead horse. It's just bam, all in, all tied up. But so delicious.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

After the first season: The Office

Late first season: Breaking bad maybe

[–] arockinyourshoe@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

DragonBallZ Abridged used a lot, and I mean a lot of referencial humor in their earliest season, only really starting to make characters come into their own towards the end of season 1.

By the start of season 2 with the Namek saga, they'd largely nailed their characters personalities and ditched most of the references, and as a result, seasons 2 and 3 are much more fun to watch

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When I switched from the One Piece Anime to the One Piece Manga. I am sorry, but the Toei adaptation is a fancy power point presentation. So. Many. Static. Shots.

[–] Karl@literature.cafe 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The newer arcs are good in that aspect. But the problem of outdated sound design persists.

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't watch a lot of the newer arcs, but I found Wano to suffer this exact problem, which was dissapointing. I had high hopes after they slightly modified the artstyle to look more traditional.

[–] Karl@literature.cafe 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I meant after wano. I'm watching egghead and the animation is a lot more fluid. It looks plain at times, but the static shots have lessened

i see, might give egghead a shot myslef :3

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard One Pace is good, but I've never compared it to one piece

It's a very fair comparison :3

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