IdahoRose wrote:
I actually like the appearance of new!Spongebob. I think he is cuter. The newer episodes in general look much better than the old ones.
However, and this is a really big however, I agree with everything Aspiegaming said regarding the content of the newer episodes and Spongebob's shift in personality. In other words, it sucks.
The new episodes do look better in terms of animation quality and such but the writing could be better.
One example would be the episode Shuffle Boarding. They pay a visit to Mermaid Man in Barnacle Boy, startle them and then injure them accidentally in a fight. It turns out they were supposed to compete in a shuffle boarding competition so Sponge and Pat agree to take their place in the form of painfully obvious new costumes. A minute later, we find out they already won the tournament and so they spend the rest of the episode arresting random citizens for the most trivial things and then a lame fight scene with Man Ray and then they deliver the trophies to MM and BB who are running away from an angry mob. The End.
Here's what I find wrong with this episode.
1. They scrapped the original plot in the middle of the episode. You can't do that! Maybe SB and Pat could've faced off against many of MM BB's aging super villains in Shuffle Boarding. They could've had a good episode!
2. It's the outside that counts. Everyone doesn't see through the cheap MM and BB disguise.
3. The whole arresting random citizens thing has been done. I may have seen something like that in another cartoon at one point but I can't say if I enjoyed it.
4. In the old shows, Sponge and Pat would get punished appropriately and comically for their misdeeds (Episodes like the one with the Hooks and the Invisible spray paint prank). In this episode, they get to abduct children and assault old ladies without consequence and MM and BB take the fall and after all they did in the beginning of the episode. Unbelievable!
5. The citizens seem to have a knack for solving their every problems with an angry mob in most new episodes.
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