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WARNINGS:
NAVIGATION:
Season 2 is more of a mixed bag than I remember, honestly. I wouldn't be so hard on it if I didn't know what the show is capable of doing later. It’s better and more polished than Season 1 in a lot of ways — there’s better animation, better comic timing, better voice acting — but there are still a lot of problems that would be fixed in later seasons. It’s a transitional season towards a more linear plot, but they’re still figuring out what to do now they know they can have a continuous storyline. The season has a strong start but its second half dwindles and fizzles out. Again, I don’t know if this is a fault of the season’s or more a fault of the subsequent seasons showing this one up.
If the first season was stuck and going nowhere — and that weirdly added to its depth and charm — this season feels like the status quo is on the brink of collapse, but none of the vulnerabilities come to anything. Rather than anything world-shattering, the changes are small and incremental, like tiny cracks in a windowpane. I said that Season 1 cockblocked any attempts to shake up the status quo, and if we keep the analogy, Season 2 feels like you’re being edged, all in aid of maintaining some kind of stability in the formula.
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- Venture Bros. spoilers, of course.
NAVIGATION:
Season 2 is more of a mixed bag than I remember, honestly. I wouldn't be so hard on it if I didn't know what the show is capable of doing later. It’s better and more polished than Season 1 in a lot of ways — there’s better animation, better comic timing, better voice acting — but there are still a lot of problems that would be fixed in later seasons. It’s a transitional season towards a more linear plot, but they’re still figuring out what to do now they know they can have a continuous storyline. The season has a strong start but its second half dwindles and fizzles out. Again, I don’t know if this is a fault of the season’s or more a fault of the subsequent seasons showing this one up.
If the first season was stuck and going nowhere — and that weirdly added to its depth and charm — this season feels like the status quo is on the brink of collapse, but none of the vulnerabilities come to anything. Rather than anything world-shattering, the changes are small and incremental, like tiny cracks in a windowpane. I said that Season 1 cockblocked any attempts to shake up the status quo, and if we keep the analogy, Season 2 feels like you’re being edged, all in aid of maintaining some kind of stability in the formula.
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