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NAVIGATION
Welcome back! This time we’re covering the short, sweet, and possibly best season of the show, although my opinion on this is likely to change, because from here it's almost nothing but bangers. We will be counting All This and Gargantua-2 as part of season 5 because it’s pre-the big status quo change in Season 6, and most of this season feels like it’s building up to the special. This is impressive because the whole season has the feeling of looking forward and back all at once — tying up loose ends as though this season was going to be the last. Almost every episode is dense with callbacks to previous lore and plots. It’s not completely inaccessible to anyone coming to the show fresh, but I guess this is the point that being rerun-friendly isn’t the goal. This approach massively benefits the show, because then the writers can focus on developing the continuity they’ve already established. Probably the episode with the least callbacks is Spanakopita!, which as we all know is a fucking classic and one my partner and I have often pulled out to get friends interested in the show.
Hammer and Publick are finally reaping all that they’ve sown over the 55 (I think?) episodes prior to this season. I think season 4 was already tending towards this, but here is where shit gets intricate and fleshed out and incredibly polished. In fact I’d say it’s telling that the weakest episode of the bunch — still a pretty good episode; it introduced anthro furries into the canon after all — draws on a plot element from the only episode neither of them wrote, ¡Viva los Muertos!. Everything feels neat and wrapped up well, and while it’s not as much of an emotional gut-punch as season 4, I never come out of any of Season 5’s episodes unsatiated.
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NAVIGATION
Welcome back! This time we’re covering the short, sweet, and possibly best season of the show, although my opinion on this is likely to change, because from here it's almost nothing but bangers. We will be counting All This and Gargantua-2 as part of season 5 because it’s pre-the big status quo change in Season 6, and most of this season feels like it’s building up to the special. This is impressive because the whole season has the feeling of looking forward and back all at once — tying up loose ends as though this season was going to be the last. Almost every episode is dense with callbacks to previous lore and plots. It’s not completely inaccessible to anyone coming to the show fresh, but I guess this is the point that being rerun-friendly isn’t the goal. This approach massively benefits the show, because then the writers can focus on developing the continuity they’ve already established. Probably the episode with the least callbacks is Spanakopita!, which as we all know is a fucking classic and one my partner and I have often pulled out to get friends interested in the show.
Hammer and Publick are finally reaping all that they’ve sown over the 55 (I think?) episodes prior to this season. I think season 4 was already tending towards this, but here is where shit gets intricate and fleshed out and incredibly polished. In fact I’d say it’s telling that the weakest episode of the bunch — still a pretty good episode; it introduced anthro furries into the canon after all — draws on a plot element from the only episode neither of them wrote, ¡Viva los Muertos!. Everything feels neat and wrapped up well, and while it’s not as much of an emotional gut-punch as season 4, I never come out of any of Season 5’s episodes unsatiated.
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