Show starts off as a good whimsical and episodic cartoon

>Show starts off as a good whimsical and episodic cartoon
>Next season gets a more serious season arc and the more episodic parts are toned down
>Show then gets cancelled
why does this keep happening

Bro shut up about Wander over Yonder already

If you don't like wander over yander, don't come to a wander over yander thread

I'm used to it at this point.

Not him, but this isn't a WoY thread.

In some cases, it’s because the show does transition poorly or because the writers don’t have the mindset and/or talent to writes stories that way. In your pic related’s case it’s because the Mouse’s television executives are only mildly less inept than those at CN or Nick and don’t realize that even if you shove a good show onto a graveyard channel like XD, it’s going to get less ratings than stuff on the mainline channel.

Serialized shit does worse on reruns making it less profitable, if they'd stop trying to do episodic shit then we could have good cartoons that go on for 3-5 seasons. But everyone thinks they're the next Tolkien and writes some stupid shit about an orgalorg or destiny comet without realizing there are shows that do serious stories far better and no one is going to watch your high school tier 2deep4u writing bullshit full of inconsistencies, plot contrivances, and just generally mundane bullshit that comes along with genre bait and switching.

You want an honest answer? It's because of capitalism.
Network executives only care about the most marketable shows that they can milk for merchandising, creativity and quality get shafted whenever it conflicts with the goal of maximum monetary gain.

There's only 4 chronologically sensitive episodes in the entire series.

I like when shows have story and get serious at times, but they need to space it out. You dont want an AT where it stops being fun and becomes not only a chore to watch but a depressing one. As much as i hated GF ending and many second season episodes, they did it right by balancing humor and serious tone well
And i thought i was the only one who remembered that show. Fuck

AFAIK creators knew that show will be fucked and this is why they added serialization and Dominator, to make things somehow more popular hoping that Disney could change their mind.
And, you know, WoY even got popular! But seems that it was too late.

You're thinking of greed there, friend

Capitalism is the epitome of greed lmao. It's literally the ideology of fucking other people over to have their share of the pie, no matter how underhanded it can get.

Lmao no, capitalism is just a medium of exchange. Ascribing morality to a tool is a sign of emotional and moral weakness. The fact that capitalism can be, has been and indeed is being abused does not capitalism = greed, anymore that socialism = betrayal.

> It's literally the ideology of fucking other people over to have their share of the pie
No lmao, you're really naïve if you think this is somehow unique to capitalism.

>capitalism is just a medium of exchange
No, it's not. Trade also exists in socialism, but the difference here is on who owns the means of production and who benefits from it the most.
In capitalism, it's owned by a single person, like a factory owner, or by an entity that doesn't actually produce the good, like a board of executives of a certain corporation and the shareholders they try to please.
In socialism, the people working in the service or production of the good own the means of production, an example being the factory or the animation studio, and they're the ones that benefit from it because THEY are the only people profiting from their creation. No external shareholders to leech off the revenue, which in turn, means that they don't have to focus on maximum monetary gain and can focus on creating amazing animations.

>No lmao, you're really naïve if you think this is somehow unique to capitalism.
Yeah, you're right. It also applies to feudalism. :^)

Trade = Capitalism. Use language properly.
>In capitalism, it's owned by a single person, like a factory owner
No, that's monopoly.
>In socialism, the people working in the service or production of the good own the means of production
No, that's communism, a system even more wasteful and likely to result in starvations than the worst of capitalism and socialism combined.

>Yeah, you're right. It also applies to feudalism. :^)
Being this unaware of how much advance socialism and communism represent returns to feudalistic norms, in the year 2018. baka

The OP didn't ask about just wonder over yonder. He said episodic shows that turn to an overarching plot.

This would include things like AT, and SVtFoE and kind of GF but they at least had the decency to warn you about the trainwreck early

Also 4 is too many

>Trade = Capitalism. Use language properly.
Sorry, I use accredited definitions of capitalism, not your own made up definition of it. Trade is not exclusive to capitalism.

>No, that's monopoly.
Monopoly is part of capitalism anyway, but no, this is capitalism because it involves the ownership of capital. It's a monopoly if a powerful organization has the only control of a certain industry and are constantly smashing recently-started competition to keep their prices high.

>No, that's communism, a system even more wasteful and likely to result in starvations than the worst of capitalism and socialism combined.
First of all, socialism is defined as a system in which the workers fully own the means of production and they're the only ones entitled to the fruits of their labor. Communism is the step after socialism, which is the same but the state is dissolved and currency doesn't exist.
Second of all, it is ironic to criticize communism of "wastefulness" and "starvation" when both dilemmas are prevalent in our current capitalist world. Abundances of food are constantly being disposed of while we have starving children in the streets and obese children in homes, and clothing retailers always destroy their unsold items before throwing it into the trashbins to prevent the homeless from having access to good clothing they need. This is clearly an issue of capitalism, not socialism or communism.

>Being this unaware of how much advance socialism and communism represent returns to feudalistic norms
Actually, anarcho-capitalism is the ideology that wants us to return to feudalism, but with corporations as monarchies instead. You can call it by its more accurate description; a neofeudalist plutoarchy.
In any case, socialism and communism want to share the abundance of goods and food and wealth with those who work for it. It's the opposite of the hoarding ideology of feudalism.

No, stop speaking out of your ass. Creator said on tumblr that when it was created he wanted to tell a serialized story and made a deal with Disney to create mainly episodic episodes that could be reaired regularly while still having serialized episodes.

Which is fucking stupid because it meant large changes in status quo were impossible meaning the overarching plot was pointless.
>This is what commies actually think

>accredited
Lmao, I'm going to use that.

socialism is defined as a system in which the workers fully own the means of production and they're the only ones entitled to the fruits of their labor.
No, socialism is redistrubitionist policies. You have literally learned everything from extremely-narrow contemporary agitprop. Statements like:
>Monopoly is part of capitalism anyway
exemplify this.

>our current capitalist world
To say our world is "capitalist" is as meaningful as to say our world is "bookish". Books continue to exist but have been outpaced several times over by newer mediums like television and the internet, and capital in turn continues to exit but has been outpaced several times by newer mediums like socialism and globalism. The problems you attribute to capitalism in your post apply chiefly to the latter of those two developments.

>anarcho-capitalism is the ideology that wants us to return to feudalism
Anarcho-capitalism is cheap sci-fi, and the fact that you're taking it seriously is a sign you don't live in reality. You take more seriously and see more value in it than I do.

>Anarcho capitalism = "but with corporations as monarchies instead"
>hoarding ideology of feudalism
Just stop posting