• @[email protected]
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    514 months ago

    Remember when flashbacks used to take 10-30 seconds instead of interrupting the story by spending an entire episode going into pointless detail about things you’ve been given no reason to care about yet?

      • lemmyvore
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        144 months ago

        Anime:

        • 2m30 opening song
        • 2m recap
        • 2m last scenes from previous episode but not considered “recap” for some reason
        • 10m actual episode content
        • 2m30 ending song
        • 1m funny “outtakes” or banter
        • 30s spoilers for next episode
        • Ricky Rigatoni
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          34 months ago

          Anyone else remember that one season of bleach where 15 minutes of every episode was a recap of the entire series up to that point for padding?

          Slightly better than another horrible filler arc.

        • @leftzero
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          4 months ago
          • 10m actual episode content

          More like…

          • 4m45s actual episode content
          • 15s mid episode card
          • 15m ad break
          • 15s mid episode card
          • 45s scenes from just before the ad break
          • 4m actual episode content
      • @[email protected]
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        94 months ago

        I watched nearly a thousand episodes of One Piece before finally giving up when they did a 17 episode flashback for a story that could have been told through exposition.

          • @[email protected]
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            64 months ago

            It’s my wife’s all time favorite show, so I really tried. Some of the early arcs were a drag (cough, cough, Arabasta, cough). But from Water 7 through Marineford it just got better and better, and I really enjoyed it. Even after the time skip Dressrosa and Whole Cake were for the most part engaging. But man, Wano was such a slog. By the time they finished the flashback, I just didn’t give a shit about that island anymore. I’m tempted to just skip to Egghead, or give One Pace a shot.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        Did you mean: 40 second elevator scene?

        Did you mean: slow pan across still frame?

        Did you mean: three-frame loop for internal dialog?