User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: Slight Shortcoming's Sequel/@comment-9300845-20191207010329/@comment-30307603-20191207020003

Hey, there! Good to see you commenting here again, and don't worry about being late or anything; life calls and whatnot.

Yeah, it's such a shame that the character who has one of the greatest amounts of potential is the one show seems to have the least interest in exploring further. Her existence in itself is interesting with how she can shapeshift through her emotional state. Her character is open for further fleshing out if "The Shell" is anything to go by and how she is actually really self-conscious. There is a lot of material for the show to work with, and it seems content to do less than the bare minimum. In a show in which seasons have roughly forty episodes, is it too much to ask that the show dedicates two or three of them to actually making the protagonist's girlfriend feel like an important and fleshed out individual in the show? Go into her insecurities and how she is self-conscious. Go into the ramifications of her metamorphosis. Delve into her role as the cheer captain. Make her relationship with Gumball feel as realized as some of the other relationships in the show.

That is certainly an interesting perspective regarding Carwin, and while I certainly understand the mentality behind it, to me it feels like somewhat of a cop-out means. The way I'm interpreting it at least, rather than the writers actually developing the Darwin/Carrie pairing in a meaningful way, they chose to write them off as "perfect" and effectively kill any interesting ideas for episodes. Perhaps it's a bit on the jaded side, but it's not something I can really agree with.

The whole situation regarding the Void storyline and it supposedly not landing the way the crew intended is all bizarre. Did Cartoon Network interfere? Was this always what the crew wanted? Who knows? Who knows? Rob's arc probably would have felt better paced if "The Future" had been the Season 6 premiere as intended, but for what it is, it at least made strives to move the arc forward, which is more than what could be said about the other two contenders. I will also always give credit to the show for giving Rob a satisfying conclusion and bringing things full circle.

I definitely agree that some of the more dubious entries could have been swapped out for episodes that addressed these status quo shakeups. Would anybody really lose sleep if "The Diet" or "The BFFS" were swapped out for an episode in which Penny tried to better control her shapeshifting powers or an episode in which Darwin and Carrie actually had some agency over the plot?

I too would love if Mr. Bocquelet and the gang came together for an AMA. Why the show went the way it did with its arcs is especially a question I have been dying to ask? I should have asked it when I did have his attention for a hot second.

Thanks for reading!