User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Season 5 Retrospective Review: The Problem Child/@comment-25453486-20171110031633/@comment-31194372-20171111033937

Yeah... I get all of that, and I get why the show is changing. I could go on and on about how the show is selling itself short, something something CORPORATE SHILLS AND RHETORIC, but doing what the show has been doing is deliberately advantageous, and I shouldn't get overprotective just because my special little show is changing and trying to appeal to a broader audience. It's not like the whole season was completely overtaken by attention-grabbing episodes, anyway; however frequent they became, there were always enough classic Gumball episodes to balance everything out and keep the season from becoming overbearing.

I'm hoping, as someone from reddit stated, that the show is simply trying to push out some of its lesser ideas in order to make a tighter Season 6, or more reasonably, that the show spent the past season merely experimenting, and that Season 6 will take out everything that didn't work while keeping the modifications that did.

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