User blog comment:Cookiefisher5/Season 1 opinions/@comment-30307603-20170126171324

First of all, good work in producing this blog. I'm a huge advocate for community engagement, and seeing somebody who isn't even regular produce something like this makes me happy.

Now on to my actual comment. First of all, I do agree that Season 1 was the weakest of the seasons; that being said, I would far from call it bad. It's mediocre, sure, with a mix of good and bad episodes (like really, really bad episodes), but it's not downright terrible.

I do agree in the fact that Richard was too much of an immature jerk instead of the dotting doofus dad we know day. In certain episodes, Gumball and Darwin did get way too stupid for my liking, to the point it was grating. The students at Elmore Jr. High (with the exception of Tina and Penny) were inconsistent with their personalities. The personalities are much more well done in later seasons, now everyone having flaws, but ultimately still being well-written characters.

Some of the worst episodes in the series did originate from Season 1 ("The Laziest", "The Robot", "The Goons", "The Genius") and it did have Rachel. That being said, Season 1 also had some great episodes ("The Fight", "The Helmet", "The Mystery [I thought it was good, anyways], "The Sock", "The Meddler").

Animation was much improved in later seasons, but the animation and designs in Season 1 are still fine (at least the 2D animation, anyways).

Season 1 did actually do one thing better than the later seasons and that's Tina. Tina was one of the few supporting characters that had a consistent personality and was genuinely an interesting character. It's a shame that she's only used for gags now. I do agree the later seasons (specifically 3-5) are much improved over Season 1, and really emphasized the "amazing" in the show's title. Season 1 still isn't completely garbage.

This also might be a slight bias of mine (because I'm a Darwin fan), but despite the fact Darwin might be a little bit "snippy", I would far call him from being a jerk. Heck, even with how sarcastic and snarky Gumball can be, I wouldn't even call him a straight-up jerk. That's just my interpretation, of course. This comment is structurally disorganized from a writing standpoint, but I have limited time to write this and I'm just typing what comes to my head.