User blog comment:Nacho1804/Season 6 Expectations Analysis 5: The Best Summer Ever (?), Part 1/@comment-25453486-20180607210957

Well done. You expressed the same thoughts I have about these upcoming episodes, only with more...grace and structure. Hm, I learn a lot from you guys...

Out of all the mentioned episodes, I only have average or above average expectations for The Schooling and The Parents. I truly don't know if it's just me, but over time I've lost part of my excitement for Gumball. Truth is, I feel that in general terms, it's lost a bit of its 'touch'...its quality has decreased, and it's lately focusing a lot on being 'relatable' in terms of what happens nowadays on our society, which...isn't bad...uh, but it's just...boring, unoriginal. It has no flavour, so to speak. So...my general view on the new episodes of Gumball is a bit negative...I don't expect too much.

That being said, my thoughts on The Brain are the same as exposed here. We've had episodes revolving around the stupidity of the characters...Richard's stupidity, Gumball's stupidity, Darwin's stupidity, the whole school's stupidity...it's already tiring. I'm tired of that premise, and the premise of the contrasting intelligence of Anais. We know she's smart. For the sake of highlighting such trait, the creators of the show 'dumb down' the rest of the family, okay. But isn't Anais a lot more than just 'a smart little girl'? They have a lot to play with with her character, but instead they choose to 'play it safe' by resorting to the same boring arc of 'smart little girl vs stupid family'. Man, that premise is seriously tasteless and...stupid.

The Intelligence in turn, has an interesting idea floating around there. However, it scares me to think they can ruin a perfectly fine material with some failed attempt to teach a lesson, but leaving you with the wrong idea in your mind at the end, in the ways of The Hero, The Worst, The Stink...and a few more I'm sure I can count.

The whole idea of focusing again on Richard's dumbness and clumsiness makes me bitter, but I'll just hope they surprise me.

The Schooling sounds very average, but it's the only episode I believe will be played out correctly (hahah, told you I'm negative!). Even if it ends up being something we've seen before, at least it will live to its expectations, and if it's better than that, it'll leave a good feeling in your mouth. That's how I feel it will be, hahah. And as for The Parents...I hope it's good, but I rather not think too much about it, for I don't want my expectations to be crushed after watching it and finding out is not as good.

Hahahahah, ahhh...seriously, I'm sorry for my negativity. I just can't help it, those are my real feelings and thoughts. But hey, at least if I'm proven wrong, I'll become more positive next time! This comment is way too long already, I wanted to extend my analysis a bit more, but...I better not.

Great post!