User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: Slight Shortcoming/@comment-9300845-20181124023051/@comment-30307603-20181124193658

Ah, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah, Penny would most have definitely benefited from being featured in more episodes. I mean, being featured in more episodes would naturally lend itself to more fleshing out of the character, and by proxy, her relationship with Gumball, which is the core issue with the character. I never quite understood why the crew seemed so hesitant to give Penny more presence in the show; like Angry mentioned in his own comment earlier, yes, there are more characters interesting then Penny, but the only way one could capitalize on her and make her as interesting as she could be is by putting her in more episodes.

I've heard of this alleged double parter of the two breaking up. I'm certainly glad that never came to fruition; that's way too much in the opposite direction— needless drama for the sake of drama. It does make one think, however.

Interesting that you speculate on the true intentions of pairing Darwin and Carrie together. Granted, I like to give the crew the benefit of the doubt and assume there was a reason outside of pandering that the crew brought them together. Maybe something got scrapped in the process? It does bring me back to something Matt mentioned in his comment that I never really addressed then; is this the crew attempting to include more continuity-heavy elements despite being more interested in the show's lack of continuity. I guess we'll never really know.

Honestly, I wish they took Rob in the direction you proposed. It may have made his appearances more irregular, but at least there would be a sense of finality to his arc while giving him one last "hoorah" for the finale.

Yeah, I think the fact that those aforementioned storylines don't really affect the show's status quo in the long run is what allowed them to end as cleanly as it did. Heck, Alan and Tobias specifically never even had structured arcs; their development just naturally happened.