[Wall of Beef]

The one thing I loved about the Batman cartoon, and ever the Superman cartoon, was that each episode was a single event. Start and finish each episode. But that every now and again they did a two-parter, but now with Anime they insist on this never ending story line. That its always a seventy-parter.

With single episode events you can go in knowing that when that 30 minutes is over, you can go on with your day and relive that same moment over and over. When they threw that two-parter it was special, that this battle was too much for 30 minutes, that batman/superman was really going to be tested. But at the same time it lets you live. With these epic storylines with Anime you go in and its "Hope you have time kids, this will take a while. Oh and no time to fill in your own imagination about the characters, we'll do that for you."

Plus back then we had no idea what the hell "season" was. It was just on at a certain time. You could miss episodes, and revisit them and not feel out of place.

Maybe I just have a poor attention span. But I believe that Anime Series are/have ruining cartoons.
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