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Half-Arc Season

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Half-Arc Season	comment	Sometimes, the writers of the show want a Story Arc's ability to tell a longer story, but also want the flexibility afforded by a more episodic structure. The answer to these is the Half-Arc Season. Each season has its own Story Arc but the majority of the episodes in the season are one-part standalone episodes. The arc is mostly separated out to the first few episodes of the season (to set it up) and the last few (to resolve it), with a few that push forward the greater storyline while still telling their own story sprinkled about in the middle. Note that seasons mostly devoted to an arc can still have the occasional standalone in them; it's when the majority of episodes are non-Arc that this trope applies. Usually, this is midway in Season Fluidity. When a Season alternates between two major arcs, the arcs are said to Rotate.
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Half-Arc Season / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
Half-Arc Season / int_112890b3	comment	Season 18 focuses on Randy's Secret Identity as Lorde, hinted at (in that Randy dressed as Lorde) in "Gluten-Free Ebola", confirmed in "The Cissy", and wrapped up in "#REHASH" and "#HAPPYHOLOGRAMS"
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Half-Arc Season / int_1462f0d7	type	Season Finale
Half-Arc Season / int_1462f0d7	comment	Series 8, the Twelfth Doctor's first season, has him struggling with an identity crisis, while Clara struggles both with his much-changed personality and balancing her travels with him with a romantic relationship with a fellow schoolteacher, troubled ex-soldier Danny Pink, all while the mysterious Missy sees all from the Nethersphere, where people go after they die. Each half of the season alternates two arc-light stories with four arc-heavy ones, including the two-part Season Finale.
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Half-Arc Season / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Half-Arc Season / int_22cf536c	comment	In Series 3, each of the first ten episodes slyly introduced a Chekhov's Gun that would be fired in the last three: the Timey-Wimey Ball in "Smith and Jones" and "Blink", the chameleon arch in "Human Nature", Dr. Lazarus' experiments in . . . well, "The Lazarus Experiment", Mr. Saxon and the government keeping tabs on Martha in "The Lazarus Experiment" and "42", the Face of Boe's message in "Gridlock", and the power of words in "The Shakespeare Code".
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Half-Arc Season / int_3d5afa54	type	FoundFootage
Half-Arc Season / int_3d5afa54	comment	Series 9 is a variation. It is mostly multi-part stories, but the four two-parters that make up its first two-thirds work as standalone adventures, connected by little more than common themes (stories, memories, winning and losing, characters dancing between living and dead, and hybrids) and the Doctor and Clara's increasingly tender relationship. Then, after a one-part Found Footage Deconstruction, what seems like another one-off turns out to be the opening act of a three-part Season Finale that separates the Doctor and Clara for good, has him return to Gallifrey for the first time since the Last Great Time War, and brings back several plot points, concepts, and characters from the two-parters along with the running themes. In particular, the second two-parter ("Under the Lake"/"Before the Flood") turns out to have been heavily Foreshadowing the events of the finale all along.
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Half-Arc Season / int_400d1fd7	type	Heelâ€“Race Turn
Half-Arc Season / int_400d1fd7	comment	Season Six, despite being mostly slice of life, had a mini-arc (specifically "The Crystalling", "The Times They Are A-Changeling", and "To Where and Back Again") leading up to the redemption of the Changelings.
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Half-Arc Season / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
Half-Arc Season / int_42008602	comment	Season 2 (which had 37 eps) still had a little more than half of the episodes as day-in-the-spotlight standalones; however, a large chunk of this season was dedicated to a narrative about P.O.I.N.T., who took center stage in the present after only playing a major role in the backstories of several characters in the first season. This even included a five-episode Story Arc about P.O.I.N.T. Prep, and the double-length season finale featured P.O.I.N.T. as the main antagonist. There were also a few episodes that continued to build on the overall Myth Arc that was resolved in the third season.
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Half-Arc Season / int_53211774	type	Multi-Part Episode
Half-Arc Season / int_53211774	comment	Season Four's main arc starts with the end of the two-part premiere, which introduced a mysterious box with six locks after Twilight sacrificed the Elements of Harmony, and is resolved in the two-part finale. The keys found over the course of the season are mementos from ponies of the day when they and a mane character learn the same lesson about friendship. The season also has a secondary arc (started in the previous season) leading up to the Equestria Games, which take place just before the finale. As usual, there are plenty of Slice of Life episodes in between the arc episodes.
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Half-Arc Season / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Half-Arc Season / int_53224e46	comment	Season One has an arc following the Mane Six preparing for the Grand Galloping Gala in Canterlot, but every episode was also able to stand alone, including the arc episodes. Disregarding the two-part series premiere, the opening and closing episodes also stand as Bookends.
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Half-Arc Season / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Half-Arc Season / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Series 7 features two largely separate arcs, commonly referred to as 7A and 7B, which aired in consecutive years. 7A is the falling action of the Doctor's relationship with the Ponds, culminating in his being permanently separated from them. After the Doctor is brought out of brooding by Clara, a Victorian woman who is killed in the process of helping him defeat an old enemy in the Christmas Episode, and he realizes he met this woman in the 7A opener, where she also died, he discovers Clara again in The Present Day and takes her on as a companion to figure out how this is possible, especially given that she shows no knowledge of other adventures. This arc leads directly into a pair of specials that resolve all of the dangling plot points of the Eleventh Doctor's tenure and also saves Gallifrey, his long-lost homeworld.
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Half-Arc Season / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Half-Arc Season / int_7464705c	comment	In Series 2, a majority of the episodes are standalone, but in the second episode the Doctor and Rose inspire the creation of "the Torchwood Institute", which becomes that season's Arc Word. The Doctor finally meets them in person in the finale, along with the villains from the mid-series two-parter.
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Half-Arc Season / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Half-Arc Season / int_830b0ac9	comment	Season Nine revolves around a final plotline where Celestia and Luna announce their retirement and make Twilight their successor, and a legion of villains from the past unite to take over Equestria which they must defeat. This is the background for several standalone episodes across the season, culminating in the Final Battle and Twilight assuming her new position.
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Half-Arc Season / int_85e0cabc	type	Precursor Heroes
Half-Arc Season / int_85e0cabc	comment	Season Seven's back half prominently features stories of the Pillars of Old Equestria, culminating in their return from Limbo in the season finale.
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Half-Arc Season / int_8ed601a6	type	Two-Part Trilogy
Half-Arc Season / int_8ed601a6	comment	Series 10 starts with five standalone episodes to introduce new companion Bill Potts, each teasing the contents of a mysterious vault the Doctor is guarding on Earth. The fifth has a denouement that leads directly into a Two-Part Trilogy involving The Reveal of its contents and the nature of the oath he took to guard it, the Doctor going blind, the return of recurring villain Missy, and an Alien Invasion by Reality Warpers. After that are two more standalone stories, and then Missy returns for the two-part Season Finale.
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Half-Arc Season / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Half-Arc Season / int_970c790a	comment	It should be mentioned that, with the exception of the first two seasons (which had the same Big Bad but different plot), all Big Bad villains for every season got their debut in a stand-alone, Tarakudo being the most triumphant as he was just a tattoo in the initial appearance.
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Half-Arc Season / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Half-Arc Season / int_9c8701b5	comment	Season 1 (the longest, clocking in at 52 episodes) had the majority of its episodes as standalones that developed the setting and main characters more, and/or gave A Day in the Limelight to many of the more minor characters to flesh them out more. However, there were also quite a few episodes focusing on Boxman (the Big Bad of the season, and one of the biggest villains for the series overall), his obsession with attacking the Plaza, and problems that sometimes caused for him; several others focused on other characters, groups, or backstory elements that would become more important in one of the following seasons (such as Elodie, Professor Venomous, Shadowy Figure, and P.O.I.N.T.).
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Half-Arc Season / int_ac7cbf8d	type	Myth Arc
Half-Arc Season / int_ac7cbf8d	comment	Any episode forces on the history of Franz Hopper in Code Lyoko until the final four episodes of Season 2 — "Franz Hopper", "Contact", "The Revelations, and "The Key" where the story becomes the main arc. Seasons 3 and 4 did a similar thing with the gradual destruction of Lyoko's sectors and the infiltration of the other supercomputers respectively.
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Half-Arc Season / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Half-Arc Season / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Season 2: The flashbacks show the conflict between Oliver and his friends on the island and Dr. Ivo, which led to Slade's Faceâ€“Heel Turn. The present day story is about Oliver trying to move from being a vigilante to a true hero, while facing Brother Blood and Slade.
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Half-Arc Season / int_c1725854	type	Character Focus
Half-Arc Season / int_c1725854	comment	Season 3 (19 eps) had to wrap up the rest of the series quickly after its sudden cancellation, and as such, had a significantly higher ratio of plot-relevant episodes than the previous two seasons. But even then, only about half of them dealt with the endgame and direct lead up to it, plus a couple more that answered some lingering questions from the previous two seasons about P.O.I.N.T. The other half still consisted of Character Focus episodes that, in this case, highlighted the Character Development of several different people from the first season to this one, but didn't play a direct role in building up the conflict with the Final Boss of the series.
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Half-Arc Season / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
Half-Arc Season / int_e9604359	comment	The first season had slowly built up Gideon as a major antagonist who wanted to obtain all of the journals and the Mystery Shack itself, but this was spaced between several Monster of the Week episodes that, at most, introduced a Chekhov's Gunman or foreshadowed a development in Season 2.
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Half-Arc Season / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Half-Arc Season / int_edeafb2e	comment	Seemingly in response to how dense Moffat-era arcs could get, the arc for Series 11 is almost entirely character focused as 13's companions try and understand the Doctor better while she tries to keep them at arms length. The closest thing to an arc resembling prior series is that the man who killed Grahams wife and Ryan's grandmother in the first episode of the series, Tim Shaw, turns up in the last episode of the series and how the characters react to this after their journeys with the Doctor becomes the focus.
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Half-Arc Season / int_f010eba7	type	Plot-Irrelevant Villain
Half-Arc Season / int_f010eba7	comment	The second season utilized this heavily. Twice. The first half of the season had the mysterious portal that Grunkle Stan was working on in the basement, while the second half of the season dealt with stopping Bill Cipher from getting a dimensional rift that would allow him to take over our dimension. There were more episodes that tied directly in to both of these, but Season 2 still had the occasional episode with a villain that had nothing to do with any of it.
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Half-Arc Season / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Half-Arc Season / int_f2dadf81	comment	Season 3 introduced a mystery plot, as Sabrina had to "solve the family secret" based on a series of elaborate clues and puzzles with no outside assistance. The secret? Every Spellman has a twin. Turns out one of the twins is always good and one is always an Evil Twin, and Sabrina has to prove she isn't the Evil Twin. (She isn't.) Again, Sabrina still has to balance all this against her high school studies, relationship issues with Harvey, her friendship with Valerie, and her rivalry with Libby.
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