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This is Creator Worship taken to the next level. When someone makes a sequel to a popular work which they did not create, and it is completely savaged by fans. Sometimes a Justified Trope because, while the actual quality will always be a point of contention, this trope is the result of the objective fact that the original creator is the only one who approached the work, the world, and/or the characters using a particular execution or tone that isn't replicated by later creators. Can be considered a form of Jumping the Shark, only with that trope, the creator themselves can do it. If there's a Franchise Zombie, people may claim this. Despite all this, complaining about the new work solely because it is not by the original team is a fallacy, and can be a form of Fan Myopia. Bear in mind that in the case of many popular media of a collaborative nature — Theatre, Movies, TV shows and Comic Books — there is often a lack of clear information about how much creative control the artist had towards their work, and what the specific contribution by certain figures were in the making of a given work. A great deal of the fan backlash for and against certain works stems from rumor, dated information, and lack of clarity and agreement about what made a work great in the first place. So when this trope is invoked, it is most effective when its done with an awareness of what the original creator brought to the project. Compare Disowned Adaptation. Contrast My Real Daddy, where the fandom prefers a version of a work or character not made by the original creator. See Running the Asylum, when other creators are considered evil step-parents. |
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Many Adventure Time fans have this opinion regarding Pendleton Ward and, to a lesser degree, Rebecca Sugar. After Ward stepped down as showrunner during the fifth season, with Sugar leaving the production entirely to helm Steven Universe, the show shifted into a more introspective tone under new showrunner Adam Muto, which many felt was pretentious and distracting from the actual plot. A lot of fans who felt this way argue that only Ward and Sugar really knew how to balance the crazy adventures and humor evenly with the darker elements. Thus, in their opinions, the rest of the crew was allowed to get self-indulgent due to no longer having someone to restrain them. | |
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This is the general opinion about The Spirit comics not written and drawn by Will Eisner. There's some conflict about whether the strips drawn under Eisner's supervision but not personally by him are up to standard, but much less about the several attempts to revive the character after his death. | |
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Boruto, the sequel to Naruto, has been getting this sentiment since Masashi Kishimoto only has a supervising role in it, while his former assistants, Uky� Kodachi and Mikio Ikemoto, handle the writing and drawing respectively. This was especially noticeable with the initial reaction to the different art style; although in later chapters this has been lessened somewhat thanks to Ikemoto's Art Evolution making it closer to Kishimoto's own style, in addition to the latter's announcement that he'll become more involved with the new manga. | |
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Fans of Tom and Jerry usually agree that the shorts directed by Hanna and Barbera themselves are the best, with reception of subsequent entries varying wildly (the Chuck Jones shorts and Tom and Jerry Tales get generally good reception, but have their detractors; the Gene Deitch shorts, The Tom and Jerry Show (1975), and The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show are mostly loathed, and The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) is divisive). | |
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The Simpsons: The show's "golden age" is generally thought to be seasons 1 (1989-90) through 8 (1996-97), with some occasionally including season 9 (1997-98) in there, too, because those were the years Matt Groening was most involved with the show, as starting in the Simpsons's 10th season (1998-99), he co-created Futurama and became much more involved there than in The Simpsons, with several writers and producers also leaving The Simpsons for Futurama. | |
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There have been several attempts to make the Justice League International work without creators Giffen and deMatteis, but none of them had even a fraction of the acclaim of the original. | |
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The fandom has several opinions about this with Thomas & Friends: One side feels that the episodes in the first four series were the best, as these were the ones adapted from the Awdry books Another side feels this towards Allcroft, Mitton, and Maidment rather than the Awdries. Some consider Season 5 to be one of the best, but everything after (When David Mitton was replaced as episode director) wasn't as good. Some even feel Series 6 and 7 were the start of the decline, because Allcroft, Mitton, and Maidment had less and less involvement to the point when David Mitton wrote no episodes in Series 7 but remained the director. |
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A widespread perception of the fourth season of Community, made after creator Dan Harmon was fired by the network. In the following seasons, after Harmon was reinstated as showrunner when Season 5 rolled around, the characters discuss their odd behavior the previous year, and explain it as having been the result of a gas leak in the study room. | |
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Dragon Ball gets the same sentiment. The Dragon Ball movies are considered subpar to good, with a few fan-favorites like the Cooler and Broly movies, except movie 11 which is considered the worst, along with movies 1, 9, and 13. The two movies with direct input from Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', are near-universally considered the best movies with rave reviews. They are also canon and have been adapted into Dragon Ball Super. Dragon Ball GT is often use as case study of what happens when Toriyama has little to no involvement.note Although Super takes place between the end of the manga's last arc and its final chapter, it introduces several inconsistencies that bring GT's canonicity into question. And let's not even get started on Dragonball Evolution. Tellingly, most fans prefer the film versions of both Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F' to the anime arcs (Toriyama had much less involvement with the anime series than the films). Meanwhile, Dragon Ball Super: Broly was written almost entirely by Toriyama, and is considered far-and-away the best Dragon Ball film to date. |
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Supernatural. Many fans blamed Seasons 6 and 7 showrunner Sera Gamble for the show's less-than-stellar state after Eric Kripke, the creator and original showrunner, stepped down (though Kripke still had some input on the show). After Season 7, Gamble also stepped down and was replaced first by Jeremy Carver and then by Andrew Dabb, who closed out the show after fifteen seasons. Carver was praised for getting the show back on track, and Dabb was praised for adding new characters, including The Wayward Sisters and Jack Kline, but most fans agree the Kripke years are superior to anything that came afterward. This persists despite many beloved standalone episodes primarily because the show never nailed its arcs the same way after Kripke's departure. Moreover, since the controversial Series Finale, fan opinion remains divided even though nearly everyone agrees that Kripke's vision for the end, which was the Season 5 finale, was superior. | |
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The James Bond novels written after Ian Fleming's death are nowhere near as famous as the ones written by him (nor as typically well-received). Of course, there wasn't really any other way around his death. | |
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A lot of people feel this way about the handling of Bucky Barnes by anyone other than Ed Brubaker. While Brubaker didn't create Bucky, he did redefine him and was the one to give him the Winter Soldier identity, the role the character is now much more famous for. This gave Brubaker uncontested My Real Daddy status over Bucky. Some people just don't like it when other writers handle Bucky, especially since a lot of the time, it tends to result in him either regressing (such as being flippant about killing) or adding things to his history that hurt the original story (Rick Remender added that Bucky could somewhat fight his programming). | |
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The Berenstain Bears' shift towards Christian themes starting in 2008 has been seen as a black mark on their reputation by fans, and most of it is attributed to Stan and Jan's son, Mike Berenstain. While Jan was an Episcopal Christian, Stan was Jewish, and they met halfway during the writing process to make the books appeal to most demographics. On the other hand, Mike became a devout Christian following his marriage, and health complications and their untimely passing caused Stan and Jan to not have as much influence over the stories anymore, with fans believing them to be the backbone behind the book's broad demographic range. | |
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Similarly, detractors of Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion's infamous ending often point out that it was not Gen's idea but Akiyuki Shinbo's and would have preferred Gen's original ending. | |
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To only a slightly lesser extent, the Fleischers' Popeye cartoons. Many of those are considered to be among the best classic cartoons ever made, while the cartoons produced by Famous Studios are notorious for being Strictly Formula and for their heavy use of Recycled In SPACE. | |
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Johnny Test is an interesting case in that its first season (produced by Warner Bros. Animation) is considered average at best rather than being a great show. Regardless, everything after that first season (produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment/DHX Media) is considered some of the worst Seasonal Rot to ever befall a show, to the point of rendering it (well, that and the fact that the show was Adored by the Network throughout its run) one of the most hated cartoons of all time to many (though people have started to lighten up on it since it got cancelled). | |
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Many fans of the original ECW see this with Paul Heyman as the booker and promoter and want to pretend that WWECW never existed. | |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes fans rarely think highly of episodes written by Man of Action Studios instead of the usual Marvel Animation writers. | |
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Like The Powerpuff Girls (see below), fellow Cartoon Network series Dexter's Laboratory was this following the Ego Trip movie, as Genndy Tartakovsky had moved on to make Samurai Jack. Not only did the show suffer an unpleasant redesign, but fans felt the new staff largely flanderized a lot of the characters. Tartakovsky, however, did return to work on "Chicken Scratch" and "Comedy of Feathers". | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (2016) is this for many fans of the original series, since the original creator Craig McCracken had no involvement with it. In a related vein, the original series was also guilty of this, as McCracken left the show after the fourth season to focus on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and the episodes in Seasons 5 and 6 declined in fan reception. | |
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While far from awful, the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics have gotten this reception for being written by people who were not part of the show. Azula's handling in them is met with particular scorn. Averted with the F.C. Yee novels, which have been warmly received. | |
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Gwenpool tends to be this when she's written by anyone besides Christopher Hastings, often forgoing the Character Development she rapidly underwent in her own series to instead be an self-righteous, stupid, and narcissistic caricature of a stereotypical 2010s "millennial" teenager. It doesn't help that Marvel itself tended to shill her as such with cameos in other comics and video games, which completely goes against and misses the point of her character. Thankfully, most fans agree that her characterisation in West Coast Avengers (2018), the series she migrated to after her solo run ended, is more in line with Hastings's vision. Her second solo title, Gwenpool Strikes Again, is another point of contention, some approving Leah Williams for still making Gwen an endearing Talkative Loon (Hastings himself liked it), while others deemed she went for a too meme-y Deadpool approach, regardless of the Meta Twist that explains her behavior. | |
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This was one of the reasons the TV series adaptation of The Dresden Files failed compared to the books. Most fans did not see the show as good without Jim Butcher. | |
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Arguably also true of Smallville. After the departure of co-creators and original show runners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar at the end of Season 7, the show seemed to end up in something of a Running the Asylum state with what was originally conceived as an accessible story about the future Superman with a loose approach to the mythology degenerating into DC Continuity Porn. It didn't help that most of the original cast had left by the time Gough and Millar stepped down. | |
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This was once a commonly held consensus by fans of The Ren & Stimpy Show, who for a long time believed that Nickelodeon had been in the wrong when they fired John Kricfalusi, and that the seasons produced following his firing were overall inferior to the seasons he had worked on at best, and absolutely horrible and a blatant insult to Kricfalusi's own creation at worst. Over the years, however, attitudes towards the post-Kricfalusi episodes of Ren & Stimpy have improved, and are now usually seen as being generally good cartoons in their own right. But what really led this trope to be overturned was in 2018 when Kricfalusi was accused of sexually abusing minors, as well as having unreasonably high demands of his animators, thus destroying what was left of his career. Nowadays, the common consensus among fans is that, while the post-Kricfalusi episodes of Ren & Stimpy may not be as iconic as the seasons that he was involved in, Kricfalusi himself deserved to be fired from the show. | |
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One such case is gen:LOCK, which got a second season on HBO Max that fans wished had remained in RT's hands instead of done by an entirely different company who downplayed the most liked elements (slick mecha action and interesting character moments) while taking the show in widely criticized new directions. | |
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The overriding opinion on Earth 2 is that it took a sharp nosedive once James Robinson left the title. Under Robinson's pen, the series served as a place where characters mostly tied to the Justice Society of America were allowed to flourish, as well as other characters Retgone'd from the main DCU. It also was obviously slowly building up to the formation of the Justice Society. Once Robinson left the book, it increasingly focused on alternate versions of the Superfamily and Batfamily, to the point that the original leads were reduced to supporting characters. | |
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Many fans of the Ice Age movies didn't like the Disney+ film The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild due to it lacking the involvement of Blue Sky Studios, which was shut down by Disney a year prior (and in fact, never even involved in that production), and anyone from the original franchise's creative team. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series. The Gene Roddenberry produced Seasons 1 and 2 are regarded as being way better than Season 3, where Fred Freiberger took over. Inverted by the following Star Trek shows however, which are widely regarded to have hit their strides after the original creators stepped down from the showrunner role (see My Real Daddy for more info). There are also some fans who regard only the Roddenberry-produced episodes and film as genuine Star Trek, and everything else as brainless trash, though this is very much a minority viewpoint. Inverted by the movies, which saw a huge improvement after Roddenberry was kicked off of them, and by Star Trek: The Next Generation, which got much better after he was Kicked Upstairs and subsequently died (although Star Trek: The Motion Picture has been Vindicated by History thanks to its 2001 Director's Cut). Played straight when the Rick Berman era ended and the Kurtzman era began. Berman wasn't involved in the franchise until 1987, but he at least had the benefit of working with Gene Roddenberry and being his hand-picked successor. Kurtzman, on the other hand, is best-known for working with Michael Bay to ruin Transformers forever. |
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Gargoyles fans got this attitude after Disney tried to do a season without Greg Weisman and botched it up. | |
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The Millennium Trilogy was planned to be much longer had writer Stieg Larsson not died right after submitting the manuscripts. The publisher eventually decided to continue under the pen of David Lagercrantz, and those who dislike the new trilogy will give this assessment for their inferiority. | |
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Many fans of the 2003 Teen Titans series feel this way about Teen Titans Go!, as very few involved with the well-regarded former series worked on the divisive latter series. | |
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The Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) series has gotten hit with this with the conclusion of the manga and the second anime adaptation. The first anime series split off from the manga halfway through and ended up creating its own original storyline. This storyline took the Character Development of several of the main characters in a different direction than the manga. As a result... Some fans of the manga have now adopted this mindset. Interestingly, the original manga author not only approved of the different direction, but actually encouraged it. | |
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Gundam has some fans who insist that the Alternate Universe shows are all crap because Yoshiyuki Tomino had nothing to do with them (ignoring the fact that ∀ Gundam was not only his baby, but acknowledges everything that came before). Some take it a step further and say The Creator Does It Right Only When He's Depressed, savaging Gundam ZZ (made to clear up the gloom from Zeta Gundam) and the very divisive reception to Mobile Suit Victory Gundam and Gundam: Reconguista in G, shows that even the creator can get it wrong. | |
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Disney Mouse and Duck Comics: Some fans - especially in America - only consider the classic Duck-comics by Carl Barks as true Duck comics. Don Rosa is often seen as an exception - but noticable, he himself only considers Barks' stories as canon for his own series. In a similar way, the Mickey Mouse-comics by Floyd Gottfredson are regarded as the only good ones - Mouse stories never became as popular as Duck comics ever again after Gottfredson's strips ended. | |
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Tellingly, most fans prefer the film versions of both Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F' to the anime arcs (Toriyama had much less involvement with the anime series than the films). Meanwhile, Dragon Ball Super: Broly was written almost entirely by Toriyama, and is considered far-and-away the best Dragon Ball film to date. | |
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The two best-received Asterix animated films, Asterix and Cleopatra and The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, are also the ones that were written and directed by series creators René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. None of the other ones are generally considered that bad, but the only two to be up near the ones that Goscinny and Uderzo themselves directed were Asterix Versus Caesar and Asterix in Britain, which lacked any hands-on involvement from Uderzo (Goscinny had died by that point), but were written by Pierre Tchernia, who was involved in making Cleopatra and Twelve Tasks. | |
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Although the sequels to Rendezvous with Rama (Rama II Garden of Rama, Rama Revealed and the Gentry Lee solo spinoff novel Bright Messengers) have Arthur C. Clarke as co-author with Gentry Lee, most readers have concluded that Lee did the majority of the actual writing with Clarke doing little more than pitching in a few ideas and that having Clarke on the cover as co-author was more of a cynical marketing ploy than anything elsenote They actually put Clarke's name on top of Lee's as if he was the primary author but no one was fooled by this.. The writing style is nothing like Clarke's. His longtime readers know that he did not focus on heavy character background stories and soap-opera style relationship drama, which makes for almost 85% of the sequels' content. Clarke's 1973 original novel was heavy on concept and focus on the Big Dumb Object while the characterization was mostly absent. While some critics may feel that the sequels correct the characterization deficiency in the original, many of Clarke's loyal readers feel that these critics miss the whole point of the original book. | |
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This trope was invoked on the 90s-era Superboy books. After sales dropped substantially during the run of Ron Marz and Ramon Bernado, the character's original creators (Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett) returned to the title in an attempt to recapture the magic the book once had. However, the new stories featured a radically different direction and despite the original team, never truly recovered. | |
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Although New Warriors was conceived by Marvel editorial, the series has never again been as popular or as cohesive as it was under writer Fabian Nicieza in his original 53-issue run. With changes in team roster and storytelling direction, the brand had been increasingly irrelevant for the decade after Nicieza left (despite efforts to retool it as a comedy in the third volume), and the team being used as throwaway scapegoats in Civil War ensured it would never recover. | |
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Wonder Woman: There has long been an element of the fandom who felt that the character only really worked in the original Marston/Peter comics, despite or because of their idiosyncrasies. Joye Murchison who wrote under the same pen name as Marston also gets a pass with this group, as she was Marston's assistant as well as writing on her own, but every writer since has tweaked the Amazons and Wonder Woman significantly from their pacifist feminist roots. | |
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The consensus on Season 4 of The Boondocks is that the show only works when Aaron McGruder is at the helm. [adult swim] seems to think this as well, as the season has never appeared in reruns since concluding, with the channel always wrapping back around to the first episode after the Season 3 finale "It's Goin' Down". | |
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Many Thanos fans tend to dislike depictions not written by Jim Starlin, as the character tends to devolve from a complex, multifaceted villain into a generic Evil Overlord under most other writers. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series. The Gene Roddenberry produced Seasons 1 and 2 are regarded as being way better than Season 3, where Fred Freiberger took over. Inverted by the following Star Trek shows however, which are widely regarded to have hit their strides after the original creators stepped down from the showrunner role (see My Real Daddy for more info). There are also some fans who regard only the Roddenberry-produced episodes and film as genuine Star Trek, and everything else as brainless trash, though this is very much a minority viewpoint. | |
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Moore has often drastically reinvented pre-existing creations such as Swamp Thing, Miracleman, Supreme and likewise written what many consider the definitive Joker story in The Killing Joke. All of them are generally regarded as the best runs of the respective comic books and none of them were created by Moore. On the other hand, none of the later attempts and runs at the respective titles (with the exception of Neil Gaiman's run on Miracleman) have matched Moore's stories in impact, acclaim and esteem. | |
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The Superman Theatrical Cartoons produced and directed by Max and Dave Fleischer, respectively, broke new ground for the Superman mythos and provided strong inspiration to other animators. The cartoons produced by Famous Studios don't have as high a reputation. | |
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The West Wing. Creator and showrunner Aaron Sorkin left the show at the end of the fourth season; the fifth season was savaged by critics and fans alike, and while the sixth and seventh were generally accepted as being an improvement, there are many fans of the Sorkin era who simply ignore everything after season four. | |
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The Adventures of Tintin (1991), which was produced by the Canadian animation studio Nelvana, is a curious variant in that it was created long after creator Hergé died. However, the cartoon is still much better received by fans than earlier adaptations, in no small part because it generally stuck to adapting Hergé's original comic albums instead of coming up with its own plots the way other adaptations have done. | |
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The silent Felix the Cat shorts directed by Otto Messmer are near-unanimously considered the best ones. Most future incarnations of the franchise (with the exception of the Cult Classic The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat) are of contested quality at best, and outright panned at worst. | |
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Game of Thrones: The early seasons aligned mostly with the plots developed by George R. R. Martin, including having him write a few episodes. Unsurprisingly, those episodes written by Martin (particularly the Battle of Blackwater Bay) are seen by fans as being among the strongest in the series. The demarcating mark amongst critical fans seems to be the strange decision not to write in the Tysha betrayal storyline in season four when Jamie releases Tyrion; a defining mark in Martin's storyline. Once the showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were fully responsible for the direction of the show, the gaping plot holes developed and the dialogue got weaker to the point of Memetic Mutation. The declining quality reached its zenith in the final season, regarded by most fans as a total letdown and is unwatchable to many. Averted so far with House of the Dragon. The first season has received much praise across the board. Martin being back with some degree of creative control over it probably helped, in addition to Ryan Condal replacing Benioff and Weiss as showrunner. |
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The general consensus among fans of SpongeBob SquarePants is that the show's quality dipped after Stephen Hillenburg left the series following The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Season 4 is considered to be the start of the Seasonal Rot, but it has enough well-received episodes that some will include it with Seasons 1-3 as the Golden Age of SpongeBob. Season 5 has fewer defenders than Season 4 and Seasons 6-8 were poorly received by fans. Hillenburg returned for Seasons 9-11 and many agree that the quality started to go up again before Hillenburg's sudden passing. | |
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Averted so far with House of the Dragon. The first season has received much praise across the board. Martin being back with some degree of creative control over it probably helped, in addition to Ryan Condal replacing Benioff and Weiss as showrunner. | |
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The Asterix books written by Albert Uderzo after the death of René Goscinny have been less well received. | |
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Conan the Barbarian. To the most visible portion of the fanbase, the true Conan stories are the ones written by Howard and only by Howard. The post-Howard writers are referred to as "Conantics," and backlash ensues if you admit to liking any of the books by Lin Carter or the others. The films largely have a separate fanbase, and fans of one are usually civil to the other. | |
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Similarly, not many fans cared for the subsequent incarnations of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (by Charles Mintz and Walter Lantz), preferring the originals done by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. | |
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Zig-zagged with Johnny Bravo. The first season, which the creator, Van Partible, had full input on is considered the best season by fans. The second and third seasons were made without him and, while they have their fans, are more polarizing among fans, mainly in regards to Johnny taking a level in dumbass. Partible would eventually come back on board for the fourth season. However, that season was received so poorly that it wound up killing the series. | |
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Superman: Deborah Joy LeVine was pushed out of Lois & Clark after the first season, and her intentions to chart character trajectories for the two leads and to emphasize Clark's impact on others (as in the Jack storyline) were scrapped for what some saw as a heavier reliance on soap and melodrama. In particular, the post-LeVine leadership was blamed for the notorious Clone!Lois story arc. Arguably also true of Smallville. After the departure of co-creators and original show runners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar at the end of Season 7, the show seemed to end up in something of a Running the Asylum state with what was originally conceived as an accessible story about the future Superman with a loose approach to the mythology degenerating into DC Continuity Porn. It didn't help that most of the original cast had left by the time Gough and Millar stepped down. |
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Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda was Ruined FOREVER when its creator and head writer, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, was fired from it near the end of Season 2. However, most of his core writing team (Zack Stentz, Ashley Edward Miller, Matt Kiene, Joe Reinkemeyer) stayed behind and kept the show more or less watchable throughout Season 3. It was ruined forever again a year later, when those four writers left and there was nobody remaining who had any idea what the hell they were doing. | |
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Jessie, James, and Meowth from Pokémon: The Series are a good, but little-known example of this. The late Takeshi Shudō, the show's original head writer, created the trio. Even though the characters have appeared in all but a few episodes of the show to date, when you watch the episodes and movies he wrote, it's clear who created the trio and truly knows what they're all about. In fact, he wrote many, many blog articles in Japanese concerning Team Rocket, their origins, personalities, and even philosophy (!), and stated he did not like the Running Gag character route they took after his departure from the anime, with many fan circles agreeing with him on this. | |
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For a number of fans, the quality of writing on True Blood went downhill after showrunner Alan Ball left at the end of Season 5, and took most of the veteran writers on the series (Alexander Woo, Raelle Tucker, Mark Hurdis) with him. The result is that Brian Buckner took over, and brought in a new host of writers who weren't familiar with the show. It is believed this is the reason a lot of the story threads set up in Season 5note The destruction of the Authority, the war between vampires and humans, Luna accidentally outing shifters to the world, the revelation that Warlow was coming for Sookie, Pam/Tara's relationship, Andy's faerie kids, Alcide becoming leader of the pack, Jason struggling with visions of his dead parents encouraging him to hate vampires, Jason's hunt for Warlow, Nora reforming and joining Eric, Bill becoming Billith didn't get properly followed up on in the final two seasons, and that these writers wanted to redeem Bill's character after all the heinous things he'd done. | |
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Some of the Before Watchmen miniseries might be considered exceptions - Minute Men and Silk Spectre were fairly well-received by critics (Interestingly, both were done by Darwyn Cooke, who also did some acclaimed work on the Spirit as well), though fan reception is much more mixed. However, everyone agrees that all of it falls short of Moore and Dave Gibbons' original, but then considering that Watchmen is an all-time classic, it was a tall order anyway. | |
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Gossip Girl. When Joshua Safran took over as showrunner the quality of the show went drastically downhill and the ratings followed, which led to the majority of the fans complaining about him. It did not help matters that Safran frequently argued with the fans on twitter and that one of the show's directors stated that people who didn't like the changes were not real fans. He left the show after the fifth season, but the damage was done (the next season was its last, and its lowest-rated, and Cut Short to boot. And as for the Series Finale...). | |
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Some are just horrible, like the Eragon film or the City of Ember movie, a few are average like Percy Jackson and the Olympians or The Twilight Saga. Even the well-received book movies, such as Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, get complaints. Even a well-received TV show like Game of Thrones receives this from fans of A Song of Ice and Fire especially for the later seasons which had no books to draw from and thus the new material often has divergences from the source material. | |
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Critically, Ms. Marvel (2014) has never been as long-lasting and beloved as the GWW run. | |
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Zig-zagged with Doug. Many fans believe that Nickelodeon was the only ones who could do Doug right, thanks mostly to the huge tonal shift when it moved from Nickelodeon to ABC. However, Jim Jinkins and several of the staff were actually involved with Doug even during the Disney run despite accusations that they weren't. However, Jinkins has stated that as the series went on, he had less and less to do with it, and some of these episodes are the ones that fans have the most issue with. The main example being the Quailman episodes, which were much more numerous in the final season. | |
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The very comic that started the Marvel Age is considered this. The Fantastic Four under creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby was such a huge success that it defined an entire new way of imagining superheroes and introduced tons of classic characters essential to the Marvel Universe. Unfortunately, when the creators left the book in the early 1970s, Marvel struggled to recapture the magic. Unlike other Marvel teams like the Avengers and the X-Men, that had several acclaimed runs over the years (resulting in Chris Claremont being widely considered the X-Men's real daddy), the Fantastic Four will always remain Stan and Jack's baby. The creator that came the closest to avert this was John Byrne with his very beloved run in the 1980s that became itself a classic. So, only the creators and this one other guy do it right? | |
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The first two seasons of Charmed, where creator Constance M. Burge acted as the show's creative lead while Brad Kern handled the showrunning duties, are usually regarded as being by far and away better than the rest of the show's run, where Kern alone was in charge of things. | |
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Fans of Code Lyoko when comparing it to Code Lyoko: Evolution, which had very limited input from the original showrunners, who themselves have basically politely disowned the series as canon in their view. | |
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Fans generally don't like the Dragonriders of Pern books written after Anne McCaffrey died. | |
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Fans of Psycho-Pass who dislike the second season often claim that the reason for its lack of quality was due to Gen Urobuchi not writing it. | |
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The sequel series to The Chronicles of Amber written after Roger Zelazny's death is universally regarded as Fanon Discontinuity. This stance is considerably helped by the fact that several of Zelazny's friends have publicly stated that he abhorred the idea of anyone else writing canonical stories in the Amber 'verse. | |
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The Muppets has often sparked this response, with regards to Jim Henson's death in 1990. There are quite a few beloved Muppets projects to be released after, such as The Muppet Christmas Carol or The Muppets (2011), but even the greatest fans of the post-Henson era will admit that the loss of Henson dealt a blow that the franchise never truly recovered from. | |
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Night Court is regarded is having gone downhill when Reinhold Weege left after Season 6. | |
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Inverted by the movies, which saw a huge improvement after Roddenberry was kicked off of them, and by Star Trek: The Next Generation, which got much better after he was Kicked Upstairs and subsequently died (although Star Trek: The Motion Picture has been Vindicated by History thanks to its 2001 Director's Cut). | |
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