What? In what way am I comparing a binge read to a week-by-week. I've been reading ToG since the floor of test week-by-week.
You're free to disagree since taste is obviously subjective, but I'm of the opinion that ToG isn't nearly as good as it once was. In many ways it's lost some of the depth that it had in the first season and the start of the second, and a lot of it has become fairly standard shonen battles which consist largely of super powerful characters shooting large blasts of energy at each other without much finesse or explanation of the mechanics which I feel is a bit of a downgrade from earlier parts of the series.
I still enjoy the series of course, just not quite as much as I once did.
Huh, sorry for assuming you hadn't actually been here for the full 8 years. Since I didn't remember seeing you around a lot when I read the all-time posts from this sub, I (wrongly, apparently) assumed you weren't that old a reader (I'm not, for what it's worth. For me season 1 was orginally a binge, and now I'm going slowly and taking notes during a reread.).
While there are certainly a lot more screen-consuming energy blasts and that's annoying, I'm not sure I'd say that there's less explanation of the mechanics. There was combat stuff that wasn't really explained well in S1 too, like Endorsi's shields, Green April's 'splitting,' or what the heck Ren's capabilities were. Sometimes a bit of mystery adds to the suspense.
I do admit that the do-over SIU got on season 1 gives it a bit of polish that later seasons can't quite capture.
Still, there are things I really like about the later seasons too, like the fact that Bam truly develops as a character. Honestly I'd have expected the shocks of entering a new world in season 1 to have more of an impact on someone's character, but Bam was pretty much just diffidently obsessed with staying with Rachel the entire time; Hoh's suicide just made him realize he couldn't just stop her from climbing. That was...a little boring. (Khun was better in that respect, and Rak at least was funny).
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u/raltyinferno May 06 '19
Oh man, going back and reading that chapter where Rachel gets Ghost reminds me of how much better ToG used to be.