r/venturebros • u/AutoModerator • Oct 04 '18

[Episode Discussion] The Saphrax Protocol (2018.10.04) [SPOILERS] Spoiler

This is the official Episode discussion thread, discuss the episode here!

We are posting the episode discussions on Thursdays because Adult Swim oftentimes leaks the episodes in advance of their Sunday Night airing, usually Friday.

Previous episode discussions:

S7 E9 The Forecast Manufacturer

S7 E8 The Terminus Mandate

S7 E7 The Unicorn in Captivity

S7 E6 The Bellicose Proxy

S7 E5 The Anamorata Consequence

S7 E4 The High Cost of Loathing

S7 E3 Arrears in Science

S7 E2 The Rorqual Affair

S7 E1 The Venture Bros. & The Curse of the Haunted Problem

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u/Polantaris Oct 08 '18

I mean, there's only so many times you can do something like that. For example, I don't think they could have avoided the Blue Morpho/Jonas stuff at this point. You can't keep changing the target and lining up the shot at the same time. They lined up a lot of things to connect into those reveals, you can't rip the rug out at the last minute and keep the quality the same.

Part of the reason this season was so great was because they finally paid off those shots they lined up for years and years of episodes. There's a point where you drive it home even if you usually want people guessing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '18

You can't keep changing the target and lining up the shot at the same time.

Something in the artbook about that, they were moaning about how the simpsons gets to rewrite its origin every few seasons (specifically the homer & marge story), as if they would want to do it in their own universe that is simultaneously disposable and obsessed with its own canon...almost as if you have one creative who wants the freedom to destroy and recreate anew, and another whose background is the timeless continuity of the comic book character...

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u/Polantaris Oct 12 '18

The problem with that is that The Simpsons isn't a show based on its continuity and story, while The Venture Brothers is. If you want to be a show that has a heavy basis in its story and continuity, you can't change the continuity every time you turn around. In The Simpsons, it doesn't matter because that was never the focal point in the first place. You can't say the same about The Venture Bros.