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Originally Posted by ljacone

Personally speaking, I find the illusion of progress to be more frustrating than no progress. I like that the characters on MMPR (and Zeo, and Turbo, and In Space) don't particularly grow or change. The shows are formulaic in the same way that a police procedural or courtroom procedural are formulaic, and I like that I could catch whatever episode was airing and follow along without worrying about "Oh geez is this before or after X happened?" Like Dragnet or Perry Mason but with bright colored costumes, monsters, and giant robots. (Raymond Burr would fit in perfectly!)

I always chalked the Sky and Jack thing up to the two of them just not liking each other a fundamental level. Eeven though they can work together, end of the day there's no way they'd get along. A No Prize, for sure, but better to No Prize something away sometimes!

It isn't so much an illusion here but more glimpses of two very different shows mashed together. When the good writers get a few episodes in a row they do a lot with those characters in that time. When the shit writers take over though they almost seem to pretend that nothing the other writers just did happened and we're back to square one again.

I like serialised shows, I don't think a show should pander to audiences who jump in half way through, I've been here since the beginning and if you want me to the end, the show and its characters have to progress and grow or there is no reason to watch this.