Hi I was wondering if you have heard about the new Season 17 episode called Plankton's Squeeze Play. It says on the Spongebob Wiki that the episode is about Squidward and Plankton doing a body swap so Plankton can try get the formula. It sounds like it will be a fun episode
I HAD heard about it and you reminded me. I'll have to see how it is when the episode airs to make judgement, but I'm a little nervous for it? Just because those guys as a duo mean a lot to me with my AU and such like this, and in some of the past episodes, they haven't done it justice. Chum Fricassee did it nicely! Would've been good to be more in-depth, but it was a good start!
I saw a clip of the most recent one (Who's Afriad of Mr Snippers?), and I diiiidn't really like it. Some of the clips from the recent season I've seen have been suffering from one-dimensionality and I don't know if that carries through the rest of Season 16 as I've not watched it all yet, but it affected the dynamic for me. A lot of the character's decisions used to be very emotionally-charged and more thought-out in my opinion. That doesn't mean all modern SpongeBob is bad - there are very good episodes, and it's almost like the show goes through a repeated period of having a few really good reasons, some mid seasons, bad ones, and then back to good. Hopefully Season 17 portrays them mroe how I'd imagine.
Don't get me wrong, they'd argue and bicker, but in the clip it felt... forced?
Egos are a big part of their characters, yes, but this episode also forgot that this is a reason they're SIMILAR, too. Working together grants them the best outcome for them BOTH to be appreciated, and whilst that could also be something they learnt throughout the course of the episode, I checked the description of events on the fandom wiki and it looks like they just argue most of the time and don't learn anything/have any arc together. (That and, with their character types - Plankton is active, Squidward is reactive - it doesn't make sense for them to clash THIS badly, especially if you're trying to make it actually funny).
In the past, I feel like conversation between characters felt more natural, I'm not really sure how to explain it. Maybe I'll rewrite this in the context of my AU sometime, I'm not sure.
Hopefully the new episode depicts how I see their dynamic a bit better? Kind of worries me when stuff like this happens just because with their full potential not used, less people get to see the vision and then they remain as unseen as they did before, if not more so just because "they don't work in canon" even when the material for said episode just came up short.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention, though! Hopefully it'll be good :)
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