What's wrong with Regular Show?

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Well, this is a sort of an opinion of mine. I felt like this needs to be brought to the attention of any dear loving fan of Regular Show. I've thought about a few things since I first posted this journal, and I decided to make another section of this journal regarding new thoughts. However, I don't see any writing or thought about "What's wrong with Regular Show?" hardly ever, so I decided to say something. I only wrote this because I see the condition of how the fandom is, and the time and people are ready for something like this. I'd also like to see what anybody else thinks.
Behold, wordiness!

I've been a fan of RS ever since it's later 3rd Season, and watched mostly all of the episodes and only watched two of Season 6. I'd like to call out about the previous seasons of Regular Show so far -- the late 5th to 6th seasons of RS -- about their quality.
I remember Season 5 started out pretty darn well, after Season 4's finale episode, which they made an episode (I think it's Laundry Woes) to answer most of the last remaining questions from Season 4's dismissal of Margaret. Season 5 continues on, all the way until the recent episodes of RS.
First things first, I've been progressively disliking RS due to its dumping of what they did right in the first four seasons (definitely 1st three seasons): Being an animated cartoon about comedy and being ironic to being a regular show. That stated is important, for it is the foundation of where Regular Show was first built upon and up. Judging recently, this foundation isn't here. And you can say that they dumped it good, to where it is in a condition where it'll be hard to replace and come back to.
What has happened is that they've replaced the comedy with romance. It's not where romance dominates comedy, but little comedy does shine through. Personally, I'm not excited by romance --ever. But other fans do enjoy romance.

I see that those fans mostly disagree against the new episodes, especially the newest Christmas episode. But isn't that what you guys wanted? It's romance? Let me tell you how I see it: These gals and guys want romance; now they got it. Romance is in our faces now, and I think these guys should be satisfied with it. As much as they promote it, ship it, draw fan art of it, complain about it, argue over it, these guys did get romance after all; as so far that the producers and writers changed what Regular Show means. The writers are making sure that we are getting plenty of romance.
Maybe the writers aren't writing the episodes the way they want it. Realistically, they're the board producers and writers of Regular Show, the producers are going to write and produce what they think what is best, what is best to the fans, and an additional factor of them keeping them on air. The writers are going to do their best to bring some of our good ideas into their writing. The majority of the fandom wants romance, so the producers wrote and produced what we wanted for romance with a bit of theirs, and here we got this mess. Even if the writers wrote the episode with only the board, the fans still got romance. In the output, we did get romantic episodes. However, some of the fans that like romance are upset for the romance they got to see. There's not anyone to blame, but ourselves, the fans. The problem is not being sure what we wanted as a majority.

Sadly, I might know that this majority is going to go off promoting, drawing, shipping their romance stuff around again, and they aren't going to cause any change that they might want. And they're going to be upset and complaining why. And then I'll have to sit here, and wait for a chance to type another one of these...
Let's talk about solutions, has anyone wrote any of these lately?
Now I'm not saying "Screw Romance!", I think some of it will go well with the foundation intact (it'll be close to the style of Season 4).
Regular Show isn't looking too good today, or what it used to be. If we are going to progress from the way things are now, future episodes and seasons will look awful. We can either go and ship Cloudycai, Mordaret, all the other ships for ourselves, and change nothing, go back to classic RS, or do something brand new. Season 6 needs to pick Cloudycai or Mordaret.
Be wary of the following. This will take time. Writing takes time, as does planning for new episodes, then the animations process, and etc. And we might be doomed, because we do not have all of the time we want. The writers are going to continue on with this story that they wrote. That is inevitable. They can't just turn around and jump back now; it'll make their writing inconsistent. 
But I think the new episode can be a starting point for a change. The writers could either do Mordaret or Cloudycai, continue with romance, and then reestablish the foundation. What will result might look like Season 4, but might be better or worse depending on how it is written, and what the fandom clearly wants. If we are uncertain about that solution, we can do something new, and promote it. The writers might make a hybrid of our promotion, and that would be the new RS... (Augh, there's going to be a new meaning for RS every 5 episodes, and yet no foundation)
**IF we're looking for comedy, then we as a collective, should promote good comedy to be added to the show more often. Which good comedy has to be something that can air on US television/international television, and is of course funny for children, teens, and adults.

Hell, as much as RS is on crooked tracks, the finale of Season 4 and the entire Season 5 has no point anymore, due to the newest episode of RS. That there, is a waste of more than a years work. And I'm thinking, what the hell is wrong with RS, where's Quintel? I know he is here to voice Mordecai. But he doesn't write anymore new episodes. Maybe I'm looking that he could fix some of this mess, but I also see that he can write only if it is about romance (comedy wouldn't yet fit in at a time like this).
So we done screwed ourselves. Great job everyone! Let's wait until next year to see how unique Regular Show has become!
Just unless we do something about it, and stop complaining.


December 9th 2014


I've thought about this problem off and on after the couple of days since I posted this journal onto dA.
I'll explain things more simple here, too.

I haven't changed my mind about why the romance fans dislike their romance. Hell yeah, the writers did give them mighty good love drama. As above, I mention that these romance fans are the majority, and are far more likely to be heard by the writers. This is why RS has so much romance in it. I find it true where if we never wanted romance, then we would've NEVER been in this mess.. That's only unless the producers and writers got together, and decided to make this romantic stuff on their own.
And it wouldn't make much sense that the writers would ignore the (majority of the) fandom, and write whatever they wanted.
I thought that as if the writers wrote mostly what these fans (the majority) promoted: Margaret vs CJ (when they're bashed by the fans), and which of these two women should get Mordecai. And guess what, they got what they wanted --or maybe shown interest of. The writers want to write our interests, and so we get a 
reflection of ourselves and our shifting fan-wars about Margaret vs CJ, Mordaret, Cloudycai, etc.
The reason why the Christmas special was so bad is because of the fans got tired of Cloudycai, and so the writers suddenly shift with us to Mordaret again --that's what we were interested in. And so the fans catch their own reflected shift, and become upset after watching the special, but why? Isn't that what they just wanted/interested in? And so I concluded with that we're confused fans with runny interests; the writers reflect what we're interested in. This is what I thought at first, after seeing a bunch of fans upset.

However based on a few comments here, it would make sense that there are some things that you can blame the writer for. (Everyone's probably interested in what they did wrong!) Many could agree that the writers are not consistent with their characters. The writers has removed Thomas, and could possibly now either remove CJ or Margaret.
First, removing Thomas was sudden, and with little plot.
And recently, Margaret appears at the end of an episode; then suddenly comes up to the Christmas Special to screw with CJ's relationship.

The problem is that the writers are not plotting well. They do not reference the past episodes, nor what's going to happen in the future. A well plotted episode will have a good build up to drama, romance, or whatever the deal is. The good episodes do not contradict other episodes (a whole season in RS's case), because of poor referencing. Good episodes will have a good reason to conclude a plot in the future as well. 
A well plotted episode will also leave watchers in good understanding. If you were watching something good on TV, would you be confused about what just happened in a scene? No.
I would also expect that the board writers and producers of RS should have experience writing good shows. If the writers have taste, then they should taste what's going up on air. Honestly, they might've thought it was a good episode, but we fans thought differently.
Good writers should be able to combine comedy and romance together well. And our writers have done it; look at Season 4 of RS. This is what I would call variety: Episodes can both have romance and comedy inside of them and still be good.
Some of the fans that aren't the majority enjoy comedy, so why not also help them?
One comment mentioned that the board could invite older writers that wrote the 1st three seasons of RS, or the writers of season 4. I'd agree, this would help make better developed episodes than what we have now.

Otherwise, I think the writers should plot better, give clarity, and give variety.

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Things wasn't the same no more, idk what is the point of continuing this and if they don't solve the right way or return back to the old roots that made RS better, don't even bother returning for good, it showed to the fact without a doubt or reason of yhe contentions that the show is no longer needed