I am one of those people who thinks The Simpsons degraded in quality over the years. I still watch it if my Mom is watching it at that particular time I am near the TV as part of a family tradition, out of habit, and because it still has the occasional goodness sprinkled in. I don't have an exact season for the degrade though like so many fans though, which I think indicates I'm not as critical or spiteful about current Simpsons. Part of my lack of interest in new Simpsons is just how long it's gone on for. Even if quality is kept along with comedy it gets old and tiring after a while to the point I get series fatigue and want it to go away. To keep the freshness all that time is hard.
Degradation is inevitable for a series that long, very few things can remain the same, or barring that, keep up the same level of quality to go with change. Simpsons was overall simpler in the past, cleverer in a couple ways, but most importantly it was just more heartwarming and less gimmicky. Flanderization hadn't happened. Lisa was a more tolerable, realistic character usually before she got all Buddhist, vegetarian, global warming, and just more stereotypically nerdy relatively, which would be fine if it didn't accompany occasional annoying parts of her personality. Everything else that happened to make a point about changing politics or satisfy certain writers' wishes or just because degradation was inevitable and had started...hadn't happened yet. It seems to happen to a lot of animated sitcoms. Even Simpsons has made fun of the criticism. Ex. During a clip show anniversary special or something along those lines a boy told Troy McClure that it seemed like Homer was getting stupider every year, to which he played clips of Homer's stupidity situations for laughs.
Pairing it with Futurama might give it a temporary, maybe permanent until cancellation or conclusion, quality increase. Futurama had its up and downs; overall, I think it had more ups. Maybe, that's just the future setting fetish talking from diehard fans. Thoughts?
Degradation is inevitable for a series that long, very few things can remain the same, or barring that, keep up the same level of quality to go with change. Simpsons was overall simpler in the past, cleverer in a couple ways, but most importantly it was just more heartwarming and less gimmicky. Flanderization hadn't happened. Lisa was a more tolerable, realistic character usually before she got all Buddhist, vegetarian, global warming, and just more stereotypically nerdy relatively, which would be fine if it didn't accompany occasional annoying parts of her personality. Everything else that happened to make a point about changing politics or satisfy certain writers' wishes or just because degradation was inevitable and had started...hadn't happened yet. It seems to happen to a lot of animated sitcoms. Even Simpsons has made fun of the criticism. Ex. During a clip show anniversary special or something along those lines a boy told Troy McClure that it seemed like Homer was getting stupider every year, to which he played clips of Homer's stupidity situations for laughs.
Pairing it with Futurama might give it a temporary, maybe permanent until cancellation or conclusion, quality increase. Futurama had its up and downs; overall, I think it had more ups. Maybe, that's just the future setting fetish talking from diehard fans. Thoughts?