Aaron K
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With the release of A New Wish, it’s gotten a lot of praise, and while I can’t excuse Nickelodeon abusing their most popular IPs, it does look a lot better than the later seasons of the original series and Fairly Odder. However, because of this, I’ve also been noticing Butch Hartman getting dumped on, with many people claiming he ruined his own show. Now obviously, he is not a good person, but I can’t deny all the time and effort he put into the early seasons, which is why I think he’s pretty much completely innocent from his own creation’s downfall. Here’s four reasons why in no particular order:
He should be criticized for plagiarism and scamming people (among other things), but my point to lump in artistic talent with that is just wrong.
On a side note, I don’t know every detail on Danny Phantom S3, so I don’t exactly know how much Butch is to blame for that.
- He was hardly involved with the later seasons of the OG series or Fairly Odder (just like creators of most long-running cartoons). Damn near every episode from those were written by other people.
- As I said, Nickelodeon abuses their most popular IPs. Why else do you think SpongeBob is still going?
- Even if he was just as involved as before, executives would ruin everything. He stated himself Chloe, Sparky and Poof were added because of them. And before you say he probably wasn’t specifically asked to make them bad, again, there were loads of other writers.
- The overall quality of when the series fell harder than the Roman Empire was when Nickelodeon itself went downhill, with shows like Breadwinners and Sanjay and Craig.
He should be criticized for plagiarism and scamming people (among other things), but my point to lump in artistic talent with that is just wrong.
On a side note, I don’t know every detail on Danny Phantom S3, so I don’t exactly know how much Butch is to blame for that.
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