>>36972614>It's different for an episodic show compared to one with a longer storyline.That's not a fair point when the nature of the content is what is changing and that's what people are or at least should be mad about. If the tone of Promised neverland was the same as say, shadow house, no one would have even been mad at the manga ending. The problem was the stakes where set to be high and then undermined constantly past the escape arc. Similarly, the slice of life in ponyville may seem episodic, but it has a quality, and that quality and dynamic shifted drastically, first with twilicorn, and then next with the advent of the school and everything the politicization of the show entailed. careful world building gave way to asspull after asspull. What happened to mlp wasn't just the simpsons zombification effect and shark jumping, it was the utter result of people who simply did not understand or care about any of the inherent qualities of the show, and that expectation and subversion was way longer and way worse than for the promised neverland, which delivered poorly on its promises but still delivered the general idea of them, while in mlp the ending is so unrecognizably different than what the heroes had first set out to accomplish that it retroactively makes them into the villains of the story.
That's the big difference between an episode show like the simpsons or south park vs ponyville. Every change made to the world of equestria had an indelible and permanent cumulative effect for the worse. It's not enough to say the show is episodic if the plot of an episode is self contained when the plot itself permanently impacts the characters and the way they relate to one another, or in the finale's case, don't.
