>Season one is absolute perfection >Season two starts out very strong but ends with a dud>Season three is noticeably worse than the first two until the very last episodeIs someone ever going to help Genndy with his pacing issues?
>Season three is noticeably worse than the first two untilFALSE
>>154268281Please explain why viewership and audience ratings went down significantly if not for that.
154268345Not going to take anybody seriously who uses stuff like box office or viewcount to argue superiority of something. Sorry, get fucked.
>>154268467Based
>>154268467>>154268281Season 3 would’ve been 5 episodes if all the repetitive scenes are reused animation were cut. Season 2 suffered from lack of time, Season 3 had too much time.
>>154268186The issue is that he should’ve done an anthology series like he wanted.
>>154268467FagEither the series was a fad and unliked by majority which explains the sharp decline in viewers because it was at best so average people saw nothing of value to stick around forOr it was good and fans saw a decline in quality and left
>>154268539He tried but scrapped it.
>>154268548Definitely the latter.
>>154268467tpbp
>>154268548How about neither, and GFY
>>154269283Someone is defensive. Genndy can’t write for shit and the latter half of Primal was a great showcase of that. Season 1 was actually written by someone else.
>>154268548Double dog fag no take backs not reading that. Also I cast wizard shield so your fag insults do not land on me.
>>154269303>Genndy can’t write for shitGee I wonder why people are being defensive when you're offensive.
>>154269336Genndy’s writing has always been notoriously poor. Samurai Jack season 5, Primal seasons 2 and 3 and unicorn warriors eternal all suffer from pacing issues and plot contrivance to various degrees.
>>154268186>Season three is noticeably worse than the first two until the very last episodeFucking excuse me?
>>154269446Why yes I love seeing a zombie shamble around in repetitive scenes. Just as good as what has come before. See, Genndy made a reference to a classic piece of pulp art!
>>154269379I must agree with UnicornThat show was all over the place
>>154269460go be a faggot somewhere else.
>>154269379Look at the difference in writers across each season of Primal. >>154269303I think Genndy can write well but he and Tarantino share the same problem where VERY SPECIFIC key staff and the consequential dynamic that resulted in Great Writing are no longer available.Tarontino's editor died in 2010. Genndy's long-time writing collaborators on SJ and Clone Wars and Sym Bionic Titan were no longer available when he came back to do Samurai Jack and Primal. A similar situation happened with Raimi and Spider-Man 3 where one of the editors (who worked on the previous two movies) that had the balls to tell Avi Arad to fuck off died and as a result, he had more control over the film.
>>154268345>this show's so good>this show sucks now>more of the show that sucks? nah i'm good.if you liked season one, then the first three episodes of season three are the best the series has been since then because those are the epusodes most structured like season one episodes. i feel this so it is the right thing to feel
>>154269460if you don't like the zombie spear wandering around episodes, then you never liked primal
>>154268345how the fuck do you describe season one as absolute perfection, then go on to call the parts of season 3 that were most like season 1 noticeable worse?
>>154269561>>154269494Because your “understanding” of primal is incredibly surface level. Notice how all you talked about was structure. Not the actual episodes themselves or what happens in them. Just the general structure.Watching a corpse walk around and barly emote even close to the levels OG Spear did is not “Just like season 1!”>>154269477Can you actually address what I said or are you going to cry into your pillow some more? References don’t make something good.
>>154269511Forgot to reply to this as well.If you think Primal is just “wandering and then bloodshed happens with no consequence” then you are unironically low IQ. I don’t say that often but if you missed EVERYTHING else then you are definitely having a brain issue, or several.
>Only one offs are good! >Why?>Because they’re one offs!Does /co/ really?
Primal threads peaked during mid season 2. They’ve been on the decline ever sense.
>>154269283So why did viewership drop off if neither was the case? Why did people just stop watching?
Show lost me somewhere in the middle. I know its in the last season, but the episode with the ship captain bitch where primal and the big bald dude conquer on her behalf was so bad. How many times did they use that sequence of primal and the bald dude fighting for her? Also the series could have done without a villain. Like, fuck was up with the literal devil taking an interest in fucking over primal and shit. Just ruined what was otherwise a good ending to that viking faggot
>>154268186>Season one is absolute perfection until the season finale>season two and three are awful Ftfy
>>154269758Season 2 episode 7, where the decline started.
I wish this guy didn't just get sacked the moment Spear no longer needed him.
>>154269827He already has dino wife.
>>154269596>I HATE ZOMBIE SPEAR THEREFORE IT'S BADsad
>>154268186Nah, Season 3 was pretty solid. Felt like a return to what made us fall in love with Primal to begin with while having a greater handle on long-form storytelling. Genndy is getting better at writing overarching narratives, and that's what matters.
>>154268186But the last episode of season three is terrible, anon...
>>154271728Terrible how?
>>154272007>Viking gets unceremoniously sent to hell in a scene that looked borderline comedic>Spear managed to impregnate Mira despite of having fourth degree burns throughout his entire body.>Disappointing final fight overallIt was shit.
>>154272057He said season three, not two, anon.
>>154272093My bad, just had a brainfart.
>>154272131its okay, you are forgiven
Season 3 is all awful because who tf asked for black magic revival shit.
>>154269489>he had more control over the film.but Raimi didn't even want Venom in the film I don't think he had more control over the film that time
>>154272614You misread anon's post. Raimi's editor, who had the balls to tell Avi Arad to fuck off, died. Thus, Avi Arad had more control over #3.
Still not over how they killed my panther husband off screen
>>154269561don't call me surface level when you didn't bring up anything about the show to talk about in the first place and immediately defaulted to sales instead of talking about what it is you find valuable about the series. i spoke of the structure of the episodes because you didn't even talk about the show, you just said "good, bad, box office numbers" i had to bring up a quality for there to even be a conversation in the first place.wandering around is what made primal the show it was in the first season. be it a zombie or spear and fang, that's the closest the series has been to the beginning whether or not you think it's actually close. the moment it started having a continuing story where the characters had more human like goals instead of just survive was when it lost its way. i know you asked an ai to write that for you because that's the kind of retarded that tries to pretend it's smart by never actually talking about the thing it's apparently arguing about. why are you larping?>>154269611what the fuck are you arguing? are you going to tell me that season 2 is closer to season 1 than the first three episodes of season 3? because that's what i'm arguingalso, what fucking consequences? every episode of season 1 was a self contained story where very little from the previous episode had anything to do with the next. you can swap almost all of them around in any order and nothing would change because the series was just wandering around, encounter something, survive it.
>>154274254wooies, relied to myself. first part was meant for this poser >>154269596
>>154269489>>154274128You're fucking retarded. The oscar-winning film editor who's been with Sam Raimi since Army of Darkness is still alive, and has continued working on his films through Send Help in 2026. Kill yourself schizo, making up shit out of nowhere.And Tarantino has still made celebrated films post-2010, so having to change editors has nothing to do with your "argument", just autistic pattern recognition you are delusional enough to think makes sense to bring up.
>>154274404Jesus, anon, I was just clarifying the other anon's claim, I wasn't supporting it or anything. Unclench your anus
Primal Season 2 was good, INCLUDING the ending and I'm tired of pretending it isn't. Only like 3 episodes of Season 3 were good, most of it was just them running around like retards in a 20 mile radius in not-africa.
>>154272007nta, but if you like watching nothing happen for 20 minutes straight, i got a few sitcoms for you
>>154274254>>154274310The irony of calling me a poser when you don’t even know why people like primal. Primal isn’t loved because “one off stories where they kill something” it’s loved because of the emotion and connection to the characters, and the connections between said characters. When you have a character who literally isn’t emotive in any way wandering and getting into random fights it lacks those things. People LOVE Spear and Fang’s bond, and season 3 has almost none of that. It is only seen a bit in episode 4 and episode 10. Can you see why a bigger portion of the audience doesn’t like the third season compared to the first two?That is why I’m calling you surface level. You think Primal amounts to just “one offs with killing” which is the most shallow read you could ever have of it.
>>154276241True.And Fang barely even did anything in Season 3, she mostly just growled and roared at random shit. It's not the same as "She gets caught by mutant bats to save Spear", "Spear builds a log raft so she can heal up in a cave" or "Her and Spear hide in fog to kill off a viking village"
>>154276241>People LOVE Spear and Fang’s bond, and season 3 has almost none of thatFeels like we watched a different season 3
>>154276331So you admit the emotions and bonds are most of what people like and it isn’t just “muh one off with blood”? The show you describe does exist. It’s called Love Death and Robots, and while that show is mostly good it lacks the emotional impact of Primal. See why I called that statement shallow?>>154276279She did a couple of things, 4 was mostly about her. She saved Mira a bunch and got a couple of big bad kills. Most of what she does comes from the last episode, which is one I really liked. She saved Spear at the end too which was very important. I really only feel like a few season 3 episodes reach the heights of the previous seasons. Most of it was very repetitive and stretched out for runtime.
>>154276810I'm a different anon, can you maybe switch off the smug? It's annoying and does your argument no favors
>>154276829I’m not trying to be smug. I don’t even think Primal itself is deep, but when people try to use to use the most arbitrary and surface level aspects to describe its core that pisses me off.When the creator and director outright says that strong emotion is a cornerstone of Primal, then it’s true. And he’s said it multiple times. It’s not even an argument at that point.
