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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > why does everyone like Archer but me?
 
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chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

 archer was much better before they ran out of jokes, now they're just treading water referring to the old jokes in slightly different situations

it's been getting a bit better lately with the last few episodes, as in, three or so laugh out loud moments per episode when i've been getting used to being completely silent, but the issue really is it's been going on too long. the characters are all paper thin parodies, have no secrets left and have already been pushed as far as they could go, really further in some cases. giving archer a kid was a bad idea the first time they did it, the second time completely earthing the whole archer/lana sexual tension such that it was is basically cutting a tent string, and all the secondary characters have basically been used as shock clowns and they're completely done as being able to be taken as relatable. anyone familiar with the show could predict exactly what a character would do in any situation and there's really nothing special in the technical execution that would cause you to say, yeah, but i gotta see it.

the greatest asset the show had was the world they created with the permanent cold war, swimmily-defined past setting with perma-eighties tech but they sort of spent that on making anime hologram jokes and they started giving all the characters smartphones for some goddamn reason. so now they can't do anything interesting with the setting, it's just basically present day. they had such a good thing going, it could have supported a lot more than just a show about spying, and they dissolved it all for a few cheap parody shots.

either needed a showrunner that has experience maintaining a show for a longer period or a nice satisfying climactic ending about 2-3 seasons ago

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chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

Phobic Nest posted:

Re: chat about accessibility

You know how cartoon network and nickelodeon have made bank by making children's shows that also "subtly" include jokes for manchildren? That's kind of what Archer is, but for normies and nerds. Like, there's a holo-waifu joke and you may laugh if you know what a waifu is or what the dream of the fisherman's wife is, but you'll also laugh if you merely know that anime exists and remember from school how weird the people who like it are. Or you may not get a reference to a certain movie or notice how how weirdly contradictory all the tech is, but hell, DANGERZONE!

30 Rock included the line "you can't have a Lemon party without old Dick"

i am of the belief that the entire show might have been scaffolding to justify that one line

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