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From what I watched it felt like the entire Gumball team was hit hard by budget and time constraints and they never really got out of that groove. Seasons 3 and 5 for me at least scream this the loudest. I just think the artstyle concept initially pushed was too expensive for long term, they realized this, and they all adjusted accordingly (there are huge character biases so not really; there are also many other peculiar things I noticed but that’s less easy to point out).
Of course I’m not really going to defend the end product despite this feeling I get because the only true perspective I get is the one where my butt is on a seat behind a screen that’s playing out 10-11 minute sequences over 240 times, that’s what I know for sure, and when most of that is just god awful metaphorical quips of Gumball and Darwin just talking to each other exclusively, well it just makes me want to crunch a fucking brick in half.
