Replacement Writers For Animated Shows.

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kija

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This is something that I thought and have been wondering about for quite some time now. If the original writers of a show must move on to writing for other, new shows and be replaced, they why can't the replacement writers who are just as good as the last writers be hired, or why don't they get hired? Why settle on the not-so-great new writers? I mean, what does that all come down to? Affordability, availability or what? Rather than just get any writer who could only hinder a show in lieu of helping it.
 
Because many people consider writing for animated shows the bottom of the ladder in Hollywood. When a writer leaves a show, they're often going up to the big leagues (Live action t.v./movies or a bigger budger animated film), or even their own creator owned cartoon.

There's probably not a huge pool of experienced talent to replace writers who leave an animated series depending on which series needs new writers. I'd also imagine affordibility also factors into it.

Even long running shows like the Simpsons can't keep up the level of quality because they're breaking in new writers every few seasons.
 
I don't think it's a case of "good" or "bad", to be honest. That's very subjective; different people find different things funny. It's more a case of, the audience gets used to a humour style used on a show, and that's why they become a fan, but then when new writers come in who have a different style, we find that very hard to accept/adapt to.
 
Yeah, but don't they realize that the storylines to the episodes of the shows would've never been possible without the writers? If it weren't for them, we wouldn't have any shows. Therefore the writing is the starting point.


I'm not quite sure what you mean there, but I think it depends. And if it's factual that it's all in a matter of who's talented, then I'd concur with that.


True, but if there's subjectivity involved, then there's also got to be facts about what really is quality material written and what isn't, right? I figure this, since there's been a lot of discussion about there being more mediocre to poor cartoons having been churned out within over the last decade than before. I'll just chalk it up to both subjectivity and truth.
 
This is one reason why I don't think it's such a HORRIBLE thing that most Western animated shows only last 52-65 episodes; It's hard to keep a show fresh after so many episodes without gimmicks or major retools.

Plus, as you said, newer projects and animation opportunities keep coming along with untapped potential (didn't The Simpsons lose a bunch of its writers to Futurama, King of the Hill and various features?)
 
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