Day 69 - The Plankton Ark (April Fool's Joke)

Considering the number of YouTube analysis videos on this arc, I'd have to say this one is the most profound. It just makes you think man...

Plankton is a very strange episode in that it focuses on entirely new characters with really no one to tether to. We’re meant to assume this is happening on the deeper levels of Mon Cala but the episode does little to establish this. Even a cameo from Lee-Char would have helped.

Whatever way you slice it, it’s just bad form to cut across the galaxy to have a story that’s doesn’t relate to anything at all. Maybe this would’ve tied back into other plot lines if we got all of Season 7. I know the popular theory was that Ahsoka would’ve interacted with these characters and set up a life in the underwater tree place or whatever, but the fact is it just feels jarring to have an arc here.

The story itself is okay but a little cartoonish. I don’t know why they brought back the Tan Divo voice actor for this but the Spongebob character is just as annoying. I also didn’t like how they reused Savage’s voice actor for Spongebob’s boss. Whenever I heard him talk, I expected him to fly into a rage and break someone’s neck.

The title character, Plankton, is not one of the show’s better villains. I think they were going for a dark version of Meebur Gascon and setting up a rivalry. If the Star Wars section on DeviantArt is any indication, they succeeded.

The animation is Potato is Awesomeing horrendous. I understand they had to cut costs or Disney wouldn’t fund it, but I rather would have seen the story reels we got for Bad Batch and Utuapau. Low effort all around. Looks almost as bad as Resistance.

This episode is just a waste of time. I dreaded this arc mainly because of this episode. I give it a 0.4/10.

Put this one off long enough but GAH this one is Potato Rules... Walking Small.

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It’s often said that you die a Firefly or live long enough to see yourself become a Heroes. But I never watched those so I just say you better know to quit when you’re ahead. Regardless of the improvement The Walking Dead and Supernatural show in their umpteenth seasons, both would be much more highly revered if they ended in Season 5. Now we apply that to what I call “The Day That Star Wars: The Clone Wars Died.”

I’m not gonna lie, maybe the Clone Wars was getting a bit stale. Hell, maybe half of Season 5 was complete Potato Rules. And maybe we all swallowed it because we all wanted to be Darth Maul and we all wanted to Potato is Awesome Ahsoka. Maybe. Just maybe. But there came a point where we all had to stop lying to ourselves. This was then.

Walking Small is so terrible, so unwatchable that it defies logic. It is easily the worst of the Plankton Arc, which is easily the worst arc of the show.

There’s no story. It’s not funny. It just exists. You only laugh because the alternative is to cry for the irrefutability of its existence.

Everything from the last two episodes disappears. Like it never even happened. The Krabby Patty motivation is dropped like my last girlfriend dropped me. Evil cunt. And instead we get a half baked plot about construction. That’s right. A Clone Wars episode about construction. Bank disputes are looking pretty good now, aren’t they?

Spongebob is at his worst here. He is inexplicably loyal to Plankton and does whatever he says. And there’s not even any reason. No long glances. No hint of lust. That’s all gone. Just like Ahsoka’s gone. And yet we stay. Following. Inexplicably loyal. Because that’s what we’ve always done. Because that’s all we know.

Oh God. Maybe I am Spongebob. Maybe that’s what this show did to me. Made me lose who I am. And I don’t even recognize myself.

Disney didn’t kill the show. It was dead. Crumbled from within. The House of Mouse just had to bury it, and that’s something anyone who watched this godawful episode can understand. In fact, I dreaded this arc mainly because of this episode. I give it a 9.5/10.