Definitely 7/10. Some few great episodes, many average.
The main problem is that 90% of episodes have no narrative continuity or consequences, side characters and past events aren't brought up again and that makes it that much harder to care.
Some people bring the argument "so what? It's episodic, that's supossed to be that way" but here's the thing: some episodics shows are handled better.
If the story is not going to risk making developments longer than the 20 minutes reset limitation, then it's really important that each of these small narratives are great for the show itself be great as a whole, but... they just aren't, they're hit or miss, and binge watching it shows that.
The first episode and some 6 others were truly great, but the remaining 20? Most of them were either "boring" or "okay" as individual stories and I don't think the technical aspects are enough to compensate them.
For this reason I honestly think other shows are more deserving of the title of best animated shows ever made, for example, Avatar TLAB excels in everything Bebop does AND handles episodic-vs-serial better with overaching storytelling developments.
So, I don't think being episodic should excuse CB inconsistencies. |