ElectricPeterTork t1_j1nvjwh wrote on December 25, 2022 at 11:25 PM

"A stupid concept the Anime dorks came up with that is misapplied to 99% of what people say it is."

I will say an old clip show actually is filler, because that was its purpose... it filled the slot when time and budgets were tight and an episode was contracted to be delivered.

But that's about it.

Skavau t1_j1nvwe2 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 11:28 PM

There was a Walking Dead episode purely focused around a character trying to cook food and deal with a rat, and another character crashing their motorcycle in the forest.

100% filler. It was completely pointless. It was a pandemic-influenced episode, but it was completely useless.

OkTangelo3282 t1_j1o5cq8 wrote on December 26, 2022 at 12:48 AM

TWD is one of my favorite shows ever and I’ve rewatched the series several times. That episode is exactly what I consider to be filler and I will always skip it.

bobbyOrrMan t1_j1sl6zj wrote on December 27, 2022 at 1:51 AM

I love the show but it definitely had too many episodes. Not just the end of season 10 during lockdown, but also previous seasons went on too long. Especially season 7 which was just one long miserable slog. They should have moved quickly into the Negan war.

monkeyskin OP t1_j1nwl0d wrote on December 25, 2022 at 11:34 PM

I’ll rewatch the first Simpsons clip show (April Fools Day) but never again the rest.

ElectricPeterTork t1_j1nwz89 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 11:37 PM

Fox actually wanted two clip shows per season to pad out the episode order, since it was their biggest show and more episodes = more ad money.

After the second clip show, the producers told 'em to forget it.

bobbyOrrMan t1_j1sl2yh wrote on December 27, 2022 at 1:50 AM

Yeah I heard that on the commentary tracks. Groening and a couple of the writers mentioned it. Clip shows are cheap and usually good for ratings. I'm glad it did not continue.

Olandew t1_j1rw7bj wrote on December 26, 2022 at 10:35 PM

Anime adaptation filler comes in a different flavor than what others are calling bottle or recap episodes.

The entire Bount story arc, episodes 64 to 109, of Bleach is filler. It didn’t happen in the source material. It didn’t move the plot forward. All character progression over that sequence of episodes were the result of temporary regressions that were reverted by the end of the arc. It was 45 episodes that, even if we allow for things like “cute character moments”, was just spinning a wheel between the planned story beats of the original material. To make it worse, all of the stuff within the arc is normally considered non-canon. I couldn’t tell you for certain if anything original to that episode run is relevant or mentioned in the recent Thousand Year Blood War, but at the time it was content added to fill the space during the time it took for more chapters of the source material to come out.

It’s why I don’t really mind episodes in a run that don’t push a plot forward. But if I can skip FOURTYFIVE episodes and miss nothing? That’s the filler I don’t want.