One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

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MirrorNoir said:
The biggest issue is that NO ONE expected Barney to become the breakout character, especially since NPH had just gone out as gay and was still dealing with being typecasted as Doogie Houser. Or that his relationship with Robin became so popular with viewers, over Hannigan/Seigel and Ted's various women. Or that fans would actually get invested in the show paying off who the mom was, as the writers (once the show became a huge hit) behind the scenes were full on "its all about the ride, not the destination" and thinking they could have their cake and eat it too. Which ultimately backfired on everyone in the show when they did their planned ending.
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Don't even get me started on HIMYM, Barney was actually supposed to be this total loser originally. The creators wanted some discount Jack Black type for the role, which totally shows in season one where he's all insecure about his name and everything. He was meant to be this pathetic creep like that PSH character from Along Came Polly, you know? The type who talks big about getting laid but obviously couldn't get a date if his life depended on it. Someone suggested making the final season about the mother actually hanging with the gang and tying up all those flash-forwards so the ending wouldn't feel like such a slap in the face, but honestly that probably would've been just as terrible.

You know My Name is Earl would've gotten absolutely destroyed if they'd gone with their original ending too. Like seriously, who thinks it's okay to make people invest 100 hours of their lives just to get slapped with some garbage finale?
 
Pious&Platonic said:
You know My Name is Earl would've gotten absolutely destroyed if they'd gone with their original ending too. Like seriously, who thinks it's okay to make people invest 100 hours of their lives just to get slapped with some garbage finale?
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What was the original plan for the ending?
 
TerminalTryHard said:
What was the original plan for the ending?
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Taken from Wikipedia:

On October 1, 2013, creator Greg Garcia participated in an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) on Reddit. Fan Jerry Denton asked "Who was Earl Jr's. real father and did Earl ever finish the list?"

Garcia replied

We never really got the chance to fully figure it out but the talk in the writers room was that Earl Jr.'s Dad was going to be someone famous. Like Dave Chappelle or Lil Jon. Someone that came to town on tour and Joy slept with. But when we got canceled, we never got the chance to figure it out. I was worried about doing a cliffhanger but I asked NBC if it was safe to do one at the end of the season and they told me it was. I guess it wasn't. I had always had an ending to Earl and I'm sorry I didn't get the chance to see it happen. You've got a show about a guy with a list so not seeing him finish it is a bummer. But the truth is, he wasn't ever going to finish the list. The basic idea of the ending was that while he was stuck on a really hard list item he was going to start to get frustrated that he was never going to finish it. Then he runs into someone who had a list of their own and Earl was on it. They needed to make up for something bad they had done to Earl. He asks them where they got the idea of making a list and they tell him that someone came to them with a list and that person got the idea from someone else. Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with lists and that he's finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life. Walk into the sunset a free man. With good karma and finally at peace with what he's accomplished.
—Greg Garcia
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As long as Oda stays healthy, One Piece won't have a situation like this.
 
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Fuck yeah.
 
Oh shit guys.

Robin is pissed.
Immortality isn't gonna be all that helpful when you get turned into a pretzel and have your head shoved so far up your asshole you can lick your spleen.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Oh shit guys.

Robin is pissed.
Immortality isn't gonna be all that helpful when you get turned into a pretzel and have your head shoved so far up your asshole you can lick your spleen.
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Honestly, it’s interesting. We previously had O’Hara where Robin couldn’t do anything because she was just a kid, and now she’s out to save a bunch of kids as an adult. (And considering the hostage situation, you could say this is a new Enies Lobby as well.)

I wonder how much of a fight Robin is going to give considering

1. The monster duo/trio are not going to show up anytime soon to face Gunko (I have no idea where Sanji is, Luffy was last feeding Loki and the two of them got into a food coma, while Zoro is waiting ready to destroy Loki if Loki tries anything, as the giants try to get past the Luffy Logic and get it through into Luffy’s thick, dense head that Loki is bad news and needs to be stuck chained to a tree. And

2. Things are looking really dire. Straw Hats are captured with their heavy hitters occupied, the villains are flexing their advantages, and I feel like we’re slowly reaching the point where a lesser mangaka would resort to an ass pull to stop the heroes from getting smashed (I think it’s safe to say Oda isn’t one of those lesser mangaka, right?)

Not only that, I have to believe that Luffy probably won’t get into any scraps with the God’s Knights to avoid too much endgame stuff being revealed too early because Luffy is at the center of it. And if he does, I have to think that we’re only going to get more emphasis of how Gear 5 has Luffy more aloof and with his head in the clouds than usual.
 
I wonder how much of a fight Robin is going to give considering
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I would like to remind you that the last person to fuck with relics of the past around Robin got thrown off the cloud islands after having his back broken.
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
Most likely the immortality will be turned into a hindrance/ we’re going to see someone drown.
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Oh shit, if they're actually immortal, that would definitely suggest it's related to Imu's powers like it is with the Five Elders. Although the God's Knights are Devil Fruit users themselves unlike the Elders(?), so I wonder how it is there's no interference with that.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Oh shit, if they're actually immortal, that would definitely suggest it's related to Imu's powers like it is with the Five Elders. Although the God's Knights are Devil Fruit users themselves unlike the Elders(?), so I wonder how it is there's no interference with that.
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I think the elders all had Zoans of some sort?
 
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