User blog:Acupunch/My utmost honest opinion on object shows

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Object shows are pretty bland and boring
I personally don't think that object shows are even that good. A lot of them tend to be really linear (bad guy gets voted off first, shoe-horn a little drama and creator's favorite/self-insert wins). Whenever I see an object show, it's normally playing follow-the-leader with jacknjellify's BFDI. There's always a Rocky-clone, a jerk character, a rational character, a pollyanna (I HATE them the most), and some dimwitted character that cant stay on for more than 3 episodes.

These traits get so tedious to the point when you cant even sympathize with any character. BFDI didn't age very well (but I'll admit, some episodes still hold up), the characters are inflated jerks with more antagonistic qualities than their good qualities. They always find a way to exploit other contestants friendships (which I do get it is a contest, but it feels like the personality of that character isn't even their anymore). The characters don't have to be relatable, but they have to be in-the-very-least tolerable ore not annoying. The only truly nice characters are Rocky, Spongy, and Woody (Bubble coming VERY close).

The other decent object show creators are XanyLeaves and AnimationEpic, but then that's pretty much it.

Inanimate Insanity (namely II) is probably the best object show out there, it has character development, a little bit of story, and characters you can actually relate to. I didn't like the 1st one all that much because to was too much like BFDI, but with different characters.

If you want to make a GOOD object show, stray a little further from the grandfather of object shows (BFDI, it's really bad) but don't make it too different if it's contest-oriented, balance your characters (nobody above the other), and no mary-sues.

Don't make a mary-sue, they are horrible characters. They have no weakness, everyone LOVES them (except the antagonists), they ALWAYS and MUST save the day, and they are inhuman (or inobject durrhurr) to the point that they aren't relatable. Mary-sues tend to be the creator's favorite or a self-insert of the creator. Nobody likes an overly-nice guy.

TL,DR version: Object shows are bad because they are just a reskinned BFDI, an already bad object show,