#including prev tags here cuz I agree with them

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I was actually shocked when it was revealed that somehow five months had passed over the span of as many episodes. Like, the compressed extermination deadline works as a plot device to get things moving and provide a greater sense of urgency for the hotel gang to get their shit together, but it's just constantly at odds with the actual series runtime and is incredibly weird from an in-universe standpoint because it simultaneously feels like things are moving way too quickly while at the same time like we're just getting started.

Compare that to something like Avatar: The Last Airbender where like 60 episodes all took place within a year I think? And obviously not all of those episodes are essential plot-wise - take "Tales of Ba Sing Se" or "Ember Island Players" for instance - but they still feel important for developing the characters and world and helping things unfold at a more natural pace.

Obviously this isn't the Hazbin team's fault - sometimes you just have to take what opportunities you can get in that industry, and I've still enjoyed what we've seen so far - but it's clearly a problem with television as a whole at this point and especially animation, with recent examples like Craig of the Creek and Hilda's final seasons getting cut in half, and The Owl House having to compress a season's worth of material into three 40-minute specials.

It's just that for a series like Hazbin Hotel where stuff like character development seems pretty damn important, as you would expect for a series focusing on redemption, longer seasons would be a lot more beneficial story-wise instead of having to cram everything together like this. Hell, I might even settle for 12-13 episode seasons like Legend of Vox Machina got.

do you know what?

I miss long seasons.

I miss seasons that had 20 episodes and half of them could be cut and nothing would be lost to the story.

I miss the episodes where nothing fucking happens but you get to see the main cast goofing around with one another. You get to see their interactions, their relationships develop, their day-to-day lives and how they all fit together in them.

You get the Christmas/halloween/valentine's special -is it needed? certainly not. but is it good? is it entertaining? does it give the show and characters life? do we, the viewers, enjoy it? YES!

give me long stories!! give me little quarrelling spats between characters that can be resolved in one episode with no need to have an impact on the greater story! make these stories real!

let me enjoy them before they end!!!

I absolutely love Hazbin Hotel and the little world that's been created, but I can't help but feel disappointed we're only getting two seasons of 8 episodes.

back in the early 2000's 16 episodes would have been ONE season, never mind the entire thing.

show my angel dust and husk and nifty and sir penthouse living their daily lives in the hotel! show me Charlie brainstorming ways to redeem sinners! give me Charlie forcing the hotel staff to do cringe-y exercises! give me an entire episode of Vox trying to follow alastor through security cameras! Give me husks typical day! Give me a special through the eyes of nifty on a mission to irradiate the hotel of bugs! Give me sir penthouse and the egg boys up to no good!

give me something other than the bare necessities to make the story flow

6 months have nearly gone by in the hotel, and it feels like 1 month.