Talk:That Was Yesterday (song)/@comment-6593189-20121102204153/@comment-1323688-20121102204955

That's highly subjective, but in my experience, goal-oriented plots for Saturday morning cartoon shows is a sign that it's not going to last beyond one season, and in the rare case that it does, the producers don't care to produce the inevitable climax episode where the goal is actually achieved. The Smurfs worked perfectly fine without a goal-oriented plot, but around the time of Season 8, it was getting to the point where the creative team behind the show was starting to run on empty as far as keeping their stories within the Smurf Forest of the Middle Ages and trying to write fresh new material, so apparently they had to go with the goal-oriented plot of time travel just to try keeping people watching the show. I don't like the idea of turning The Smurfs into Lost In Space.