Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24386552-20161217174626/@comment-25926288-20180426095220

Dreamy wasn’t a bad episode. Why does everyone think that? Not saying that it’s the best but clearly isn’t bad.

I think Season 1 being seen as good is due to more consistent quality writing. It’s also the premise that a lot of fans signed up for. So, where someone said season 1, I think they mean as a totality/as a whole. Like some episodes might be worse than later great episodes, but they are looking at the sum of its parts rather than the parts.

For example, I can see someone saying they liked season 5 (as a whole) more than season 3 (example) even though season 5 has retcons galore, “a vial of magic, and plots dropped like it’s raining.