Don't worry, Hillenburg is coming back to the show this year.
He's also working on the new movie.....
But it still looks like a lackluster Smurfs rip-off, using the awful personalities of the modern characters.
He ran out of ideas 11 years ago. He wanted his series to rest in peace.
It seems obvious that the movie was intended to be the finale. The movie even ends on a finale-like note.
But Nickelodeon just continues the series pretending the movie didn't happen, and that the Krusty Krab 2 doesn't exist, screwing over the continuity the movie made that was meant to be a finale.
Spongebob means a lot to me. It's a symbol of my childhood, when everything and everyone was happy, and there was not a worry in the world. Whenever I go back and watch something like Pizza Delivery or Band Geeks, it makes me happy. It makes me just sit there and smile. And unless I'm being told a joke and laugh as a natural response, I never smile anymore. It makes me want to be a kid again.
Modern Spongebob is a symbol of my progression into reality and adulthood. It's showing me that not everything is happy. It's showing me that there are awful people that are want to take advantage of children's giddy nature and tendency to laugh at anything, and make a profit from it, rather than actually work hard on something. It makes me not want to grow up. I don't want the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. I want to be blissfully ignorant on the world.
But now I'm sitting here, everyone screaming at me to grow up.
But whenever I look back at the Spongebob Movie, it tells me I don't need to be an adult, and that kids can do great things to. Not physically kids, I mean mentally kids. Someone who's always happy and goofs around.
I don't know. The show just holds great meaning to me, and I get really pissed off whenever a new episode comes on.