There one sure proof that leads this “investigation” to a full end. In Mario odyssey, why would all the toads have hats over hats? Second, if it was a hat you wouldn’t be able to capture toad unless he wasn’t wearing the “hat”.

I completely disagree. I can see how linear can be interpreted as bad, but that comes at the readers fault by giving a negative conotation to a term that has none. Sure a couple of years ago it might have been considered a bad thing in the lingo, but we shouldn’t be hanging on to it as we do.

One can argue that another person might see the episodic viewing of the shows give more variety while getting to know your favorite character.