Top 10 Reasons Why PAW Patrol Is Not As Good As People Still Think It Is (And Why It Kinda Does Suck)

**10. Too much commercialism(and new themes that barely have anything to do with the original premise)**

When Mission PAW and Sea Pups came out in 2017 with Ultimate Rescue introduced back in 2018 respectively, these were All-New All-Different themes that would've taken PAW Patrol in new directions and exploring new challenges. Ultimate Rescue was a real step forward, as it represented what search and rescue service is in real-life(except for fighting fire-breathing robots). Sadly for unknown reasons, these wouldn't become a regular thing like Air Pups is, resulting them only being seen limitedly, despite how popular they've gotten and fans wanting more out of them. New themes such as Mighty Pups, Dino Rescue would only take anything out of popular culture that has anything with superheroes and dinosaurs being alive in modern time, while Moto Pups was nothing more than a stunt show, and Ready Race Rescue pretty much lacking what The PAW Patrol was really about. Despite some kids and older fans liking these themes, there exist others that felt they served nothing, but showing desperation for ratings and our wallets. I hope Rescue Knights flops during it's run.

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**9. Too many new characters with most of them not really having character**

When Everest The Husky was introduced in 2014, everyone fell in love with her. And her story in The New Pup was wonders as to why I think it was the best episode out of all season 2. Tracker was OK, but I felt like they rushed him to becoming a member of their team and he didn't really have any moments to bond with his new caretaker. Sweetie became the first and only bad guy in the show that we actually felt sorry for. Seeing her all sad while locked up behind bars and hugging her toy frog Busby made us feel for her, like there's a reason why she does this. Where every time we wanted to feel sympathetic for her, they always kept making her do the exact same thing, even during and after Jet To The Rescue. Like they won't allow her to be an antihero and expect kids to think that all bad guys always remain as one. And with the introduction of The Golden Retriever Twins, Tuck & Ella, and the handicap St. Bernard Rex, I thought these characters would be awesome only to be wrong. These characters were only created exclusively for the sub-series they would be in, and everytime they appeared, the twins would only talk about how obsessed they are going after Ladybird and Rex doing dinosaur stuff. They really didn't have any character depth and personalities whatsoever. And when they introduced the motorcyclist Wildcat talking out of nowhere, that's when they blew it. And the biggest excuse why they added him on the team was because cats have paws too. Like, really, you're going against the show's original premise because of that. I got nothing against cats and I also don't like the whole cats vs dogs fiasco, but this truly was a step down. And creating more new characters instead of bringing back old characters we haven't seen in a long time is completely unforgivable.

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**8. Repeating was already done before despite trying to do anything new**

It has become undeniable that they always repeat the same thing even when they try to be original. Like, how many times do they have to keep saving the mayor's purse chicken, or stopping Humdinger, save Alex, or anything else we haven't seen them do before like saving Danny no matter how many times he's broken the law it's repetitive and laughable. So that's all I got to say, moving on.

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**7. No more chemistry, bonding and special moments**

This is an obvious one as many fans on the PAW Patrol Wiki have talked about it lately, and we never really see the dogs actually bonding and having moments like we used to see them have anymore. In the early days like, before season 5, we use to always see them having fun, interacting and loving eachother like brothers and sisters onscreen all the time and would only see bits of the emergency being build up for a couple of seconds or a minute. Now, the side characters are always onscreen at the beginning more than the dogs most of the time, just so we can see them create the situation. Fans on the PAW Patrol Wiki have noticed this problem and feel they have turned the dogs into the supporting cast while the side characters became the main cast. We don't even see hints of romance between Chase X Skye and Marshall X Everest, which gives fans the thought of shipping them to become really stale.

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**6. The writing, directing and showrunning**

Whether it's studio interference or not, it's no doubt in mind that the writing and directing has drastically changed how PAW Patrol is right now. Former director and co-creator, Jamie Whitney's last episode was Friendship Day in season 3. Original developer and also co-creator, Scott Kraft, was no longer story-editor after season 2 and showrunner anymore after season 4. Kim Duran was not on the show anymore after season 3, with Scott Albert lasting for the first 5 seasons of the show. Ursula Ziegler Sullivan, who was one of the best writers from seasons 1 & 2, would be promoted story-editor in season 3 before becoming showrunner in season 5, and have not written an episode since season 2. Sullivan also appears to have forgotten everything about what she's worked on since 2013. It is unknown why other writers from seasons 1 & 2 just left when they also written some memorable episodes. These people actually understood PAW Patrol way better, made the characters real characters, told real stories, brought chemistry, and they gave the heart and spirit. Unlike them, the writers and director the show's got right now don't seem to know anything about PAW Patrol the same way writers and directors from the Paul Tippitt era of SpongeBob doing anything about the show when they replaced the original crew except they know that they help people, which the show has been heavily focused too much on is rescues. And that's just no good in any way. I've read fanfictions that were better than the episodes we get right now. Since Bastien worked on season 1 of Fisher-Price and Nelvana's Rescue Heroes, you think he would make PAW Patrol be a-little similar to that show. He has also said that we're not the audience and disrespected Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and his creators and legacy by calling him a preschool thing. I actually like to imagine what the show would've been like if writers and directors from the original Bob The Builder who worked on PAW Patrol instead of Bastien and his crew, since they all new and worked with Keith Chapman before.

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**5. Humdinger becoming the star of the show**

This is another issue that's been complained about by many. Ever since season 5, it's became apparent that the show relies too much on Humdinger, that they make him be part of nearly every problem. Like, imagine making him the cost of natural disasters like a flood, or a tornado or blizzard. You can't even celebrate a holiday without him always stalking and harassing you like he owns everything. It's even an annoyance that they made him act like Squidward by deluding himself into thinking he's the world's greatest mayor or whatever he thinks of himself as.

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**4. The main team have lost their character**

I think this one is very obvious. The heroic pack of pups have become shells of their former selves: Marshall has become more of a laughing stock and not really taking anything serious like he used to and hardly a paramedic either. Skye never get over being scared of eagles after Jet To The Rescue and smiles too much at almost everything. Chase isn't really the leader and most serious skilled pup like he once was, and as we saw in Mighty Pups and tie-ins to the upcoming movie(sorry for spoilers), doubts himself more than Marshall with low self-esteem out of nowhere. Rocky hates water so much that he's more satisfied to see people who need it suffer without it as we clearly saw how happy he was to see a dry empty duck pond in season 5. Zuma says dude all the time, don't really do anything that much anymore since they barely go in the water and don't scuba dive underwater anymore but instead use his hovercraft as a submarine. Rubble sleeps too much, cares more about possibly becoming obese and don't mention his like for Apollo The Superpup. Everest doesn't talk about her love for liver anymore, her grappling hook is used as a joke and the only thing they ever say they need her for is her snowcat to guide them into the woods or look for something even though they've been in the forest without her countless times. I don't know what to say about Tracker, but he has been terribly less used. Ryder has been portrayed to being an expert of everything and knows everything, that we don't really hear the dogs thinking by themselves that much. He also tells them to use their gadgets without letting them use them by themselves like they don't know when. \*SPOILER ALERT\* And instead of letting them actually save him, in Pups Save Rocket Ryder, he tells them what to do as I mentioned earlier about not letting them think by themselves. The dogs also don't play Pup Pup Boogie anymore.

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**3. No more morals**

The one other issues that show suffer more from is it's lack of morals. We(or in this case, the kids) don't really learn anything from it. Like, what are kids supposed to learn whenever there's an episode with that doofus Danny? Oh, keep breaking the law and never listen to a single adult like you're above everybody. That character literally tells kids that you won't get in trouble and get your comeuppance if you do stuff you're not supposed to do. One other moral would be to never keep secrets or hog the attention from your friends. And the original six have been doing that to Everest and Tracker like it's OK to do them dirty and holding them back. And caring about other that one person no matter how much bad stuff they do to you is a bad moral. And did I mention that they treat saying "I'm sorry" like it's good enough? Because that's another problem with Danny. Apologies aren't always good enough if you can't be given a punishment for your errors.

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**2. Alienating Everest & Tracker**

This apparently has been a problem for a long time now. It seems like no matter how much love these two get, they're always being held back and put on the sideline everytime new themes are created featuring new characters. The original six treat these sub-series exclusive characters like they've been besties when they barely know them and knew Everest and Tracker longer than The Golden Retriever Twins, Rex and Wildcat. And whenever one of the two or all eight of them are in episodes together, they always find a way to foam in that whole main six BS when it's not about the original six anymore. Everest was in Sea Pups once and Mighty Pups twice, but her 1st Sea Pups adventure and 2nd Mighty Pups adventure were no good as she barely did anything and was only used as backup at the last minute. Tracker never got superpowers as that was a lie in favor of Tuck & Ella. And even though Jet To The Rescue was OK, they made his first time flying in that movie BEFORE having his first Air Patrol mission in a regular episode. I guess they put him in JTTR since there were tons of complaints of him not being in the last two 44 minute movies, but still. And it's become more notorious that they are typecast to being only a snow dog and jungle dog just because of their original backgrounds. Like c'mon, what did you expect when you found out these two would become popular among fans of all ages. That's their fault for not properly developing them into something more what they currently are.

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**1.Crazy and obsessed fans**

This has been a problem I've been facing for a long time, and that would be dealing with fans that are so obsessed they will deny everything. I might make a few mad and irritated, and those who will get mad and irritated won't even bother reading and listening to what I'm trying to say. It seems like every time new things and characters are created in a new season, which is just doing the exact same thing over and over again, these friends will always fall in love with everything they see and say it's awesome and that character is awesome when they truly aren't. Even when it's obvious that the show has jumped the shark with all this nonsensical stuff they keep adding, there is always someone naive defending it instead of accepting the truth. I'm glad the fans on the PAW Patrol Wiki have been open-minded and speaking non-stop about every downfall the show faces that Spin-Master won't ever acknowledge. Sup999, RedPan17 and CP86 are one of the biggest fans I have ever witnessed on the site, but even they be pointing out these endless conspiracies. However, there will always be a good chunk of smarks that will never say one bad thing about PAW Patrol and will worship it like it's better than everything else in the world just because it's PAW Patrol.