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* ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation'': The entirety of the AVM Shorts Season 1 is this as the first few episodes were centered around the main cast learning many different aspects of Minecraft until episode 8 "The Nether" where it kickstarted the first story arc. The second half of Season 1 revolved around our heroes exploring the many new worlds, fighting off many new enemies, and returning back home.
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'', starting in the second season. Individual episodes are almost always independent. Occasionally, however, one will end up touching on the larger issue of Beckett's mother's murder, sometimes very tangentially (X crime is committed in an attempt to get Y to happen so the BigBad can go after Beckett) or very directly (the case just happens to bring Beckett face to face with her mother's killer).

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'', ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', starting in the second season. Individual episodes are almost always independent. Occasionally, however, one will end up touching on the larger issue of Beckett's mother's murder, sometimes very tangentially (X crime is committed in an attempt to get Y to happen so the BigBad can go after Beckett) or very directly (the case just happens to bring Beckett face to face with her mother's killer).
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** Series 12, in contrast, almost hilariously splits it's episode count in half for its arc, with the opening two-parter and the final three-parter covering the Timeless Child story while episodes 3-7 have absolutely nothing to do with it.

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** Series 12, in contrast, almost hilariously splits it's episode count in half for its arc, with the opening two-parter and the final three-parter covering the Timeless Child story while episodes 3-7 have absolutely nothing to do with it.it barring the mystery of the "Fugitive" Doctor in ''Fugitive of the Judoon''.
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** Seemingly in response to how dense Moffat-era arcs could get, the arc for Series 11 is almost entirely character focused as 13's companions try and understand the Doctor better while she tries to keep them at arms length. The closest thing to an arc resembling prior series is that the man who killed Grahams wife and Ryan's grandmother in the first episode of the series, [[MaliciousMisnaming Tim Shaw]], turns up in the last episode of the series and how the characters react to this after their journeys with the Doctor becomes the focus.
** Series 12, in contrast, almost hilariously splits it's episode count in half for its arc, with the opening two-parter and the final three-parter covering the Timeless Child story while episodes 3-7 have absolutely nothing to do with it.
** Series 13, Flux, averts this by being a six-episode miniseries telling one continuous story as opposed to the half-arc every revival series had up to this point.
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** Series 8, the Twelfth Doctor's first season, has him struggling with an identity crisis, while Clara struggles both with his much-changed personality ''and'' balancing her travels with him with a romantic relationship with a fellow schoolteacher, troubled ex-solider Danny Pink, all while the mysterious Missy sees all from the Nethersphere, where people go after they die. Each half of the season alternates two arc-light stories with four arc-heavy ones, including the two-part SeasonFinale.

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** Series 8, the Twelfth Doctor's first season, has him struggling with an identity crisis, while Clara struggles both with his much-changed personality ''and'' balancing her travels with him with a romantic relationship with a fellow schoolteacher, troubled ex-solider ex-soldier Danny Pink, all while the mysterious Missy sees all from the Nethersphere, where people go after they die. Each half of the season alternates two arc-light stories with four arc-heavy ones, including the two-part SeasonFinale.

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