>>8771
It certainly is "improved."

>>8772
And going back to make memes out of season 1 is something I am surprised I don't see more often. Season 1 stuff seems rarer compared to later seasons in fandom output in general. This is weird when you consider how many meme the first two as the high from which the show fell so far.

>2): Something that I have noticed before personally. Earlier on in the show twinkling eye effects seemed to be more jittery.
The first couple of seasons were kind of janky at points with animation. Season 3 and 4 is when they started to streamline and get good at it. Not to insult the first.two by any means. It was already impressive what they where trying to do at the time with flash in the wake of the stigma of the cheap cartoons at the time with flash being just something that was seen as a money saver for low budget cartoons.