>>119773024I think that some of these connections legitimately do have merit. Matt Braly, for example, worked alongside Alex Hirsch closely on Gravity Falls, and much of the humor, timing, sound design, and other showrunner-coordinated things can be seen in Amphibia that seem lifted from Gravity Falls directly. Comparatively, Dana Terrace pretty much got her show by banging Alex at the last minute in GF, she was just a low level storyboard revisionist before that. As a result, Owl House production was a complete mess, full of delays, Dana having to call Alex out of self-imposed Disney exile to help her, and the show only started showing hints of maturing into something that wasn't a complete pile of garbage by its last two episodes of season 1.
In other words, yeah, certain members of these crews worked together and were in the "inner circle" for a long period of time likely learned the skills and found the connections needed to become showrunners in their own right. People who were just on the staff, and made it ahead because they spread their legs or jumped ship to a more desperate network are less guaranteed to be a success. These "family trees" are pretty stupid and miss the bigger picture, I mean if the guy who was cleaning out the trash cans Alex Hirsch shat in in the studio goes on to make his own cartoon years later I don't think that means that Gravity Falls deserves credit for its existence.
It's even worse when you have people like the Adventure Time fans who claim that stuff that was literally in development concurrently along side it but were released later than it were "influenced" by it. It just seems to be a few diehard fans trying to give their favorite show more credit than it deserves.
