Three connected episodes = Major season plot event
I hate how they try to force ten episodes to tell one story, especially as they lack the talent to make a complex story. Consider the very first season of Game of thrones, just how packed that one season was with events and plotlines.
Take Picard season 1; back in TNG that could’ve been done in 2-3 episodes.
It’s baffling but Patrick Stewart seems to have either never understood, or really resented, the character and show. Every time he got creative control it resulted in shallow action slop.
Admittedly I have a soft spot for the lovecraftian horror of season 1, even if they didn’t do too much with it (another thing that bothers me; I really wanted to enjoy what they’d been building up to)
It is hard to sit through though; I want to finish season 2 but I just can’t
This is the thing that really bugs me. There’s never any time for characters to rest, recover, for plot points to breathe, for characters to reflect on things that have happened and change their views or strategies as the situation develops. “Character development” is exclusively limited to massive individual traumatic events
One episode = one story
Two connected episodes = epic story
Three connected episodes = Major season plot event
I hate how they try to force ten episodes to tell one story, especially as they lack the talent to make a complex story. Consider the very first season of Game of thrones, just how packed that one season was with events and plotlines.
Take Picard season 1; back in TNG that could’ve been done in 2-3 episodes.
Better yet they could have just not made it at all because holy shit was Picard a horrible clusterfuck of a show
idk who that old English guy Patrick Stewart portrayed was supposed to be but it was not fucking Jean Luc Picard
It’s baffling but Patrick Stewart seems to have either never understood, or really resented, the character and show. Every time he got creative control it resulted in shallow action slop.
Admittedly I have a soft spot for the lovecraftian horror of season 1, even if they didn’t do too much with it (another thing that bothers me; I really wanted to enjoy what they’d been building up to)
It is hard to sit through though; I want to finish season 2 but I just can’t
It also means they cant unfold gradually over the course of a year in universe as well. Series take place over the course of like a week now
This is the thing that really bugs me. There’s never any time for characters to rest, recover, for plot points to breathe, for characters to reflect on things that have happened and change their views or strategies as the situation develops. “Character development” is exclusively limited to massive individual traumatic events