[ SECRET POST #4840 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4840 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Caligula Effect]


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03.
[Binging with Babish (youtube)]


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04.
[Wang Yibo as Lan Wangji in The Untamed]


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05.
[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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06.
[Star Trek Voyager]


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07.
[Fights Break Sphere, aka Battle Through the Heavens]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This. The problem with episodic shows full of filler is that you can't really have significant character development because the show is set up so that people can come in and watch an episode or two without having to have kept up with everything that's happened to date. You can't make too many major changes to the status quo or else you ruin the episodic intent.

[(Anonymous)]

Right?!

It's something that absolutely drives me crazy with episodic shows. I wouldn't mind the episodic aspect so much if the damn writers would just LET the characters EVOLVE. But they never would, because they were scared to lose viewers, shake up the status quo, and also have to turn in more sophisticated work.

Like how, in The X-Files, Mulder's fixation on his sister's fate was NEVER allowed to evolve or change, despite all the times they gave him an episode where it seemed like he was started to find closure, or become accepting of the lack of closure. The next episode it was always right back to square one. (And don't even get me started on the absurdity of how Scully could never, ever become even a little bit of a believer, despite EVERYTHING she'd seen, because that would shake up the status quo, and they couldn't allow that.)

Oy.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Episodic is fine for sitcoms! But it really doesn't work well when you're trying to have any sort of actual long-running plot because that necessitates the characters being able to grow and develop.