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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2022-08-05 04:24 pm

[ SECRET POST #5691 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5691 ⌋

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


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03. [SPOILERS for The Orville]




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04. [SPOILERS for What We Do In The Shadows Season 4]




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05. [SPOILERS for The Boys, season 3]




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06. [SPOILERS for Control Z]




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07. [SPOILERS for The Umbrella Academy]
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(Anonymous) 2022-08-06 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hypothetically I feel the same way, but in practice...IDK. I really miss that feeling episodic TV gave you that you were living with the characters, to a degree. Like you understood their lives beyond the borders of what happened on screen.

That feeling of understanding the rhythms and idiosyncrasies of the characters and their lives and their world through sheer repetition and reiteration was a really nice feeling. Episodic stories feel lived-in, in a way that I find really wonderful.

But then in practice, the majority of those case-of-the-week episodes were pretty shoddily written, IMO. And if I have to be in love with the characters to enjoy the episode, then from a 2022 vantage point, that's just not good enough for me. Call me jaded, but I want the writing to be strong enough that I'd be captivated even if I barely even liked the characters. And IMO that caliber of writing is really, really difficult (though not impossible) to attain within the scope and parameters of a case-of-the-week format.