[ SECRET POST #6012 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6012 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I sort of agree. I don't want every episode to have a big reset button and nothing ever has consequences, like in The Simpsons or something. Definitely not when it comes to dramas. But I don't like how everything is serialized now either.

Used to be you could (re)watch a single episode from the middle of a random season and it would be fine. Even if there was a larger plot for that season. Can't really do that with more recent shows.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I miss, too. I don't want a total clean slate at the end of every episode, but episodic shows are good, the kind where you can drop in and drop out as you choose and not have to follow a story arc.

[(Anonymous)]

Episodic dramas are timeless and always fashionable, even if the people funding tv forget that.

[(Anonymous)]

I like episodic shows but not the full reset - slow season arcs through episodic stories is great, though. X-Files did this pretty well, I thought. Even when the mytharc episodes changed things about the status quo, monster of the week episodes still kept on.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's popular opinion in fandom. At least in my circle.
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Which made me realize that I prefer arcs and absolutely do not care for episodic nature.

[(Anonymous)]

There's something very relaxing about episodic television. It's low stakes. You don't have to remember a detail from six episodes ago to understand what's happening. If the show is on hiatus or you take a break you don't have to do a re-watch before jumping back in again because it doesn't matter what happened in the last episode you saw. You can just enjoy it without stress.

That said, I prefer shows that are in-between: semi-episodic but with some longer term arcs and lasting character development.

[(Anonymous)]

This ... is only something I tolerate with shows that have two things going for them. First, I have to actually like the status quo they keep inevitably resetting to (which pretty much rules out all the schlubby dumb husband / hot otherwise intelligent wife combinations that were SO common for a while). Second, I expect them to actually do the work of showing how things went back to the way they'd been. When it's an asspull where the audience gets to be the only people who don't have amnesia, I tend to get uncomfortable pretty fast and leave.

I never had a problem with this setup being fun for other people, though.