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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2024-04-14 04:30 pm

[ SECRET POST #6309 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6309 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2024-04-15 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
You have a very narrow view of what filler episodes are. Other people found them interesting and that it expanded their view of a world/characters. It's silly for you to argue that their experience was wrong.

(Anonymous) 2024-04-15 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
if it expands on the world or the characters then by definition it's not a filler episode, it's just not a plot-heavy episode.

(Anonymous) 2024-04-15 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Again, a very narrow definition. Too narrow to be useful. It wasn't uncommon for a TV show in those days to have season-long arc(s), and then to have what THEY would term a filler episode because they had extra episodes to fill, or simply wanted to have a breather in between major plot developments. Those filler episodes were made to stand alone (so they could be inserted as needed), to NOT be a part of the major arc, and by definition that usually meant that it was a character exploration story, or something that would not affect the main plot arc in a significant way. A side adventure. Those could absolutely serve to deepen the understanding of the characters, or to get a little glimpse into an aspect of their lives that doesn't necessarily get explored otherwise. It could be a light, relatively low conflict, low stakes story.

But they're filler episodes, because that's what the creators called them, and that's what they were intended. It's just that "filler" isn't the derogatory term that you seem to think it is, and it doesn't automatically mean the episode doesn't add anything to the story and characters.

(Anonymous) 2024-04-15 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
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