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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-10-24 07:44 pm

[ SECRET POST #1756 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1756 ⌋


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
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(Anonymous) 2011-10-25 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I guess that's the problem with this kind of show: some of the plot points get stale really fast.

I think I would have preferred the same premises, but maybe as a mini series or something. But then, I feel the way about a lot of shows, because I just love mini series. While a lot of shows have great first seasons (See: Heroes), many of them have awful subsequent seasons (see: Heroes). If done right, a mini-series can still flesh out characters nicely while telling a compelling story and being able to wrap it up satisfactorily.

[identity profile] kasumi-sora.livejournal.com 2011-10-25 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
This is what I really wanted from White Collar at the start. They could have kept their plots and charters (with back story episodes) and still had a good show with good pacing in three shot seasons or less.

(Anonymous) 2011-10-25 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
That's what American TV does - runs that shit into the ground and hoes it back up again.

[identity profile] valenciapilgrim.livejournal.com 2011-10-25 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
In my mind, the cannon of this show pretty much ended after the wonderful two-hour pilot!...and then I go from there in my mind with the daddyissues! kink and OT3 lovin :-) I haven't watched it at all since the middle of the first season.

But I mean SERIOUSLY, I couldn't even handle that stuff with the Kate plot point of she was kidnapped and working with the bad guys against her will...or something? So stupid. I don't get why it couldn't have been more gritty and realistic, like a continuation of the movie Catch Me if You Can, basically? That was based on a real story. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't have worked, but it just makes me sad to set up such good characters, played by charismatic, fun actors, and them give them such stupid plots.

(Anonymous) 2011-10-25 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
Because it was on USA network... Jeff has said that the original idea was much darker but the network wanted something lighter. Unfortunately that seems to have changed into a show where Neal can do whatever he wants and Peter is made into a fool who turns a blind eye to Neal's action unless he needs to notice for the TENSION! OMG THE TENSION! - but then it all goes back to normal with no real resolution - because Neal can't actually face real consequences because then he'd have to go back to prison and Peter would probably be fired.