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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious
and it's not really true, wire stays pretty tight. parks and rec is a marvel of plotting. battlestar goes to crazyville but it never seems like it's drifting. i think st:tng gets better as it goes on. Same with DS9. the original arrested development. seinfeld drifted hard but it at least had an endgame, lots of shows have an endgame. people love breaking bad, six feet under, mad men
there's other stuff like dr who and simpsons which does and should exist in this never ending never beginning mobius strip
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i haven't been really watching any shows for a long time, this seems like a good place to start.
and i agree about shows that shouldn't really begin or end anywhere.
but lots of premises, more than anything else, just feel writer-lazy.
any asshole can get off on an exciting premise. re: lost
it's pulling it together and twisting and turning that makes it count.