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[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ugh.

I was hoping the ST revival with all these shows would produce just one Alien of the Week shows like TOS and TNG. No season long arcs, no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development. One show out of all of them where it can be tossed into syndication and I can catch a random episode and not have to remember anything else in the series.

SNW was supposed to be that and yet we get this kind of nonsense. /facepalm

[–] Prouvaire@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alien of the Week shows like TOS and TNG. No season long arcs, no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development [...] SNW was supposed to be that

I remember that during SNW's development one of the producers explicitly stated that while the stories would be episodic, there would be character arcs that ran through the season. So SNW was never intended to be as standalone as TOS or TNG were.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I kept hoping when they said that they meant more like VOY or TNG but now that we get half as many episodes it's just a natural result that the arcs are more prevalent. Sadly that was not the case.

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