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Having 3 stories in one 1 hour tv show wastes a good episode. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by andrewta@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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There is no way to play out a full story by splitting the screen time for 3 stories. Even splitting it for 2 stories is not a good idea. By splitting the time that many ways it’s basically impossible to really flesh out a story and add depth. In a one hour episode you really only get 40 minutes of air time. If you split that for two stories you get 20 minutes of screen time to tell a story. 3 ways? Yeah now you are just wasting a show. You only get 13 minutes to tell a story.

Combine the above with the fact that we have less and less episodes per season, and This creates a real problem to tell a story of any sort

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The Equalizer

They had three different story lines going in their show in an episode. So when it came to trying to track down the bad guy they were forced to cram a lot of the investigative work in to a few moments. No way to add any realism just a “they encrypted the drive and here (click click) ok I’ve cracked the drive” . Or trying to go through several suspects and just magically in seconds they know who it is and where they are. Or the hero has been taken and it in reality might take hours to figure out where the hero is, it’s just oh look we magically figured it out in 4 seconds.

Her daughter in the show is facing a hardship and you get a minute to hear how it was taken care of.

It’s like the show was designed for the tic tok generation. No time to flesh out the story. Just flash flash flash as you hop through scenes.

No time to get involved into the story. Blink.. oops you missed it.