“Cast me, I’m Irish.”

Mash together Jessica Jones and Pokerface - now that would be a show.

I was excited for the 18 episode Daredevil reboot, where potentially lawyer gets focus on par with the superhero stuff. When news of its sub-par writing started to surface, one part that stood out to me as an example of bad writing was the fact that Matt wouldn’t appear in the suit until episode 4. Which IMO isn’t…

Buffy excelled at this. There was plenty of filler episodes but most of them were fun little episodes that filled out characters in the show. Each non-Buffy character got at least one or two episodes a season about them and we got to learn a lot about them. You can’t do that in an eight episode run and you can’t just…

The counterpoint to these tightly scripted, every-second-matters shows of today is that you don’t get the opportunity for long payoff character development that the early serialized shows like B5 and DS9 used so well. Were there a handful of the nearly 180 DS9 episodes that aren’t necessary? Yes. Do they provide life…

it truly didn’t have anything to do with my point at all!

To which rule? Of having more episodes? Of having to work within a budget?

That’s not a counterpoint. It’s just evidence of an entirely different problem where networks hold onto a show long past the point of expiration because once upon a time it was a hit.

It also gives us more down time to spend with the characters when not everything is high-stakes drama. It fleshed out the characters and world, and made the bigger crises matter more.

As is the opinion of most of the post here. In my opinion I miss the filler episodes because they were at least new content and filled the role this article is suggesting.

And the ones written by Darin Morgan were good.

i think the things i miss the most from this type of tv is just having a year go by in your life with the characters.

I just wanna see characters vibe sometimes. Just kinda - go to the movies. Have a coffee. Have some character-revealing moments that don’t necessarily move the plot forward.

Even if not every episode was a winner, the good ones hit more than they missed. And, more importantly, it was there every week during the TV season, year after year. There’s value in that, I think. 

And in the case of JJ, they ended up padding/spinning wheels because they didn’t want to resolve killgrave but weren’t at the end. All the Netflix marvel shows are longer than they need to be, but the *filler* isn’t interesting because they don’t do one-offs or “.. of the week.” They just circle around the overarching…

Looks like I will be part of the very few that agree with you. I have been saying this for months, and louder since the passing of tv god Normal Lear.

This is the basic problem with aging as an “edgy” comic. Edginess doesn’t age well in general, but when you’re young, you’re usually taking on the old sacred cows and loosely arguing for a new way of looking at things that can be interesting and thought-provoking even if you’re ultimately wrong. Almost all aging…

As a comic it gave us the best mash-up of Harley Quinn and Green Arrow to ever exist, and is worth reading for that alone.  It went on WAY too long, though.

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