I was replying to your original version before you edited it.

Or apples? Or oranges?

And so do the series with shorter seasons. It's the nature of the beast that is episodic television. I've never seen a television series where every episode was a home run.

I really liked STRANGER THINGS, but it would have been better at 6 episodes, rather than 8.

I try to as well.

There has never been any evidence that doing 22 episodes dilutes the series' quality, except complaints from lazy showrunners. HILL STREET BLUES did 22. HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET did 22. THE GOOD WIFE did 22, and it was the best drama on network television. THE FUGITIVE did 30. TWILIGHT ZONE did 39. The first…

Only 5 minutes?? Where is this paradise of a movie theater you attend?

I think a STAR TREK series already has a built-in audience. Nobody who doesn't already like STAR TREK is going to be interested in paying $6/month to watch this new series, so growing that audience is not going to happen (which seems like a disastrous long-term decision). Now, would someone not so much into past TREKs…

Some episodes are dumber, for sure. I don't think that's the result of being on NBC though. It's more the result of lower budgets, worse directors, and a producer who didn't understand the show.

All network shows now get mediocre ratings.

I assumed that was because the Abrams movies were no fun for kids.

You realize the original series aired on a television network.

How does a paid subscription service justify showing any commercials?

I think NUMB3RS got ignored as just another CBS police procedural, but the plots were often interesting (had to be in order to squeeze the math elements into it) and the cast worked really well together. It was a smart show that got shunted off to Friday nights.

Columbo using the power of mathematics to solve crimes would be the best.

Yeah, it's pretty good. Personally, I could live with less singing though.

On the list of the most egregious acts Roddenberry committed in his life, that isn't even top 20.

It probably really is normal, acceptable practice.

Hill was perfectly cast on M:I because of his anonymous and chameleonic personality (Peter Graves, his replacement, was great, but he was always "Peter Graves"). However, I don't think M:I would have lasted seven seasons with Hill.

Offer him a deal! We need this off the front pages. There's an election coming up.