Heh I feel like such a slacker when I read the number of new shows that everyone else seems to have picked up this year :P But I would definitely recommend iZombie if you have the time, it's a show with fun cases of the week, and it's got a lot of cool side plots that look to be headed somewhere interesting
And yeah in the past I've argued for more serialisation and considered ~case of the week~ type shows to be a bit of a bore, but lately I'm leaning towards it being more about how shows handle those episodic plots, and that it can feel a bit too heavy if a show is set up more as one long novel with no room for distractions and 'filler' at all. It depends on the show of course and how much its main arc hooks you, but yeah I definitely agree with that article talking about the value in making sure that every episode is individually strong and a stand-out in its own right, not just as part of the overall story. If Veronica Mars had been focused on the Lily Kane mystery alone in the first season for example then I'm sure it would still have had its fans, but a lot of fun side story's and character moments would have been lost along the way. Ditto with The X-Files to use another example, they could have created a much tighter show if they had focused more on the mythology each season perhaps, but then it's the 'filler' MotW shows that audiences really remember and care about
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Date: 2015-12-19 08:07 pm (UTC)And yeah in the past I've argued for more serialisation and considered ~case of the week~ type shows to be a bit of a bore, but lately I'm leaning towards it being more about how shows handle those episodic plots, and that it can feel a bit too heavy if a show is set up more as one long novel with no room for distractions and 'filler' at all. It depends on the show of course and how much its main arc hooks you, but yeah I definitely agree with that article talking about the value in making sure that every episode is individually strong and a stand-out in its own right, not just as part of the overall story. If Veronica Mars had been focused on the Lily Kane mystery alone in the first season for example then I'm sure it would still have had its fans, but a lot of fun side story's and character moments would have been lost along the way. Ditto with The X-Files to use another example, they could have created a much tighter show if they had focused more on the mythology each season perhaps, but then it's the 'filler' MotW shows that audiences really remember and care about