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[–] 52 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I miss the more 'monster of the week' type storytelling weaved through with season long (or longer) arcs that spanned 20-ish episode seasons. I liked the kind of storytelling where episodes stood on their own but had hints in them that formed a big picture. And every now and then there was an episode that was wholly dedicated to the overarching plot.
This kind of storytelling leaves a lot of room for characterisation episodes or exploration of an intriguing concept. And don't you dare calling this filler. Filler is meaningless. Exploring concepts and characters is not meaningless.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I want more filler episodes the same way Magic The Gathering wants bad cards:

    The solution to the aforementioned problem leads to the second reason “bad” cards exist. Different cards have different functions and appeal to different players.

    We make some cards for the multi-player crowd. We make cards for the flavor crowd. We make cards for the silly crowd. We make the big creatures and spells for "Timmy." We make the combo cards for "Johnny." We take each different group of Magic players and throw some cards their way.

    The problem is players tend to define “bad cards” as cards that they personally see no reason to play. But certain cards aren’t meant for them in the first place.

    https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/when-cards-go-bad-2002-01-28

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    arnt people having problems with MTG right now, using Marvel and other IP, they dont like how its not original anymore.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Bad or just plain meh eps stand out a lot further on shorter seasons though. I mean if i had the choice of watching s3 of SNW again or any given voyager season - even the first three- i'd choose the latter.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    unless its like something like supernatural, every season after 5 was just filler aside from some ok seasons, they stretched out that show for way too long , and it shouldve died like 10years before it was cancelled.

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