• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I watch quite a lot of series and enjoy some of them. TV has never been too good, and nowadays its the most obvious that write-as-you-go model has blatant flaws. Storytelling is difficult enough already, but it’s worse when you don’t know how many episodes you actually have to tell the story, and you have to argue with other writers to include your scenes and plot lines.

    I constantly find myself enjoying miniseries the most. The ending makes the story. So, the second best shows are those where every season or series has a self-contained opening and ending arcs. Cliffhangers bore me, most hooks are lost on me. Usually when characters seem to meander and roam aimlessly is because the writers are lost as well. And plots of convenience (where magically something just happened by chance to create or resolve a new plotline, or deus ex machina) just completely bore me.

    So, anyways, to answer the question. True Blood lost me completely midway second season. Awesome world, but the writers didn’t know how to write for shit.