For all my criticisms I feel STC hasn’t aged badly. There isn’t much in it off the top of my head I find cringe inducing. It’s so obviously a labour of love and dedication. But even after only four episodes it’s apparent they couldn’t step back from their fannish mindset to be more critical of their own work.
Part of the intent might well have been, “Lets pretend it’s 1969 again.” but they also wanted, “Lets sneak some of this into it to neatly tie things together with later continuity.” If they could have resisted that impulse it would have served the first part of their intent better.
What they needed was a good, and more objective, script editor. Someone to snippet things out and say, “Take this out, rethink this and so on.” In the case of “The White Iris” I would have said, “No, you have to completely rethink this or come up with something entirely different. No way would this story have been done in this way in 1969 for one of the show’s established leading characters. There is nothing authentic about this.
Part of the intent might well have been, “Lets pretend it’s 1969 again.” but they also wanted, “Lets sneak some of this into it to neatly tie things together with later continuity.” If they could have resisted that impulse it would have served the first part of their intent better.
What they needed was a good, and more objective, script editor. Someone to snippet things out and say, “Take this out, rethink this and so on.” In the case of “The White Iris” I would have said, “No, you have to completely rethink this or come up with something entirely different. No way would this story have been done in this way in 1969 for one of the show’s established leading characters. There is nothing authentic about this.
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