The General Knight Rider thread.

[Samurai8472]

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[bdub76]

Shows like that are also why I've come prefer the shows like the Arrowverse shows or Picard & Discovery, where they do one season arcs, or in the case of the later part of the Arrowverse, half-season. At least that way it's easier to get a solid story with a real beginning, middle, and end, instead of shows where they try to drag one story out for the entire run of the series. And that way we at least get some resolution to the storyline at the end season, instead of being left with no answers to mysteries. The only show I've seen that really managed to pull of one serialized story through it's entire run is Babylon 5.

Check out the original 4400 and White Collar. Those two do a good job of telling a story over the course of several seasons and have satisfying endings.

 

[DonIago]

Shows like that are also why I've come prefer the shows like the Arrowverse shows or Picard & Discovery, where they do one season arcs, or in the case of the later part of the Arrowverse, half-season. At least that way it's easier to get a solid story with a real beginning, middle, and end, instead of shows where they try to drag one story out for the entire run of the series. And that way we at least get some resolution to the storyline at the end season, instead of being left with no answers to mysteries. The only show I've seen that really managed to pull of one serialized story through it's entire run is Babylon 5.

Ehhh. I understand the appeal, I guess, but to me it started to feel very same-y. BtVS is probably the first show where I consciously noticed it. Hell, they even had, "the Big Bad" of each season. But by the time of DISCO it just got on my nerves, though I also didn't care for DISCO's tendency to become, "The Michael Burnham Hour". It just feels as though instead of doing reset button episodes the shows are now doing reset button seasons, perhaps exemplified by PIC's annoying gear changes between seasons to the point where each season almost feels more like its own miniseries than three parts of a larger unified whole.

I'm watching The Legend of Korra now, and I think one reason why I prefer Avatar is because the latter successfully told a story that spanned three seasons, while the former largely tells four unrelated stories over four seasons (at least the main characters change and evolve over those seasons). In their somewhat defense, my understanding is that TPTB for the first season wrote it without any expectation of the show extending beyond that point, and would have changed elements of the season if they'd known the show would progress farther.

I hate it when shows settle into such formulas, where you know The Big Bad probably won't be conquered unless it's the season finale, and then you'll probably never hear from it again. I like my stories to remain unpredictable.

 

[JD]

Check out the original 4400 and White Collar. Those two do a good job of telling a story over the course of several seasons and have satisfying endings.

Oh I forgot about The 4400, I loved that show. It that did do a pretty good job of following one arc through multiple seasons. But I didn't think White Collar really had that deep of an arc, I thought it was pretty much just a case of the week show, with a few smaller arcs every now and then. I was a huge fan of that one too.

 

[bdub76]

Oh I forgot about The 4400, I loved that show. It that did do a pretty good job of following one arc through multiple seasons. But I didn't think White Collar really had that deep of an arc, I thought it was pretty much just a case of the week show, with a few smaller arcs every now and then.

For White Collar, each season had its own arc, but it told one overall story with a nice ending.

 

[JD]

Oh OK, I haven't watched it since it originally aired, so I don't remember the details of it that clearly. I just remembered one other show occurred to me that had a pretty decent multi-season arc, Burn Notice. I think one of the secrets to that kind of thing, is to keep things fairly simple, it's when they start getting overly complicated that they really seem to start to go off the rails.

 

[Skipper]

I don't know if anyone remembers, but even in KR2008 (to return to the topic) there were some horizontal plot lines, such as the KARR mystery. Virtually every show has to have some sort of story arc. Or at least some kind of continuity (e.g., events that happen in one episode have repercussions on subsequent episodes).

Person of Interest is a special case. It started out as an episodic series, and then developed story arcs in subsequent seasons.