Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Geek Talk & Media
Challenge: Shows that Deserved More than Four Seasons
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8958682" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>I think it's safe to say that everyone who knows what a Babylon 5 is knows this story at this point. </p><p></p><p>Yeah, I don't know how to categorize some of the Britcoms. Vicar of Dibley, for instance, had 16 shows over 3 series, and then 4 more shows after that (plus the Covid shorts, but those came much later). </p><p></p><p>If we pare down the population of shows to a specific sub-genre, I'm sure many of them will have different answers regarding when they likely start to go stale (cop dramas, being very formulaic, probably last long in that there isn't supposed to be much variation between episodes over a short period of time, although I guess you could argue that's a case of 'they don't go stale as quickly because they start out stale'). Regardless, even for RPG-inspiring fantasy shows, I don't think I'd say all shows are specifically to tell a story. Some (ex: the 'Monster of the week' genre) are in no small part there for the episodic interactions. <em>The X-files</em>, for instance, was never about the grand conspiracy (something the showrunners acknowledge was invented after the fact), and honestly the shows that focused on it tended to be the weakest. Shows like that do usually go stale (X-files, Supernatural, and Stargate did over time), but not because they didn't resolve a specific story. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Star Trek (TNG) is a good example -- they could have continued TNG on after season 7, but didn't because they were launching a new network and didn't want to compete with their own show. It wasn't because the tales of Picard and Data and Word had gone stale or the writers stopped coming up with original and engaging ideas. Most of the writers went on to write for Voyager and DS9, and most of the scripts (minus the Dominion-specific ones for DS9 or the odd one that only works with a specific character) would be interchangeable between shows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 8958682, member: 6799660"] I think it's safe to say that everyone who knows what a Babylon 5 is knows this story at this point. Yeah, I don't know how to categorize some of the Britcoms. Vicar of Dibley, for instance, had 16 shows over 3 series, and then 4 more shows after that (plus the Covid shorts, but those came much later). If we pare down the population of shows to a specific sub-genre, I'm sure many of them will have different answers regarding when they likely start to go stale (cop dramas, being very formulaic, probably last long in that there isn't supposed to be much variation between episodes over a short period of time, although I guess you could argue that's a case of 'they don't go stale as quickly because they start out stale'). Regardless, even for RPG-inspiring fantasy shows, I don't think I'd say all shows are specifically to tell a story. Some (ex: the 'Monster of the week' genre) are in no small part there for the episodic interactions. [I]The X-files[/I], for instance, was never about the grand conspiracy (something the showrunners acknowledge was invented after the fact), and honestly the shows that focused on it tended to be the weakest. Shows like that do usually go stale (X-files, Supernatural, and Stargate did over time), but not because they didn't resolve a specific story. Star Trek (TNG) is a good example -- they could have continued TNG on after season 7, but didn't because they were launching a new network and didn't want to compete with their own show. It wasn't because the tales of Picard and Data and Word had gone stale or the writers stopped coming up with original and engaging ideas. Most of the writers went on to write for Voyager and DS9, and most of the scripts (minus the Dominion-specific ones for DS9 or the odd one that only works with a specific character) would be interchangeable between shows. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Geek Talk & Media
Challenge: Shows that Deserved More than Four Seasons
Top