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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4574462" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>It ALWAYS begins with good writing. If that fails you have an immense struggle to create a watchable show with legs. Season 1 was great but they completely lost their grip on what MADE the show a hit. The show has coasted to where it is now on the strength of the character concepts but the plots have just been awful and about as UNcompelling as you can make them without the show becoming the paint-by-numbers channel.</p><p> </p><p>Well you're right in a sense in that the network would have ALREADY dropped this show if they had anything useful to replace it with and they hadn't built their schedule around what was SUPPOSED to be a far bigger, better, more popular show. They thought they had something to compete with Lost - and they DID in season 1, but that was then. They fired two producers because the saw the BOMBING ratings for the show in season 2 and that they weren't getting any better into season 3.</p><p>That, if I understand correctly, was Kring & co.'s pitch TO the network execs as their plan for turning the ratings drop around. Seriously, the one thing a network can do to kill a show is move it around the schedule. Otherwise the show largely lives and dies by its ratings. Firing two producers is the networks unsubtle suggestion that those running/writing the show need to TRY HARDER because the network sees only epic fail.</p><p> </p><p>And that is not network interference with the show - it is simply BAD WRITING and a bankruptcy of creativity.</p><p> </p><p>Though it manifested over a longer term you can add Star Wars and Star Trek to that list.</p><p> </p><p>The first season made the show a bona fide hit and deservedly so. It's been everything AFTER that which has caused the show to struggle. The ratings fell dramatically, they "retooled" the show, and it's STILL struggling. I seem to recall it being said at the time of the firing of those producers that even without the firings they already had shows in the pipeline that would be moving the show in a better direction again but I think we've now seen the results of those efforts and the response seems to be one of widespread underwhelming. I honestly will be mildly surprised if the show survives to begin "Chapter 4".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 4574462, member: 32740"] It ALWAYS begins with good writing. If that fails you have an immense struggle to create a watchable show with legs. Season 1 was great but they completely lost their grip on what MADE the show a hit. The show has coasted to where it is now on the strength of the character concepts but the plots have just been awful and about as UNcompelling as you can make them without the show becoming the paint-by-numbers channel. Well you're right in a sense in that the network would have ALREADY dropped this show if they had anything useful to replace it with and they hadn't built their schedule around what was SUPPOSED to be a far bigger, better, more popular show. They thought they had something to compete with Lost - and they DID in season 1, but that was then. They fired two producers because the saw the BOMBING ratings for the show in season 2 and that they weren't getting any better into season 3. That, if I understand correctly, was Kring & co.'s pitch TO the network execs as their plan for turning the ratings drop around. Seriously, the one thing a network can do to kill a show is move it around the schedule. Otherwise the show largely lives and dies by its ratings. Firing two producers is the networks unsubtle suggestion that those running/writing the show need to TRY HARDER because the network sees only epic fail. And that is not network interference with the show - it is simply BAD WRITING and a bankruptcy of creativity. Though it manifested over a longer term you can add Star Wars and Star Trek to that list. The first season made the show a bona fide hit and deservedly so. It's been everything AFTER that which has caused the show to struggle. The ratings fell dramatically, they "retooled" the show, and it's STILL struggling. I seem to recall it being said at the time of the firing of those producers that even without the firings they already had shows in the pipeline that would be moving the show in a better direction again but I think we've now seen the results of those efforts and the response seems to be one of widespread underwhelming. I honestly will be mildly surprised if the show survives to begin "Chapter 4". [/QUOTE]
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