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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2509373" data-attributes="member: 12037">That has to do with episodic writing, which is finally giving way to more continuous plotline shows. People are finally starting to see how neat it is that something in one episode can affect what happens in a future epiosde. Back in the '80s/'90s it just wasn't nearly as common as today to see that kind of thing. I remember how neat it was in MacGyver when Pete started to go blind and *gasp* he continued to go blind in subsequent episodes!I think producers for more mainstream shows just didn't trust viewers to keep up. It's such a shame. One of my draws to anime has been the "standard" 26 episode series that is a continuous plotline. The Simpsons is probably the epitome of episodic TV, and they even have made fun of that fact on their own show.That's one of the great selling points of DS9, by the way, and one thing that really made it stand out from TNG. Things could happen. Sisko could lose the station to the Cardassians, then fight to take it back. Characters could actually change! Thank goodness TV is to a point now where it isn't some radical and strange idea. We've got lots of shows like Lost, The 4400, and BSG where one episode effects another.</blockquote>