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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2509765" data-attributes="member: 12037">I think they are. There's a reason Soaps were (are?) so popular, and that's because of a "What will happen now?" kind of feeling you get from them, from there being a larger picture, and trying to figure out what's going to happen. People really love trying to guess what's going on. X-Files played on this tremendously before everyone figured out the writers had no idea what was going on. Even though it was only part continuous, part episodic, it paved the way for future shows. You just can't give the same feeling with an episodic series.Maybe people are watching more TV, or are otherwise more willing to tune in weekly to keep up. TiVo probably has something to do with this. I can record The 4400 with my TiVo, and I don't have to worry about being home or remembering to do this. I can keep up at my leisure. It makes it much easier for the audience.Yeah, I so miss Farscape. Thank goodness they at least made the small miniseries. But, yeah, you couldn't just pick up in the middle. When SciFi started showing Farscape again in preparation for said miniseries, I was trying to explain what was going on, and failing miserably, to people who had never seen it. It was an awesome series, one of the best out there, but soooo convoluted, possibly too much so. There are still aspects that I don't understand about it!</blockquote>