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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4323429" data-attributes="member: 35909">How so?  The main plotline carries throug every episode, with some minor new development towards the final scene, leaving with a clff anger for getting the issue of his burn notice resolved next season.  It may be episodic in that the jobs he takes on tend to end at the end of each episode, but so what?  It's a television show, not a miniseries.  Frankly, I'd be annoyed if every "episode" randomly ended up being a three-parter or four parts, etc... The final two episodes were part of a whole, and there's no reason to think they won't do that again, but I sure hope they keep most episodes limited to one part.Actually, I think he gets compensation for every single job he does, just sometimes it's a small amount.  he actually complains about how small the pay is for the amount of work in the pilot episode.  And if he's not rolling in piles of cash, it's partly because he gives a strong impression of not caring about great wealth, just enough to get by and cover his investigation.  Most of the money he earned when a spy went to his family anyway.  And while the jobs may suck, the specifics of his situation, such as having lost his credit histoy, makes it hard to get a "normal" job.First off, most of his clients cease to appear, often for good reason.  The guy in the Cuban neighborhood that hired him to kick out the local gang, for example, cannot associate with him anymore, because as far as the gang knows, Michael's a psychotic thug that's taken over the area, and if they were to find out he and the shop owner were friends...things would go south.  Even when they don't need to avoid Michael like the plague, there's no real reason for them to show up again.  What for?  To give him back up?  Come on.  And some minor characters DO make recurring appearances, such as Barry the money launderer, or Lucy, who runs the business he gets his first job from.Not really.  He avoids killing and explosions because he likes not going to jail and drawing police notice, which I find rather sensible.  It's not like it's a D&D town and he can justify the deaths with: "but they scanned as evil!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   And he does rarely kill, or assist in killing.  In the pilot, he shoots the two thugs in the bathroom (you can hear the pop of a silenced gun going off twice).  In the episode where he's dealing with the hotel jewel theft, once his cover is blown, he has no qualms running out to save his own hide and leaving the guy he had strongarmed into helping set up the identity to die.  Barry is even given one of that poor guy's jewelry pieces later as thanks for his help, as "[spoiler] won't need it anymore."  And in that episode dealing with the gang, he sets up an assassination within the organization, even if he himself doesn't carry it out, he still knows his hands are stained, and talks about it in the standard third person narrative role as the event occurs.As for how the plans unfold, often times, things go wrong, and those plans need to be changed, which is nice to see.  And the reason he needs cover IDs and plans and trickiness is because...the groups he goes up against can easily overpower him.  In his words: "Bullets don't bounce off of my skin!"  Also, several of the episodes involve the bad guys having hostages in one way or another, making direct force not really viable.I'm sorry you feel that way.  I think this show does a pretty darned good job of providing reasons for why everything that's done is done, instead of the "more intuitive" shoot, shoot, and shoot some more.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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