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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9638888" data-attributes="member: 6790260">For TV shows, I will usually try to judge by the best (not the worst) episodes of the first season, and the proportion thereof.Because let's be real. The first season of TNG, and the first season of AtLA, were both...not as good on average as 3/4 of the remainder. Both have great episodes and some...well, stinkers in TNG's case, merely weak-and-skippable in AtLA's case. Overall, some of the best television ever produced. (And, notably, neither even cracks 200, let alone 400-500!)I think what I would say, on that front, is that (like with a TTRPG! Back on topic, baybee!), long prose is only worth it if it's really good and thus shortening it would genuinely weaken it. Some stories can only be told when they have the chance to stretch out. Recently watched Overly Sarcastic Productions' video on "Redeeming Revenge of the Sith", and the sheer outright operatic prose of the novelization is 100% what that story needed. Trying to "punch it up", trim it down, stuff it into a single movie with actors that aren't right for the parts, hilariously wooden dialogue, and egregiously unnecessary and out-of-character choreography solely because ILM already rendered stuff for it, ruins the story. I genuinely need to get my hands on the novelization because it sounds absolutely perfect--and it is long. It needs to be. It is the story of the collapse of a civilization, of the destruction of a religious order that has been the backbone of a society of trillions of people for tens of thousands of years.So, just as with TTRPG design: complexity must be for a purpose, and that purpose needs to be worthy. Obviously, nothing is inherently worthy to all people all the time. But outside of simplicity-purists who won't accept anything but damn-near-maximum simplicity, there's usually something you can point to to say, "It's worthwhile to learn this, because grappling with it makes for an enjoyable challenge."</blockquote>

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