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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 3411583" data-attributes="member: 1154">May be better to think of it as a TV show than a movie, actually... The sort of show which has become much more prevalent in the last decade or so.Stargate SG-1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Heroes. Lost. Each episode is a self-contained story, but there's also an over-arching plot. In most cases, each season has its own plot.It's nice because it takes a lot of the effort off of you. Instead of each adventure being laser focused on this one goal, it gives you a lot more versatility. There's basically three kinds of episodes in those shows (or, at least, in Stargate, the one I'm most familiar with).There's the plot-heavy stories. These directly deal with the plot and move it forward a lot. Most common at the beginning of the season and the end, with a couple peppered throughout.There's the tangentially-related stories. These usually don't affect the plot in such a significant way. These can be broken up into two different kinds. Character-centric stories focus on one character and develop him. Then there's the ones that send the characters after some McGuffin that's supposed to help them defeat the new big bad. Generally it's just a generic adventure that pays the plot lip service.Finally, there's the fun stories. Every season of Stargate has at least one "funny" episode that usually has nothing to do with the plot. If over done, it would get old fast, but these serve to break up things and inject some light-hearted fun. Should be used like a fine spice, rarely because a little bit goes a long way.</blockquote>

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