Maybe it was ever thus and I'm just watching more TV, or watching more critically, of late, but I'm finding that rather a lot of otherwise watchable television is let down by being very formulaic.
A few minutes of backplot here and there do take the edge off it a bit: House seems to be ahead of CSI on this point, and certainly has more than Law And Order; I've not kept up with it well enough to say how it stacks up against e.g. the Eccleston Dr Who series.
I do appreciate that none of these programs are trying to tell a long-term story in the way that e.g. Babylon 5 was - to be a serial rather than a series if you like. Possibly the last thing I watched that made a decent stab at it was The Lyon's Den, which was flawed in other ways.
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House rocks. End of story.
Date: 2007-03-22 11:38 pm (UTC)Re: House rocks. End of story.
Date: 2007-03-23 12:11 am (UTC)Maybe it was ever thus and I'm just watching more TV, or watching more critically, of late, but I'm finding that rather a lot of otherwise watchable television is let down by being very formulaic.
A few minutes of backplot here and there do take the edge off it a bit: House seems to be ahead of CSI on this point, and certainly has more than Law And Order; I've not kept up with it well enough to say how it stacks up against e.g. the Eccleston Dr Who series.
I do appreciate that none of these programs are trying to tell a long-term story in the way that e.g. Babylon 5 was - to be a serial rather than a series if you like. Possibly the last thing I watched that made a decent stab at it was The Lyon's Den, which was flawed in other ways.
Re: House rocks. End of story.
Date: 2007-03-23 01:04 am (UTC)