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Originally Posted by Stephen
However writers now are focusing too much on entire season arcs of 8-10 episodes. When in the past this kind of story could be done in a 2 part story
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exactly, and that is my problem with stuff like Boba Fett. Instead of saying "we need to tell this story/adventure/part of his life and it needs to take 3 episodes" and then move onto the next chapter/natural story progression, they take one little thread and needlessly pad it out to (I am not going to say a season because 10 episodes isn't a season) 8-10 episodes, finding rubbish to pad it out rather than doing a quality few episodes and focusing on a new story.
Working my way through
Dial the Gate over the last couple of months has really made me appreciate how blessed we were with Stargate and how rare the writing was. Somebody needs to make a one-off documentary for the next Star Wars/Star Trek/Marvel season and have two rooms of writers with cameras in recording everything. One room with the normal peeps in, showing their thought process and the drivel they come up with and a second room with a proper team of skilled writers in from either something like Stargate or DS9, see what they come up with story wise and how it differs in richness and episodic length. There is a clear class divide in old school Star Trek and the creative team behind it and the new stuff and it isn't going to get any better. Every time I see Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman attached to something I cringe. If you watch the DS9 documentary
What We Left Behind you will see what proper writing is all about.
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Originally Posted by Chris
It seems you don’t know what “fanwank” means - by definition it isn’t anything new or challenging. It’s mindless porn, designed to appeal to the basic cravings of unimaginative fans who demand the same old egg and chips week in, week out. It’s exactly why fan-made episodes of TOS are almost universally awful (with the possible exception of Star Trek Continues, which manages to steer just far enough away from tribute act territory, some of the time at least). Whether you like Picard or not, it absolutely isn’t fanwank in any shape or form.
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so you are happy with what they have done with Q this season and don't feel they could have made more of it or the season would have been better if they had spent more time with him and gone into his story a bit more and cut out something else? Like Stephen said above, there is too much to cram into the finale next week. Why is Q dying, why did he send everyone back in time and what did he hope to gain from it? That is an episode in itself at the minimum without wrapping all the other characters up and dealing with this Europa space shuttle launch. They ruin the series by dwelling on naff and trivia and not spending the time on the characters that they need to. It just baffles me. They introduce these potentially rich story lines which would go down a treat and then just throw them to one side ignoring them, laughing at the audience and slapping them in the face.