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Hear hear!
But then I tend to think nearly all recent American series are like that. Including 24, incredibly.
So I don't watch 'em.
yeah it's getting very annoying
I mean I still watch 'em, but still :lol:
I liked babylon 5
Babylon 5 had a plan. And brought plans back to TV shows. Then lost threw them out again.
I dont really see how the main theme of a show can be 'it doesnt make sense'.
never watched babylon 5, but i agree regarding lost (i assume you're talking about lost, anyway :lol: ). I watched it assuming it'd all make sense in the end. the ending made less sense than it did before it was explained :?
Babylon 5 was fantastic. Shame that doubts over renewal mean the final episodes of the 4th and 5th seasons feel odd, but overall the heavy plotting from start to finish was great and meant there was never a "they're just making it up" vibe.
yeah. in one sense it's hard to blame them- they sorta have to hedge their bets in case it's cancelled- and having watched a couple of things recently where, if anything, they were gearing up to raise the stakes in the second series, only for it to be cancelled before they got to make it, that's even more annoying than feeling a show has had all the loose ends wound up in case it was cancelled, and then they have to start unravelling it all again when it gets renewed!
Of course, some shows only have themselves to blame- they make tons of standalone episodes, and avoid letting anything happen in the bigger ongoing plot, only then to remember, "Oh cr@p we only have 2 episodes left and we might get cancelled at the end of this series, how the heck do we tie it all up?!?!?!" Don't have much sympathy when that happens.
Same goes for all the Lost-a-likes (Flash Forward et-al).
Flash Forward was actually really good- it was a bit like Lost, but nowhere near as bad, and at least it felt like you were getting somewhere (at least, until it got cancelled).
It was actually one of the ones I was talking about, getting cancelled just as it was getting good (the event is another one).
Of course, Band of Brothers is also up there. I did try watching The Pacific but to be honest found it a little boring after 4 or 5 episodes.
+1
I made it until the penultimate episode of the pacific, but it was nowhere near as good as band of brothers.
I actually think chuck's up there with my favourite series of all time. I mean it's not citizen kane, but there's something about it that i just really like.
Aside from it, probably seinfeld.
