re: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3

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But in today's age where we are fricked with getting 10, sometimes only 8 episodes every two or three years, then yeah, don't waste my time with more than 47 minutes or lighthearted, silly shite. I'll give you 1 episode a season, after that I'm just going to get irritated with it.

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The only lighthearted one I liked was the crossover with Lower Deck as I watched that as well.

I feel like more serialization of a major overhanging plot is also required for dramas with 10 or less episodes even if some episodes touch on it less due to having a large self contained or episodic storyline. It can be personal for the main character or characters, but it needs to be important, show growth, be a part of each episode to varying degrees, and be building over the season to the final. You need it to feel like the season took itself and you somewhere from start to finish. Being too episodic focused and/or going off the reservation too often in a season gets in the way of that journey.

I watched a British cop show with 4 or 6 episodes in a season that was or felt like it was 99.9% episodic except for something between the cop and ex-wife that I thought had been dealt with in a prior season. I didn’t even realize the final episode of the season was the final episode because the season went nowhere. I waited for almost 2 weeks after the release of the last episode before finally looking it up to find out the season had actually ended. Sure they solved a murder each episode, but that’s expected. I felt like I wasted time watching something that affected nothing. You could skip the season and still understand what was going on when the next season started. You could Bobby Ewing in the shower it and make it a dream, and no one would be shocked or care as it didn’t matter.