AcidHell2 said:
With the show being cancelled, always happens in America, they keep dragging it out eventually the ratings drop and the show gets cancelled. Rather than just finishing it of.
Sad but true. The most annoying thing about American TV is that, no matter how well scripted it is, they refuse to just end a series, if it's still popular. It just ruins the narrative of some shows, because the writers have to stretch a story beyond what they intended.
From what I've seen of BSG it looks like it might be going that way this season too. It just seems to have slipped into a "we don't know how long this is going to run, so let's make our episodes more formulaic and self-contained so they're easier to write for" pattern now. I really hope it doesn't, because the best thing about BSG was its unpredictability.
Scam said:
I dont understand how people complain about Lost 'dragging it out' when theres been 6 seasons of 24. All of which are essentially the same storyline...
Because they're completely different types of show. 24's story is mostly self-contained within a series, so that when the series ends, so does the story. Sure each series might build on the last and bring back characters, but if you were to only watch, say, the first two series, you wouldn't really have anything in the way of loose ends to tie up.
Lost has an absolute ton of loose ends, and the longer the show is dragged out, the more loose ends will be written, and the harder it'll be for the writers to drag all the plotlines back together into some kind of coherent ending. Plus people get impatient waiting for everything to actually be explained. That was one of my biggest problems with The X-Files, was that although I really liked it, after a while you just gave up hope of ever really finding out what was going on, because they continued to tease you with half-truths series after series.