Yes--I admit I'm surprised by some of the cries of "wank" for that thread when that thread seems so casual, like the type of thing anybody would say about a TV show they watched or book series they read. The closer the series gets to the end, obviously, the less time there is for huge surprises. It's speeding towards the climax now, so there's more reason for people to start thinking about the outcomes they would like or not like. Also I felt like a lot of things were just tossed out. If somebody doesn't like scenes where R/Hr interact and finds the idea of reading a romance between them tedious they'd say that was something they feared etc.
I was just talking to somebody, actually, about some article about how so many shows now are serialized and most of the writers really don't know where they're going with the season enders. Lost, for instance, has been throwing out all these mysteries but they know people only have a certain tolerance for that before it becomes annoying and they'll have to tie things up. Plus they've created all these backstories so they don't want to kill good characters, etc. On 24 they apparently had a very tight outline for the first season, but wound up tossing it out early because things just happen along the way. Or on the OC last year very late on they had to change some big thing. So it's not just the fans being nervous there, but the writers sort of juggling on a high wire.
For me, the end of XF definitely changed the way I thought about the series--it was awful. Same thing with another favorite show of mine, Northern Exposure.
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Date: 2005-03-14 05:51 pm (UTC)I was just talking to somebody, actually, about some article about how so many shows now are serialized and most of the writers really don't know where they're going with the season enders. Lost, for instance, has been throwing out all these mysteries but they know people only have a certain tolerance for that before it becomes annoying and they'll have to tie things up. Plus they've created all these backstories so they don't want to kill good characters, etc. On 24 they apparently had a very tight outline for the first season, but wound up tossing it out early because things just happen along the way. Or on the OC last year very late on they had to change some big thing. So it's not just the fans being nervous there, but the writers sort of juggling on a high wire.
For me, the end of XF definitely changed the way I thought about the series--it was awful. Same thing with another favorite show of mine, Northern Exposure.