How Comic Books Prepared Me For Modern TV
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Personally, I love the way that television shows have decided to do stories that can’t be wrapped up in 42 minutes. Serial dramas, like Jericho, Battlestar Galactica, and 24 really get my attention and keep me begging for more. Granted, there is a lot of crap out there but there are also some really good shows. Unfortunately though, most television executives, I’m looking at you Les Moonves, don’t know something good when they have it.
I’m going to break the rules here and bring up Firefly. This was a perfect example of a show that was mishandled by executives. Everything that they did with it was wrong. Jericho is another example. You just don’t chase away and piss off your audience the way that Fox and CBS have done.
And what’s with promoting the crap out of a show, I’m looking at you FOX, then canceling it after three episodes like was done with Drive? Stunts like that have helped me develop a theory about Nathan Fillon; he’s cursed. Every good show he does for FOX gets axed in relatively short fashion. It’s got to suck to be him.
And speaking of comic book story lines taking months to resolve, how long did the Batman: Knightfall story go? A couple of years? It definitely got me ready for modern television.
BSG is a good example of it actually done wrong and our unhealthy addiction to it anyway: “Yeah, it’s me. I’ve been to Earth and I’m going to take us there” to be continued IN A FRAKKING YEAR!!!
I actually really like Reaper this season, and the way it wraps up it’s story line. There is a monster of the week that gets taken care of, different parts of story arcs are closed up tight, and other ones are started all at once. I know they didn’t pioneer this type of storytelling, but it’s a really good formula.