Episodic Media Sucks

All episodic media falls into the same trap; every new story has to begin and end the same. Villain of the week, problem of the week.

So many times, the problems or solutions never even carry over to the next issue… No one ever learns anything!! Many times the past is never mentioned again – like in sitcoms. The worst examples of this are CW’s The Flash, any teen drama, any sitcom.

When you have characters, and put them into situations where they get backed into a corner and need to work themselves out of it and learn something; youd think all of those lessons theyd learned would come into play later and tie into the rest of the stories.

Well, youd be wrong.

Its like watching groundhog day sometimes, theres only progression in places where the writer wants there to be (like in the flash with romance, although even that moves at a glacial pace) and too bad for the rest; any emotional, social or mental, developments by characters in the past stay in the past. What happens in vegas, stays in vegas? More like; what happened last episode, stays there. That’s why we have groundhog day, if I wanted to watch the same people live the same day for hours id just watch the movie, I don’t want to waste my time watching your junky show – which has nothing on bill murray btw.

Its easy for writers to write themselves into holes, and have no other way to solve the problems than with some sort of convenience – promotes bad writing. You’re gonna run out of ideas pretty quickly since you blow your load too early to gain viewers and then are left with your thumb up your butt when people are expecting new ideas but the well ran dry a long time ago. Leads to the recycling of ideas a lot of the time, lots of incestuous and repetitive content.

My life is already boring enough just living day to day, now I need to watch these losers do the same thing but have cool things happen to them? Theyre just rubbing in the fact that my life sucks. You start to lose track of the story (if there even is one) – game of thrones, walking dead. Ends up creating long series’ that everyone stops caring about after a while but somehow still ends up getting good reviews despite expending all their good ideas in the beginning Lazy – just done to drag out a story so that the people behind it can make money, it’s a scam and a waste of your time. And its our fault.

Shows that people don’t care about putting out a good story anymore, and they don’t care about the viewers anymore either… most people eat this stuff up so they cant tell the difference, theyre wearing rose tinted glasses and don’t care if a story is good or not, they only care about it being pretty or having shock value. I just wanna see a story that has a goal. Is that too much to ask for? I just want a consistent story that has a problem, or problems throughout and get solved seamlessly. Then again, looking at all the crap that’s been coming out lately. Maybe it IS too much to ask for.