>>124847669That's the problem with a lot of long-form storytelling. Unless you know exactly how long you have to tell a story you get a lot of meandering and making shit up to fill that time. If you have a show with no plot progression, you get people bitching about the status quo, but if you have everything keep constantly changing because there's no plan, none of the changes have any impact or meaning because there's no sense that anything will stick. Shipping drama just mimics the dynamics of a soap opera, where very little of actual substance changes just the romantic pairing of different characters switching around constantly because women eat that shit up.
That's why I prefer procedurals, you get a story with a beginning, middle, and end all in one episode. Corporate suits can't stand it because you actually get closure, when they just want to bait you to keep watching more instead of producing something good that simply makes you want to see more, which is far harder to make.
