Current Events > People who get upset if a movie series/TV show is 'made up as they go along'

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Don't they realize this is every single movie series and TV show ever?
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i think the issue most people have with this is that there is no structure for the show...normally a show with a building plot, even if its done on an episode to episode basis, will have some sort of fluid outline or structure going into certain seasons...A show with no structure that just wings it every time they write each episode may end up feeling forced or hollow...

...That said I don't hear many people with this complaint...
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TheVipaGTS posted...

i think the issue most people have with this is that there is no structure for the show...normally a show with a building plot, even if its done on an episode to episode basis, will have some sort of fluid outline or structure going into certain seasons...A show with no structure that just wings it every time they write each episode may end up feeling forced or hollow...

...That said I don't hear many people with this complaint...

You generally see the complaints for stuff where people speculate. Lost and the new Star Wars trilogy are examples.

I get the complaint if a specific season for a show isn't structured well. People are to blame for stuff like that. But when it comes to longer term of course they'll need to change things as they go along.
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Doesn't bother me at all. There are so many moving parts in a production company that realistically there is always going to be things written off the cuff or improvised to make it work. In reality, it actually creates one of the favorite internet guessing games out there; what could have been. It's pretty much the reason sites like TVtropes exist.

It does bug me if the show builds its entire premise on having an established story unfolding, though, such as HIMYM. Basically, a bad season is forgivable if everything is made up at the time, but it's much less forgivable if the show is presented as something heavily planned out.

Something like Lost absolutely should have a rough outline of where they want the show to go. If you're going to build the show around solving some kind of mystery, you need to know what the solution is.
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As long as everything makes sense and is satisfying, I don't care how they cobble it together. When you can tell they have no idea what they're doing, it's a bad show.
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Dexter season 8
Bloodline season 3
True Detective season 2
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Any mystery show/movie/whatever that doesn't know it's solution from the first episode/film/whatever, is a shit show/movie/whatever.

"Why do people complain when a show is bad?"