This still sucks.
It's what I call Netflix Syndrome. Find a good IP and write a script. Discover you only have enough good material for 3 or 4 episodes. You can't sell a 4 episode series to a streaming service. So you pad the episodes. Lots of long stares into the middle distance. Slow plodding monologs. Pointless mini charachter arcs that aren't relevant to the storyline. Flashbacks, flash forwards...
In short, lazy writing. But these days it's what people expect so throw in some flash effects, a sky beam and some people flying then people will watch because there really isn't anything better being made.
It's what I call Netflix Syndrome. Find a good IP and write a script. Discover you only have enough good material for 3 or 4 episodes. You can't sell a 4 episode series to a streaming service. So you pad the episodes. Lots of long stares into the middle distance. Slow plodding monologs. Pointless mini charachter arcs that aren't relevant to the storyline. Flashbacks, flash forwards...
In short, lazy writing. But these days it's what people expect so throw in some flash effects, a sky beam and some people flying then people will watch because there really isn't anything better being made.
