Jeanway 0 Posted June 15, 2004 (edited) Would you rather to be able to pick any episode and watch it without needing to know what happened in the previous episode or do you the like the season long arc thing? Or both? Edited June 15, 2004 by Jeanway Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fenriz275 0 Posted June 15, 2004 I have to say that I like both. A nice one shot episode is good but I also like following a good story arc from episode to episode. I think a really good writing team could do both maybe. I mean have episodes that you can watch alone without having seen the others but still enjoy and at the same time have something there for the diehard viewers who watch every week. I think DS9 did a very good job if this with it's Dominion storylines and I think Enterprise has done a good job of that this last season. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeanway 0 Posted June 15, 2004 Does anyone think the arcs between Series is clear? I mean the timeline and references to other series? I find it kind of vague at most. Do you think there is a way to clean it up? How? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrekkieMage 0 Posted June 15, 2004 A little bit of both...I prefer stand alones, but a little bit of a continuing thread helps to tie the series together. Voyager was about the perfect mix IMHO. It had a lot of stand alones, but they did tie in a lot of old plots like species 8472 and the Borg and stuff Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mj 7 Posted June 16, 2004 Both. Season 3 of Enterprise was a mix of the arc and the free standing epiosdes. it would have been unbearable if it was all just the arc, and every episode a clifff-hanger. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fenriz275 0 Posted June 16, 2004 The very first episode I ever saw of Farscape was part of an arc and it made absolutely no sense to me. It kind of turned me off on the show until I was able to watch it from the very beginning. I think that arc episodes can hurt a show's chances of drawing in more people if you have to have seen the rest of the arc in order for the story to make any sense. Take the X-Files, I followed it for a while then I didn't watch for a few months and when I tried to watch it again nothing made any sense to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeanway 0 Posted June 16, 2004 I like the arc when we don't have to wait 4 months to see what happens. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vulcan IDIC 0 Posted June 16, 2004 The arcs to me are a little on the soap operaish side, but there ok if they aren't dragged out for too long. I really perfer the stand alone type episodes like those in TOS and TNG Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sam The Smuggler 1 Posted June 21, 2004 I Like A Good Mix Of Both And DS9 Pulled This Off Beautifully. So Did Voyager. And Even TNG Had A Slight Arc. The Whole Klingon/Romulan/Worf/Duras Thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A l t e r E g o 9 Posted June 21, 2004 Depends on the story. Often during the later (pre-ENT) series GREAT stories were wrapped up in a single episode thus wasting much potential. (Come to think of it, that happened during season 1 & 2 of ENT also.) However I don't wish to see a repeat of the Xindi arc, although it was a good arc it was too long imo. Two or three episode arcs intermixed with stand-alone episodes (as the producers have promised for season 4 of ENT) should make for a fun next season. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEAREBORG4102 0 Posted June 21, 2004 I like stand alone episodes with some sort of continuity. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trekkiemelissa 0 Posted June 29, 2004 I like the standalone and the arc kind of episodes. In some ways like the standalne type especially when you may have missed some of the previous episodes. in that sense you may be lost on what was going on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Theunicornhunter 2 Posted June 29, 2004 I am glad that all tv series in general have more continuity than in previous times and an occasional arc may be okay But in general I tend to avoid any tv series that I have to watch every week to keep up. (I watched 24 when I rented the entire first season on dvd) The Xindi story might have been okay if it was about 12 episodes. Truly great writing is when you can have stand alone stories that are part of a longer arc. I think someone mentioned how the Stargate teams are always fighting the Gao'uld but they have missions to planets that are totally unrelated to this major plot line. Basically, if I have to watch every week I probably won't watch at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
v_seven 0 Posted June 29, 2004 Good question...Jeanway.....I like both....the arc in ENT was great...I loved it, I thought most of the episodes were stand alone episodes you could enjoy even if you weren't following the arc......I truly beleive that some of ST best episodes are 3rd year ENT.... :( Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
