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Babylon 5 for example. It’s still some of the best Sci-Fi and I regularly rewatch it every few years.

• Izkata 8y ago
  Dark Matter was a recent one that was definitely up there, except it was canceled at the end of 3 of its planned 5 seasons...
  • hluska 8y ago
    I looked up Dark Matter - it sounds interesting! Thanks for the tip.
    • Izkata 8y ago
      Once you reach the end, the creator has a couple blog posts outlining how seasons 4 and 5 would have gone if it wasn't canceled.
• walshemj 8y ago
  Even JMS said that trying to write to many scripts him self was not a good idea.
• mrec 8y ago
  I'm a big B5 fan, but you have to admit there's an awful lot of filler in there. (Also, it definitely wasn't what GP was referring to, since B5 didn't vary its runtime appreciably.)
  • henrikschroder 8y ago
    B5 was definitely in the first larger group I was thinking about, because it had a single writer with a vision. I agree that there's an awful lot of filler in there. Imagine what B5 would have been like without the stifling fixed-length episodes and need for filler B-plot and C-plot? One show I was also thinking about was of course Game of Thrones. It has varying length episodes though, but they're all still pretty close at the one-hour mark. It's interesting that no other show on Netflix or HBO, that wouldn't need to be bound by fixed-length, still isn't. There should be room to experiment more there.
    • mrec 8y ago
      I'm not sure there was a need for filler B-plot and C-plot. There's no particular reason it needed to be planned as 5 seasons if there wasn't enough A-plot to fill 5 seasons. Hell, Severed Dreams felt like a season's worth of plot all on its own, and all the better for it.