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 t

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.