Personally, I've just cooled off on the whole episodic format. The emotional toll of the cliffhanger, the hours of pseudo-psychological filler (sorry, "charact

Personally, I've just cooled off on the whole episodic format. The emotional toll of the cliffhanger, the hours of pseudo-psychological filler (sorry, "character exploration") in-between bursts of narrative progression, continuously going from one macguffin to the other... It all takes so much time, and usually for little reward.