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> ...you couldn't really rely that everyone had seen all the episodes; who can always be at home at a given date and time? People got lives to lead. I'm gonna

> ...you couldn't really rely that everyone had seen all the episodes; who can always be at home at a given date and time? People got lives to lead. I'm gonna take a guess that you are younger than 35-40 years old? Back in the days without any time-shifting technology, many, many people planned their schedule around what time a TV (or even older, a radio) program aired. Lots of shows in those days had multi episode arcs. My personal shows that were scheduled in my weekly life were Dr. Who (Tom Baker) and The Dukes of Hazard. My mom never missed The Barbara Mandrell show (although there was no story line there) and my grandma never missed her daytime soap operas (obviously lots of multi-episode stories there.)

arp242 4y ago
No, I'm old enough to have done that. But there's a real limit to what you can plan around for many people. And there's lots of "casual fans"; there's many shows I enjoy, but not enough to stay home for them.
shagie 4y ago
> Back in the days without any time-shifting technology, many, many people planned their schedule around what time a TV (or even older, a radio) program aired. Season 5 aired when I was working tech support at SGI in Mountain View. The problem was that the time slot was at 3 pm? or was it 4pm? Either way... I was still at work. One of the tools that existed at SGI was a program called "All hands" which was intended for doing broadcasts of all hands to the entire company without trying to stuff them all in one room. And it worked quite well. The question is what do you do with it the other 256 days of the year when it's not doing the quarterly broadcasts? Well... most of the time someone in the AV department had set it to rebroadcast daytime TV. A few of us were able to persuade the AV department to change the channel at the appropriate time so that B5 would be multicast out for us to watch on All Hands.
watwut 4y ago
Yes. And even with all of that planning, the overarching super important arc would broke the story. Because despite all that planning pretty much everyone missed a week here or there. Life happens, work emergencies happen, family or friends come to visit and can't do it another day. You go for holidays. Spouse have to work late so you have kids alone. Once in a while, all of these happen.

arp242 4y ago

No, I'm old enough to have done that. But there's a real limit to what you can plan around for many people. And there's lots of "casual fans"; there's many shows I enjoy, but not enough to stay home for them.

shagie 4y ago

> Back in the days without any time-shifting technology, many, many people planned their schedule around what time a TV (or even older, a radio) program aired. Season 5 aired when I was working tech support at SGI in Mountain View. The problem was that the time slot was at 3 pm? or was it 4pm? Either way... I was still at work. One of the tools that existed at SGI was a program called "All hands" which was intended for doing broadcasts of all hands to the entire company without trying to stuff them all in one room. And it worked quite well. The question is what do you do with it the other 256 days of the year when it's not doing the quarterly broadcasts? Well... most of the time someone in the AV department had set it to rebroadcast daytime TV. A few of us were able to persuade the AV department to change the channel at the appropriate time so that B5 would be multicast out for us to watch on All Hands.

watwut 4y ago

Yes. And even with all of that planning, the overarching super important arc would broke the story. Because despite all that planning pretty much everyone missed a week here or there. Life happens, work emergencies happen, family or friends come to visit and can't do it another day. You go for holidays. Spouse have to work late so you have kids alone. Once in a while, all of these happen.