jasonicusuk wrote:ARC BAD! ME LOVE MONSTER OF WEEK!' Well, for those of us who actually grew out of our six year old phase, the essentials of character and story growth have sunk in.
I believe DW summed this up. Charicter development and story arc are not one and the same thing. Charicters can develop, but each story, from week to week should stand or fall by its own merits. Not relying on the threads of the previous week and every week before it.
Why? Because you say so? Thank you for demonstrating your monumental arrogance; you're an idiot jackass. And, of course, you show you're just strawmanning the whole concept of Arcs: Nothing says that an ongoing stories parts cannot be judged each on their own.
Also, thank you for demonstrating you can't read English: Story growth is the existance of arcs, either blatantly(To Be Continued..), or the revival of an old villain/plot point in an ongoing story.
Also, demonstrate that enjoying an episodic show is representative of an immature intellect.
Another strawman? My my, you'd think you could actually tackle what I said, without twisting it...
What represents immaturity is wanking to the idea of Monster Of The Week: Just another mindless collection of powers and dangers without anything to justify it. Dowd: Monster of Week. Borg: Story arc, especially in TNG. Not necessarily a good one, but an arc none the less, as we see the same villains change over time.
Arcing can be fucked up horribly(X-Files is a good example of it being done poorly), but can also be done beautifully(Dr. Who and Stargate, the new powerhouse of sci-fi television, demonstrate this well. At least until BSG dethrones the Gate.)
Yes, because every story in Doctor Who was not affected by the one before it and the one after it. Each story was divided into sereral parts, yes, but you didn't need to see the 'Pyramids of Mars' to fully understand 'Castrovalva.' Doctor who did not have an Arc plot. It had stand alone stories which *is* what I have been promoting.
Ah, so your entire argument here is based on the fact you have no clue what arcing is, basing it entirely on the most poorly put together versions of it. That explains so much.
The Reset Button is a cheap out for writers who can't focus for more than one sitting...
No-one has argued otherwise. Stand alone stories are not the same thing as time-travel-cop-outs or the likes. If a ship is heavily mauled at the end of one episode, the next episode can be about getting it repaired, provided the two episodes are understandable and enjoyable to the casual viwer on their own
Welcome to a two-episode arc, dumbass. A minor one, yes, but still the same plot continuing between episodes and effecting things down the line. This would be rather different from the Monster Of The Week shit being espoused by the more mentally challenged here.
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