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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
I thought the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation was excellent.
But generally, yeah, they kinda blow.
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Lost probably could have been condensed into a 3 season series and would have been great, but I got the impression that they saw how popular the first season was and decided to water down the series to stretch it out as long as possible. Probably half the episodes are filler that do nothing to further the plot. I think for a series to be good, you need one or the other.... either a continuing and consistent plot development, or none at all.
For sitcoms, I almost prefer the opposite. All filler with no continuing plot (or at least no serious plot). That is what made Seinfeld such a good one.
Even a show like X-Files was so much better in the earlier seasons when each episode was pretty much stand alone. Once they started having continuity, they painted themselves into a corner.