These were all things that beginning to resonate with me around the same age I finally saw Star Wars.įeeling trapped and having people who mean well trying to tell you what to do? I’ll side with the whiney brat any day. No job, living with parents, growing depression. Shortly after university, I felt very trapped by circumstance. I didn’t see the trilogy until my university days. Partially, I guess, because I was late to the party. I never got the “Luke Hate” in Star Wars. More and more, though, I am realising that the nature of my personality and my history with depression and mental illness, as well as some of the circumstances leading up to them, really colour what I like about stories. If one side gives a rational reason for something and the rest keep waiting for “their answer” then I side with the former, even if they’re heading in the asshole direction. Empathizing more with the techie-types than the end-user types. Then there were things to do with my job and the like. Liking aspects that people don’t just because I have a different angle when enjoying stories.
At first I thought that this was just to do with personal preference. I know my personality influences what stories I like, as well as what aspects of the stories I like.
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But after Series Six’s heavily River-focused plot, to drop back to seemingly overly isolated episodes whilst other shows are doing the multi-partners so effectively? I just want a return to that type of storytelling. Up until now, though, it hasn’t really been a dealbreaker.
I have missed it somewhat since DW returned in 2005. I guess it just makes it that much more annoying for Doctor Who seeing that the stories used to be structured that way. The structure of several short multi-part stories appeals perfectly to my narrative preferences. I have got more enjoyment out of that show than I have from nearly anything else I have watched in recent years. Each arc really affecting how the characters interact with each other. Each arc its own plot, yet still part of an ongoing world and characters. Two five-partners, a three-parter and a four-parter. Seventeen half-hour (OK, 25 minute) episodes covering four plot arcs. I have recently been watching an Anime show called Kokoro Connect. Drop down from the 45 minute template to the half-hour show and it can work just as well.Īnd before people think I am just being nostalgic for “Classic Who”, it really isn’t that at all. It doesn’t even need to have really long episodes. They don’t even need to have major “event” cliffhangers, just a run of a few episodes that are clearly an ongoing narrative, Where each story is given room to breathe and grow over multiple weeks. Maybe between three and five episodes in length.
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I like TV shows where as well as being an ongoing scenario about a setting or characters, the actual plots are divided into arcs. I know that some people dislike shows where most of the content is ongoing plot but I love it. These often, to me, end up being the weaker seasons. I have seen it in other shows where they have an ongoing plot but one of the seasons gets orders to have more standalone content and less “mythology arc”.
Doctor Who is really getting to feel like this, now. Too much TV these days feels like it does not have a real ongoing presence.
The problem, though, is that this also means yo don’t get rewarded for sticking weekly with a show. I understand the theory behind having weekly shows that you don’t make you feel punished for jumping in partway through. For years I have disliked TV shows going in that direction, it is just that I have been able to give Doctor Who a lot more leeway than I would any other show. I am getting increasingly sick of the constant barrage of single episode stories. I have a big problem with Doctor Who at the moment, one I have gone on record about in my Twitter feed and on my Podcast.