they should have used the twenty or thirty hours of it in which nothing much happens.
If they had known then when it would be cancelled, maybe they could have done that. I guess you could hold the writers of TV shows responsible for these kinds of time-wasting and vague endings, but only by blaming them for choosing to write full TV series in the first place, when they could have been writing mini-series, or films, or novels. The idea that you broadcast the last episode of a series *before* deciding whether it's the last series or not gives the writers an impossible quandary: they must "tie things up", and they must "leave things open".
If 10 hours is what Kring thinks it would take, then it's not so much that Heroes should be given another 10 hours, IMO, it's that they should have been canned 10 hours before the end of series 4. But networks don't try to make coherent chronicles, they fill hours of schedule.
I'm watching The Mentalist, and clearly they could wrap the whole thing up at any time with 2-3 episodes notice. Defensive writing against CBS executives?
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Date: 2010-05-17 01:32 pm (UTC)If they had known then when it would be cancelled, maybe they could have done that. I guess you could hold the writers of TV shows responsible for these kinds of time-wasting and vague endings, but only by blaming them for choosing to write full TV series in the first place, when they could have been writing mini-series, or films, or novels. The idea that you broadcast the last episode of a series *before* deciding whether it's the last series or not gives the writers an impossible quandary: they must "tie things up", and they must "leave things open".
If 10 hours is what Kring thinks it would take, then it's not so much that Heroes should be given another 10 hours, IMO, it's that they should have been canned 10 hours before the end of series 4. But networks don't try to make coherent chronicles, they fill hours of schedule.
I'm watching The Mentalist, and clearly they could wrap the whole thing up at any time with 2-3 episodes notice. Defensive writing against CBS executives?