I do n’t know what all the fuss is about . Last week , I say I quit watching Battlestar Galactica , and some of you dumbfound all up in my face like we were back on the block in Fargo , playin ’ the dozens . likely I should have been more clear-cut : I did n’t stop learn just because I thought the plot was fakey . Indolence bring a large part , too . See , I have mad respect for anyone who sticks by a TV show these days , especially a skill - fable show , the same room I have unbalanced esteem for people who cultivate in factories , or for bookbinders . ’Cause these Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , television is a lot of work . When I was a boy , you could start find out a TV show at any time . I mean , you wanted to see an individual installment from the beginning , but as long as you contend that , you could anticipate to sympathise what was going on , whether the episode in question was the series premiere or the fifth installment of season four . Two - parters happened , but they were ordinarily reserve for Special Events , like a season finale . show that required a lot of backstory were called soap opera . This is no longer so much the case , especially with skill - fable programming . It did n’t even occur to me just to wait around and catch an installment of BSG as it was send in real fourth dimension . I cognise I had to get the DVDs , and it ’s probably a good thing I did . I ’m sure I ’d have puzzled things out eventually , but it would have been for a while before I enter out who , say , Tom Zarek was or why President Roslin was see serpent on the lectern . ( And yes , I would wish someone to make a movie called Snakes on a Lectern , although I would not actually see it . ) Same thing with Lost , Heroes , Sarah Connor , the badly - doom Bionic Woman reboot , and even Smallville . The phenomenon extends well beyond the SF realm , too — I could name The Sopranos , The Wire , and Six foundation Under , and that would be just the tip of the berg . It obtains in the case of less serious menu , like The Office and Arrested Development , as well , but at least those shows are only half an 60 minutes long . you could ascertain a whole sequence on your subway commute ( or your morn driving , if you enjoy jeopardise the lifespan of yourself and everyone around you — and I know some of you do ) . None of this is to say that I think the copiousness of on-going stories on television is a bad matter , just to note that it ’s novel . Most of us can remember when television receiver , like comic books , was considered unmindful applesauce . Bible , and perhaps films — these were the deflection of recollect folk . Now funnies and TV are deal art forms in their own right , and as with Book and films , their most well-thought-of works tend to be long - form and spell with the expectation that you will get into them at the start .
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