Getting Serious About Series
I'll continue on with my completely random thoughts today and make sure that I give the TV series some love after so summarily rejecting it yesterday. It's not that I'm anti-series (in fact, for years, I've preferred the format to my new bestie, the Talkie). It's just that they require a time commitment and have a messy habit of either not completing (I'm looking at you, Better Off Ted ) or unraveling into a complete mess in their final season (I'm looking at you, Ted Mosby). I like consuming things in neat little packages and, if they ultimately suck because their creators can't be arsed to pace things appropriately because they want to move a Star Wars franchise deal that ultimately falls through, then I've only lost a couple of hours. As much as I like the idea of hard and fast rules, life is too complicated to adhere to golden rules (other than breathe only oxygen). However, there are some guidelines that I've been migrating toward: I pr...