Shows generally have to create their own characters not in some comic so that's not exactly new. Plus interconnected movies/tv has been attempted before Star Trek, Power Rangers, X-Files, and plenty more. You can argue the MCU does it better if you like but it's not entirely new ground. That's okay though so long as the show continues to get better it doesn't need to be "First!" at doing interconnected movies/tv.DrCrowTStarwars said:
that is an impressive feat for a show that has to set up it's own universe for viewers that have not seen all the movies,set up it's own characters that don't come from comics,and tie into movies two of which came out while the series was airing. I can't think of any other show that has ever had to do that
DrCrowTStarwars said:
I agree the show is great and I think the early episodes were needed,the episodes we have had over the past few weeks would not have had nearly as much impact(For me at least)if we hadn't been given time to get to know the characters and if a normal pattern for adventures had not been set up first. Once you have that pattern then when you shake things up it has a real impact. For instance The Best of Both Worlds is one of the best Star trek stories ever but would have had nearly as much impact if it had been the pilot instead of an episode at the end of season three? I don't think so. The reason these stories have the impact they do is because they shake up what we were told to expect,if you don't know the characters then it really has no impact when their world is shaken up. Some people may think the first 12 episodes or so were filler but I see them as fun adventures and needed set up for what we have now and so far I have enjoyed every episode of the series to some degree.
While I agree that the previous episodes weren't filler or even that bad the thing that killed a lot of the momentum from them was the airing schedule. The types of episodes they were producing with the time they were airing really doesn't match. To justify the 1 or 2 new episodes a month they were doing for a while they needed the episodes to be more like a well written twilight zone episode. Episodes that work sort of like a movie themselves sort of like Batman:TAS. The episodes they were giving weren't that except for two the pilot and Yes men. Well actually just the pilot "Yes men" may work as an "event" type episode but the original twilight zone episodes I've seen are better written. The pilot isn't exactly that level, writing wise, but it's close enough. They're episodes that really needed a steady weekly schedule otherwise it creates the disdain many people have for those episodes right now. Calling them "filler" and whatnot. I just hope that they don't do the same airing schedule faux pas next time.
