Yeah gotta apologise for using that word, I didn't think you were. But I have seen others in other threads really go to gleeful town on world building and I'm getting exhausted by it. Harry Potter has holes so huge you could drive a truck through it, it's still pretty awesome.
I guess my other thing is people seem to often treat these serial shows like one episode is a movie and must be a complete entity leaving nothing for the next episode. They ask all these questions and accuse the show of not answering them and therefore being full of holes etc, when then the following episode the show does just that. I just wish some people were a bit more patient is all.
I don't know why these days, but I feel like a big softy, wanting to give people a chance. I'm tired of things being judged too quickly, and not being given a chance to grow (maybe it has something to do with how I feel authors these days have to have a massive success right out the gate or their publisher dumps them, I dunno - I just feel like no one allows people to improve by doing, to be nurtured. That's why so many shows fail, because there is so much pressure on that one pilot that they have to be so careful and wind up making mediocre pilots trying to please everyone - and in the end not pleasing anyone). Sure, we think cold unfeeling Hollywood when we see network TV, but I know the people who are behind the scenes, the passionate writers, the actors beyond thrilled that they finally landed a series, costume designers, special effects guys, all these people who just want to work. And I just want them to keep working. Especially since most of their jobs these days are being replaced by reality TV.
Now taste is another thing, if you don't like the show, you don't like the show. But if you think there's merit, I say let's try to give things a chance.
