Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"[...] the pacing of that show was incredible. I don't ever remember feeling rushed or bored by it!"

I can recall a few times watching Buffy, when exposure to other shows had taught me, "these details tell me the boring part is about to start," ... and then not being bored after all because it went in a different direction. (I could still usually recognize the "get ready for a commercial break" scenes without looking at a clock, but y'know, the sponsors wield powerful magics ...

"I feel 44mins isn't quite enough for them to tell their story of the week... the end always feels like it's been truncated."

I think I see the effect you mean, but I'm not 100% certain I'm seeing the same thing you're describing -- and that it hits you that way but puts sodyera to sleep is, I suspect, another result of that tension between the long story and the short ones ... but I haven't slept and that makes thoughts slippery and while I was looking stuff up (like verifying that the producer (who turns out to be one of eight executive producers the show has had -- is it normal for a show this young to have had that many executive producers already?) was the same guy who did Jack of All Trades and Cleopatra 2525) the train of thought that had almost worked out how the episodes could be simultaneously too long and too short, slipped away. Feh.



And no need to apologize for a drop-in comment; it's one of the ways to meet people in "Web 2.0" land.