Originally Posted by Kody
I know, right? Love Hocus Pocus.
I just kinda shrugged at the article, ignorant people will be ignorant. Old who was my favorite way of doing who episodes, despite the new stuff having great episodes as well.
But anyways, I think DS9 exemplifies how I feel a series should go.. it had a ton of arcs, going through the seasons and series both, with a consistent sort of feel due to it taking place on a space station. But, it had plenty of one shot episodes that were amazing as well. DS9 is really the best Star Trek series and one of the better television shows in general because of this.
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To me, the biggest strength of Deep Space 9 was how character driven it was, just how much development and diversity you could get over so many primary, secondary and background characters. (Morn, anyone?) It not only made Star Trek feel more diverse. It wasn't afraid to explore darker aspects of the series alongside the idealistic vision Roddenberry had developed.
You are right in that,. It felt consistent and got better over time, rather then suddenly everything feeling different episode to episode unlike Voyager. DS9 was happily able to make up season-long arcs, as well as the entire show telling the story of the gradually developing hostilities between the Federation and Dominion. But also able to show off single story episodes which were light-hearted in tone and helped break things up. To me it sits proudly alongside TNG as some of the best that Star Trek has ever offered.
Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
Old Doctor Who consisted almost entirely of arcs, the most episodic anything got was five episode long serials that more often than not tied directly into the serials that followed. One of the best seasons they had involved that Key to Time that was a long ass arc that would give Lost a run for its money.
Standalone episodes are a purely new-Who thing and they are usually some of the suckiest episodes they have.
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Agreed. I preferred Classic-Who's approach to stories. Key to Time being a nice example. Genesis of the Daleks also springs to mind. The individual episodes seen in new-Who easily range from horrible to really good..
I'm reminded of Tennant's first season, where we went from the excellent Impossible Planet/Satan Pit to the utterly dire Love and Monsters and Fear Her and then back to Army of Ghosts/Doomsday. I find the multi-part stories of New-Who to be much better, they have a lot more more time to set things up, develop it and reach the climax in a natural way.
Then again individual episodes like School Reunion and Blink are superb, but they also stand out lot better compared to other episodes during RTD's tenure.