JimLes
Well-Known Member
Biggest problem with North American TV shows is the whole approach to making them. You get an idea, create a concept, pitch it to execs and hope it gets picked up. How long for? Well, a season to begin with. Then you hope to go from there. There's no overarching creative vision. You don't say "Hey, I've got this idea for a show. It will go like this, run for 3 years, then end this way." You just pitch an idea and hope you can milk it for as long as possible. Hence the garbage that is Big Bang right now. They had no idea the show would last this long when they created it, and they had no idea of what would happen on the show right now when they started it. They're just making it up as they go along.
Even worse was That 70s Show. The first couple of seasons were strong, a sweet and funny piece of nostalgia that captured both the decade and what it's like to be a teenager in any decade. Of course, the concept of "6 teenagers in highschool in the late 70s" ran into a problem of 8 seasons and then the timeline got wonky and the show became unwatchable. You can tell that the creators had absolutely no idea where they wanted to take it and how they wanted to end it when they created it.
Even worse was That 70s Show. The first couple of seasons were strong, a sweet and funny piece of nostalgia that captured both the decade and what it's like to be a teenager in any decade. Of course, the concept of "6 teenagers in highschool in the late 70s" ran into a problem of 8 seasons and then the timeline got wonky and the show became unwatchable. You can tell that the creators had absolutely no idea where they wanted to take it and how they wanted to end it when they created it.
