Why do shows still have B plots?Either have enough material for longer main stories or stop wasting my time
>>221162955good television isn't being made anymore
>>221162955Doesn’t the b plot combine with a plot in the ending?
>>221162955It's called dovetailing.
>>221162955>He doesn't enjoy fun side quests from time to timeYou're soulless.
People on this site just decide random things are crimes against humanity and then keep getting angry at their existence.
Ideally, you'd spin off the B plot into a shorter episode that's part of the same broadcast.
>Seasons have 8 episodes now instead of 20-24>Somehow there's more filler than back then
>>221162955You are wrong and you should feel very badly about your wrong opinions. Shows moving away from the 22 episodes a year, every year for years, format is half of why they suck right now. They're not movies, they're not novels, they're not videogames, they're not plays. They're TV shows. 'B-plots' and 'filler' were the main bulk of the content was seeing the actors deliver the performance and the characters develop relationships with each other and establish their place in the fictional world. This is all just assumed nowadays, the characters all have to archetypal, or it's some 'Surf Dracula' ish that focuses too intensely on one aspect of it and teases the rest. >>221164098That's because today it really is 'filler'. They're almost concerned to put in any characterization that has any angle where it could be called flawed or lazy or non-PC, so they pad it out with utter nothings.
>>221162955Because people who aren't you have attention spans
I wanna berate the OP but I share my own autistic dislike of a solidified element of television, although in my case it's a specific genre of TV. What I hate is the mandatory 'straight man'. I've heard it, read it, seen it, but I will never agree with the idea of "You can't just have someone being hilariously weird or awful, you need a straight man to balance it out." Nah, fuck off. Comedy is not improved by having someone do something amusing, and then having a perpetual Jason Bateman character there to roll his eyes at them two seconds later.
>>221164374um OK ... *that* just happened
>>221163165Not always but, eventually, that was the intended practice I think.
>>221164242The last bastion of long form tv that wasn't afraid to let the characters and world breathe was kdramas. Up until just a couple years ago the majority of the shows were 16, sometimes up to 24 or more, episodes. Now the 'everything must drive the main plot' are ruining those too and were getting a ton of shit shows that are only 8-10 episodes.
>>221164588cdramas are usually 40
>>221164608In current year? Absolutely not they are seeing episode counts dwindle as well.
>>221162955>Why do shows still have B plots?>Either have enough material for longer main stories or stop wasting my timeFucking THANK YOU for saying this.I watched Deadwood. The whole time I'm thinking, WTF does this theater group have to do with the plot. Turns out, absolutely nothing. Just filler due to lack of material.
>>221164588Is it a budget or scheduling issue? Is it the streaming model? My feeling is that if someone tried to make prestige TV today on the same paradigm (22 eps, metaplot for 5 seasons roughly planned out, maybe 5 or 6 episodes with big SFX or choreography wanks) the online audience would deliver very negative feedback for all the normal episodes where the characters get to exist doing normal stuff.
>>221162955Because the writing cartel forces them to have a dozen B writers.
>>221164713idk all I know is we saw how they ruined western tv and yet people are watching it happen the exact same way with kdramas in real time again and still cheering it on, absolute madness.
>>221164242Bump for visibility
>>221164588They call them k-dramas, but most of them are actually romantic comedies. What's up with that?
>>221166486It's konglish so they just borrowed the word it doesn't have the exact definition of the origin word.
>>221164713>Is it a budget or scheduling issue?It might be. It's physically impossible for the lead actor to appear in every scene of an hour-long drama. Doesn't a series have to have multiple lead actors, or material that only minimally involves the leads?
binge watchers and their consequences have been a disaster for television
