On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Two batches of seven episodes airing a year apart? That'd be two seasons > (well "series") where I come from. The average length of a series in the UK > is commonly six episodes - not always, but more often than not. > > I know there are probably contractual reasons for what is considered a > "single" season. But it's not. I mean they're bound to structure the two > parts to take account if the enormous break aren't they? > We will have to see how Wiener does it; in one sense Gilligan did not really structrue the two halfs of season 5 of Breaking Bad as seperate seasons. Episode 55 (the first of "Season 5 B") basically takes up its narrative plot minutes if not seconds from where episode 54 ended, even though about 11 months in the lives of the audience had elapsed between the two. Now, that is not quite accurate; there is a clear before and after demarcated by the very end of episode 54, and in a real sense everything after the end of season 5A is completely different from everything that came before it. Still, if all of the episodes of season 5 had played out in sequence without a break I don't think it would have felt any different in structure to any other BB season. I would much prefer to do as David suggests, and just wait to watch all of the last episodes of these shows in one batch, but by now I am too plugged into real and virtual communities around these shows to ever hope to avoid spoilers for an entire year. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
