Assuming it'll hit 16 episodes per season, that gives us 48 weeks of programming a year within this universe. That's very little time-off. There won't be any real point or weight to "mid-season finales" anymore. So it'll feel like too much, 16 episodes too long, will be overdoing it.
shareThey should just condense each season to 12 episodes and due away with the mid season final crap, along with the filler episodes.
shareThey probably will, because then they'd have room for a fourth show
shareI wish with FEAR they spent more time on how the outbreak started and the early stages of it.
shareToo expensive to shoot I guess.
shareThat's always bugged me too. It was marketed about being about the beginning of the outbreak. I wasn't necessarily hoping for patient zero or a solid explanation, but yeah, more would've been nice, but we got like four or five episodes and that was it. Now it rushed to become the Morgan and Alicia show. I don't understand why they've forged such a supposedly strong bond anyway
shareThis was discussed without end on the old IMDB boards. It would have been nice to see more of the outbreak, but it skipped to "9 days later" and TWD West Coast.
sharethe series should start on how they engineered the virus and how it got started. from the very beginning.. what made them try to make the virus? was it a cure for something? what happened? did it work then become contaminated? how did it spread? etc. etc..
shareThey should definitely make fewer episodes for any future spin-off. Making 5-7 good episodes that draw you in and keep you interested would be much better than dragging that same story out over 16 episodes like they usually do.
shareAnywhere in the 8-13 episode range is generally good, depending on how much story there is to tell. I'd consider doing more than that ... if I had a tight narrative that simply took that much screen time to play out. The old network TV standard of 20-24 eps. per season was ridiculous though. Half of them ended up being filler. They even had what they called "clip shows", entire episodes stitched together from clips of previous ones. Either the characters were reminiscing, one of them was on trial or being interrogated, whatever. With just ten minutes of new footage they'd fill an entire hour.
It would be okay in theory to have a 20 episode season. In practice though, it's almost impossible to get the budget you'd need and even harder to write scripts that stay on point and hold viewers' attention that long without going off on tangents or piling on the filler.