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How can a show like this be aired in modern times?

posted 8 years ago by mrchanmanx
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My understanding is that it is not "the work of an average joe" to get a large network to pick up a show and then spend money marketing it to people.

The network that picks up a show will have editors, analysts, professionals and their counterparts, their counter parts, their editors etc and so on review, and double check every presentation that is offered to them because they have limited airtime to fill and want to select only the best shows to fill it.

So how is it that a show with this many plot holes, this rushed of a time frame of events, no character development and insane amount of paradoxes is approved by a large network?

Surely this network is run by well educated, top paid professionals that reviewed the premise of the show, were they not concerned with many of the obvious things that even the basic audience of a IMBD forum picked up on?

We live in a world where the average citizen now has a college degree, and most people have access to a plathora of information via the web that will enable them to see past the ridiculous premise of a show like this.

So again, how does a show like this actually gets picked up by a large network if they have people who check and double check the validity of shows to fill airtime?

[–] starwolf 8 years ago

So again, how does a show like this actually gets picked up by a large network if they have people who check and double check the validity of shows to fill airtime?

What follows is my opinion. I can't prove any of it.

Remember the line from "Gladiator" - "Are you not entertained?"

If people are entertained their suspension of disbelief stretches accordingly and they will forgive bigger and bigger plotholes. If you don't entertain them and give them time to think you'd better have a solid plot.

If this show entertained better I don't think as many people would be looking at all the logic problems the show has.

Just by the way, I was not that entertained. I thought the pilot had a rushed feeling all through it (perhaps so people didn't have time to think and go "Wait a minute..."), as a science fiction story it didn't hang together all that well, and I was sick of the black guy whining pretty quickly. That got old in the first show.

Is that why he's on the show, to whine?

Anyway, I think the networks hope people will be entertained and forgive the "occasional" plothole.

[–] klandersen 8 years ago

The network that picks up a show will have editors, analysts, professionals and their counterparts, their counter parts, their editors etc and so on review, and double check every presentation that is offered to them because they have limited airtime to fill and want to select only the best shows to fill it.

Then how did the reality TV format become so damn popular and financially worthy? They are far from "the best shows" made.

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[–] iamvox 8 years ago

Because it's a fantasy/adventure show, not a treatise on theoretical time travel?

Just like "The Good Place" is a fish-out-of-water comedy, not an explication of theories on the afterlife. Or "The X-Files" was a suspense/mystery drama with some horror overtones, not an investigation into the paranormal or alien visitation.

Any time travel story has 987234923864 paradoxes. Peronally, I liked the main trio of characters, and I think it's a little early to ask for a lot of development, considering all the other things a pilot has to do.

It was fun, light entertainment, and it mostly worked for me. If it's cancelled, I won't really care, but it was good enough to watch a few more episodes before deciding to keep watching or not.

[–] stile99 8 years ago

> We live in a world where the average citizen now has a college degree, and most people have access to a plathora of information

And yet the average person appears unable to spell the word plethora.

[–] iamvox 8 years ago

Also, in 2013 31.66% of the US population 25 years old or more had a bachelor's degree or higher.

[–] ldlamb74 8 years ago

I love complaints about the "realism" involved in a time travel show.

[–] hite-1 8 years ago

And some of us watch it just for entertainment and not try to figure it out.

[–] CharlesTheBold 8 years ago

Surely this network is run by well educated, top paid professionals
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They're probably paid a lot, but I don't know about good education. Network suits strike me as paint-by-numbers types. Not only show little brilliance, but they tend to beat down programmers who do . There's a reason why networks have been losing to cable for years.