frustration with schedule - careful: rant ahead

[brabbel.livejournal.com]

I'm extremely frustrated, now that I've examined the CBS-schedule for CM - after today's episode there's another 3-week hiatus planned. How do they expect people to keep interest in a series when they keep interrupting the season for 3 weeks after just 2 episodes. And why does this season only have 22 episodes (my guess, since a season generally runs just to the middle of May)? Okay, we had the Olympic Games which account for 2 weeks without CM - but 24 episodes would still have been possible...

It seems as if they spent all their efforts on one mediocre episode (The Fight), respectively on the hype around 100 - and don't know quite how to continue from there... which is majorly disappointing, especially the non-follow up so far to the events of the first half of the season. If that's a spectre of what this series has still to offer in coming seasons, I'm seriously underwhelmed.

Sorry, I had to get that out of my system. Let's just hope the last 4 episodes of season 5 at least reflect some of what makes CM such a good programme, so that I'm inclined to switch on my TV again next season... right now, I'm very ambivalent about this series unfortunately.

Comments

[urban-cougar15.livejournal.com]

This is why I like, or I guess after this season it will be "liked" 24. Yes you have to wait 7 months for new episodes, but when it's on, it's on. Every week. No breaks. From what I understand, this is how most shows are aired outside the US.

[drasticbarbie.livejournal.com]

one thing about "24", (i'm not a fan, but have seen eps) is that it maintains continuity from ep to ep, season to season. so i feel that you are right about that.

House, M.D. is also getting better, i feel, with the exception of that recent Cuddy ep. and Cuddy's new boyfriend, who i can't stand. they continue to have interesting patients and cases while still moving characters along in their lives.

i feel like CM's writers are writing stand alone stories and shoving them into the one hour time slot. they might be more successful if they wrote interesting storylines, including character development, and played them out over two or three eps, maintaining continuity from ep to ep, season to season.

each ep does a few things. we meet victim(s) and unsub(s). we see some of the crime. the team is informed of the case, discuss it at HQ and on jet. they spend a few minutes with cop(s) of the week. they interview and so forth, make a profile, and go after the unsub(s). during all that, we continue to see victim(s) and unsub(s). the endings are cut short and details are left out that would make the show more understandable.

if each plot happened over two or more eps, we'd get much more detail and more complete endings, like the previous eps that were continued over two eps. and the main characters can have more complete and detailed backstories, which i think we all like.

other shows do/did this, like 24, House, Ugly Betty, ER, NYPD Blue, Profiler. CM is an amazing show. it introduced us to a part of the FBI we didn't know existed. most of the crimes are really fascinating, in spite of being horrific. and the actors are really top notch. we love the actors and their characters. but i personally would like to see more of them while still seeing their cases. and i'd like for the writers and whoever to do a bit more research, maybe shoot on location more, so that when they bring in local color for their locations, they do it write.

[drasticbarbie.livejournal.com]

*edit*

right, not write.

[flameturnedblue.livejournal.com]

House, M.D. is also getting better, i feel, with the exception of that recent Cuddy ep. and Cuddy's new boyfriend, who i can't stand.

I'm wandering off the CM topic, but I so agree with this!