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

[iamtheliquorr.livejournal.com]

Seriously man, wtf has been going on since Slave of Duty?

The eps since then have just been boring--I don't mind a bad ep if it's at least lulzy ("Conflicted" never stops being funny even after seeing it like 3 times), and last week provided some excellent snark fodder, but the ones before then were just so forgettable

I've got to be brutally honest--shitty CM still >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pretty much anything else on TV except Lost, Castle, and sometimes Grey's

[brabbel.livejournal.com]

Granted, CM's still very good - but it's the potential to be bloody awesome that's not realized which bothers me a lot.

[iamtheliquorr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that

But tbqh the complaining about CM since SoD is starting to remind me of Lost fans complaining at the start of the season, but we just got hit with two awesome eps in a row, so perhaps we're due for a really good arc to end the season?

The only reason I'm even worried is the fear that TPTB are off playing with the spinoff no one cares about anyway and oh dear Heathus in heaven what if the finale arc involves those jokers in the spinoff again and I swear upon all that is holy if that happens things will get even uglier than my grammar rn but yeah, I really fear CM going to get worse before it gets better :/