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

[flameturnedblue.livejournal.com]

The stop-start nature of this series is irksome - somehow it all seems so much more disrupted and jumbled compared with last year.

Some people have already made excellent points about the post-Foyet arc slump (not to mention the mess that was 5x18), which probably adds to that feeling of frustration - everyone's waiting for a decent ep., and the wait in between seems so long. It makes it very easy to forget the good stuff.

While I appreciate that the writers, crew, etc. have done an admirable job in the face of cuts and such, a kind of malaise has crept in. Maybe not as far as all fans are concerned (opinions are as varied as snowflakes, I guess), but I can certainly see your point. I think it's discussion worthy.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Best. Icon. Ever.

[flameturnedblue.livejournal.com]

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