In the beginning of each episode, we are introduced to a certain crisis. However at the very end of the episode, the crisis gets resolved. This is all too predictable. Just once, I'd like to see the crisis resolved at the midway point of the episode or maybe it gets resolved after the episode ends, in which the events happen off screen. The same ole formula they use in each episode is too predictable
shareThe formula you describe characterizes almost all series television from the late 1940s through at least the 1980s, and was adopted from radio series of the 1920s through 1940s. Each episode was a completely self-contained drama that was resolved in the last five minutes. There were occasional two-part stories, but the season-long (and longer) story and character arcs we're used to today are mostly a 21st century tv phenomenon.
shareOh thanks. I was not aware of that.
shareI try not to talk to Millsey. The formula has been around longer than that. Try 4 or 5 millenia. It is a staple of most fiction.
Multi-part stories are, of course, possible and happen. Walker had several of them, IIRC.
Author of the Sodality Universe
The Road from Antioch
In the Markets of Tyre
Flight to Lystra
The Theater at Ephesus
The Council on Jerusalem (coming late 2023)
The only formula this show needs is:
Roundhouse kick to the face and the bad guy goes down.
ALL HAIL CHUCK!
This was a very hopeful, family-friendly show. Chuck Norris always got to save the day
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