<div dir="auto">They're pretty much over that. Most networks seem pretty comfortable with season-long plot arcs, at least as long as the ratings stay up. Parks and Rec, Good Place, The Office, Homeland, etc.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 11:22 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 7:52 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">"Ja, right Spock! Remember that time you got horny? That whole ponn farr episode wasn't exactly a picnic for us illogical humans either. Being nearly killed by my own first officer was an irritant too, ya pointy eared hobgoblin!" Kirk<br>
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Well that's what Kirk woulda said if they let me write those scripts.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But any reference (even a self-contained, self-explained one like this) to another episode will hopelessly confuse viewers who may not have seen or might not remember other episodes, or so most studios take as holy canon. :P </div></div></div>
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