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Losing the Plot?
When TV dramas get too popular - Buffy, Alias and Veronica Mars are mentioned. Check it out ... |
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 "Shows get stretched beyond reasonable viability by giving each new season its own self-contained story arc. Buffy The Vampire Slayer avoided repeating itself for a while by giving Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) a new “Big Bad” to vanquish each season. While the show offered a mix of mytharc and MOTW episodes, the main business of each season was Buffy figuring out how to defeat this particular villain. It was a fine formula, but after the Season 5 finale – in which Buffy decided the only way to kill evil god Glory was with a blood sacrifice that resulted in her own death – creator Joss Whedon should have noticed that the series had arrived at a logical conclusion. Instead, Buffy hung on for two more seasons of diminishing returns.
Today’s most direct Buffy descendant is Veronica Mars, the story of a female sleuth stamping out evil in the town of Neptune, Calif. It’s still good, for now, largely because Veronica solves one big mystery per season, and these crimes arise naturally through existing characters."
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