Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Trope Talk: Downtime" video.

  1. Star Trek provides an excellent example of the importance of downtime. I strongly believe that the primary reason why people who loved Deep Space Nine and hated Discovery feel that way was because the streaming-era 13-eps/season production didn't have room for "filler" stories that gave the propagonists enforced downtime, even in the middle of galaxy-spanning crises: your "Take Me Out to the Holosuite," "It's Only a Paper Moon" or even "Move Along Home."
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  2.  @epsilonlambdaomega1zero  SNW is definitely trying to give us more classic, episodic Trek, but I'm going to be peeved if S03 ends without giving us an Ortegas-focused episode.
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  3. I had no idea A24 was behind Hazbin. TIL!
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  4.  @HeyLookASquirrl  That's right! The Boimler Effect!
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  5.  @RealityOverwritten  "Magic" and "Lethe" before it were a wonderful bottle episodes that dramatically built on the show's characters. Season 1 was also the longest of the bunch at 15 episodes.
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  6. I think the phenomenon in modern writing has been dubbed a part of "Whedoning," due to it rising to prominence with the Avengers films. But it's ironic, since Firefly was really tasteful about it.
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