Originally posted by JoeD80
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1) An arc proper as with BABYLON 5.
As mentioned, this was THE SHOW to truly encompass a full and united beginning, middle and end in a TV series that was not a specific adapation. It really played 'like a book, with each episode acting as an individual chapter' to paraphrase JMS.
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2) The basic concept of the show...
V, Battlestar Galactica - the original series
The 'arc' such as it was, was designed to keep the story open and running, AND NOT to move it to a conclusion. That was why so many of these shows never got past one season. It did not take long for the audiences to realise that the show, whilst enjoyable, would just drag on ad infenitum
That was in fact one of the many things that JMS was trying to change. The difference maker was the planned ending.
Would BUFFY have had the end it got if the idea behind B5 hadn't already began to make inroads into producer's minds? I don't know abut this particular one, though. Joss W is a very talented and capable writer (shame about his WONDER WOMAN movie) so I am certain that the final episode idea would have occured to him to at some point. Plus, as I understand it, he and JMS are friends anyway so many a 'fireside chat' regarding this point would not have been an ususal thing either, I would imagine.
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