feeling listless

Blog! Tinka said lot's of nice things about this weblog yesterday, so I'm going to return the complement today. Her latest post is an interest exploration of 'The Phantom Edit' which underlined something I've noticed in many television shows. It's always difficult to work out why some shows stop being any good, or don't make sense in the context of their original intent. Northern Exposure's general wierdness lessened in later years. The direct film references of Dawson's Creek disappeared. It's because the original creators have left and their replacements, the new writers, are either fans of the show on a road to wishfulfillment, or brought in writers who are using their work on a show a springboard and don't care too much about the characters. Pray that Sorkin and Wheedon never up and leave -- god knows what we'd be left with....