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Originally Posted by jhall23
Yeah. Alot, of great art comes from "riffing" if you will. Music often does. Just cause something has an ending all planned out doesn't qualify it as art vs something that doesn't.
Also there is no reason that a TV show couldn't have it all planned out before. Didn't one of those space shows (Babylon 5 maybe) have it all mapped out from start to finish? I didn't watch that, but I remember hearing about it.
I never said Breaking Bad wasn't art. That was the other dude. I merely said that TV shows are not on par with OTHER story telling art. This is not the fault of the artist, however, but merely due to the medium and the way it's produced.
Are we, for example, expected to believe that Walt Jr. is 15 years old in S01-EP01 and 16 years old in S05-EP02? I'm not even going to go into the whole Skyler's appearance thing (but wtflol).
I'm not blaming the creators of the show for stuff like that. That's just the stuff that the medium brings with itself, and thus excusable. It DOES detract from the viewing experience and pleasure though, at least for me it does.