Mo Ryan

Thank you so much, Cuz!

Still makes me laugh helplessly every time I watch it

I liked it! We are a majority of two! 👊🏻

Yup. Not a throwaway but along these lines, 1st episode of House my husband ever watched was Three Stories. He was stunned & said “are they all like this?” No, but that *could* exist bec they had the real estate to try something structurally ambitious & the practice & experience to take a big swing

Absolutely. I have rewatched Supernatural a bunch and I am re-watching DS9 again for many reasons, but this is one of them.

I was the founding editor of the official X-Files magazine, and I endorse this statement.

Yes. If the construction of the character dynamics, the evolution of those relationships and the evolution of those people is all well constructed? I would vibe with pretty much anything the show was putting down.

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Thank you! I really appreciate that.

I did this and YOU CAN TOO!

My go to example of what we lost is Damar from DS9. Without that room to play he would have basically remained a featured extra.
Plus we'd never have the funniest line delivery in all of DS9 -"I was planning to surprise you."

I think you and Ron Moore may have very similar brains. Once he has figured out what a show is, he’s like, “how can I not do *exactly* that anymore and what is a more fucked up but still interesting array of things to do?”

One of the best things I ever wrote came from the effect that the Leftovers had on me. And yes, Jon, I agree! 💚 variety.com/2017/tv/colu...

Exactly! If Battlestar Galactica wants to give me their version of the Guns of Navarone, yes please!

This is the way

There is a scene in the French Mistake, a great supernatural episode, that, I’m not kidding, reduces me to hysterical, crying laughter, every single time. This is a show about killing monsters and going to hell and Lucifer etc etc!!!!

RIGHT?????? Literally would’ve come up with 10 names before I got to Baltar

In many ways, that was the promise of streaming! Creative people were excited about tailoring a season to what it needed to be, not what external factors demanded. But unfortunately, that was a false promise, as Mike Schur explained a while back www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

👍🏻 what I’ve come to think of as Variety Pack television. Each season could have a whole bunch of different tones, Spotlights, character-focused episodes, moral dilemmas—you really just got a Whitman sampler type of thing. now it’s just, here’s everything mashed into 8 or 10, whether or not it works

I really hate characters not getting spotlight episodes anymore. All character development has to be mashed into eps with a lot of other elements. My new silly analogy is: croissants are great! But croissants are not potatoes. If you put a croissant in soup, it just isn’t a croissant anymore.

I’m not saying I would completely and eternally write off anyone who saw “unfinished business” as filler, but … I would think about it!

What’s filler to you might be exemplary world-building or moving character development to me. Many of the most engaging TV episodes of the past few decades are, by some definitions, mere “filler.” One working definition of filler could be: “This episode didn’t supply the things I personally like.”

Just wrote on this re Battlestar Galactica, which was right on the cusp of the transition to shorter seasons. On balance, I am glad that it had longer seasons while I fully understand that some episodes don’t work (but there were many reasons for that). Anyway, I came up with this salty passage:

no shade to my friends trying to negotiate the realities of the v messed up new-style TV landscape (nothing about how it is now is the fault of creative people) but I only rewatch shows that have more than 40-50 episodes.

I guess I continue to vaguely threaten to write a book called Previously huh

22 episode seasons too 😭

This gorgeous chunk loaf of a beaver is enjoying some grass along a Seattle-area riverside. The sun is out-ish. This damp brown-furred chungus of a water monster cares not for the world. It is likely happier than you or I will ever know.

Met this beautiful beef unit on my run this morning. Keep on keeping on, chief.

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I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

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