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On the other hand, those shows hit the big reset button every week. I'd love something episodic, but what happens in previous episodes still has an effect on future episodes. Star Trek started to do that a little with DS9, but even there... O'Brien is in a mind prison for what he thinks is 20 years and he's fine in the next episode?
We call that Star Gate.
Surely you meant Farscape?
Why not both?
I loved SG1 but they didn't do nearly enough of that. I never watched Atlantis or the other one though.
SG-1 had a huge forward progression. At the beginning they were basically a hiking team, but by the end they had tech that surpassed Trek.
The whole episodic vs serialised thing was pretty much during that time.
It's pretty obvious from the shows of the era.
House, for one. Earlier seasons being rather strictly episodic, and last season being a serialised joke about how ridiculous the rigid episodic nature of the earlier seasons were. Not ecactly, but..
He's not fine on the inside