[Locke]

My problem is less with the slowness and more with the time wasting, when you tell me a show gets 'good' x episode in, it usually means it STARTS there. Like as said, most of the stuff introduced before Date in OOO is completely throwaway and although we do get some good character moments the character arcs don't really kick in til Date appears, nor does the plot. That basically means almost half of the show can be skipped. And that isn't mentioning all the shows that people have said kick into gear thirty episodes in or beyond, it's nuts. It's nuts and it's even crazier that the community just seems to accept it.

With the way American TV works, I can kinda understand why it has filler even if I don't like it but when working on these series they know from the get go they are going to have fifty episodes (unless something major happens) so you think there'd be no filler, no wasted episodes, it'll all be completely focused....but it isn't and it's so frustrating.