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Originally Posted by Locke

Or to give toku more plot. Lots of people have given well worded straw man arguments as to why toku is paced in the way it is, but ultimately there is no excuse for a fifty episode series to only have plot for twenty of them.

If they know they have fifty episodes, they should write a plot that spans that, it isn't hard and if the writer is finding it hard, don't hire a headwriter who doesn't know how to carry a story that far. American shows have lasted for like twenty seasons and although you can argue the details of those shows they still never had the quantity of filler Japanese programming does like toku and anime.

It is very hard to generate a new, coherent, character-rich, plot-filled story every week -- let alone one that contributes to a giant, cohesive whole. There are very, very few writers who can see the macro and micro views of a story at the same time. It's torturously difficult, and I think those who are good at it only make it look easy.

And I dunno. I think Buffy, X-Files, Supernatural, Lost -- all massively well regarded and influential shows -- are about 50% filler (or more). And the shows that have lasted for 20 years are highly procedural -- meaning, they're 100% filler.