From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: jphalt@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: The Time Trap (TAS): my review   
      
   On Friday, September 2, 2011 8:26:53 AM UTC-7, Graeme wrote:   
   > On Aug 27, 10:12apm, "jph...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
   >    
   > > The ongoing pacing issue is aggravating, though. By this point in the   
   series' run, the writers and producers really should have a stronger sense of   
   how much story can fit into 22 minutes. >   
   >    
   > Well, part of the problem is that Star Trek was a 60 minute show, so   
   > when people try to write for TAS, they probably thought in those terms   
   > first, and then tried to adapt it to TAS.   
   Oh, I'm sure that's a large part of the ongoing pacing issue.  But I think the   
   results show that it was a wrong-headed approach.  The episodes that stand up   
   the best are consistently the ones with fairly simple plots (Yesteryear, One   
   of Our Planets Is Missing, The Survivor), stories that don't require too much   
   exposition to tell the tale and tell it well.  The ones with more complicated   
   plots, which might have worked well at an hour, equally consistently come   
   across as rushed and underdeveloped.   
   It's a forgiveable flaw, certainly.  But the best episodes of the series show   
   that it's an avoidable one, so it can't help but be disappointing how few   
   episodes are actually managing to avoid it.   
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