From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: The Time Trap (TAS): my review   
      
   "jphalt@gmail.com"  wrote in   
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   > 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 s    
   > eries' 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.    
   >    
      
   All 22 are better than Spock's Brain.   
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