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Disagree. It gives you the opportunity to have ~10 tight episodes rather than ~20 with a lot of filler. It's rare to find a ~20 episode season of TV on any show where you unequivocally like every single one (TNG season 3 comes pretty close). It does happen with ~10 episode seasons, like the first few seasons of House of Cards.
I mean technically yea, but how many are actually pulling that off. A lot of these shows coming out now still have shit pacing even with short seasons covering only a few story lines. Two examples off the top of my head, The Acolyte was like 8 episodes long and they had a flashback episode. Picard S2 could have been wrapped up as a 2 parter. At least with the long seasons you get more content even if a few duds end up in there.
I think there's going to be a lot more examples of solid 10 episode seasons than 20. Proportionately speaking; there's a longer history of traditional TV to draw on. Of course, not everything is going to be gold.
Characters, characters, characters. 'It's about the Characters, Stupid'. 10 episodes does not leave the space for them to develop.
Nonsense. Firefly created a fantastic villain, Jubal Early, in the space of just one episode. Good writers don't need 20 episodes to do that.
Agreed. And Pike, Spock, Uhara, and pretty much everyone on SNW are great characters. But look at every single main and recurring character on DS9. Watch the first episode, and the last. Even Rom is a drastically different person by the end. Quark, Garak, BASHIR. That kind of change just cannot happen with 10 episodes per, especially not with a ~20 person ensemble.
I had forgotten about Early. Such an odd choice to name him after a Confederate general. Apparently said general was an ancestor of Nathan Fillion, which I suppose is the reason for it. Richard Brooks really nailed that part, though.