On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:35:11, you wrote: >> >> > >> >The formula idea is that nothing ever actually happens. Or in other >>words, >> >everything is back to normal at the end of the episode. That way viewers >> >can miss an episode and still know what is going on. >> >>That's typical of any show in it's first season since characters are still >>being >>introduced. You introduce characters and places -- and then you drop a >>piano >>on the viewer. > >That's typical of star trek during every season, even the old show. The >only notable exception is in the end of deep space Nine where they are >trying to copy Babylon 5. > >> >>This is even true for major arc-series like Babylon 5 and even really LoGH >>up to >>about episode 7. > >The first season of babylon 5 is full of foreshadowing of what will happen >and major events (that effect later epsidoes) do happen during a few of the >first episodes. Yes but at the time it wasn't very obvious. Andromeda is the same way. I think you're assuming Andromeda is resetting things to 'normal' at the end of each episode and that's not really the case. -- Lee Thompson thompsonl@logh.net