I say this mainly because of pacing and attention span. I remember watching those shows for whole episodes and not know what's going on and having to wait several episodes for payoffs. I can't think of any great shows today that are written that way. Attention spans are much shorter and the pace of action is way faster.

Even a show like Game of Thrones which started at the end of that era, if you look at the first season versus the later seasons, the pace and action picks up incredibly.


Then there were shows HBO shows like John from Cincinnati and Carnivale that didn't know that times had changed and were killing people with it's slow meandering pace.

My theory is Lost killed that slow pace stuff.


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