With summer slowly moving its way into fall, some of my favorite shows are preparing their next season run and with them comes a bit of frustration, and a bit of concern, on how these stories I'm looking forward to will progress. Because it seems, more and more noticeably, that our '30 minutes or less give me what I want mine mine mine' mentality has begun to snowball into some of the most ridiculous notions I have ever witnessed as an artist and a writer. We've gone from sitting back and watching characters develop over an unmeasured time span with little to no input on what we were seeing, to being adamant that we can tell the stories we are voluntarily watching better than those that have created it. As if each show is really a 'choose your own adventure ' book. Like somehow we are being cheated out of a custom designed experience because there isn't just the right amount of balance on the show for one to personally connect to it. ...