Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160926013536/@comment-5106672-20160926180849

That's true: I jumped on board with Red-Handed and binge-watched the rest of S1 back then because the episode was great by itself and ignited my curiosity about what was going on in general. AND that format allowed to focus on character development more. They kind of did that again on S5B, but I'm afraid that, as you said, it's already too late.

As Eskaver pointed out, by this time around pretty much everything is a redux: they wasted a HUGE lot of plot points and character moments on filler arcs, drowning them in the contrivity of the current plotline so they didn't get enough focus, but now that they can really be brought to the foreground, they seem trite and already seen. Even unearthing years-old storylines and wrapping them up after ignoring them for years wouldn't do much good: do we really still care to find out who Nurse Ratched was back in FTL at this point? (I'm bringing her up because it's sort of a running gag for old-school fans, but back in the day it looked like her identity was some big deal à la Dr. Whale).