Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30389283-20161230202424/@comment-24674051-20170103192013

Point taken. but at the same time, the writers all discuss the general course of the show, and they know what things will be set up. They are not writing in a vacuum (though it does appear that way at times). They are all professionals, and if they are worth anything then they take what the HAVE to do and find a way to make it work with the part of the story they are crafting. That is what good writers do.

Also, it would be harder to judge the newer writers, as they don't have as many episodes under their belt. But the writers that have been there since the beginning have enough material to make a fair assessment, regardless of the issues surrounding any particular episode, or scene from an episode.

Goodman has been involved in some of the really good episodes (only has one or two clunkers in his repetoire).

Espenson has also been generally good.

Chambliss, on the other hand, has been the writer on several of the episodes that I least liked.

As far as Hales and Fong are concerned, their writing is not bad, but one thing to keep in mind with them is that they are also a couple of the lead editors, and have touched almost all of the episodes in season 6 at some level (even the A&E anchors).