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Originally Posted by Lostie!

I really liked season 3

The problem (with most of the shows affected) wasn't so much the overall direction, which would already have been given a rough draft, but more with the "filler" week to week episodes that are used to make up a full 20+ episode seasons run. Those were the episodes that really suffered. Just thrown together by whoever wanted to have a go I reckon .

Its also the reason it more or less destroyed Heroes, because it didn't really do those episodes, it was all about one long narrative. A lot of shows are now, but not so many back then. But it ended up veering wildly off course and never found its feet again.