Originally Posted By: Dignan
I, for example, expect as much from House as I'm getting, which is to say a purely episodic show with little to no ongoing story.

It's not being episodic per se that annoyed me about that episode, it's being episodic badly. Episodic programmes have their own discipline; if Sulu and Chekhov hate each other one week, and are best friends the next, and there's no in-world explanation or even mention of that character lurch, then that's undisciplined writing.

Peter