09-23-2014, 01:41 PM
Not sure if this is the appropriate thread, but just for my own interest, I added-up the repetitive episode titles, at least some of them:
Vortex: 4
Catalyst: 3
Insufficiency: 3
Reaction: 4
Excitation: 4
There were many others that were used twice, including Hypothesis, Paradigm, and Experiment, and there were probably some others that I missed.
Now, granted, this is not a big deal and I wouldn't care what the episodes were called, as long as they were GOOD, but doesn't this seem symptomatic of lazy writing in general? Are the writers unable to Google a list of science terms, or a list of words ending in "-ation"? Are they unable to crack open the glossary of a high school science textbook? I like the format of this show's titles, I think it is/was cute and clever, but the repetition is getting slightly ridiculous. I feel like there's a Vortex and an Insufficiency once every three or four episodes, now.
Maybe I'll keep a running tally of this stuff, and see. I dunno, I know this is a very, very minor thing, but it's representative of how lazy the writing has become, don't you think? Isn't the title supposed to be the easiest part?
Vortex: 4
Catalyst: 3
Insufficiency: 3
Reaction: 4
Excitation: 4
There were many others that were used twice, including Hypothesis, Paradigm, and Experiment, and there were probably some others that I missed.
Now, granted, this is not a big deal and I wouldn't care what the episodes were called, as long as they were GOOD, but doesn't this seem symptomatic of lazy writing in general? Are the writers unable to Google a list of science terms, or a list of words ending in "-ation"? Are they unable to crack open the glossary of a high school science textbook? I like the format of this show's titles, I think it is/was cute and clever, but the repetition is getting slightly ridiculous. I feel like there's a Vortex and an Insufficiency once every three or four episodes, now.
Maybe I'll keep a running tally of this stuff, and see. I dunno, I know this is a very, very minor thing, but it's representative of how lazy the writing has become, don't you think? Isn't the title supposed to be the easiest part?