Acceptable Forms

I've been wondering if all they're looking for is sketches and short episode or if they want to branch out into something more ambitious for the show since they have a chance to do something groundbreaking.

I got this comment that seems to feel different. "How come? 'An Angel's Destiny' is not a series of 2:30 shows. They are 2:30 segments of a larger product, and no amount of editing will change that. That is not me trying to impose my opinion about them, just that because of it, they don't pass the rules"


I've been looking through the rules and I can't find anything that says that, the only thing it does say is
We're looking for things that feel like a TV show and that doesn't always mean just sketches. There are also other forms of TV shows like what is known as the Miniseries with Roots being a famous example



They had the advantage of being able to tell a story with a much wider scope. Than just a series of Episode since after a few seasons the writing eventually gets stale and they start
Jumping the shark it happened in Knight Rider



It happened in Quantum Leap after a while



It even happened as far back as when The Fugitive was on the air because of the nature of having to structure the writing of episodes.



In the tutorial about story structure it also says
"
"Remember creating Acceptable TV involves striking that delicate balance between giving the audience what it wants and giving it what it doesn't know it wants yet"" so why should they be locked into only sketches and short episodes?

You would think that going through the 8 steps they outlined

1. Something

2. Need

3. Go

4. Search

5. Find

6. Take

7. Back To

8. Where it was


of the basic
Hero's journey myth in only 2:30 wouldn't leave much room for any character developement necessary for it unless they had multiple episodes to explore it.

Granted it has to catch the attention at the 1st go or it won't be voted back, but that doesn't mean it can't tell a larger story, just that the characters that are introduced in the 1st part have to be interesting enough and the situation that is presented has to be engaging enough to want to see more. For example Isoceles and Esperanza I loved the characters and the initial plot.



But it was just as much a segment as what
AcceptableVids said An Angel's Destiny was.

It was a full episode in the version on YouTube but that was twice as long so the one here was only a seqment of that

I'm not sure how he rationalized his interpretation of the rules to include that one, but it certainly looks like bias to me. Most likely the result of being in that clique

I think it would be better to expand that interpretation to get better videos for the shows instead of only the sketches they've been used to and that would improve the quality of the show.