James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks: > How do you decide whether a episode will be a two parter or as a > series of connected stand alones like "Severed Dreams" is a part > of? Do you have any two part episodes planned for season 4 yet?
For the most part, it's a matter of how the episodes feel to me, what length they feel as if they require. When I did the big three this year -- Messages, Point and Dreams -- I hadn't really figured they'd be as tightly connected as they ended up being. I knew they'd relate strongly to one another, but in a sense, they're reallly a three parter. The War Without End story I knew was WAY too big for one episode, but due to the structure of the story wouldn't take being extended for one more episode; at that point you'd just be dragging it out.
It's all instinct, I wish I had a more concrete answer.
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