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frivolity · 2012-10-22, 02:42

Another issue is that shows with rarer or broader "premise" are generally more difficult to execute well. Exotic premises are hard to pull off because there's little previous work that the crew can look at for reference, while the ideas and issues in broad premises are difficult to tie together in a cohesive manner. If they did get executed well, however, then it is easier for the viewer to deem the work as being great as opposed to just good.

From a statistical point of view, series with rarer or broader premise have larger variance and could end up anywhere, while those with common premise tend to fail less but generally don't achieve greatness. Perhaps that's why premise is important when convincing someone to start watching a particular series - because there is higher probability of the series being great.

At the same time, given that series with common premise tend to be more difficult to achieve the level of greatness since its execution has to be really sublime in order to differentiate it from all previous similar work, then when such a series actually does become great, it would start to attract attention because such shows are so rare.

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frivolity My posts are frivolous Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35	Another issue is that shows with rarer or broader "premise" are generally more difficult to execute well. Exotic premises are hard to pull off because there's little previous work that the crew can look at for reference, while the ideas and issues in broad premises are difficult to tie together in a cohesive manner. If they did get executed well, however, then it is easier for the viewer to deem the work as being great as opposed to just good. From a statistical point of view, series with rarer or broader premise have larger variance and could end up anywhere, while those with common premise tend to fail less but generally don't achieve greatness. Perhaps that's why premise is important when convincing someone to start watching a particular series - because there is higher probability of the series being great. At the same time, given that series with common premise tend to be more difficult to achieve the level of greatness since its execution has to be really sublime in order to differentiate it from all previous similar work, then when such a series actually does become great, it would start to attract attention because such shows are so rare.