My optimistic take on the Destiny story (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, September 18, 2014, 13:14 (3505 days ago) @ Earendil

All that Filler
Television shows also suffer from having a defined start and end, filled with season after season of filler that they will produce as long as they can. See Star Trek: Voyager for an example of this. It doesn't make for bad television, but it's not a great story arc. You know how/why it starts, and the end point is well defined. In the interim, the writers will spend as much time as they can get away with filling the middle with stories that don't actually have an effect on the larger arc. Again, it's the uncertainty of knowing how long a thing will last causes either highly compressed story, or a bunch of filler that can't actually change the overall story for fear that you'll start wrapping it up.

And the best TV series like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones had / have an end plan from the start. So does Bungie. So that's not an excuse.