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* A common complaint of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' Season Two. You had the Maquis vs. Starfleet plot, Kazon/Seska plots, Paris pretending to be a jerk to get thrown off, is there another Caretaker out there, etc. A key factor of [[Better on DVD]].
* May possibly have killed ''[[Drive]]''. Unless it was the overall lack of planning.
* The final season of the remake of ''[[
* ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' attempted this in Season Eight, with all six major characters getting a personal subplot:
** Adam Schiff's re-election fight.
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** Lennie Briscoe's turmoil with his daughter - an ex-junkie turned states witness.
** Rey Curtis' martial strife, stemming from the one-night stand he had in "Aftershock" (s6e23).
:Most L&O fans consider it the series's low point,<ref>Prior to Season Twenty's parade of political anvils</ref> as the episodes would come to a screeching halt every time the subplots came along. Season Nine wrapped up every single one within the first few episodes, with only Van Buren and McCoy's plots having any lingering effect past mid-Season Nine.▼
▲Most L&O fans consider it the series's low point,<ref>Prior to Season Twenty's parade of political anvils</ref> as the episodes would come to a screeching halt every time the subplots came along. Season Nine wrapped up every single one within the first few episodes, with only Van Buren and McCoy's plots having any lingering effect past mid-Season Nine.
* The one or two episodes prior to a ''[[Lost]]'' season finale have multiple groups of characters setting out on the lines that will blow up in a '''BIG''' way during the thrill-a-minute final (2-hour-long) episode. Each group makes some progress, but the payoffs are deferred.
* Subverted in ''[[Farscape]]'' in its third season by splitting John Crichton into two people, and then sending each copy on a different ship with part of the crew. For much of the season, episodes alternated between the two crews, allowing the show to more manageably juggle episodic and arc plots. {{spoiler|Ironically, the copy of John Crichton involved in the more arc-oriented episodes was the one who ''didn't'' survive.}}
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