Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26986589-20161029210635/@comment-27742249-20161101220842

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: But not when it's so slow the plot takes an eternity to wrap things up. Taking more time allows for more development, but taking too much time makes people get tired and lose interest.

Good point. They can't drag out Salem forever. Even then, after Salem, what next? Salem 2.0? Then, by time she's taken down, the show will have gone to being a proper story, or even just a good soap opera, as chbedok would put it.