A few days ago I started a conversation about the difficulty of creating a TV show that maintains continuity and evolves story from start to finish. I found myself enthralled by Haven tonight and thought, this show is making it work. Haven is based in part off of Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid. The show started a year or two back, drawing heavily on the fiction of King to create a town where nearly everyone suffers from a ‘trouble’. Being troubled is a nice way of saying these people all have some form of mutant power.
As the show developed, it focused in on a main character, Audrey. Turns out she has lived many lives, all of them in Haven. The show focuses on the quest to stop her from dying or disappearing before another of these lives emerge.
It isn’t BSG, but this is another example of a show that has a chance to pull it all together in the end. I think the key to that is not being open ended. You have to know when you want it to end, because all good scripting is about drawing the lines from that end back to the beginning.