User blog comment:Markurion/Extended Cut or Prolonged torture?/@comment-1074875-20120407093813/@comment-1388547-20120408025350

Funny, I thought the same thing about ME2. There's a pretty good correspondence between a season of an American sci-fi TV show and ME2. There was a similar number of episodes/major missions, a similar layout with a few major plot missions/episodes and less critical filler in between -- the primary missions even took me about as much time to play as a typical TV episode, at least the first time through. You could even see some of the DLC as being a lot like specials produced as follow-ups to the main season, particularly LotSB, the equivalent of a made-for-TV movie bringing a popular character back into the spotlight.