the inconsistent time frame between seasons, for so little episodes, either do it or dont, makes people bored of the series and the stream in general. 8 episodes for an animated series, or scifi series doesnt do it justice.
Black Sails was the best action show that nobody watched.
And I can say that with all the confidence of someone who never watched any other action show.
I never skip the intro
Game of Thrones was best-in-class TV until the last season and a half. Hating the end doesn’t change that.
Seasons 1 - Battle of the Bastards was some of the best television I’ve seen in my life. Truly masterpiece, all the way through. I’ve never seen that level of excitement either from fans, we had watch parties every year. That’s what made the ending sting so badly, was because of how good it was.
Yep I still watch the last 20 minutes of hardhome every so often. It’s one of the greatest action sequences ever. BoB was also outstanding. The ending will always sting, loads of viewers really committed and had so much emotion wrapped up in it… then D and D couldn’t be fucked to do a good job.
There’s no excuse, they could have delegated, ripped off fan theories, got input from other writers etc. It’s not at all hard to make it better.
Star Wars has a massive existential problem, at least in the television and movie canon, of not being even remotely interested (except for a side plot in Solo?) in what the ethical implications of sentient robots is other than it is cute and sells toys.
They do touch on it in Mandalorian season 3, episode 6 (“Chapter 22”). Although I don’t think they come to any conclusion that resolves any of the ethical implications.
K2SO also has an interesting line where he mentions being aware of events when he was under the Empires control.
Of course the real character of interest in this conversation is C3PO. His mind is wiped at the end of Revenge of the Sith and it’s viewed as a joke, but really only happens to explain why he knows nothing by the events of A New Hope.
They also “kill” him in Rise of Skywalker and try to make it a touching moment, but then just revive him again for laughs.
So for characters like C3PO I 100% agree. (Although he is comic relief, so maybe he’s a poor choice to base ethics on.)
I don’t think waiting for a show to completely release and then bingeing it, is the best experience for watching streaming TV series.
I think talking about a show “around the water cooler” makes a show generally more enjoyable. The “water cooler” can be both in person, friends or coworkers, or just online.
I do think some shows, typically “bad” shows, using this method is fine. Since you can just skip/speed through a bad episode and just remember the good stuff. As an example Star Trek Discovery is a perfectly OK show. A solid, “Yeah, it’s not so bad.” Watching it week to week is generally a bore, but speed running it makes it worth it.
used to be 1 week per show, now its the whole season in a given year, then they skip a year or 2, plus limited to very little episode per season.
I think there should be more variety in how shows are released and it should be based on what the creators feel like suits them best.
Something like Severance definitely benefits from the weekly release to give everyone time to speculate and keep up the suspense for longer.
With others it’s nice to just get the full season at once. I wouldn’t even say “bad” shows, but shows that are skewe more towards pure entertainment, action and mindless distraction (which do have their purpose). Something like say Reacher would fit that category imo
Andor struck an interesting middle ground imo by releasing 3 episode blocks at a time. For me that worked great. It gave us a similar amount of content like a long movie per week, which considering the quality was basically film level was the right balance between giving enough to feel like it was a full load of content, but not so much that you cant keep up and appreciate it.
I do like small chunks. I think 2 episode premiere plus a 2 episode finale is great. I think Andor did an excellent job with mini movies every week. I’m happy different shows experiment. Overall as long as we have a week to week momentum, I’m in.
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Competition does not work for an industry where each product is infinite so can’t ‘run out’, but is subject to exclusivity agreements.
Noticed how there are no more such things as movies. It’s mini series. Imagine Quentin Tarantino 20 -30 years younger and creating miniseries for streaming services 😂
All is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun.
