You'll never see them again
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50 years ago: 6 episodes in a season and stop after 2 seasons because it's well written without a bunch of useless filler.
I wanted to dispute this, but aside from the hyperbole around the number of episodes per season, top-rated TV in 1975 was pretty damn good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_television_programs_of_1975–76
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Wait… have you also been trying out the MacGyver reboot from 2015???
We don't talk about that.
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They make a lot of shows now that would never have been greenlit back when all shows had to be hits. It's possible to have a niche now.
Absolutely.
I maintain that Netflix is basically like The Cannon Group was back in the 1980's... only, profitable. They just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. You get some real art that way, a few okay wins, some real duds, and some absolute freaks of nature that crawl their way to the top and/or into cult status. But none of it is what typical execs would go for. Which is to say that it's a viable economic niche in the entertainment industry, especially now that it's bigger than ever.
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I hate when they release streaming shows one episode per week. I am not going to watch it until it’s done and I catch up on other shows. Stop trying to get me to watch weekly, it’s not going to happen. That’s just not how people watch tv anymore.
So a new show to me is new for a solid year before i can get to it sometimes. So many times a show gets cancelled before I can watch it and half the time I lose interest once I know it’s cancelled
Maybe I'm weird but sometimes I actually enjoy streaming one episode per week, especially if I like the show, it just forces me to spread it out.
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Oh no, filler is a good thing. Filler gives you time to know the characters, and adds depth and color to the world. Filler is where writers actually get to stretch and try out ideas. Filler is what makes a show feel full.
Imagine the X-Files with no filler. We'd lose the Jose Chung episodes, "Home," "the Post-Modern Prometheus," and so many other great episodes. Without the filler, it's just an endless slog through Chris Carter's poorly planned mythology. Just the smoking man and vanishing babies for
elevennine seasons.just an endless slog through Chris Carter’s poorly planned mythology
Exactly. Watching just those episodes on a binge is going to be... okay, at best. You really need the time in-between those plot beats to let it marinade a bit. Let the conspiracy and shadow-government machinations grow in your head. It lets you get real hungry for the next morsel of "the truth" that eventually comes your way. Then you savor it while you watch Mulder out-think a Genie or whatever.
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Wait… what is going on here?!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Other than the best possible costume choices for the cast of SG-1? Only the best TV mash-up ever to be crammed into a few glorious minutes of film.
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That's some rose colored glasses right there.
TNG, Voyager... Rough first seasons leading to excellent series
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You just have to forget that it's Graham Linehan who wrote that because it never quite hits the same when you realise who it was. It's the same with IT Crowd and Father Ted.
Didn't know the name, but knew the shows. What an unfortunate piece of shit he is.
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Apparently I have horrible taste because every show i like gets canceled in the first or second season
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Back when you had TV on a specific schedule, you were forced to watch things as they were. If a show was clunky, well you didn't have much choice in the matter, it was watch that or change channel or go outside.
With on-demand stuff, you can just completely skip over stuff you might actually like because the first few episodes are clunky. Why should I watch something clunky when I have the choice to watch something I know is good from the start?
...I'm still not watching One Piece though, I don't care how good it gets later.
Every 100 episodes of one piece has 10 good episodes. Fans of the show will clip those 10 episodes and yell from the rooftops that it’s the best show.
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TNG, Voyager... Rough first seasons leading to excellent series
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Also see Life on Mars, Journeyman, Freaks and Geeks, Pushing Daisies, and Freaking Firefly.
None of this is new.
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Maybe I'm weird but sometimes I actually enjoy streaming one episode per week, especially if I like the show, it just forces me to spread it out.
Dude id be fine with like 3 per week... if they do 13-14 episodes then they guaranteed two months streaming income. As it is... yes im gonna just keep rotating streaming services.
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Is there a television show that doesn't have a gun in it?
Tons of 'em! Comedies, in particular, tend not to have guns. I watch a lot of UK light ent, particularly panel shows, which fit the bill.Then there's sci-fi (if you're cool with space guns), and shows set before guns were invented (other weapons may make appearances).
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Maybe I'm weird but sometimes I actually enjoy streaming one episode per week, especially if I like the show, it just forces me to spread it out.
I spread it out regardless, I just don’t want to pick up a show without a conclusion.
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Also TV now:
Murder mystery.
"Comedy" that's all about murder mystery.
Depressing drama.
Drama about murder.
Murder comedy that's mostly just drama.
Documentary about murder.
Depressing documentary.I miss the good engineering docos, how it's made etc. And shows like Mythbusters.
There's nothing quite like that now.
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Maybe I'm weird but sometimes I actually enjoy streaming one episode per week, especially if I like the show, it just forces me to spread it out.
There's so many shows that I watch one episode of something with the wife every night, and we haven’t run out of stuff to watch in years. We like to watch one show at a time till we finish the season before we move on to something else, so we just wait till the show or season is over
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Also see Life on Mars, Journeyman, Freaks and Geeks, Pushing Daisies, and Freaking Firefly.
None of this is new.
I love Freaking Firefly.
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Which one was filler?
S03E10 - "Fly"
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Orville best NuTrek.
...and yet the elevator pitch "Seth McFarlane wants to be Picard" sounds like it would be awful. But it works.
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We don't talk about that.
I bought the OG McGyver on DVD a few years ago and I was all "I remember this being a lot better than this"
