TV does kinda suck now...

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He brings up some good points, episodic tv seems to have died.
Sure it was great when we first got arching long tv shows, but they also didn't have 3 year gaps between seasons and seasons are so short 8 to 10 episodes if we're lucky.
I mean I barely even remember what happened in Stranger things and by now it's completely lost it's hype.
Umbrella academy also fizzled out, hell even things like the Boys, Incredible and Vox Machina take forever to release.
 
I’ve been driven to absolute extremes. If they don’t put out the next season in decent time, I don’t hesitate to change my review from thumbs up to thumbs down.
 
3WA said:
I’ve been driven to absolute extremes. If they don’t put out the next season in decent time, I don’t hesitate to change my review from thumbs up to thumbs down.
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I actually just forget it even exists, cause you know a year used to be a long time, now suddenly it's 3 years? Like why even?
 
Lupus said:

He brings up some good points, episodic tv seems to have died.
Sure it was great when we first got arching long tv shows, but they also didn't have 3 year gaps between seasons and seasons are so short 8 to 10 episodes if we're lucky.
I mean I barely even remember what happened in Stranger things and by now it's completely lost it's hype.
Umbrella academy also fizzled out, hell even things like the Boys, Incredible and Vox Machina take forever to release.
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3WA said:
I’ve been driven to absolute extremes. If they don’t put out the next season in decent time, I don’t hesitate to change my review from thumbs up to thumbs down.
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I generally watch shows once they completed their run time. I also don't usually watch shows that has gone on for longer than 3 seasons. This might mean a long time after anyone else have seen it, but couldn't care less. The odd one here and there that I watched and usually regret.
 
Lupus said:
I actually just forget it even exists, cause you know a year used to be a long time, now suddenly it's 3 years? Like why even?
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It has gotten a lot more complicated and in those 3 years you have people working on it daily fulltime. Shows used to be a lot more low budget and a lot more dialogue. There is less dialogue now, more graphics (time consuming) and thin plot lines.
 
RedViking said:
It has gotten a lot more complicated and in those 3 years you have people working on it daily fulltime. Shows used to be a lot more low budget and a lot more dialogue. There is less dialogue now, more graphics (time consuming) and thin plot lines.
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I'd disagree on that, I mean just look at House of Dragons vs Game of Thrones. Sometimes even Stargate from almost 30 years ago can beat some newer stuff as well, just simple things like them using practical vs CG. I mean even DS9 an Voyager were using CGI back in the 90s and still got things out yearly with 22 episodes or more :-).
This is just something else and an issue with streaming, in the past networks needed things to fill air time, so they needed shows to churn out regularly. Nowadays streamers are like eh.
 
Yep, the long gaps between seasons are terrible, and the fact that the main (and only) storyline is super complicated. I have to watch the previous season catchup multiple times before the next season just to try and understand what is going on, and I always feel like I am missing somehting.
 
greg_SA said:
Yep, the long gaps between seasons are terrible, and the fact that the main (and only) storyline is super complicated. I have to watch the previous season catchup multiple times before the next season just to try and understand what is going on, and I always feel like I am missing somehting.
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Yup, it really does suck.
 
Lupus said:
I mean I barely even remember what happened in Stranger things and by now it's completely lost it's hype.
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Meh, the same thing that happens every season, they're all just 60% copies of the previous season with slightly older children.
 
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