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I guess I'm Gen X. Or a very young Boomer. I've just stopped watching TV altogether. "News" is a joke, and everything else seems like a waste of time.
by throwawayboise 6y ago
I guess I'm Gen X. Or a very young Boomer. I've just stopped watching TV altogether. "News" is a joke, and everything else seems like a waste of time.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoThis. And I refuse to watch serials anymore, just feature-length films. Why? Because I’m tired of being strung along. Here, watch this season now. But wait 12-18 months for the next season. Repeat. By the time that next season rolls around, I just don’t care about the characters anymore. Fiction writers love to play this trick with book trilogies and book series. So I don’t start a book series unless all books are already in print.
- ghaff 6y agoThey're just different forms. Films, multi-film series and connected series, miniseries, episodic TV, serialized TV, blends of episodic and serialized, anthologies, shorts, etc. are all different and have their own pluses and minuses. It's obviously fine to prefer some and not others. You can equally see TV seasons as giving the opportunity to take a break from something for a while.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoSo you loved True Detective then? Beginning, middle, end, all crystalized in the writer/producer's mind before they even began shooting? I also don't like the season-after-season thing you're referring to, but I am encouraged that over the last 3 or 4 years we've seen a small increase in the number of stories being told with a defined story arc, and no sequels.
- alea_iacta_est 6y agoXer here. If by joke you mean it's brainwashing and propaganda, I'm with you. A joke, randomly oriented, I could take, the one sided preaching that news, TV and movie broadcast 24x7 is just infuriating.