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Because that line about preferring commercials completely rang false to me, I followed the link....it's from 2010... "You still haven’t accounted for the popul
by scld 4y ago
Because that line about preferring commercials completely rang false to me, I followed the link....it's from 2010...
"You still haven’t accounted for the popularity of, say,The Sopranos and all the subscription-channel programs. Don’t we pay to get those shows without commercials?
Contemporary shows like The Sopranos might be interrupting themselves. Remember, it’s not the commercial that increases the enjoyment, it’s the interruption. These shows often run six or more parallel plots and constantly shuffle between them. One plot interrupts another."
...so, that entire concept has, IMO, been disproven by the rise of streaming services.
- user00012-ab 4y agoI stopped reading the article at that point; figuring the rest of the article was also made up by gpt3.
- twobitshifter 4y agoI don’t think I like commercials either, but the enforced pacing of the shows with commercials is something that I miss when I rewatch shows built for commercials on streaming services. You’ll come up against a cliffhanger cut and then a second later it’s resolved because there’s no commercial break.
- mewse-hn 4y agoI recently rewatched the entirety of DS9 on canadian netflix and I don't think I'm under any illusion that the bullshit cliffhangers they'd put before a commercial break actually added to the show
- HEI-Points 4y agoWhy do you miss that? They had to mangle the plot to end on a different cliffhanger every 10 minutes.