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> When Disney+ first premiered it was criticized for only having The Mandalorian and WandaVision which were both over in the blink of an eye. Marvel, for me, ha
by munificent 3y ago
> When Disney+ first premiered it was criticized for only having The Mandalorian and WandaVision which were both over in the blink of an eye. Marvel, for me, has had diminishing returns since then, and I would not subscribe to Disney+ to exclusively watch anything from Marvel at this point.
> Star Wars, unfortunately, is also on the bubble with several disappointments, including the most recent Star Wars: Ashoka where I watched 50 minutes of space whales doing space whale stuff. Stretching Star Wars: Skeleton Key and Star Wars: The Acolyte out into next year, with both unlikely to be as inspired as Star Wars: Andor doesn’t convince me that $109.99 needs to leave my bank account right this very minute.
As far as I can tell, there are roughly two kinds of people:
1. People that just have too much time on their hands. Or, at least, more time than they have executive function and willpower to fill it with actual activities. They are actively looking for any kind of media consumption to make the hands on the clock move faster.
2. People for whom their time has value and products are competing to be the best use of their time.
I see so many people who appear to be in the first category and will watch anything, even stuff they admittedly find boring, just to... I don't know... run out the clock on their life.
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- ecshafer 3y agoI agree with you that there are too many 1s on there. I think the problem is that passively consuming content is too easy, humans just aren't really wired for it. I am certainly not immune to it. In say 1900 if you wanted to entertain yourself you could talk to people, you could listen to someone play music (live), you could play music yourself, you could write, you could tinker, etc. The most passive consumption was basically reading, which is still a rather active thing compared to scroll tik tok or watch netflix (or both). So a lot of people instead of doing the difficult thing (creating) just consume.