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re: I'm really over this 6-8 episode BS and not releasing seasons but every couple of years
Posted on 9/16/24 at 2:04 pm to LB84
Posted on 9/16/24 at 2:04 pm to LB84
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This is the most egregious one IMO. It was such a hit I don't understand why they aren't motivated to push these seasons faster.
I didn't even watch after they planned on doing the season spits (season 4?). I'll watch it all one day but going 3 years in between seasons is just insane.
Just looking it up, season 3 ended in July 2019. It will have take them 6 years to finish their final two season. Screw that.
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Posted on 9/16/24 at 2:31 pm to BluegrassBelle
I'd be ok with 6 episode seasons IF they came back every year.
Posted on 9/16/24 at 3:11 pm to WicKed WayZ
to be fair ... it does take a bit of time to make what is essentially enough content for four films.
I cannot speak to all production cycles, but for example on the White Lotus season 3:
- Feb-Oct 2023 - Mike White writes the scripts
- Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 - Prep and scouting for locations
- Feb 2024 - August - shoot for 130 days not counting weekends off
- August to Dec - Editing and color grading
- release Spring 2025
And that is a show without much VFX, so I would imagine a show like Stranger Things has months of VFX work tacked on
I cannot speak to all production cycles, but for example on the White Lotus season 3:
- Feb-Oct 2023 - Mike White writes the scripts
- Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 - Prep and scouting for locations
- Feb 2024 - August - shoot for 130 days not counting weekends off
- August to Dec - Editing and color grading
- release Spring 2025
And that is a show without much VFX, so I would imagine a show like Stranger Things has months of VFX work tacked on
Posted on 9/16/24 at 3:25 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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I don't mind rewatching a show, but I hate having to rewatch just because it's been so long I no longer remember anything about the show.
This may be a selling feature to the streaming services to continue with the prolonged gaps.
Posted on 9/16/24 at 4:20 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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I don't mind rewatching a show, but I hate having to rewatch just because it's been so long I no longer remember anything about the show
This was The Witcher for us. Neither my wife nor I could remember a lot of the ins and outs, not being familiar with the source material. A couple episodes into S3, I asked if she wanted to just start the series over and we never got around to it. We bought a new property and had a baby, and just didn't have time to go back and rewatch a show when we had other things we preferred. I don't think we ever even finished the last season of Jack Ryan, which we both really liked.
Posted on 9/16/24 at 4:37 pm to BluegrassBelle
Considering there are only three Dunk And Egg stories published, having a six episode season allows them to adapt The Hedge Knight and their subsequent journey in Dorne across one season.
Posted on 9/16/24 at 5:53 pm to BluegrassBelle
You're not alone. I remember when BSG first did this crap with the last season. Then GOT picked it up during the last two seasons. Westworld made it standard procedure. Now it seems they are all starting to do it. I'm sick of it and don't want to reward it with views.
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 6:23 am
Posted on 9/16/24 at 6:07 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Even Network sitcoms are doing the same thing, making it acceptable to have 14 or 18 episode seasons instead of the old 24.
Posted on 9/16/24 at 6:31 pm to BluegrassBelle
And the older series had like 12, 20 or even more episodes in a season.
Posted on 9/16/24 at 6:51 pm to BluegrassBelle
yeah, recently started the wire and they had 12 episodes an hour long in season 1.
6-8 episodes is stupid.
6-8 episodes is stupid.
Posted on 9/16/24 at 8:24 pm to JW
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to be fair ... it does take a bit of time to make what is essentially enough content for four films.
You say that, but tv seasons used to be ~20 episodes. That’s roughly 8 hours of total run time for a half hour show.
Posted on 9/16/24 at 9:52 pm to BluegrassBelle
Maybe if these GOT spin-offs finally start losing money George will get off his arse and give us more material
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Posted on 9/17/24 at 12:42 am to Wayne Campbell
What tv seasons ? Half hour comedies ?
Back then, very few tv shows had the cache or production value (and the money to achieve it) that films had. And with on demand full season viewing with little advertisement, the streamers certainly prefer to stretch out seasons to maintain subscriptions
Back then, very few tv shows had the cache or production value (and the money to achieve it) that films had. And with on demand full season viewing with little advertisement, the streamers certainly prefer to stretch out seasons to maintain subscriptions
Posted on 9/17/24 at 10:41 am to chryso
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Sometimes fewer episodes is better if there is only so much material to cover.
Sure for some shows where the universes are newish and perhaps being improvised along the way. But there are some glaring examples where, when it was obvious they couldn't get the details in, they just cut story and background out. Sometimes to the severe detriment to the telling of the story, sometimers maybe to doom of the series even carrying on. Halo, The Handmaids Tale (first season), Altered Carbon, V (2009), American Gods. It's very limiting.
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 10:44 am
Posted on 9/17/24 at 10:59 am to BluegrassBelle
quote:just started S6 of Cobra Kai and all the main characters are like 30 years old now
I'm really over this 6-8 episode BS and not releasing seasons but every couple of years
laughable trying to make them look like they're still seniors in high school and that the story is picking up a couple of days from the previous season.
just AWFUL.
the 3 karate kid movies were released closer together than cobra kai S1-S6 has..
it took me a minute to recognize a couple of the characters when i started it.
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 11:01 am
Posted on 9/17/24 at 11:43 am to St Augustine
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Oh more GoT bullshite from grrm that isn’t actually finishing his story. Pass
I had read several of the books, and watched the first season back when it came out. Decided I would finish reading what was out at the time, and that was through the 5th book. Just looked it up, and that was around 2012. We're here a dozen years later, and still only have 5 of the however many planned books.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 11:47 am to BluegrassBelle
They could film all the seasons at one time….this is a big FU to the fans. I honestly hope the show bombs as I’m really starting to get fed up with grrm and his excuses for winds of winter delays
Posted on 9/17/24 at 4:22 pm to TU Rob
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Just looked it up, and that was around 2012.
I finished the 5th book in spring of 2012. My oldest was born soon after. He’s in middle school now
Posted on 9/17/24 at 6:03 pm to St Augustine
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I finished the 5th book in spring of 2012. My oldest was born soon after. He’s in middle school now
Yep. My middle child was born in 2013 and is in 5th grade now.
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