> without having any kind of cogent criticism other than "Its just bad! BAAD BAAAD!"

SPOILERs

1. Picard is dead at the end of the series, replaced by an Android, still old, and it's not acknowledged

2. The entire core structure clearly changed halfway through the season and they had zero idea what to do with their premonition angle

3. Picard wasn't a fantastic action hero at 47...watching him survive exploding rooftops at 77 was a huge ask

4. His character went from intelligent thinker to "whee!"

5. His crew member kills a man in cold blood and its ok because it was a hard decision for her?

6. The CGI was cheap

7. Ripped off Mass Effect's ending, using stock footage

There is more but it's been a while since I suffered through it.

> I'd rather have a great season left on a cliffhanger than a complete story that ends up mediocre because of trying to shove everything in.

I dont want either, but the cliffhanger is definitely still the worst option. These streamers need to finish their stories or it is impossible to recommend their content to others, and the shows ring hollow at the end.

> Everything is shot in a compact environment, surrounded by digital screens, there's no depth to any of the environments.

That new “volume” tech is making everything look like cheap trash; the art direction around the orb is abysmal and obvious in every set design

Not just a Star Wars problem, but it’s the most obvious in Disney stuff

Aka, the marketing is spinning up so instead of knowing who is working on anything they make us wait until can get clicks out of it by dribbling long finished credits over weeks. Terrible state of the industry, and shitty for the people working who can’t trade on their completed work until the corporation decided to announce it.

SAG needs to shut this delayed announcement and NDA shit down. People need to apply for work, and Disney is kind of a huge deal on a resume.

This subreddit is vary far from being ahead of the curve anymore

Hey Grant/Mod Team, give the succession ads a rest

Great storytelling; sealed the deal on a show that knew what it was doing and succeeded

The producer always wants to continue the show; they’re literally going to make money when they do and not if they don’t

The CAST sometimes leaves the show, it it’s extremely rare and would take some sort of burned out success level for a producer to quit or shut down a production. If anything they would move up to EVP and let someone else do the real work.

The studios are canceling shows. They have the money. Everyone else wants a job.

As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that a great many articles, like this one, are about thebaithor’s growth as a person, not the movie. So I read them for that, to see what in the film was transformative for the author. That used to be a common thing to read, it’s what built the New Yorker, but we get less of that now and not as well written. Still, these kind of articles have their place, even if thebaithornisbstill in a naive place about what it is they’re actually writing.

Ah, another attempt by prime to push appointment viewing; Nope, especially a spy show, gotta be able to binge and keep investment low

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia? changes from a cynical group of heathens that run a barely functional bar and fleece people for money into an optimistic group of nuns that run a struggling soup kitchen and the crazy hijinks they and their youth group leader get into raising money to save the people of Philadelphia.

Pretty standard approach for hobbies, I think. Some things you make sure to focus on, others are holding space until something more interesting takes over, and the rest are background noise to fill a void.

It’s fresh so far: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cocaine_bear

Weird how y’all attack one but not the other...

If I get two paragraphs into your “a hit” article and there is no numbers...it’s an ad

Is it really only two episodes? Is this like a movie or something? I was going to start last night but was too tired.

People don’t want random without some control. Especially when it’s only pushing what Netflix wants viewed. Things I know people want, because it used to be my job to know :

1. A “channel” experience that is genre based but already running, like having a “Cheers station” that always plays Cheers, or “romance” that has something running, and everyone streams the same episode at the same time

2. The ability to schedule their own tv night, ie “one episode of 90s Show, one episode of Family Guy, then whatever Lockwood & Co episode is next”

3. A random episode button

4. Recommendations based on what was just watched, not an algorithm based on our likes

5. Co-watching, where people can match their feeds and even send notes (like emojis)

6. Themed watch guides, like “Monica and Chandler’s relationship” and then it plays key episodes for that storyline; going across shows is also desired (The Madeline Hahn Guest Appearance Extravaganza, etc)

7. Stand-up specials broken out and remixed together into 5-10 minute blocks with the ability to jump to the full special

8. A “trailer channel” that lets people jump straight into to the full film/show

9. Not for me, but “Celeb watch lists” that are recommendations, like “Stephen King’s Halloween Haunt” (some channels do this poorly, because they’re promoting a show the person is in, not thinking about who an “expert” making choices would be)

10. A way to browse better than ribbons, using additive filters (JustWatch’s top movie wall always tests fantastic); basically you say “show me thrillers, and comedies” and it ranks the best/popular thrillers and comedies into a scrollable wall that blends them all together

Yea, it was a cool idea but all it did was force Netflix originals on me

> Try and rewind, and it goes to the beginning of whatever chapter you're in and starts the commercials from the beginning.... Pause for too long and it's the same.

You viewing the ad is the priority, not you viewing the content

That’s why I don’t support these services with paid+ads, asking us to remove an annoyance they inserted. “Our product sucks now, pay us to improve it” is insane...

It may be based on the size of the potentially harmed audience, not the finances of the offender (which feels fairer, honestly, even if I don’t care to stand up for Fox)

Audience size would likely be:

1. Box office movie
2. Fox show
3. Jimmy kimmel

We’re headed towards a general strike as early as 2024.

Mostly it would just be about the writer’s strike that almost killed off scripted tv and ushered in the reality tv era for ad based channels. Life with Damien Lewis is the one I wish would have survived to an end.

The problem streamers are fast approaching is that they have smaller catalogs, and if one or two of their main shows ain’t my thing then the whole channel is pointless to subscribe to half the year. They don’t have the individual film volumes anymore to make up for it. All save Netflix, but I’ve suffered too many cancellations and green screen films at this point to keep steady.

And sports makes anything immediately more expensive than it’s worth.

So, the old media is being killed be the new media, but the new media still isn’t ready to carry prime time.

Nielsen ratings still aren't accurate. You should hold off on this level of analysis with that data. The only reason they arent being sued over their poor record is that it would require the streamers to reveal accurate data themselves.

Does season 2 also end in one of the worst cliffhanger pulls I'vll ever see?