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Old 08-07-2020, 19:01   #31
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Old 08-07-2020, 19:14   #32
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Old 08-07-2020, 19:30   #33
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Yeah i am looking forward to it. They have really hit the nail on the head with this.
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It's a shame they won't drop it all in one go!
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Whaaaaaaat? I am sure season 1 dropped as a whole season. I dont recall watching it weekly. I know I am going to enjoy this so much and bearing in mind that it is one continuous story, I am tempted to wait until the entire season has aired just so I can watch it all in one go. I probably won't get it all done in one day but I like being able to watch two or three episodes at a time.

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I prefer shows to be weekly.
I couldn't handle weekly, I'm now on episode 7 of Homeland and I only started around 5ish.
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I prefer shows to be weekly.
I think I do to to be fair. I moan about having to wait but that is all part of the fun. When you watch stuff like GoT, B5 and DS9 it doesn't have the same impact when you binge watch it. When you have a war that is going on which you experience over weeks (and years in the case of those series) you really feel it takes its toll on the characters. When you binge watch it and it is all over in the same day or 3 years in the same week it doesn't have the same effect. I can speak from experience, anything worth watching I watched live and weekly as it aired over the years and then been able to go back ands rewatch at my leisure.
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I think we have rose tinted glasses on when it comes to old fashioned, 20+ week tv broadcast seasons. The quality of episodes varied sometimes wildly from week to week and decent gritty arcs (such as the Dominion War) would rarely surface in any meaningful way for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Shows commissioned for streaming services aren’t bound to the 40 minute run time required to fit adverts into a one hour broadcast slot, they’re not bound to the three mini cliffhangers required to run into the commercial break, and they’re not forced to pad the story arc out to the requirements of a US TV season. An 8-10 week run of a series like The Boys is much more like a well plotted and paced novel, and a good novel is a true page turner ... you keep reading based on how much time you have, not according to the whim of a scheduler.

I’m curious as to why anything is dropped weekly on a streaming service, and why it’s inconsistent - not everything is.
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I think their are pros and cons and it all depends on the type of series. There are series like GoT which have a very specific story to tell and it will take as many or as few episodes as it needs. Then you have got series like SG1 and Star Trek which are weekly adventures with an overlaying story arc. Even though you have your midseason fillers I do enjoy "full" seasons for those kind of series, they allow you to develop characters, expand the environments they exist in and make the universe more believalbe. Grey's Anatomy is a good example of a current series like that, it has been going 16 seasons and there has never been a bad episode. Sometimes when you restrict a season to 8-10 episodes you run the risk of not developing the story enough to make the world/universe realistic. Scifi series are most at risk of this due to production costs and these are the series which require more depth and exploration. I loved what they for Mars in season 4 of The Expanse but that was for a different reason.
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Given the choice of 10, 13 or 22, I always think the 13 episode seasons are best.

They don't need padding episodes, but there is enough to develop the story and a few weekly cliff hangers.
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The compromise for me is 16 episodes. It is long enough to tell a good story, really sink your teeth in to and become part of whilst also allowing you to cut out the padding eps everyone talks about. 16 eps would quite nicely fit into either season as sept-dec or jan-apr; a quality series like The Expanse shown every week straight through without any breaks.
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Given the choice of 10, 13 or 22, I always think the 13 episode seasons are best.

They don't need padding episodes, but there is enough to develop the story and a few weekly cliff hangers.
I agree, plenty of time to develop without stretching it out with unecessary "fluff" to get to the 22 episode target.
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I think their are pros and cons and it all depends on the type of series. There are series like GoT which have a very specific story to tell and it will take as many or as few episodes as it needs. Then you have got series like SG1 and Star Trek which are weekly adventures with an overlaying story arc. Even though you have your midseason fillers I do enjoy "full" seasons for those kind of series, they allow you to develop characters, expand the environments they exist in and make the universe more believalbe. Grey's Anatomy is a good example of a current series like that, it has been going 16 seasons and there has never been a bad episode. Sometimes when you restrict a season to 8-10 episodes you run the risk of not developing the story enough to make the world/universe realistic. Scifi series are most at risk of this due to production costs and these are the series which require more depth and exploration. I loved what they for Mars in season 4 of The Expanse but that was for a different reason.
What about the music episode of Grey's? That was terrible, admit it.

For length I would go 13 episodes, that tends to be perfect. 16 does work too, but prefer 13.
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