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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

The next season of Sherlock on Masterpiece Mystery will be coming any ~~day year~~ decade now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I couldn't finish house MD. I say this as someone who prides themselves on watching the longest series all the way through. That final season became too much, they ran out of ideas and were pulling at grass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

watching it with my partner currently due to memes of 'medicine drug'. at season 3 and holy shit its already crashing out pretty hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I quite liked season 3 and 4 actually, it was a strong choice to do the whole cast replacement, but they make it work alright for the most part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

IASIP, after 10-12, the show went on for too long, and the actors clearly are getting too old and tired, but they are addicted to the money, and hollywood lifestyle. SPN, after season 8, most fans are wtf is even going after that, eventhough 11 had a good run because it something different. every season after 8 was fanfiction/slashfiction. eventhough they dint go on hiatuses, the show went on for too long for its own good, just because the fans would have a parsocial panic attack if they ended it early on.

and allegedly the actors in isaip did 2 year per season stints, and it worked for a while, but since its such a long length of time between seasons, they aged so much after reaching into thier 40s, they had to use botox and plastic surgery to catch up with appearances, it was so cringey. and rob was famous for going on PEDs to get jacked(which he tried to downplay)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

i still love isaip

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I almost never watch the second season of any shows, the gap just kills my interest. When I do, it usually are finished shows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

especially if its only 8 episodes, which is very short, and not very entertaining even if the series is good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like Stranger Things is headed for this (for me at least). It's been so long since S4 and the hype around it, it feels increasingly difficult to get that excited about S5. The longer it takes, the more I forget about ST.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I love that show but it's been so long I barely remember the last season

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lost and Game of Thrones.

Who in their right mind can watch every episode for almost a decade to keep up?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The context here is time between seasons. I don't think Lost and GOT had big gaps between seasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Okay, so all of them, I guess. 3 months every season over 8 years is still two years of break that kills the series.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Nearly every show cause I have ADHD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Mare do you hang out in [email protected] there's many amusing memes about us neuros there. And fyi [email protected] is for all of us not just autism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

This is why I have a meticulously curated list of shows I’ve watched and the episode I am currently at in Obsidian with dataviews and all 😀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Damn near everything since streaming exploded over traditional television. Used to only have to wait through summer before a show's next season. Now it can be several years between seasons. Walking Dead was one of the first ones that did this to me... I watched to season 4 or 5 and totally thought that was it; fucker only ended in 2022 and had 11 total seasons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much all modern TV series nowadays. You can't make a proper TV series when your actors/actresses and the rest of the crew have such long breaks. At a certain point, you just end up losing critical actors or writers or other members of staff.

The Expanse just kept going until the end, and SyFylis cancelled then, and then when Amazon cancelled them for good. Five and a half seasons in seven years, and that's even with the cancellations and COVID.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

expanse had some problems, i think one of the actors was ejected due to being a creep of woman. and then the books take place in the future, so it dint make sense to make a series so soon in post season 6, i heard.

i cringe at the 8episode per season arcs, its the studios execs trying to save money because they spent too much on a-listers, theres no harm in using other actors that arnt super famous, rare exception is STD the (nobody actors were just not that good for the show)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Setting up https://wiki.servarr.com/ helps with the latter since it'll just turn up in Jellyfin one day when a new season miraculously appears, huzzah! 🎉 Also is great when you suddenyy get movies you have no idea what they are about years after adding them 😸

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

firefly. didn't continue after finishing the first season and the movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

I’m not sure if this is a joke but that’s all there was of that show, no?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Walking Dead. I started because it was popular when it came out, plus Frank Darabont directing. Season 1 was good, then AMC fired him. Seasons 2 and 3 dragged so I stopped after 3. Fast forward to the end of the series and my fiance wanted to watch the episodes as they came out. My first reaction was "why the fuck are there Stormtroopers in this zombie show?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

i heard it was only good in season 1.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah it pretty much is, they fired Frank right before shooting season 2, they demanded 13 episodes a season up from 6, as well as budget cuts out the ass. YMS has a short series about the differences between 1 and 2 if you're interested.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Caprica, the 1-season Battlestar Galactica prequel. I liked it more than most people, but even I dropped off when they had a 6 month gap in the middle of the season.

Stranger Things. Season 4 took almost 3 years, during which time I had finally cancelled Netflix. I'm vaguely interested in watching the rest of the show, but not until it's done.

Westworld. Never quite finished season 3, and having yet another 2 year wait (after similar gaps between earlier seasons) meant I stopped caring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

they couldve done caprica better, or did a different series, like the cylon war era series instead, before reimagined BSG, and including all the tech that was suppose to be in the series, because the showrunner hated lasers, and energy weapons in the recent series.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Westworld lost its appeal after season 1 anyway

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Dark and possibly Black Mirror

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Attack on Titan, my god. Not even between seasons, literally in the middle of a season and they're just like ok we're gonna take a 2 year break now!

At least One Punch Man has the courtesy to put their breaks in between seasons properly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

oh yea that was insane, like 4 seasons over almost 10 years. i compare it to INvincible which also had a huge gap in between seasons. why the fuck is it 4 months between half of season 2, everyone forgot about that. then the animation started to get worst and worst. at this rate invincible might take as long AOT to finish the series(estimated 8-10years). and its only 8 episodes per season, surely they can finish it quickly since its not like its a 20-30 episode arcs. by that time everyone already have read the comics/or watched a live narration of said comics of the invincible series and are probably over it already.

and AOT around the last seasons , the animations were pretty bad too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If I ever have "Fuck you money" Im going to buy the western distribution rights for a bunch of Animes, hire an editor to go through Animes, and edit out the recap of the previous episode, the title sequence, the annoying mid episode break and the next episode preview then smash the whole season into one long movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

IMO you can just watch the last episode recap and next episode preview and get 99% of the content.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes. But I've forgotten them.

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