How do you explain this phenomenom where people are more interested about """water cooler talk""" rather than the show itself?
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How do you explain this phenomenom where people are more interested about """water cooler talk""" rather than the show i...
>Water cooler talk
Everyone's working from home these days
Judging by morning rush hour traffic that's not true. 2 years ago it was and my life was so much better
I agree with him and it's weird to me that someone would post on Cinemaphile and not understand that.
Discussing shows is fun.
You think anyone would have given a shit about Lost if it just dropped all at once?
>having friends to talk about a show with is extreme fandom
you can talk about a show with friends without the need to have it being weekly
don't be dishonest.
Normal people:
>Hey did you see the latest episode of thing?
>Yeah it was pretty cool
You:
>SOCIETY IS COLLAPSING
??
all Im saying is that its better to have shows to watch however you want, and you can still be social about it.
You're being a big pedantic and judgemental tho, we're discussing the merit of discussing tv with real people in face to face and you are already getting out what is essentially Animal House "NEEEEEEEERDS" cry in quote forms
Why do Americans take this lesbian-looking dude so seriously.
He's the only critic that could actually write.
Spot on.
If you are a fan of a tv show you are an insufferable homosexual.
oh you poor thing
It’s been a thing since Lost and prison break, it’s a defense for shit shows that rely on mystery and plot twists
>It’s been a thing since Lost and prison break
yes anon people only talked about TV after about 2005. J J Abrams basically invented conversation.
Shows were more fun when there were anticipation
This is true. And they were even more fun when the only debate about them you had were among your immediate circles of acquaintances and not with some dishonest stranger at the end of a computer screen.
Yep. Binge shows also only have strong first and last episodes (which is always a cliffhanger), the middle ones always feel like filler.
Just like how songs sound better when you happen to hear them on the radio than when you make a deliberate choice to listen to them on a streaming app. Accidentally having a good time is more fun and more memorable than planning to have fun like some kind of robotic automaton.
I'm not completely in agreement here. I think that depends on people but I like to hear songs whenever I want. I understand your point here but personally I didn't liked having to wait for a song coming on the radio because once you head it, you had to wait for it to be rebroadcast. It was too fleeting for my taste
Socialization?
socializing addiction
it's called being human and wanting to talk to other people about things
I think this answers my question really.
It's literally about the "longevity of the products"
the show itself doesn't matter.
but then people come and say Last of Us is the best show ever, which makes no sense since it's a walking dead season 1 generic zombie show.
>It's literally about the "longevity of the products"
Not just that, socializing about a show is part of what's so fun about it.
If, for example, you have a family and you all watch a show for the first time, and you're all engaged by it and binge it at your own pace and none of you get spoiled, then you achieve the same thing in a mere week and a half, but obviously that's very hard to manage. You all have to be equally interested, shoot theories with others, etc.
With a popular show that is weekly, it's like that for everyone that is interested and it's great.
>with netflix the binge format worked at the begging
what shows from netflix have ever stayed in people's minds once it ended
sounds gay
people your own race, age group and gender maybe i.e nobody I see at work
Exactly, which is why I enjoy binge shows so much: being able to watch 4 episode chunks at lunch with the buddies instead of slowly trickling in over the course of 3 months, and when we wanna watch more of it later, we can. Only friendless virgins that have to rely on chatting with randos or bare-level acquaintances love slow, weekly releases of sub-12 episode shows, since otherwise they don't know what to talk about beyond fads.
Forums and Twitter ruined that dynamic
He doesn't mean literally next to a water cooler, moron. He means discussing a show where everyone is caught up on the same episode and waiting for the next one. Forums and twitter have the same water cooler dynamic.
You're not wrong, I get what you mean but I think the key difference is, of course, you're in front of real people around that hypothetical water cooler whereas Twitter and Internet forums fell into the same traps of facing a lot of faceless strangers who may or may not be truthful about their opinions
PRESENT DAY
PRESENT TIME
Who cares if someone isn't truthful about their opinions? What does that mean? Are you talking about people saying the show sucks or whatever?
You can tell when you're talking with a fan excited about something that wants to share theories with you, that's what matters. Don't take shitposting so seriously.
Or just get some discord friends that are as invested as you are.
I was talking about trolling. If you have the person in front of you, you can usually tell if he's indeed giving a frank review of something or if he's full of shit and try to get a rise out of you
This, I hate bingewatch shows.
I don't like to sit there and watch TV for 8 hours straight. I watch the shows slowly, 1 episode at a time.
So I have to avoid the internet until I'm finished the show or else I'll get spoiler'd.
Forums were good and they were the online water coolers since the 90s. It's twitter that ruined things with entitled fans being able to interact with showrunners and actors, harassing them with their shipping wars, demanding apologies for any racist/homophobic things they perceived, etc.
>people are more interested about """water cooler talk""" rather than the show itself?
OP... you should work on your reading comprehension.
I see the anti smoking lobby is at it again. Guns kill more people you know.
I'm more likely to regularly discuss a weekly show but more likely to watch the entirety of a binge show
Human interaction and stimulation are a craving everyone shares. You're here.
When True Detective first came out, after every episode there were plenty of threads here and on the subreddit trying to figure out the twists and new theories and what new facts of the episode meant for them.
It was great fun. Same for Westworld. The episode entertained me for an hour or so, but I spent hours each week talking and arguing about it.
So all of you are social media addicts who don't really care about a tv show being good but about some randoms circlejerking about HOW GOOD THAT NICK OFFERMAN ACTING WAS!!! ?
damn thats bleak
You should confront your loneliness at some point.
>You should confront your loneliness at some point.
Why do you merge the concept of stream services releasing a new episode every one week with having friends? I have friends and when we binge some show we talk about it if its good
no need to wait 1 week.
I don't watch this moronic shit. I just understand that most people want to be social. This is not a difficult thing to grasp.
I literally don't watch movies or TV shows unless someone's watching with me either in person or unless I know they're watching on their own so we can talk about it
They're unironically correct though. Who is still talking about Dahmer or Wednesday? But if this was Lost or 24 in their heyday, we'd be on like episode 15 of 24 and the discussions would be weekly, if not daily
Because the quality of any given work of art is determined by observation and criticism, "water cooler tv" transforms this into a collective practice.
I wish they'd try to release something like 2 episodes per 4 days or something, much faster than OG weekly but slow enough for an average person that cares to get time to watch
It happens when active social lives and work are higher priorities than binging every show and game to fill the void in your heart.
Shows being weekly generated an additional social experience that made people bond and talk to each other, IN ADDITION to enjoying whatever quality of the show itself. This bonding experience is now gone.
What's so difficult to understanding about it? Holy shit, OP is a midwit trying his hand at social critique for the first time or something.
I really hate normalhomosexuals
water cooler is just a cope
the boys was heavily popular when it came out and all the episodes were released on the same day
you don't fricking see people talking about garbage like Avenue 5 now do you
it's all about good writing.
Humans enjoy chatting with other humans about things they enjoy and that adds to the enjoyment.
Of course a AI post generating bot like you will never understand that.
Humans are social creatures. Water cooler talk about a tv show is no different than two cavemen talking about last night's lightning strike at the watering hole. Dat shit ain't new baby.