The charm of watching TV shows was ruined by them being released all at once. Gone are the days when you can watch 1 episode and then theorize with other people what's going on while waiting on the next.
A good compromise would be releasing a new episode each day, or every other day. The binging speedwatcher morons can wait an extra week.
Even without the social aspect it was better to get a full story a week to digest instead of a long movie chopped into pieces, regardless of whether they barf it all out at once or not.
>long movie chopped into pieces
Yeah, i hate how individual episodes can no longer be self-contained stories.
Nah frick that. If the show is good I want to watch the whole thing back to back to back. Frick that waiting a week shit there's too much going on now by the time a new episode is out i've already moved on to 20 different things.
You're just fricking yourself over. You won't retain as much interest and focus watching it in one sitting vs watching 1 per day. Just because you want to watch more straight away doesn't mean it's the optimal way to enjoy it.
Wouldn't the logical thing be to release all of the episodes at once that way people like me can watch all of it in a row and people like you can still watch one episode a week if you want? Nothing is stopping you from pacing yourself. You can go watch xfiles right now one episode every week if you want.
>your average adhd zoomie
There's infinitely many things going on at all times, always. It's what you chose to direct your attention at that defines you as a person.
They don't give a shit about any of that. All they care about is engagement. Hype dies really quickly when you dump everything at once. Aren't most streaming services switching back to one ep per week? Was the case for the last couple of shows I checked.
He tells you that you can watch at whatever pace you want. You start rambling about marketing bullshit. Smh, you just want to force other people to act a specific way because they left you behind and you're not smart enough to keep up.
I was making a separate point, but you are clearly sour about calling out your adhd. Anyways, no you can't, because the Netflix execs have wisened up to the fact that one ep a week is better for engagement.
You’re describing poor impulse control and you sound fat.
Are you capable of putting your phone down at nights or do you while your life away scrooling?
Even when they stop that all at once I still watch one every week because my autism don’t like change, I’m too used to the routine of watching TV thr way I always did. Also if it’s on a streamer with no commercials I’ll pause it, pull out YouTube commercial block and watch it every 6 minutes to replicate the 90s tv watching experience, I just refuse to adapt to modern times I reject modern streamgay ways of watching, I need to trick my mind into still thinking I’m watching it my comfy old school way
This is levels of autism I never thought were possible
Delayed gratification is dying with tragic results
t. rare zoomer with a long attention span
they still do weekly episodic shows all the time on streaming sites. But the weekly BrBa/MadMen/TWD/BCS threads were pretty good here. There are Three Body threads up all the time.
Shogun too, those threads are very fun
Engaging in those as a blind viewer is too risky. You never know if you're talking to people who've seen it already and are intentionally or unintentionally spoiling shit.
Grew up on X Files. Can’t stand newer fans. They’re all homosexuals. Make Mulder Skinner gay fan fic porn. Homosexual Mafia overran it
>people are watching X-files
Huh? As a zoomer this is news to me.
Friends has been one of the most watched shows on Netflix for years, anon. How do you think younger generations get into older shows?
Oh, I know that us youngsters are gettin' into them old timey shows(I'm watching Magnum right now, just started season 5) given everything new is shit; I just didn't know that we stumbled upon X-files yet.
It's never interested me frankly, same with Supernatural and Friends.
The popularity of Supernatural probably led to younger people checking out The X-Files since there’s a direct link between the two.
Makes sense.
I just don't understand what it is about that series that attracts the worst fricking people of my generation imaginable. From what I've read it was like that for you guys too back when it was on the air.
Both shows follow a very similar structure in that the first five seasons are tightly written and then from six onward, the main story arcs gets shaky but the MOTW episodes remain solid.
I'll probably watch either of them when I'm bored and run out of oldgay shows and anime to watch, which won't be for years frankly.
For sure. Both are nostalgic for me since X-Files is so 90s and Supernatural started in 2005 in the pre-smartphone era. Also one of the final shows that started on WB before the merger into the CW.
Like all zoomer shit, they’re making it gay
In all fairness it always reeked as a series that like Doctor Who or Supernatural attracted mentally ill teenage/20 something women and homosexuals/trannies to me. It's why I don't touch those shows with ten foot poles.
Scully is a devout Catholic. Mulder a sexy addict that looks at porn. Like DD. Skinner fricked a hooker who ended up dead. There was nothing gay about the show until zoomers got ahold of it
Then why is it that the show was associated with proto-tumblr fujoshi girls and art hoes amongst milennials?
All that shit seems springloaded with the show to me and has always kept me from watching it.
Because Anderson is super liberal
The show is very a Catholic. Because show creator Chris Carter was. Scully’s best episode had to deal with her faith. Her cross necklace is iconic
Agreed. Scully started out as basically a knock-off of Clarice Starling, but Gillian Anderson really made the character her own.
But unlike DD. She didn’t let her personal views interfere with the character. DD. Mulder who grew up in Boston wears nothing but New York sports shot. Because Duchovney is a New Yorker. Mulder who suppose to be non religious spouts his israeli background. Because DD is a israelite. Mulder looks at porn which Carter was against because DD is a sex addict
That’s fair, but I do love Duchovny’s love for baseball and The Unnatural is a top 10 episode for me.
>Mulder who suppose to be non religious spouts his israeli background
He prays in a christian church in one the season 1 episodes
His character wasn’t established yet as a religious hater
Please shut the frick up. Where the hell does Mulder spout his israeli background? It is ambiguous if he's israeli and it isn't a central point, in the episode with the israeli golem he can't read Hebrew etc. The coomer thing I don't really see what's the issue, it is just a funny gag. Also caring about bread and circuses keeeek, you do know that you can be a fan of a team in another city?
>imagine CARING lmao!!
kys
>kys
Not an argument. I see that you are a regular customer at Sneed's cope and seethe
>proto-tumblr fujoshi girls and art hoes amongst milennials?
>anon is learning what a rising TV show and internet slowly becoming more ubiquitous can become when they intersect
X-Files is good, fan base be damned
>proto-tumblr fujoshi girls and art hoes
That was Buffy.
Millennials weren't the core fanbase of The X Files when it was airing. It was a solidly Gen X show. Most Millennials were too young for it at the time.
Millennial with an older genX brother here, I watch the X files, he watched the X games and cracked his skull open pretending he was Tony Hawk. Millennials are used to being the cultural punching bag because it's been that way since we were kids in the 90's, you can try to change history all you like, I'm just going to go back to work and enjoy life like I always have while you dipshits seethe in the corner.
>cracked his skull open pretending he was Tony Hawk
in his defense, I'm pretty sure Tony Hawk has done that as well
no no there were gay fanfics about mulder, krycek, skinner etc. from the get-go
yeah i remember this massive lesbian girl at my school in like 97 wrote a blog called dana's diary or some shit
I remember looking at user reviews for the boys, and it had really low ratings even though I’d heard people liked it. Turns out everyone was review bombing it bc they were accustomed to getting their shows released at once, so they had to leave 1 star reviews for a show they probably really like. It’s too much content to release a season all at once for many shows, and everyone is spot on for the reasons it sucks. Some shows suffer more than others. What I really hate is when a show has more than a year between seasons. The audacity to assume your viewers remember anything. It has to be a very good show for people to remember details that long.
Waiting a week for the next episode was absolute bullshit. You kids have it easy.
Do you not have anything else to do in that time? Is 20-30 minutes not enough?
you didnt have friends to discuss with then and you still dont now. stop romanticizing the past. having a more than 2 minute ad break for trash informing the structure of all shows is a trend im glad is nearly completely gone, watch one episode a week by yourself like the balding 34 year old boomer you are and then kys
>Hold on a second, Mulder. Are you trying to tell me that these paraphysical phenomena in that house, where the last remnants of a well-documented thousand-year cult that spanned a thousand years and three continents and who performed ritual murders for which they have been convicted, of which we have recorded proof and no tangible explanation, and for which there have been complaints by all former [checks list] 31 residents in the past hundred years...are owed to some kind of ghost?
>Look Scully, all I'm saying is consider the option.
That show had such gifted direction.
There are episodes where you are already creeped out and then you realize all you have seen so far is some trees and music.
It was never the same once they moved production to California. You can’t beat those wet Vancouver forests.
Watching show crash and burn in real time fricking sucks
>Gone are the days when you can watch 1 episode and then theorize with other people what's going on while waiting on the next.
Thank god.
>The charm of watching TV shows was ruined by them being released all at once
Have you been living under a rock? Out of everything wrong with tv shows today, this is what you're whining about? TV is bad today mostly because of bad writing and shit casting. Binge watching habits is the least of our problems, you moron
LOST
imagine if that had released all at once.
>mulder, no one likes watching tv shows when the networks say they have to watch them.
>Oh yeah? *tosses folder on desk* Ever heard of a bunch of fricking morons confusing being nostalgic for good shows with the horrible way they were presented?
It messes with the timing.
This is a notion from 10 years ago and I thought everyone, normies included were all well agreed on this now, which is why i was so surprised when last week they said fallout was going to shit out all its eps on one day. Maybe they just know it's fricked
Shows like X Files blossomed with the fan reactions and water cooler talk. I think the main problem now is the media market is too fragmented. 90s shows have viewerships streaming shows dream of. 70s and 80s shows were watched by /everyone/. Same frame of reference.
Making a “water cooler” show today is so much harder it’s virtually impossible. Lost was the last big one I think.
your point is cancelled out by how all the fans of a show across 100 countries can find each other and speculate on the online watercooler.
Game of thrones
I've always tried to space out any book/game/movie/show/anime/whatever if I'm really into it and it's all readily available in the case of shows. A few episodes, chapters or hours played at a time is nice and allows me to think about the story and wonder what will happen next, and it's more fun than just doing it all in one long sitting. After I'm done with it and if I choose to go back to that story again I might go through it all in one go because I already know it, but I like pacing things. It lets me like it longer.
Of course I have nobody to talk about any of my interests with so I just talk to myself about them but it's cool to take a moment, step back and wonder what could be next in a story.
I don't mind too much since I have no problem just watching at my own pace. TV is pretty dull these days so I almost never feel like discussing it.
I thought even until I graduated college that work life was going to be driving around looking into things with a platonic partner like her. This show ruined my life
It's nice being able to see a episode you missed. Without waiting for it to pop back on tv.
I agrer OP, it made the show special more of an event rather than media you consume.
Bingewatching is a strange concept do people live such lives they can disconnect for days at a time to watch entire seasons or shows.
Zoomers cant even sit through shorts, so thats going to be interesting
woosh
I still don't understand why people throw around the term "episodic" as a negative trait.
Is the concept of not binge watching shit that fricking alien to them?
>theorize with other people
Not how it happened, that was a result of lost and the cattle that watch it not understanding the story (because it was a hack job) but wanting to pretend they did coupled with the advent of the internet. No one theorized about the Brady bunch, or cheers, or friends. They said what they wanted to happen and the watched the next episode. Shows weren't shitty cookie cutter mysteries to be solved, they were entertainment. The reason people "theorize" about modern shows is from necessity. The show is not good enough on its own to be entertainment so the audience has to make their own fun.
Perhaps the biggest issue is TV has become too dispersed: there being both that many channels and streaming services has led to audiences being fractured - even many 'popular' shows get what would once be rather pitiful viewership figures.
>being released all at once
That has also reduced the staying power of many shows - something will be talked about for a week or two and then be forgotten. Relatedly, there is the wider trend in American TV where nowadays (rather than getting 22 episodes ever year for several years) you get 8-10 episodes and often have to wait for an extended period for the next season; momentum behind things is often not there and it is not even as if there has been a general increase in writing quality brought about by the episode reduction.
sounds like you're seething because you have nothing interesting to talk about with people so you need whatever NEW show is out as a crutch and they took that away from under you so your autism came through. the good news is they're back to doing that because they realized people will stop caring a week later if the show was forgettable garbage, which 99% of shit put out is.
All modern TV is instantly forgotten because it leaves no lasting impact. Streaming platforms gave learned their lesson and now release individual episodes or in batches. Love is Blind Season 6 was a hit because of the discussion between episodes