• mendiCAN [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    the one i really wanna finish but still haven’t gotten to is “the wire”. watched the first two seasons, loved em, never started the third. always feels like it’ll be too much for me, somehow.

  • dubble_deee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Hellsing Ultimate had year long gaps between each episode, exacerbated by the tsunami + Fukushima incident. That said, it was so damn good that whenever a new episode came out, even if I was out of it I would rewarch the whole shebang.

  • MU5T4N6@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Stranger Things kinda lost me when it went full blown evil Russia hiding under the CIA science lab and trying to redeem the Nazi doctor guy. Like I get that it’s steeped in 80s tropes but it would have been fun to see them subvert that instead of having the little black girl that should have been mourning the loss of the Black Panthers and talking shit about the Move bombing (which would have JUST happened in the show). Instead she is capitalism’s biggest cheerleader and it comes off as incredibly tone def.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 days 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.

  • Thirsty Hyena@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

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

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

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

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      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.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days 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)

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It was only 6 episodes for the last season. I truly believe that they were trying to save as much money as possible for their LotR series, which is a shame because that series didn’t fair so well, especially with the billion or so dollars they spent on it.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 day ago

          oh right ROP, cost like 2billion per season. i reasoned why invincible went down in quality as well, the money got sucked up by LOTR. its good thing they are not trying to reboot STARGATE Though, because the showrunner actually said its not a good idea to do so.

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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?”

      • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days 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.