Your way of doing things is now how things must be done. Extra points for petty and minor stuff.

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    TV series now have 25 episodes a season.

    Five season minimum.

    All TV series are released on physical disc after one year (the creator of the show can choose a smaller amount of time if they want, but never longer). After one year it MUST BE on disc.

    Blu-ray Disc at a minimum. Can choose 4k if the creator of the show wants. Can do both.

    Federal penalties if the show is cancelled early.

    Next

    All devices that require an always on connection, must have a patch to allow the device to work if the server is ever pulled offline.

    Subscription based services must provide an actual benefit. Not a “well the company wants more money so they’re just going to create a subscription service”… looking at the companies that make heated steering wheels in cars subscription based.

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      11 hours ago

      TV series now have 25 episodes a season.

      Fuck no. That’s how you get pointless fucking padding episodes halfway through the season where the plot and the characters just spin their wheels and nothing meaningful happens.

      But, obviously what I mean by that is that your way is the right way.

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        11 hours ago

        No offense meant, but I’m actually confused by your response.

        Are you saying that my way is the right way or my way is not the right way?

        Just as an example, the TV series, Stargate SG one we had a fan favorite episode called window of opportunity. The creator of the TV series said in today’s society there’s zero chance we could ever have that episode and yet that is literally the fan favorite of the series. Window of opportunity was basically the Groundhog Day episode. Those are the Sorts of episodes that literally would not exist anymore. While you disagree and you think that we shouldn’t have those sorts of episodes and we shouldn’t “filler episodes “ I’m on the opposite side.

        Although I may have misunderstood your response and maybe you meant that my way is the right way again like I said I’m a little confused.

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          10 hours ago

          Different people like different things and that’s a good thing!

          I like short, tightly plotted series that have a story to tell, that tell the story, and then end. 6-8 episodes is about right. What really turned me off to longer series was a combination of 24 (there’s a fistful of episodes in the middle where Bauer’s wife or daughter - I forget which - gets kidnapped, escapes, has amnesia, gets kidnapped again, turns into a goose… I don’t remember all the pointless timewasting filler details, but none of it was relevant to the actual story) and Lost (it became increasingly obvious that they hadn’t actually written the whole story, didn’t know what the fuck was going on, same as the rest of us, and were just making shit up as they went along, and that shit wasn’t very good).

          The last line of my comment was me remembering the premise of this thread :)

    • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
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      12 hours ago

      niiice! here’s your petty upvote for 5 season minimum. well done!

      the others in the list are reasonable, or at least entertaining.