Was "binge watching" a mistake...

Just finished Beastars S1 the other day and it was great, anyone else?
Kinda weird how Loius's disappearance at the end wasn't a bigger deal for the characters.

Binge watching hurts Netflix the most. There's a reason why so many people prefer watching Friends, Seinfeld, Parks, The Office, etc. for the 100th time instead of watching something new. When you watch a show on a weekly basis for 5 to 10 years, you form some sort of relationship with the characters. The show is part of your routine, the characters become "someone you spend time with" as part of your week. Binge watching doesn't allow that. People watch the whole season in 2 or 3 days and proceed to forget about it one week later. It never becomes a part of your regular life, the characters never become too familiar. This is why nobody rewatches Netflix shows and will ultimately fuck Netflix as they can never stop producing content.

It killed MotW, it killed long-running series

You can still make shorter, tight series if you're competent. Netflix just hires bottom of the barrel first-timers.

imagine if Better Call Saul was released all at once
you would literally die of boredom while trying to binge it

>Was "binge watching" a mistake? How do you even talk to people about a series that just launched on Netflix without being spoiled? Who the hell watches 10 hours of TV in a single day and talks about a show at the water cooler the next day? Do you prefer batch or weekly releases? With weekly releases at least everybody is caught up to the same episode and there's sustained discussion for 2-3 months. With batch release everybody is on different episodes and there's no discussions without major spoilers until everybody is done watching the series, which could be anywhere from 1 day to 1 month.

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>When you watch a show on a weekly basis for 5 to 10 years, you form some sort of relationship with the characters

Damn. makes sense.

"MLP=Barney"
The utter purity and simplicity of this message seems almost biblical now that I've seen it thousands of times.

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LOST is a prime example of this, as is breaking bad and the other top series that spanned 4-5 years.

I binged all the first 3 seasons as soon as i finished BB a couple years ago. Stop having ADHD.

Yes it's destroying TV -- and that's a good thing. Movies, or kinos as I like to call them, are the far superior art form. Even real life is more kino than TV. Live events garner the best ratings.
>getting to know a character over the years
Enjoy your capeshit and fillers. Unless your name is Jim Carrey or Howard, Fine, and Howard, I'm not interested in weekly installments. Make a miniseries that stands on its own, and if it's a hit you bring the cast back and make another. Something has to give between the expectations of a massive serial and the practice of binging.

is barneybot in the right? I've never heard a conclusive answer about whether his image filter thing actually works.

>How do you even talk to people about a series
The only people who care about this nonsense are those who try to make money "discussing" tv and/or films. So bloggers and YT kiddies. Everyone else wants to consume their content when they want to.

It reminds me of when tv network started crying about VCRs.

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Honestly it's a pain in the ass to discuss because nobody takes the time to really digest the series. If you take it slowly mulling it over by the time you get to discussing a streaming show on Yas Forums a week after it premiered the discussion will be dead.

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Lee what is your thoughts on the political implications and social commentary that is prevalent in the show Barney and Friends?

Except none of that holds true. The people actually watching weekly drips are the minority, most people will be late to the party and binge most/all of it. And "not remembering" is obviously the main reason to rewatch...

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>The people actually watching weekly drips are the minority
Yes, now they are, but that was not the case in the past.

Not remembering is not the main reason to rewatch. People constantly rewatching The Office or Friends know the episodes by heart. It's comfort food. The shows are intertwined in nostalgia for the particular decade the person watched it. It transcends the show, it has to do with familiarity, "visiting an old friend" and all that jazz.

Binge watching is a new thing. Nobody was binge watching Friends in the 90s. You watched the episode as it aired and then you would talk about it the next day. Eventually shows would go into syndication, and then you would get to watch an episode per day (again making it even more a part of your routine), but nobody was watching entire seasons in a weekend. Fuck off.

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Just ignore anything that has been released in the last 5 years. Television hasn’t changed in quality and who cares if you are spoiled for something you probably won’t watch 5 years from now

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I just don't give a fuck about Netflix shows, so when they talk about them or spoil the ending, it doesn't matter.

his only criteria is to pick on anything coming from derpibooru so it only ended up in people baiting him with crop-outs instead of whatever thing he was trying to achieve

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>I WANT PEOPLE TO TELL ME WHAT I JUST WATCHED BUT NOT WHAT I WILL WATCH BINGEWATCHING SUCKS >:(

people are such insufferable faggots

Binge watching also promotes ADHD and makes the entire series a blur in your memory.

>that literal schizophrenic who's been bumping this thread for five hours because of he thinks he's being gangstalked by bronies

Most of them are "blurs in your memory" because most of them follow the "good premier, good finale, worthless mindnumbing filler you could've easily skipped and missed literally nothing in between" format. Which has existed for as long as "season premiers/finales."

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its the closest thing to auto-bump the board has, just make sure your OP image is on derpibooru and he'll keep your thread alive until it hits the bump limit, because, for some reason, HE DOESN'T SAGE

Weekly episodes is unironically the patricians choice. Anyone remember The Expanse season 4, Altered Carbon S2? No, because it was released all at once.

TV is not just about the episodes themselves but also discussing it with friends and online, creating memes and shitposts.

This, how many pieces of content are ever watched more than once? I'm glad I didn't buy into this, things are already bad enough with Humble Bundle, not to mention free games from Epic weekly.

poor guy thinks he is making a stand

I remember the expanse season 4 and altered carbon season 2. One was shit, one was pretty good.

They weren't "discussed" because they were pretty straight forward and left no real room for confusion. Because 99.9% of "DISCUSSION" is retarded assholes begging to be told what they just watched, and still not understanding no matter how you phrase it.

hate to say it but disney had it right with how they did mandalorian. I mean it works for them too because you're paying 3 months subscription to watch it rather than 1, and they just have to do that four times a year across marvel and star wars to keep people subscribed eternally

netflix is more quantity than quality. just stacks of cheap mediocre "original" series a lot of which could easily be condensed into a film but would make the service look less substantial if they did. there's no more house of cards or defenders, they don't give a shit any more. the only shows they've really put anything into are stranger things (already overstayed its welcome) and the witcher (already past the decent part of the source material)

to be fair the expanse did pretty well in retaining its identity on the switch to streaming, and I don't think it was ever quite popular enough to get that weekly discussion going on a regular basis. we've already forgotten altered carbon s2 because it's an abomination

the hero 4channel deserves

>we've already forgotten altered carbon s2
Oh I remember. I remember it all. I weep at the thought it's presence in my mind has caused me to lose something I once held dear.

its more like the one Yas Forums needs right now

Damn I burned out my brain and I can't even watch tv or read anymore, am I really missing much?

I mean s1 was passable at best and the books are just fine. I'm baffled at how poor s2's writing is and the way they decided to adapt it but find it hard to believe anyone is really emotionally invested in that

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>baffled
we all saw it coming. We all knew the show's OC was going to be the main focus of season 2, and it was going to be so much worse than season 1 specifically because they'd have zero book material to prop up their utterly nonsensical garbage.

Real life is better, literally the patrician choice

I don't watch tv lol

Agreed. I can never keep up with some friends on Netflix shows. I liked GoT(and WestWorld) because we would always been in the exact same place so we could talk about it.

not necessarily. when mackie got announced I just assumed they were doing broken angels which would have made the way they changed falconer largely irrelevant until they got to s3

Best model for maintaining excitement was probably the daily episode release for Torchwood:Children of Earth.
Five episode season released over a single week every night just ramping up the tension.
Otherwise I'd say releasing a few episodes every week would be better than doing a full season drop at once.

When Netflix started this model it made sense, get ahead of piracy and force customers afraid of spoilers to watch the show that day/weekend to stay ahead of the curve.
But now, with some hindsight, it's just messy. I like to use Arrow season 2 versus Jessica Jones season 1 as kind of a proof of this. In Arrow you were shown the main antagonist about midway through the season and then almost three months later he was defeated. So for a long while you were kept on the hook and watching distinct memorable episodes of the show as they slowly ramped up the pressure. In Jessica Jones you met the antagonist about a third of the way into the show and seven hours later he was defeated and almost no episode in between was distinct or had a chance to really stand out because it was just a huge blurry mess.

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that's called optimism. it has no place in this world

I don't watch things to socialize.

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Ok incel

Seriously are you people goldfish?! Netflix won because of binge watching.

Whatever you want whenever you want it.

>Whatever you want whenever you want it.
Exactly, and you get that regardles of binge watching or weekly. If a series is weekly, you have to wait a week for next episode, sure, but once it releases, you will watch it whenever you want. It barely matters anyways, so Streaming being weekl would only be a minor annoyance, and still be superior to Cable TV.

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