Why does the running time of a TV show gradually decrease during its run?
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TheAdlerian — 4 years ago(July 13, 2021 03:39 AM)
Shows are designed to sell commercials.
The term Soap Opera is an insult and means the above.
A Soap Opera is an endless and pointless story designed to suck people in. The more people keep watching, the more the show can charge for "Soap" commercials aimed at women.
There's a lot of fake science fiction shows like that on TV. There is some "mystery" that will never get solved. The writers have no mystery or story. However, if they can trick you into thinking they do, you will watch and the show will be popular. So, commercial prices go up.
Lost is a great example.
It's a bunch of actors on a beach doing nothing. All the mysteries were fake, then it's a dream. -
P.Error — 4 years ago(July 13, 2021 04:34 AM)
There's a lot of fake science fiction shows like that on TV. There is some "mystery" that will never get solved. The writers have no mystery or story. However, if they can trick you into thinking they do, you will watch and the show will be popular. So, commercial prices go up.
Manifest is like that. My mum got hooked on it, and kept wondering why the story isn't resolving. She watched the first two seasons in Netflix, and the 3rd on Prime. The 3rd finale still left you in a cliffhanger.
She watches them like they're movies, thinking they're going to have a climax and resolution. But series don't operate that way.
Never lose your desire. -
TheAdlerian — 4 years ago(July 13, 2021 03:31 PM)
The was an NBC science fiction show where they are finding mysterious objects I thought sounded fun and they hyped and be an awesome new story. I thought about checking it out and then wondered if it would be a waste of time.
It's canceled now.
I will not watch any of these shows. When I saw the ad for manifest I knew it instantly.
I will watch if they have been on for years and I am sure there's some kind of story.
The one show I didn't watch but later did was Fringe. It's a wacky X-Files type thing but much better and it has an actual story and ending. -
Deluded Juice — 4 years ago(July 13, 2021 03:39 PM)
The was an NBC science fiction show where they are finding mysterious objects I thought sounded fun and they hyped and be an awesome new story. I thought about checking it out and then wondered if it would be a waste of time.
Yeah dude.
I know the one you mean.
The name escapes me.
It had to do with finding objects from an alien craft that exploded above earth and the object had fallen here.
Never mind that they did not burn up on entering our atmosphere.
Sci fi. Right?
Yeah, it looked good and I gave it a try only to give up on it when it was too slow paced and boring.
Every week there would be some new mystery, it gets solved or taken care of and then they just forgot about it in the next episode.
OK
I get it.
This does all sorts of weird ****.
Now let's get to the point already.
No?
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TheAdlerian — 4 years ago(July 13, 2021 03:47 PM)
A SLOW show is another sign.
There was one called Rubicon that I thought was hilarious! It was some kind of CIA thing and the actors would literally move like snails and look at each other.
Can you imagine being a writer and you have NO CREATIVE THOUGHTS regarding what you are writing. You have no idea what it's about, don't care, and are just writing meaningless stories? How does that even happening?
Hey–I Have a meaningless story for you!
Great, here's a million an episode! -
Brimfin — 4 years ago(February 06, 2022 11:02 AM)
Manifest has recently been bought by Netflix. The writers actually had a 6-year plan for the series with a final resolution. But now they promise to have a 20-episode 4th season which will resolve the show as originally planned.
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P.Error — 4 years ago(July 13, 2021 04:29 AM)
I think the average runtime is a half-hour sitcom became 22 minutes.
This is why streaming services are better for series. They're not bound by a runtime to fit in commercials. They don't all have to be the same. One episode could be 43 minutes, one could be 38.
Just imagine all the editing that goes on to make each and every episode 22-23 minutes? There's no way 200 narratives are around that length naturally.
That means you may have one really good episode, but another that feels like it should've been told in 2 episodes, and another that feels like a 5-minute story stretched to 22 minutes.
Never lose your desire.