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212 sats \ 14 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 7 Nov movies

Storytelling comes in many varieties. There are short, one movie formats, multiple movie formats and series. Which do you prefer to watch. If you would like to, leave the name of the story in your comments. I will publish the results at the end of the poll

Single movie format33.3%

Multiple movie format22.2%

Single season series format22.2%

Multiple season series format22.2%

Never ending soap opera format0.0%

Other - in the comments0.0%

9 votes \ poll ended

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10 sats \ 7 replies \ @7e6e393a56 7 Nov

The multiple season format is what I like the most, but sometimes it's what disappoints me the most... but it's the risk I'm willing to take. Breaking Bad had many episodes per season and is one of my favorite series. The biggest problem I identify in long series is that sometimes the story being developed doesn't contain many episodes or seasons.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Nov

True!! The other problem is that they may loose their best writers to other projects, thus, leaving the story line in their heads only. George R. R. Martin comes to mind here.

10 sats \ 5 replies \ @7e6e393a56 8 Nov

You are absolutely right... Game of thrones is an excellent example. David Benioff and DB Weiss centralized everything for themselves and we saw what happened

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Nov

Yeah, everything went to sh*t in the last two seasons! But, you can’t really blame them, because Martin never finished writing the books. What he did write and what the others wrote didn’t mesh well and missed some of the intricacies Martin was used to writing into his novels.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @7e6e393a56 8 Nov

Yes, a lot of things influenced it... the pressure from the executives, the unfinished story and other problems, I just think they took on too many responsibilities and they could have hired more writers

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Nov

Maybe one of their constraints was the budgeting problem. However, seeing that it was a big hit, there should have been plenty of budget to go around for hiring new people to replace their efforts.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @7e6e393a56 8 Nov

As you mentioned earlier... if George R. R. Martin had finished his story, everything would be different!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Nov

Probably much different, given his experience as an author and developing the story from scratch.

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 7 Nov

Multi movie

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 7 Nov

Did you see “Dune I & II”? They were pretty good.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave 7 Nov

It's hard to pick because I have enjoyed all these formats. Some of my favorite shows were one season and they feel like long movies. So I am going with that one.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 7 Nov

Yeah, it is really hard to pick. I once bing-watched all episodes of “The 100”. Wow, I didn’t watch anything for a long time after that.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 7 Nov

I think single season series format has the most flexibility, assuming you have enough story for a season. One off movies are my close second choice.

The streaming era has done away with writing episodes around commercial breaks and rigid runtimes. So you can have episodes 10-20min longer or shorter than the last and keep a natural flow.

They're also less restrictive than 2-3h movies that demand more upfront time commitment especially if those movies are meant to get butts in theatre seats.

To mimic the 2-3 movie series, a single season can also be split into 2-3 parts. Like Cobra Kai currently (great series btw) has its finale season with 5 episodes per part, each part a few months apart.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 7 Nov

I think the flexibility is really fine if the writers can do it. I thought Babylon 5 was a great 5 season series. It was not done in a flexible way though, It was the standard TV style, commercial time and all of the rest. But, the writers really had that one down well.