I recall hearing a discussion on the extreme desire humans have to hear a story's ending, even when they aren't that interested in the story. There is simply a need to know how it ends. I've caught myself to often watching something I think is a waste of time but needing to know how it ends. This is as much of a weakness as the reciprocity rule.
Netflix burned me to many times on this. It's bad taste to re-use the same story time & time again to pump out tons of content. It's unforgiveable to not finish the story though.
Anyhow, he passed before writing the next book, and it literally bugs me at least once or twice a year, and yet I read it 20? 25? years ago.
So yes, at least here endings matter.
Not to repeat myself, but we all clearly need a little perspective, because for several generations the norm has been television shows being cancelled without closure. To have an expectation that all shows, or even most shows, should have proper conclusions is completely out of line with reality.
*exceptions for shows, mainly anime, where a season is a self contained story. And Firefly, cause it's Firefly.
People surging ahead leads to a difficulty in conversation that week-to-week episodes do not.
Once everyone is split into various streaming camps, the talking between friends begins to drop.
That said, I mostly don't binge watch and maybe it would bug me more if I did.
Once a week episode is good for episodic content, nit for something with good writing.
Haha this just means that I have to wait longer to resubscribe.
I cancelled it when they raised their prices, it made me think about how much I watch things on there. Which was rarely - my guess was around 1 show/month on average.
> Now all the streaming services also seem to rate limit each episode to once a week.
Yeah, screw that noise. Torrents are still their primary competitor, and the operative issue is not cost, it is convenience.
To be fair, that was the fate of almost every television show ever made. In fact, your entire first paragraph is just describing what we used to call "television".
I miss the days where I could binge watch a series on release date. Now all the streaming services also seem to rate limit each episode to once a week.
All the qualities that drew me into streaming have slowly faded away.