Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging

Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:59AM (#35274913)

These are all non-episodic TV shows which have yet to conclude. I reserve judgement until they have concluded as to whether the writing will hold up. For the vast majority of these shows, writing is great for a few seasons, then nosedives because they can't figure out how to conclude it or the plot becomes an ever expanding fractal of loose ends.

The reason for this is simple. Due to the nature of how studios are run now, you gotta keep making the popular stuff until it ceases to be. Even if it was better to just leave it at one or two seasons. Everything has to be renewed to make evn more money and to offset the endless treadmill of cancelled-after-one-season garbage that Netflix and HBO etc are pumping out.

I love Succession, but I hope this 4th season is the last one.

EDIT: named the wrong season.

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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by danielbln on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:01AM (#35274950)

The upcoming Succession season is the 4th one and HBO as well as the show runners have confirmed that it will be the last and conclude.

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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:04AM (#35274986)

Oh it's the 4th, not the 3rd, my bad.

Good.

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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by imbnwa on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:43AM (#35285174)

>The reason for this is simple. Due to the nature of how studios are run now, you gotta keep making the popular stuff until it ceases to be. Even if it was better to just leave it at one or two seasons. Everything has to be renewed to make evn more money and to offset the endless treadmill of cancelled-after-one-season garbage that Netflix and HBO etc are pumping out.

Getting back to video games, this is what I fear about the talk of The Last of Us Part III; that story is told, move on.

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