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Does anyone else rarely watch TV shows?

posted 5 years ago by samoanjoes (57579)
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I much prefer movies over TV. I know there will be an ending and it won't get cancelled. If the movie starts off good but then it starts to suck, I only have to sit through the remainder of the duration compared to a TV show where I would have to sit through episodes and seasons just to find out what happens because of all the time I've already spent watching it. Movies don't have to fill a quota of extending storylines just because it got a certain amount of episodes ordered. Unless it's a sequel, movies don't have to worry about actors leaving because of contract disputes and then getting a replacement that you don't like.

Movies all the way!

[–] Stratego (30761) 5 years ago

I haven't been watching any new shows, but I do like to watch old tv shows. Movies may be done after 2 hours, but that's the problem, they last 2 hours.

[–] MaximRecoil (4748) 5 years ago

I haven't watched much TV in the past ~20 years. I've watched a few shows, but I don't care for the serial nature of most modern TV shows, where every episode is effectively a "to be continued..." episode. I can't think of any story arc that's both continuously interesting and requires a whole season of episodes to play out, and that inherently results in a lot of "filler." SJW foolishness annoys me too, which is completely out of control now.

There are a few TV shows that I love, and I rewatch them every few years, but they are all episodic in nature and old:

Magnum, P.I.
The Dukes of Hazzard
Columbo
Seinfeld
Sledge Hammer!
Star Trek

[–] samoanjoes (57579) 5 years ago

Very true. Seasons are way too long even if I am invested in the story. There's always annoying filler episodes too like you said. I don't understand why the number of shows per season doesn't change every year. Why can't season 1 have 7 episodes and season 2 have 5 episodes? If that's how long it takes to tell the story, then so be it.

[–] mta943 (12) 5 years ago

I watch tv shows once a month

[–] Catbookss (13664) 5 years ago

I used to prefer movies over TV because the quality was so much better, there wasn't any comparison.

Then came Mad Men, and the game was changed.

Instead of only 1.5 or 2 hours of something amazing I got 7 whole seasons of it, hour after hour. I got to fully immerse myself in this exquisitely created world. Entire arcs were created for characters that allowed them to slowly and subtly develop in a way that could never happen in movies, simply because there isn't time.

It's like the difference between reading a short story and a novel, if it's well done.