Does anyone else get a feeling that shows and movies are getting more and more quickly forgotten these days?
It feels like nothing has any staying power anymore.
Does anyone else get a feeling that shows and movies are getting more and more quickly forgotten these days?
What about the early 2000s. But there is way more these days
All slop, and anything that gets talked about has some stupid controversy attached.
This has been the case for about 15 years.
release the whole season at once
everyone binge watches it immediately
talk about it for 2 days
next season is 3 years away
everyone forgets
it's all slop anyway who is watching this crap
TV shows used to air 1 episode every week for 9 months a year. Every year. Only taking breaks during the summer.
Now a days TV shows release 8 episode at once. Then don't release anything else for 2-3 years.
It is easy to see why things get forgotten a lot more than they used to.
I used to watch 10 shows per year and now I watch 26 in a month.
in England it was one episode a week for 6 weeks and they still seemed to go on forever. we talked about them the next day at school, we'd repeat lines from it - comedies and so on and your brain would fill in the gaps so the world/universe felt a lot bigger, more persistent.
probably none of it is good, it's all fake and a distraction from real life. maybe we shouldn't seek it out. perhaps fake things designed to sell us something aren't such a good thing to be memorable.
books we at least imagine while reading.
Blame social media. There's always a new thing, so people don't care much about individual pieces of art. Plus its mostly slop now so not much reason to care
She has nice tits.
There's too much shit coming out at once. No Way Home was supposed to be the second coming of Christ and now no one even talks about it.
youre probably watching shitty shows
Maybe if the shows were actually good, we'd remember them.
They aren't being forgotten, the advertising budget runs out. This board is basically a commercial. I guarantee it's one of the main reasons they got rid of the poster count. Now shills can bump their thread from page 10 and nobody will notice.
It's because they're not good. It's not a mystery. They filled the writers rooms with women and now every show is terrible.
Self righteous reinventing the wheel. They all think they're the first "insert blank" to do it in movie history.
its called content now, it's second screen ambient background content for doomscrollers. plus the age of cinema is over
Because that episode would usually be the highlight of your week. Because of the internet people consume so much stuff that watching a new episode or movie isn't exactly exciting or novel anymore.
The 2-3 year gaps really kill immersion.
I remember GoT dominated the 2010's for pop culture like nothing I had ever seen before. Yeah, the writing was worse after season 4.. But it was that two year gap before seasons 7 that really killed enthusiasm for the show.
people tired of being cooped up watching shows after COVID/hostile social climate/bars too expensive to go out
half of all shows being blatant woke bs
aversion to casting attractive women since they got rid of Weinstein
Politics and real life news now more entertaining than most shows
No water cooler effect: everyone's watching different shows, its rare to have one show everyone's talking about
2-3 year gaps between seasons
People would rather listen to podcasts/youtube than traditional TV
Almost everything is woke historical revisionism or reboots of existing IP
I don't watch shit unless people I trust recommend it.
shows run for like 2-3 months and then take breaks for at least 12 months before their next season, if they wanted to stay they should release episodes once per week, then only have breaks for like 2-3 months and then come back and do the same thing.
>No water cooler effect: everyone's watching different shows, its rare to have one show everyone's talking about
It's pretty telling that there hasn't been that "One Show" everyone is watching for what feels like nearly ten years. Is this whole industry just that devoid of talent or are they all too scared to rock the boat?
pretty much this
having many episodes, including duds, helps keeping the show alive in people's mind
now tv shows are basically stretched out movies with shit pacing
make forgettable garbage
it gets forgotten
Makes sense.
the last one was GoT I guess. When a big show comes out now it may seem like the biggest thing ever for a month and the next one is already forgotten. The same holds true for video games. I feel like people's attention span is declining also at a macro level
Yes but why is it forgettable garbage? We listen to your complaints and then ignore them to pander to the twitter crowds so why isn't this working?
It's a mystery
Nope. You simply only remember the memorable stuff from long time ago but forgot the forgetable stuff. Plenty of boring and uninteresting movies and series was made since the invention of the camera.
But it was that two year gap before seasons 7 that really killed enthusiasm for the show.
It was the dogshit ending.
The mandalorian could have been it, but again, the 3 years break killed its momentum.
Because each new season is taking 2 seasons to release, so the hype from previous season just dies from no mention of it till the new season release
Fury Road was the last memorable movie.
Squid Game was pretty popular for the first season.
New MobLand episode is out and Anon Babble hasn't even made a thread for it.
Expanse, /rbmk/ino, Squid game. There was lot's of "hype" for the first season of the Witcher. The Shogun remake brought in a crowd. Granted, nothing outside of SG reached the level of normie interest like GoT.
dunno
The weekly format made so much sense I will never understand why they abandoned it.
"buh peepol wanna binge watch now!"
Then they can binge one of the hundreds of existing shows they've never seen before. You don't need to binge something brand new.
It doesn't help that shows have 6-8 episode "seasons" with 2 year cycles.
yea, slop tends to get shoveled out and forgotten quickly. not everything needs to be remembered and celebrated, least of all shit that wasn't even popular enough to get two seasons; three seasons in netflix standards, since they usually pay for two 10-ep "seasons" (remember when seasons used to be ~24 episodes?) to give the illusion of popularity.
Streaming shows are made to be "disposable." They're not meant to have a lasting impact or get watched years after release.
It's a fragmentation problem. There are two many venues for shows as well as too many shows these days. People have limited time and they rarely watch the same things at the same time, so there's no communal discussion about new things. This is also why studios are reviwing old brands, as those are talked by people.
Studios greated this issue with their own greed.