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Nov 13, 2013 19:26
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Aphrodite posted:Serialization on television is usually bad for ratings. Unless you make it easily available on Netflix (see: Breaking Bad's ratings).
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Nov 13, 2013 19:45
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Thwomp posted:Unless you make it easily available on Netflix (see: Breaking Bad's ratings). Scandal, too: heavily serialized, did okay-at-best numbers during the seven-episode first season and was almost immediately put up on Netflix. Six or so episodes into the second season the show EXPLODED.
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Nov 13, 2013 19:50
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This is slightly veering away from Arrow, but I really do despise the myth that serialization = low ratings. USA network pulls GREAT numbers for the majority of their shows, and most try to blend a slight serialized story with tightly paced procedural plots. And its incredible how well that formula works. Just spending seven or so minutes in a given forty minute episode on an ongoing thread generates online buzz and fan interest, PLUS the mystery of the week is usually strong too, since it doesn't have to fill every single minute of screentime. I'd lose my drat mind if every television show tried to ape Sons of Anarchy/Scandal/Arrow's devotion to long-form storytelling, but bland procedurals aren't the ratings goldmine they used to be either.
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Nov 13, 2013 19:57
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I don't watch most USA shows because they're just awful, but I did suffer through like 3 seasons of Burn Notice and you would be lucky to see 7 minutes of ongoing arc per season.
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Nov 13, 2013 20:02
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Aphrodite posted:Serialization on television is usually bad for ratings. The Walking Dead Narcissus1916 posted:By contrast, even Agents of SHIELD's best episodes are basically passable monster-of-the-week plots. The show has a distressing lack of serialization or ANY ongoing plot whatsoever. Do you even watch that show? Cause it sure don't sound like it. Rarity fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Nov 13, 2013 20:03
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Rarity posted:
Yeah, those would be the only parts of the post I really disagree about.
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Nov 13, 2013 20:49
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Rarity posted:The Walking Dead The Walking Dead defies all logic and patterns.
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Nov 13, 2013 20:51
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zoux posted:I think Arrow is probably the best comic book TV show of all time. I mean, not a high bar, but it's miles ahead of 90's Flash or Mutant X or Smallville or whatever.
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Nov 13, 2013 21:01
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LA Spidey does have its own strange charm, I have to agree.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:32
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While it's no contest that Arrow is a better show than Shield at a moment, comparing a series in its second season to a show that is only on its eighth episode in kind of unfair to the latter. There are some legitimate concerns with the structure of AoS, given that it is bound into a much larger universe, were all the major stuff has to happen in the movies and thus the ability to really shake things up is somewhat limited, but complaining that characters are not as well developed is seriously a stupid complaint. We are not even at the halfway point of the season and so far literally every episode has somehow advanced their characterization or their relationships with each other. Their is no guarantee that it will turn into a great show in the end, but condemning it from the get-go, just because it doesn't match up with a show well into its second season is really pointless.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:02
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I'm watching season 1. I actually like this show a lot, but there's some very weak performances and some uneveness in tone that mess it up in places. I'm excited to get to the end of the season though and will try to catch up to broadcasts.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:11
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Whoop new episode!!! Yay Road Trip!
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Nov 14, 2013 02:01
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STRIKE FORCE X!
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Nov 14, 2013 02:04
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Amanda Waller! Yay! and she knows their secretssssss.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:04
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Stupid thin Amanda Waller.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:04
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Haha, Waller knows that Ollie is the Arrow.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:05
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I was gonna complain that's no Amanda Waller, but that's perfectly in character. She doesn't coerce you with pain, she coerces you by letting you know she knows EVERYTHING.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:05
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Hollismason posted:Amanda Waller! Yay! She knows 
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Nov 14, 2013 02:06
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They call it "Miracle" but sounds more like Venom to me.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:09
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It's a magical place.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:10
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Tahiti? It's a magical place.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:10
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God drat that was only the first 12 minutes?! 
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Nov 14, 2013 02:12
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I guess I will spoiler this but Venom the drug was based on a drug named "Miracle" which was based on HOUR MANs formulae. So yeah I would not be surprised at all if it's venom. Plus you had Brother Blood using it basically.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:13
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In all fairness, they're pretty short, Ollie.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:14
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Her skirts are not ... that short.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:15
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While her skirts aren't the shortest, they are extremely tight.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:16
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I wished they'd put subtitles on for the Russian  . Now we have to wait for the translation. Woah Slade is hosed up.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:29
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Oh drat did he get it bad
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Nov 14, 2013 02:29
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Anybody know Russian? I kind of want to know what he said too. Slade! 
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Nov 14, 2013 02:30
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JohnSherman posted:Anybody know Russian? I kind of want to know what he said too. Nope, now that he has half a face, he's officially Deathstroke. 
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Nov 14, 2013 02:30
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Oh come on, just say you need to break up until the trial is over.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:31
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Poor flashback Slade, poor present Roy. Also glad to see Summer Glau finally getting some screen time.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:31
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poo poo, now I think I know why Slade and Oliver have a falling out and I do not like it. drat Diggle nice little fight scene.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:31
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Oh crap
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Nov 14, 2013 02:33
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Hollismason posted:poo poo, now I think I know why Slade and Oliver have a falling out and I do not like it. Shado has had historical issues with taking liberties with badly injured men in her care.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:35
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drat, I could've sworn only Slade's hands were on fire? Also wow, Thea's done dealing with everyone's bullshit I guess. And god drat Diggle is a beast.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:35
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Deakul posted:drat, I could've sworn only Slade's hands were on fire? In the bombing scene his hand were on fire and he reached up to his face.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:36
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Bow chikka wow wow. I dunno if I like this developement. That was a really fast sex scene.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:38
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Oooooh poo poo
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Nov 14, 2013 02:39
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