• Ledericas@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    2 days ago

    looking at supernatural, kripkes other creation. when the 2 new showrunners took over, it became nothing more than fan/slashfiction for fans who becames extremely obsessed with the characthers.

  • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    3 days ago

    I believe a show should only run as long as its story warrants it for. Some shows can go however long it wants because it creates its own stories on the go like Doctor Who or Star Trek so they’re going to have many series and seasons. But shows like Dexter that start going off its hinges and falls apart because of it going for too long because it had no direction and its story could already be pin-pointed as to when it ends. Those kinds of shows shouldn’t be going on at any rate.

    If you don’t have the creative prowess to keep a show going, tell its story and be done with it.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    3 days ago

    Homelander kills the shows version of “Trump”, then takes complete power. As his first act as president he puts tariffs on the world.

  • Default_Defect@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    3 days ago

    He’s probably been approached by one too many chuds that worship their idea of Homelander and that think he is his character.

  • piyuv@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    3 days ago

    It’s already ran too long imho. Season 3 amounted to nothing.

      • Klear@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 days ago

        I lost interest during season 2 because it was just too on the nose and obvious, which is odd given that the Ennis original (which I love dearly) is about as unsubtle as you can get.

        The other issue was I felt like they largely threw the anti-corporation themes out of the window in favour of making it a superhero show.

        I loved the first season, but the way it was evolving in the second just didn’t sit well with me.

        • Yeather@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          The third is alright, closer to superhero slop than anti corporate. Fourth season is really good, shifts away from corpo satire and towards political satire really well. You should give it another shot when the final season drops.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    63
    ·
    4 days ago

    As a huge fan of the show im glad it’s ending too. Anymore multiple seasons of resetting the power balance would kill any interest.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        3 days ago

        Damn moreso when you realize they’re all an extension of eachother in spirit. GA rose from the ashes of ER, etc.

        The joke has always been there needs to be a primetime medical drama at all times.

  • CallateCoyote@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    Agreed entirely. A show should last only as long as it takes to tell its story. 2-3 seasons is fine. Hell, even limited one season shows are great.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 days ago

      limited one season shows

      That’s called a “mini series”. :)

      And BTW, Shogun was the finest thing I’ve seen in years, maybe ever. My wife and I were drooling for the next episode, week in, week out.

      I admit to prejudice. Watched the original mini series many times growing up, read the book three times. My wife’s half Japanese, really seems to dislike Japanese anything (🤷🏻), still loved every second of it.

      • rishado@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 days ago

        Idk if the new Shogun is a miniseries. I believe they confirmed a season 2 & 3 (unfortunately).

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 days ago

      It wont. It’s like squeezing an orange, the first few seasons got all the $juice$ now they’re wringing a dry husk with tired writers. May as well get Matt Parker and Trey Stone in to wrap up the show at this point.

      • Alpha71@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        3 days ago

        May as well get Matt Parker and Trey Stone in to wrap up the show at this point.

        That would actually be awesome!

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      3 days ago

      I love the first two seasons of Severance, but even if the third will be bad, it won’t affect my feelings towards the first two.

      Unless it’s GoT season 8 levels of bad, but that’s probably not possible.

      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 days ago

        Because every popular show gets milked to death and executives start interjecting stupid ideas and ruin it. They already had a filler episode in season 2.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 days ago

          It’s not a filler episode just because it doesn’t include the main characters. The episode where Cobel goes home provided a shit ton of context and back story. For example, ether mines? Everyone in the town huffing ether and in some bizarre capitalist cult that used child labor? The fuck? That just made me want to know more about all of that shit.

          How/why is that filler? Unless I’m wrong about which episode you’re referring to, which I doubt.

          • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            2 days ago

            It was five minutes worth of content stretched into 45 minutes. It was boring af. We learned that she designed something, but other than that, we didn’t really get anything out of it.

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              5 hours ago

              So you know where the series is going then? Because that would be the only way to know that nothing else in that episode will be relevant.

              This is why American media is going down the toilet. You can’t have a single episode dedicated to providing context and character building without chuds whining about it being “boring.” Grow up.

                • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  4 hours ago

                  Maybe try putting your phone away and watching it again.

                  Perhaps it’s just because I was paying attention to the dialogue, and I know what ether is, but I thought the episode was just fine. I wouldn’t submit it for an Emmy or anything, but episodes like this can end up being really important to understanding the plot of a show.

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      3 days ago

      I mean Sam and Dean could have gone on for another 10 years and I wouldn’t have complained.