Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!]

[payn]

More geek things should be stand alone. One season of a show. One movie. One novel. One comic miniseries.

The limited series is underrated.

 

[Autumnal]

So much agreement. Stories should end and new stories should begin.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Used to be the common case, at least with books and movies. Always gone up against some economies of scale when it comes to comics and TV shows though.

 

[CleverNickName]

More geek things should be stand alone. One season of a show. One movie. One novel. One comic miniseries.

Agreed. The trouble is the demand: If people stopped buying tickets/subscriptions to sequels, they would vanish in six months.

 

[Mind of tempest]

The limited series is underrated.

wish we got more of those that set out to be those, we sort of get them but mostly someone stopped a thing reaching its completion rather than doing a natural flow of media.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

More geek things should be stand alone. One season of a show. One movie. One novel. One comic miniseries.

As much as I loved Alien: Earth, it took a huge gamble on getting a second season with its storytelling.

Heck, I recently re-watched the first season of Stranger Things and, had it been all there was, the narrative would've worked as a coherent single story.

 

[Thomas Shey]

As much as I loved Alien: Earth, it took a huge gamble on getting a second season with its storytelling.

Heck, I recently re-watched the first season of Stranger Things and, had it been all there was, the narrative would've worked as a coherent single story.

Sometimes a story simply needs a longer space to run. Sometimes it doesn't, but suggests successor stories.

The biggest risk is when someone assumes they'll get something like four or five seasons to unpack everything, since a lot of streamers consider two seasons all they want to bother with (Netflix notoriously, but it applies to some others, too).

 

[Deset Gled]

I saw a vlogger recently (that I now can't refind) that summed up the difference between TV shows pre-streaming and post-streaming something like this:

If you saw an older TV show called "The Surfing Dino", the first season will be 20+ episodes of a dinosaur on a surfboard. It will be a huge deal the one time the show breaks format. If you watch a streaming show called "The Surfing Dino", the dino will finally get a surfboard in the season 1 finale. It will be a huge deal when the show finally gets to the ocean.

Not universally true of course, but I feel it.