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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9588119" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah an optimistic distant post-apoc, but that's not, sorry, "hippy nonsense" like Station Eleven (sorry, I say that with love but goddamn) that's say, set 200+ years after the world ends from climate change and warfare and so on, but where people are rebuilding a better world could easily be a response to the current political climate and lack of ideas. There can be cool battles with the evil people who want to drag us back to a worse time and so on too (including various future-tech weapons left over from the wars that ended the world).What's really going to do it though is just really good writing that speaks to a lot of people, feels relevant to a lot of people, not the specific setting or whatever. That's why Mad Men, The Sopranos, and yeah even Game of Thrones all went huge. Because they were both well-written and had something relevant and meaningful to say to people. You can have the coolest setting ever but if your characters just speak in trope-y drivel you'll never go big (Arcane is pretty much as far as you can get like that - big but not huge - and it's because the writing is mid and half the characters - particularly the men - are dull as ditchwater). You also need like, "integrity of concept". You need to really stick to what your show is about and not jump around or go off somewhere else.But you can have all that and fail to move the needle too - just look the utterly brilliant Halt and Catch Fire, which like, in a just world, would have been Mad Men huge (I'd argue in many ways it's better and has more to say than Mad Men). But it just never got the eyes on it.</blockquote>

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