Coming Back To This Post With The News That Bridgerton Is Only Going To Come Back In Like, 2 Years? For

coming back to this post with the news that Bridgerton is only going to come back in like, 2 years? For an 8 episode season? When they have actors that are going to visibly grow up, AND others that are going to be getting more and better-paying opportunities as the years go by and can't be signed to the same show forever?

It's really not that big of a deal idk i just saw this post and thought about it.

I hate modern media.

Like don't get me wrong, there's plenty of good stuff out there, but for the most part it feels like so little heart goes into most books/movies/shows?

Like--the PJO show, don't get me wrong, it was good...but it was, at least to me, just kind of...fine? Nostalgia can only go so far.

Casting-wise, it was perfect, and it does seem like it was made by people who genuinely love and care about the source material, but who had to rush their story because they just didn't have the time. They had 8 episodes. Each of those episodes was like 35-45 minutes long, but not only is that pretty long for a single episode, if each of those episodes pretty much just covers one part of the story...that's still not a lot??

House of the Dragon? 10 episodes. No matter how long those 10 episodes are, they're trying to show us how a whole ass war got started in 10 FREAKING EPISODES. How Alicent and Rhaenyra's friendship broke down. Both of their relationships with their spouses and children. They still didn't fully explore Rhaenyra and Harwin's relationship. Does Rhaenyra have any more complicated feelings about her father for his role in the deterioration of her friendship with Alicent? Plus all the time skips...we don't have time to sit with these characters and their relationships and get to know them. Not like we did in GOT (at least the first like 4 seasons).

Not to mention waiting like 2 years between each season. Like, one of my favourite shows ever is Arcane because I like to suffer, and between season 1 and 2 there are 3 years (season 2 comes out November of this year). Watchers may not be happy to wait that long, but we expect good quality for that wait because Arcane is insanely good in all aspects--animation, character arcs, world building, nuance, commentary, music, action, etc., etc., etc. A lot of other shows, not just the two I've mentioned above, just don't feel as worth the wait. I still think they're enjoyable, and I think the writers do want to make good work, but that's hard to do with 8-10 episodes. And Arcane has only 9 episodes, and all of them are long, sure, but I feel like since there are so many moving parts and characters and subplots to the subplots, it can a) keep viewers engaged that long, and b) can easily fill up that much time well with clear priorities and a tightly woven story.

Avatar: The Last Airbender, a masterpiece show in my (and many other people's) opinion, had 20 episode seasons, each episode around 20-25 minutes. That's a reasonable amount of time to focus on one adventure or aspect of the adventure. Prioritize what to focus on, and it slays. But you can't keep giving writers 8 episodes, a shit ton of material, and then expect 100% quality every time.

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you’ll never find me here!!

Do fandoms scare anybody else?

I don't mean that as an insult to people, in general, in fandoms--God knows I'm part of a ton--but people who genuinely take this deathly seriously?

Like, for example, I'm a zutara shipper--oh no, blasphemy, I know, anyways. I have NEVER seen a kataang video with comments like "zutara>kataang," "zutara better," etc., etc., etc. (My PERSONAL experience. Chill). But it's rare to see a zutara video without seeing a whole ass ship war breaking out in the comments.

Another universe I enjoy is ASOIAF, and lately HOTD. But God DAMN, the fandom scares me--full grown adults flat out ignoring stuff that happens in the show because they don't want to accept the fact that NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD PEOPLE. "Alic*nt." "The Whore of Dragonstone." "Lol toddler death it was justified tho." I don't even know any more. They're fictional, and just because the world is brutal and misogynistic, doesn't mean you should try and make fandom spaces safe spaces to vent your own misogyny. Like, Christ.