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[–] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

the one thing i do appreciate is them dropping filler episodes

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Oh no, filler is a good thing. Filler gives you time to know the characters, and adds depth and color to the world. Filler is where writers actually get to stretch and try out ideas. Filler is what makes a show feel full.

    Imagine the X-Files with no filler. We'd lose the Jose Chung episodes, "Home," "the Post-Modern Prometheus," and so many other great episodes. Without the filler, it's just an endless slog through Chris Carter's poorly planned mythology. Just the smoking man and vanishing babies for eleven nine seasons.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I think your opinion is by far the more popular view right now. I completely disagree though. Almost every mini-series I see I'm left dumbstruck as I feel like any decent editor could have gotten the same story across just as well with a 2 or 2.5h movie instead. I feel like they are just wasting my time.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    And then you end up with a 6 hour story chopped to shit and get a very disjointed movie that feels like you're watching what was left of the film stock after Bubba Sawyer had a turn in the editing room.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    No. Good movie editing has been happening since shortly after movies were a thing. Huge books have been made into really good movies. Streaming has opened up new outlet for mini-series like content and some of it really takes advantage of the format to deliver new kinds of story telling that can be worth the time investment. However, most of it is just about generating content with minimal editing and borrowing hook techniques that evolved from TV drama series in the 80s and 90s.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    just an endless slog through Chris Carter’s poorly planned mythology

    Exactly. Watching just those episodes on a binge is going to be... okay, at best. You really need the time in-between those plot beats to let it marinade a bit. Let the conspiracy and shadow-government machinations grow in your head. It lets you get real hungry for the next morsel of "the truth" that eventually comes your way. Then you savor it while you watch Mulder out-think a Genie or whatever.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Community has the best "big round number" episode.

    And also the best bottle episode.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Wait… what is going on here?!

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    (Sorry LousyCornMuffins, I can't help it)

    There was an episode of Stargate SG-1 where...remember the paranoid dude who turned out to be an alien? Well he ends up working in Hollywood, and produces a TV show called Wormhole X-Treme, which is a parody of Stargate SG-1. This character then tries to pitch other shows which are pastiches of Sci-Fi shows, to include a very brief send-up of Farscape, especially relevant since Season 9 and 10 take on Ben Browder and Claudia Black, John Crichton and Aeryn Soun on Farscape respectively.

    So we get T'ealc in a Luxan chin and Chiana Carter.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    no one tell make them watch 10 seasons of stargate

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    But the acting is SO BAD!

    It took all my willpower to get through B5…

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    it's not supposed to be good it's supposed to be fun

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I… but bad acting isn’t fun!

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Comrades, make them watch the entire nonpornographic half of the Ed Wood Collection.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I tell everyone I can to watch 10 seasons of SG-1 . The first show I actually watched every episode in order, though I am sure I saw many of those in syndication before Netflix became a thing. If you don't like Stargate there it's something wrong with you.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Except that one episode of Breaking Bad...

    But then again, that show is over a decade old at this point.

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    The one where the whole thing is just Walter chasing a fly around the lab. I've even got a vague memory of Vince Gilligan admitting it was only there because they were an episode short of whatever they were contractually obliged to produce but had very little budget left.

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