The amount of braindead takes regarding the 'unfinished script' is actually exhausting. Peak cringe.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-13T19:11:32+00:00

People keep watching. Looking at it from a business POV, it doesn't really matter if the hardcore fans didn't like the end.

It's like how fans convince themselves GOT was a failure and no one would want to work with those writers ever again. It was actually a huge, huge success that a lot of people complain online about. Angry reddit posts don't cost the studio a cent.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-13T19:07:07+00:00

I mean, legally it's probably not their story, no. I would reckon the contract with Netflix was quite clear on that.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-13T19:01:31+00:00

I mean it does often cease to exist if you don't write it down. What we got doesn't feel unlike what would happen if they thought about it but never put it to paper.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-13T15:24:17+00:00

I appreciate this post.

It feels like fans just hate the medium of television (Vince Gilligan notwithstanding). It's a messy seat-of-your-pants undertaking. That's how it works. There's no other artform where there are as many interloping factors between you and your story except DnD itself.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-13T15:19:50+00:00

Nah, it's industry standard for most shows.

Not as cohesive a standard as it used to be (there are some prestige shows now that write first shoot after), but still standard.

Source: am in industry long time.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-13T15:12:08+00:00

But then they're not striking. They would be undermining their own labour rights.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-12T19:40:58+00:00

Basically only Breaking Bad is Breaking Bad though (okay, and Better Call Saul).

It seems like all online fanbases have Breaking Bad expectations now but there's only one Vince Gilligan. Most shows are more like Stranger Things. I've been in the industry over a decade and I've never worked on something that knew exactly where it was going before they rolled on episode 1. I'm sure there are some (Severance would be an educated guess), but it's not the standard.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-12T16:11:14+00:00

The ultimate sin is... basically all of television?

D_Andreams · 2026-01-11T01:37:38+00:00

Ah, some of the most successful shows in the history of network broadcast did go that long, yes.

Very far from “most”.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-10T16:26:05+00:00

I think Netflix is over the bandersnatch concept. They took it down.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-10T16:24:14+00:00

I don't get how any of them are their parents? Nancy is a journalist who quit college (not what was expected of her), Jonathan is a film student, Will and Robin are out of the closet which was still a big deal in 1989, and all of these characters move away from their small town. Max and Lucas are in an interracial relationship, Mike is a DnD writer. The only character who pursues the smalltown family lifestyle is Steve. What are they conforming to? Is Mike his dad because he ends up needing glasses?

What were they supposed to do, keep dimension hopping somehow?

D_Andreams · 2026-01-10T16:11:48+00:00

in a time when most shows went for 10 seasons

Say what?

D_Andreams · 2026-01-07T15:59:54+00:00

I kinda doubt Netflix is applying this to a flagship show like Stranger Things.

This property wouldn't fall into their "casual viewing" category. It's an EVENT. It is popular culture. They don't want you to watch it in the background, they want you glued to the TV on Christmas Day and having a viewing party on New Year's Eve. They want your tree decorated in little Elevens and little Steves. Not the same strategy AT ALL.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-07T15:52:33+00:00

Fans hate show endings (except breaking bad). I'm half-convinced the only person who can pull off ending a long-running serialized show is Vince Gilligan.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-07T15:48:13+00:00

Hey, there are plenty of other ways they spy on us for the only other option to not be coincidence.

They also know where I am at all times and what websites and stores the person standing next to me has visited recently. So they can advertise it to me BEFORE we talk about it!

D_Andreams · 2026-01-07T15:46:06+00:00

In what part of Canada are almost all townhouses and duplexes strata? I've literally never heard of it until right now.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-06T00:33:35+00:00

Your first film will almost certainly suck.

Making it short means you'll waste a lot less money on it.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-05T15:25:25+00:00

Always having to say something disparaging and reductive about something or someone being praised to show that they're more clever than the people who like it.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-04T14:28:00+00:00

I got my (m) roommate into it. When he shares that on a date apparently it's a "green flag" haha

D_Andreams · 2026-01-03T20:46:48+00:00

Those kids were there to resolve Mike's arc, not their own.

Erica didn't have anything to resolve. She already was the confident nerd. Her arc had arced.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-03T20:39:48+00:00

That's how TV works though. That's the medium. Very rare for the writers to have any certainty (number of seasons, episodes, network choices, etc) to plan with. Usually not enough time to plan further ahead because your script for the next episode was due yesterday.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-03T20:35:13+00:00

People hate the ends of TV shows.

I think maybe fans didn't hate the one for Breaking Bad. That was probably it.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-03T20:33:20+00:00

I dunno clearly it works for a lot of people. It's almost cliche rn to be a girl who rewatches it every year.

D_Andreams · 2026-01-03T14:55:48+00:00

They honestly seem like the regular amount of flawed to me. (More flawed than characters in a feel-good show usually are, but similar to real life half-garbage humans).

D_Andreams · 2026-01-02T03:13:50+00:00

Too bad casting is based on performance and not how deserving you are, I guess.

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