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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

looking at supernatural, kripkes other creation. when the 2 new showrunners took over, it became nothing more than fan/slashfiction for fans who becames extremely obsessed with the characthers.

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I believe a show should only run as long as its story warrants it for. Some shows can go however long it wants because it creates its own stories on the go like Doctor Who or Star Trek so they're going to have many series and seasons. But shows like Dexter that start going off its hinges and falls apart because of it going for too long because it had no direction and its story could already be pin-pointed as to when it ends. Those kinds of shows shouldn't be going on at any rate.

If you don't have the creative prowess to keep a show going, tell its story and be done with it.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Like "Longmire," or "The Mentalist."

The bad guy was gone, what else was left? End the show on that.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Homelander kills the shows version of "Trump", then takes complete power. As his first act as president he puts tariffs on the world.

[–] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought that Homelander was the version of trump ?

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you're right, but this would definitely seal the message. MAGA still doesn't get the satire.

[–] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 1 points 18 hours ago

Well to be honest the MAGAs possibly look up to Homelander as a hero.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's probably been approached by one too many chuds that worship their idea of Homelander and that think he is his character.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He is apparently an asshole based on his bar fighting and how he treats his costars.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Perfectly casted.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 139 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, the whole point of the show is a critique on fascism.

It's definitely already outstayed its welcome in the USA.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago

We tried and failed, you're on your own now

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (6 children)

It’s already ran too long imho. Season 3 amounted to nothing.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 63 points 3 days ago

As a huge fan of the show im glad it's ending too. Anymore multiple seasons of resetting the power balance would kill any interest.

[–] Itzdan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looking at you, Grays Anatomy

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"I dont want to play the Facist supersoldier anymore."

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Im quite sure he doesnt have eye lasers.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

if I see one of the boys thrown backwards into a wall by a supe and be perfectly fine after ONE MORE TIME...

[–] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Agreed entirely. A show should last only as long as it takes to tell its story. 2-3 seasons is fine. Hell, even limited one season shows are great.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

limited one season shows

That's called a "mini series". :)

And BTW, Shogun was the finest thing I've seen in years, maybe ever. My wife and I were drooling for the next episode, week in, week out.

I admit to prejudice. Watched the original mini series many times growing up, read the book three times. My wife's half Japanese, really seems to dislike Japanese anything (🤷🏻), still loved every second of it.

[–] rishado@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Idk if the new Shogun is a miniseries. I believe they confirmed a season 2 & 3 (unfortunately).

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wish severence would have ended at season 2, exactly the way it did. I'm bracing for dissapointment.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago

Or Ted Lasso at season 3. Ugh

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love the first two seasons of Severance, but even if the third will be bad, it won't affect my feelings towards the first two.

Unless it's GoT season 8 levels of bad, but that's probably not possible.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You say that, but sometimes a continuation is so bad that it like goes back in time and somehow taints your memories.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, that's what I said, and I said it's unlikely.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Right like GoT, i see what you mean. I still like my time travel imagery

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why? I feel like people are looking for reasons to be disappointed with that show. It's bizarre.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because every popular show gets milked to death and executives start interjecting stupid ideas and ruin it. They already had a filler episode in season 2.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's not a filler episode just because it doesn't include the main characters. The episode where Cobel goes home provided a shit ton of context and back story. For example, ether mines? Everyone in the town huffing ether and in some bizarre capitalist cult that used child labor? The fuck? That just made me want to know more about all of that shit.

How/why is that filler? Unless I'm wrong about which episode you're referring to, which I doubt.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It was five minutes worth of content stretched into 45 minutes. It was boring af. We learned that she designed something, but other than that, we didn't really get anything out of it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

So you know where the series is going then? Because that would be the only way to know that nothing else in that episode will be relevant.

This is why American media is going down the toilet. You can't have a single episode dedicated to providing context and character building without chuds whining about it being "boring." Grow up.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Watching someone take a nap and breathe heavily and directly into their microphone in a soap opera style episode is not good.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

Maybe try putting your phone away and watching it again.

Perhaps it's just because I was paying attention to the dialogue, and I know what ether is, but I thought the episode was just fine. I wouldn't submit it for an Emmy or anything, but episodes like this can end up being really important to understanding the plot of a show.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Sorry, I agree with /u/GrumpyDuckling here. The pacing of S02E08 didn't work at all, and what we learned didn't actually seem especially interesting. It also seems shoehorned in as she didn't give the vibes of being that at all in Season 1.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

It does have the lowest ratimg on imdb. A lot of people are sayimg the same things as I am. I did watch it on my phone because the audio on my tv setup was too hard to hear. I used good wired headphones.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

It could be condensed way down and intertwined into the episodes before and after it. It was extremely dry.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, last season wasn't great. Hopefully it'll end strong.

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