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Post by Harmless elf on Oct 10, 2018 0:48:22 GMT
I'm seeing a lot of overdramatic stuff in Pilot episodes of even comedy shows, for drama to work you actually have to care about the characters you can't have a character we've known for 5 minutes and put them in a dramatic situation and think we're going to care.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 1:06:23 GMT
I think that nuance is dead in our society as well as patience. You have to be in someone's face or they just don't get it or lose interest now.
Not to mention that so many TV shows now are just PC agenda pushing, they don't care about the stories or the characters. It is just about pushing that agenda, selling ad time. Look at what used to be 25 or so minute tv shows, they are down to about 18-19 mins now in some cases that really doesn't make much time for building anything.
TV shows used to be given a chance to sink or swim, now they are expected to do well in a few eps or are gone. It all factors into having to grab people's attention urgently. Which in turn makes people bored with the formula and as you mentioned they don't care about the characters either.
A good example is the SWAT TV show remake. White SWAT commander is fired/stood down/demoted for some racially charged incident (I cared so much I can't even recall details). No investigation, nothing. Just stood down. Black guy SWAT officer immediately promoted as he is black and that will stop the riots, yeah right. So why do we care? All of that in the first episode. Black guy is banging a chick who is like some kind of boss of his, ok whatever. All the stuff they do isn't realistic at all, it all gets wrapped up in a very simple way.
And they do this kind of thing every ep! No, I don't like the show. A friend does and I have seen some eps with him in case you are wondering.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Oct 10, 2018 3:04:09 GMT
Too many TV shows. Now you've got to hit 'em high, hit 'em low, hit 'em hard quickly, or the audience will just try another show.
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 10, 2018 15:57:56 GMT
Too many have no patience. I constantly read "I gave it 10 minutes..." When most tv viewers should know by now, the pilot episode isn't always that great. Not to mention, there's too much tv on nowadays, unlike decades before when you only had 3-5 channels to choose from. Now people can say "not feeling it" & move on to the next network.
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Post by DarkManX on Oct 15, 2018 4:34:33 GMT
There's no build up to anything anymore story or characterwise.
I hate when a character we've just met dies in the first or second episode and I'm supposed to break down in tears. Meanwhile I barely know this person.
Same thing with relationships. I hate when two characters meet and the next minute they're acting like they've been in a relationship for fifteen years. They literally go from "hi my name is" to "I hate you we're breaking up" in a matter of seconds because there can be no build up. Everything has to happen right now.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 15, 2018 14:33:40 GMT
Depends on the network and sometimes the program itself.
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