this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
70 points (93.8% liked)

Movies and TV Shows

2075 readers
151 users here now

A community for entertainment industry news and general discussion about movies and TV shows.

Rules:

  1. Be civil.
  2. Please do not link to pirated content.
  3. No spoilers in the title of submissions. And please use spoiler MarkDown in the body of discussions. This is a courtesy to other users.
  4. Comments solely criticizing headlines and/or journalism will be removed for being off-topic.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I was looking at my Goodreads account and I've read around 300+ sci-fi books. There are TONS of stories that could be awesomely adapted to TV. Why do they insist on rehashing the same old shit?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Or finish the expanse, fuck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Cuz Hollywood is dying or going through a dark age. No faith in trying new things. Complete profit driven cynicism from the top. An interest in only making substantial profits when entertainment is probably best run as a low-profit industry so that risks can be taken in order to enrich and progress culture.

How does anyone else feel about the quality of writing they’ve been seeing lately? I feel like I can detect a drop in quality over the past couple of years. At first I thought it was all the work done over the pandemic but I feel like it’s persisting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

People that liked this show as teens now earn money fulltime. So the answer is: consumers with cash reliving their childhood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Low risk, making tv is expensive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well last time they rehashed Battlestar Galactica it actually went well, so can't knock all rehashing imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Went well? Seriously? First year was good and I liked it. From that point on it was downhill. An entire year lost on semi religious cult BS. Then another year lost in a muddy planet. Then all the "All along the watchtower" mess. With the most stupid ending conceivable. "Let's throw the ships into the sun". Why??? Oh and we made such a mess with the story that Starbucks just disappeared out of thin air...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

8.7 on IMDb. I'd say that's pretty good.