• Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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      Wait.

      How the fuck did I somehow not realize that he was also in Clue? I WATCH IT 4 TIMES A FUCKING YEAR. My brain just… never realized it was the same actor. To be fair the only actor in that movie as far I’m concerned is Tim Curry. Everyone else is just their character.

      Also EXCELLENT job

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      They might as well be. I don’t remember. I have purged so much of this dogshit season from my brain that I barely recognized it as Season 5. And me not remembering is saying something considering I won Discovery trivia contests. Like… I like Discovery. But this season… what the sweet and sour kentucky fried christ was going through their mind?

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        Trek usually starts cold and picks up steam later. DSC is doing it backwards. The writing just keeps degrading progressively.

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          Apparently it’s a studio tactic. They don’t want good successful long running series any more. The problem for them is that if there is a popular series that lasts longer than three or four seasons, it gets hard to attract new followers and viewers in later seasons. When someone new discovers the show for the first time but then sees that there is three seasons of back story or content to watch, then they’re less likely to want to watch. It gets worse when a new viewer sees that there is eight seasons of show to watch. For some that is a good thing but for most it isn’t. On the other side are the fans of a show … no matter how popular a show, the Fandom only grows smaller over time, so studios are not inclined to continue making content for a slowly evaporating fan base. And no matter how big we like to think the Trek community is, it’s not big enough for the big corporate studios.

          So in the end, the studios prefer to make a popular series for two or three seasons max and then kill it off no matter how popular it is because they know that the viewership degrades over time … they don’t care, it’s just economics for them.

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            I see. Makes sense, but wouldn’t it be better to end the series with a bang rather than a whimper? Then you can start a new series in the franchise, capture the viewerbase again and attract new people.

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            Especially being a streaming show you’d figure that would be how they attract viewers.

            “holy shit this show is good…wait there are 3 seasons of it I can binge!”

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              Many people are like that … I’m like that … and enjoy being able to watch a good show for 7, 8, 9 seasons but the majority of people everywhere are not like that.

              Studios want to put the marketing into brand new shiny things they can have a monopoly on. If they can market the next big hit this year and they’re the only ones showing it? They’ll make millions or billions. But to market a popular show that went on air 20 years ago and still has good content would mean only a limited viewership and no monopoly on the rights to the show. All that work to just promote an already popular show that is past its prime … studios will pass on that.