I think season one was always supposed to be 13 episodes.
Discovery and "The Orville" Comparisons
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I think season one was always supposed to be 13 episodes.
Really? Sorry, but if I am paying for a service, and it has nothing I like (or changes what it offers to the point it has nothing I enjoy) - there's no way hearing "Well everyone else is still subbed" would make me say, "Oh, I better stay subbed too."
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If the current generation just subs to something that they get no value/enjoyment from just because "everyone else is doing it" - my view of millennials just dropped another notch. I can't believe anyone would continue to pay for a service they got nothing out of (unless they signed a term contract with severe early termination penalties - but CBSAA is suubscribe 'at will'.)
We will find out some more real numbers in a few days when CBS Q3 earnings report comes out. One thing you don't do is lie in official SEC filings. That gets you in a ton of trouble and I'm sure on the conference call CBSAA and Discovery will be a major point they will address.
I believe you but whether or not it affects you that way is somewhat irrelevant. It's a flaw in human nature and it works on many, history is riddle with examples of this, especially in advertising.
And whether or not it works on a large enough scale is also irrelevant, many in these positions believe it does, so they will continue to function that way. It's a common reason why companies like to inflate numbers.
Remember smoking? Diamonds? The combination of "everyone else is doing it" and "keeping up with the jonses" goes back to forever.
It isn't just Millenials,
That enters criminal territory,
however that won't cover how many people drop out during the break, frankly I won't feel confident about reported numbers until something official and after the break.
They won't know how many people drop out during the break because it won't have happened. I just looked and the report and call are 4:30pm tomorrow. So we'll get at least a rough idea of how many new subscribes they gained due to discovery.
I don't think they could at this point. Orville has already wrapped production at this point. If production was still on-going it would be easier to add some episodes (subject to actor availability), but since filming has shut down It would be a lot harder to start it up again. So I think a back order is unlikely and it will either get season 2 or not.
That's what I mean,
so I won't trust any numbers on the future of this service until an official report AFTER the break.
How much subscriber growth they got from discovery is still going to be a very interesting number to find out.
Suggestions are that they about doubled their subscriptions.
If that is true then they will definitely be bragging about that on the conference call tomorrow afternoon.
Maybe I'm being selfish but I'd hope for more than 13.
I'm okay with 13.
As the joke goes, there are about 30 good TOS episodes out of 80. Most of those were in the first year of the series.
There's also the "low-hanging fruit" aspect: do the Planet Run By Computers, do First Contact, do the Mad Scientist, do the Time Travel episode, do the Space Combat episode, etc...
TOS became repetitious in year two, and relied more often on the popularity of the characters themselves to carry stories.
There's also the "low-hanging fruit" aspect: do the Planet Run By Computers, do First Contact, do the Mad Scientist, do the Time Travel episode, do the Space Combat episode, etc...
TOS became repetitious in year two, and relied more often on the popularity of the characters themselves to carry stories.
Yep. Every generation thinks things were purer and more innocent back in the day, and the younger generation is no damn good, but that's just human nature. By coincidence, I was just watching an old movie from 1932 and, sure enough, there was a bit where a world-weary, twenty-something showgirl was lamenting these "modern" times, with its "factories and cheap advertising and money-making."
Today is always tawdry. Yesterday is always seen through rose-tinted glasses.
So long as we don’t get a clip show à la “Shades of Grey” or episodes with tedious b-plots about Isaac‘s pet cat (spending a night in sickbay perhaps?) all is well.
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