Netflix’s Lost in Space Season 2
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Prime has been doing trailers for their new shows and movies before whatever you're watching. Seems to only happen once or twice per log-in, so it doesn't get annoying..
Their release system is something I strongly disagree with. I like to watch things at a slower pace, and so it's impossible to join any online discussions until I've watched the whole season or else spoilers will be unavoidable. If they released them weekly I think it would be more of an event.
Unrelated, but I've been rewatching both seasons while waiting for the third, and I just watched the first episode of season two. There's a line when Will is reading Penny's journal that goes something like "This is about discovery, not strange new worlds." That was a fun accidental Star Trek reference.
Maybe the way they are doing Disco this season popping one out every week is the way to go and hope other services will follow the idea.
Most of them have been lately. CBS AA does weekly releases for all of their shows, Disney+ has been doing weekly releases for all or most of their shows, Amazon did weekly releases for Season 2 of The Boys, and is now doing weekly releases for Season 5 of The Expanse. I'm not sure about Hulu, I haven't really watched any of their originals yet.
Well it's better then dumping them all in one go like they did with season 1 and 2 of Disco..... I ended up watching 5 episodes of Disco in one night.
They didn't dump Discovery here in the US. It was released one episode a week, as it still is now.
Well Netflix over here did it the other way with season 1 and 2
Netflix (UK) does it one at a time. Here it tends to air a day or two after the US, so the bulk upload wouldn't work.
(On the other hand, it looks like Cobra Kai and Sabrina were set up in one go.)
I do tend to binge watch when I can, but I think it's generally better for the shows if there is time to discuss that weeks episode the next morning.
Funny thing, I watched The Expanse the first season years ago on cable and then dropped it halfway through the second season. Maybe I'll give it another chance.
^ I've tried watching it and gave up too. Part of is the dialogue being hard to hear. It's not that I have bad hearing, it's that I feel sound in major productions these days is pretty awful when it comes to dialog. Had the same problem with Westworld, and the latest example is the latest Dune where everyone seems to be mumbling. Watching the trailer for that made me not want to see the movie as I couldn't understand a single thing said. It's like everyone talking in that is keeping a deep dark secret.
I looked at the first three seasons-which I had on DVD-this past summer. And I can understand if it didn't grab you. I wasn't the biggest fan of the characters, except for Amos and the pilot. What I appreciated a lot was the world building and the production values/design.
Owain brought up Westworld. I'm struggling to make it through Season 1. With the cast and budget it has, it should really be grabbing me. Instead it just feels like they are dragging things out.
They drag things out even more during the 2nd season to the point I felt it was losing its thread. It also leans more heavily into confusing viewers with its multiple timelines to draw viewers away from the fact that it's actually thin on story. By the time you get to the end of the season, one wonders why we were watching to begin with.
Just out of curiosity, were you doing something else while you were watching Westworld? It really is the kind of show you really have to pay close attention to. I constantly see people complaining about how confusing it was, but I had absolutely no problems following it.
Nope, I tend to not do anything else while watching something. I find that if I'm watching something, it needs my undivided attention . I found it overly complex for the sake of being complex rather than enriching it.
Do you mean like shows where they setup multiple layers of mystery boxes to think they are doing something a lot deeper then what they are doing, because I hate that kind of show.
Yes, that's it exactly. The thing I really hate about that is that it's so easy for the writers to fall into a trap thinking it makes for good television. And in Westworld's case in particular, I felt they really went overboard with it. There was a simple story episode during season two that really exemplified that for me, which IMHO was one of the better episodes that season due to its simple and straightforward storytelling. For me, that show is an example of one that started with good ideas but devolved into complexity. The first season was still a mystery box but still managed to have fairly straightforward storytelling at its core.
That is why I never kept up with LOST...... It was layer upon layer of mystery box with little to no payoff. Even when the writers said out loud most of it was made up as they went along people thought it was deep and meaningful.
The point where LOST started to, err, lose me was in the later first season. At first, it had this really compelling narrative with plenty of effective character growth and development, effective tales of flawed, damaged people on paths to redemption, but then the show became a hit and the network pressured the showrunners to slow the pace of the story arc so they could spread it out to more episodes, and all of a sudden the rich character arcs stopped evolving and either regressed or fell into holding patterns, which stripped the show of most of what made it work for me. I stuck around into the second season, but eventually gave up altogether.
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