20 episodes is good enough.
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Same, tbh. And I don’t think it’s silly as a Star Trek fan to be excited for a new Star Trek show and wanting it to succeed.
sci fi is very expensive to produce. That's why so many great shows, sadly, have been cut down before their prime. Niche audience, not enough ratings. I find it sad, but it's the truth . I thought Lower Decks and Prodigy would have been cheaper to keep going than live action, but sadly not
Sadly 90% of steaming shows only last a few seasons. Pretty much why I gave up watching anything new in streaming. Too many shows to invest in and then BOOM gone. I personally would just rather watch old shows that were long running that I either never had a chance to watch or saw a long time ago. The steaming era kinda sucks....
Which is great for me. Watch short seasons and move on. Love the streaming era.
that's one thing i hate about streaming era. Much shorter seasons, and less of them. It's very rare a modern show goes beyond five seasons. Even huge shows like Stranger Things get five seasons, and it took them nearly a decade to come out
That is the purpose of art is enjoyment.
You don't have a clue how about how TV works.
There are more TV shows produced today I would think. All the streaming services have original stuff not to mention on air and cable networks. It's too much to keep up with.
I find the time to watch what I like. If a show doesn't grab me, I move on.
"No good movie is long enough and no bad movie is short enough." - Roger Ebert
as much as it pains me, the 90s is never coming back. 26 episode seasons. That 's the era of Trek i grew up on.
There are probably a lot of shows I would like. But I don't like to keep track of a dozen shows a year or two. When they release episodes over such a long period I have to rewatch stuff because it's been so long. I'm at the age now where I can't keep doing that. The runway is getting too short.
26 episodes is just prohibitively expensive these days for any show featuring extensive visual effects.
Adjusted for inflation a single episode of TNG would have only cost 4 million.
That's an illusion.
The more episodes a season a show has the cheaper each episode becomes to produce because you spread the costs for things out across multiple episodes.
That's why most shows have recaps. And I'm sure I'm older than you.There are probably a lot of shows I would like. But I don't like to keep track of a dozen shows a year or two. When they release episodes over such a long period I have to rewatch stuff because it's been so long. I'm at the age now where I can't keep doing that. The runway is getting too short.
I'm more about not trying to kill the cast and crew.
It aren't that hard.
No. Inflation still affects a show's pattern budget, just like it hits all above- and below-the-line costs. You can amortize costs in things like standing sets, not custom VFX that have to be done at the requirements of the script. The days of using stock footage for ship shots is well behind us.
Actually stock VFX are commonly used.
It's only when you need to do full VFX cleanup due to failures on the practical side that things start getting really expensive.
