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That's a fair point and why I wasn't really sure which option to pick. I choose 2 seasons, but I think the answer is a bit more complicated than that. I think a better answer would be: I don't see it lasting much beyond 2020 in its current state. While the show is "successful" from a strictly financial point of few, it certainly hasn't become the pop culture curiosity CBS was aiming for.
There area few things working against it: first, season 2 is banking on Netflix financial support. And I don't see that continuing moving forward, as the streaming market is really going to get competitive within the next couple of years -- in other words Netflix won't be willing to shell out so much free candy for a series it has little or no creative control over and airs in the US on a different stream.
And on CBS's end, viewership retention of their service is a major (perhaps even the primary) consideration. Even on this forum alone, there have been many people who've said they suspended their service during the hiatus. That's going to look like a pretty big hole when more people do so with the much longer hiatus coming.
And that in itself is a problem. The current scuttlebutt is that the break between S1 and S2 is probably going to be fairly long. Not only will this affect subscriber retention, but it will also kill a lot of the public interest momentum the show has generated -- much like what happened to the Kelvin films.
This is also where the "season count" thing comes in. Because it's also likely, that "chunks" of episodes might get spread out more, so I could see there being more "seasons" in the future, but each with much smaller episode counts. So really I think the correct answer is something like I don't think it be about 50 episodes or so.
But, as I said, that's assuming the show stays in its current form, which I really doubt is going to happen. If the time between seasons is as long as people are predicting, I expect there to be some massive retooling going on during the break.
Two things I expect to happen: CBS hires some new people to come in and run things at the top, and there's some overhaul in the production staff. I don't think that necessarily means people get fired so much as it means they "bring in one cook to run the kitchen, even everyone else is sent to the sous station" -- so to speak.
I also think that person brings in some new people to oversee the art/design departments to bring more conformity. There's definitely a prevailing thought that the "look" is the biggest issue for the most people, and I'm sure CBS is aware of that. It doesn't bother me any, but one need look no further than all the threads here that are dedicated to this issue.
To that end, I can actually see CBS throwing a good chunk of change at someone like Okuda, even if it's really more of a symbolic hire.
I also expect there to be an attempt to infuse a bit more "fun" into the show.
Ultimately, I think the focus of season 2 will be to try to wrangle as many of the "it's not Star Trek" people as possible. And then restructure the schedule to keep them around as much as possible.
If they can do that (and it's a pretty big task. at this point) then the show could last a while.
That's a fair point and why I wasn't really sure which option to pick. I choose 2 seasons, but I think the answer is a bit more complicated than that. I think a better answer would be: I don't see it lasting much beyond 2020 in its current state. While the show is "successful" from a strictly financial point of few, it certainly hasn't become the pop culture curiosity CBS was aiming for.
There area few things working against it: first, season 2 is banking on Netflix financial support. And I don't see that continuing moving forward, as the streaming market is really going to get competitive within the next couple of years -- in other words Netflix won't be willing to shell out so much free candy for a series it has little or no creative control over and airs in the US on a different stream.
And on CBS's end, viewership retention of their service is a major (perhaps even the primary) consideration. Even on this forum alone, there have been many people who've said they suspended their service during the hiatus. That's going to look like a pretty big hole when more people do so with the much longer hiatus coming.
And that in itself is a problem. The current scuttlebutt is that the break between S1 and S2 is probably going to be fairly long. Not only will this affect subscriber retention, but it will also kill a lot of the public interest momentum the show has generated -- much like what happened to the Kelvin films.
This is also where the "season count" thing comes in. Because it's also likely, that "chunks" of episodes might get spread out more, so I could see there being more "seasons" in the future, but each with much smaller episode counts. So really I think the correct answer is something like I don't think it be about 50 episodes or so.
But, as I said, that's assuming the show stays in its current form, which I really doubt is going to happen. If the time between seasons is as long as people are predicting, I expect there to be some massive retooling going on during the break.
Two things I expect to happen: CBS hires some new people to come in and run things at the top, and there's some overhaul in the production staff. I don't think that necessarily means people get fired so much as it means they "bring in one cook to run the kitchen, even everyone else is sent to the sous station" -- so to speak.
I also think that person brings in some new people to oversee the art/design departments to bring more conformity. There's definitely a prevailing thought that the "look" is the biggest issue for the most people, and I'm sure CBS is aware of that. It doesn't bother me any, but one need look no further than all the threads here that are dedicated to this issue.
To that end, I can actually see CBS throwing a good chunk of change at someone like Okuda, even if it's really more of a symbolic hire.
I also expect there to be an attempt to infuse a bit more "fun" into the show.
Ultimately, I think the focus of season 2 will be to try to wrangle as many of the "it's not Star Trek" people as possible. And then restructure the schedule to keep them around as much as possible.
If they can do that (and it's a pretty big task. at this point) then the show could last a while.
