Now that I look; Werewolf by Night (2022) is 53 minutes, while The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is 42 minutes. I think that time was enough for the story of The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. It was shot at the same time as the 3rd movie anyway. Werewolf by Night should have been a few minutes longer and 60 minutes.
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If TNG Season One had ended at episode 16 it would have been "Too Short A Season."
My main gripe is exactly that; with the seasons that are really one big story. An old school 26 ep season can have 25% stinkers and still be satisfying because you can ignore the bad ones. The modern approach of a season long arc destroys that, because if the arc sucks (or even just the finale, which happens a lot) then it barely matters if there were any good eps along the way.
Personally, that's why I find SNW a good compromise. It's a short season, but it's mostly stand-alone(ish) stories. If one sucks, I can just ignore it. It's probably also why I find SNW way more hit than miss, because they're not concerned with plotting out a ten ep story. They can focus on telling a complete story in one episode instead of strrrrrrrretttttching out everything. And character dynamics carry over, and you can raise the stakes here and there for something later on.
The 13 episode seasons thing was too long for the Netflix shows, except DD.
Jessica Jones fell apart after Episode 9 and needed random poorly done plot contrivances to keep going to get to 13.
Luke Cage fell apart halfway through because of the 13 episode limit
Iron Fist was poorly done the whole time.
DD was the only one that pulled it off, just barely
Jessica Jones fell apart after Episode 9 and needed random poorly done plot contrivances to keep going to get to 13.
Luke Cage fell apart halfway through because of the 13 episode limit
Iron Fist was poorly done the whole time.
DD was the only one that pulled it off, just barely
For some reason I felt like "Werewolf by Night" was longer than that. It felt like a legit movie to me when watching.
Their are more shows out their than those Netflix shows. "Mad Men" had 13 episode seasons. "Breaking Bad" had mostly 13 episode seasons except the first which it had like 7 and the last that had 16. Many more examples like this.
Those shows were better done than the Netflix Marvel shows then, with their 13 season allotments.
Which I think is what I am saying. The format of 13 episodes isn't the problem. If a show is having problems it is because the writers have failed in other ways. I think one of the problems with the Netflix shows is that supporting cast for most of the shows outside of "Daredevil" was they simply did not have a cast ensemble that was as interesting as the main character. I feel like the longer you seasons are the more you need that strong ensemble. "Daredevil" had it going on though. Foggy,Paige,Fisk, The Preacher guy and the cop and the criminal guy and Night Nurse and then later Stick, Electra, The Punisher, The Nun lady, Vannesa, Both reporter boss guys who Paige worked for, The criminal boss types working for Fisk in season 1. I feel I am missing some even.
Most TNG eps are ~45 minutes per episode.
While modern Streaming Trek can actually go for 1 hr of real content, not counting (Previously on ___ / Prologue / Opening / Ending / Epilogue / Next Time on ___) segments.
So there are advantages to modern Streaming shows where you can make the actual content of the show longer.
And any Commercials and other stuff be placed around that original 1 hr content block.
Sheesh. It's a joke!
Humor. It is a difficult concept.
I can't hear the tone of your voices over text written on the internet.
It wasn't that kind of joke. Season one TNG has an episode called "Too Short a Season". That's the whole joke.
Have a lozenge!
That last season was really two 8-episode seasons. The first season's length was a casualty of the writers' strike. You can tell that seventh episode wasn't supposed to be a season ending.
