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News Starfleet Academy Coming to P+
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The issue is becoming less with the number of episodes; it is becoming the length of time between seasons. This is starting to have a negative effect on the shows themselves.
Here is an article about this issue:
screenrant.com
Here is an article about this issue:
Years-Long Gaps Between TV Seasons Slammed By Exec Behind Shows Like The Last Of Us & The Boys: "Absolutely Untenable & Not Fair"
This trend creates frustrating wait times.
screenrant.com
The problem with long waits between seasons is that casual viewers like me don't come back, thinking the show was cancelled.The issue is becoming less with the number of episodes; it is becoming the length of time between seasons. This is starting to have a negative effect on the shows themselves.
Here is an article about this issue:
Years-Long Gaps Between TV Seasons Slammed By Exec Behind Shows Like The Last Of Us & The Boys: "Absolutely Untenable & Not Fair"
This trend creates frustrating wait times.
Then, sometime later on, discovering the new season or seasons, excited to see more. 
This happened with me. I used to watch Doom Patrol on HBO Max, then because of family matters I lost track of the show, and I didn't know if it had another season. To cut costs, I had to reduce the number of streaming services I subscribed to. When I did discover that the show had a final season, I decided not to renew my subscription to HBO Max just to see that season.
I am finding for myself, now that I am going through the old seasons of Star Trek, that I am more invested in the characters as there is time to get know them over the season. I am having some difficulty with getting to know the characters in these new shows, as they seem to be acting more as plot devices to keep the story momentum going than as people with their own agencies.
I am finding for myself, now that I am going through the old seasons of Star Trek, that I am more invested in the characters as there is time to get know them over the season. I am having some difficulty with getting to know the characters in these new shows, as they seem to be acting more as plot devices to keep the story momentum going than as people with their own agencies.
Honestly, I feel like streaming shows are more aimed at telling one story rather than a series of stories. Each season is a serial or a multi-hour movie, more or less. The focus is on the story more so than the characters. The characters are more a vehicle to tell said story. In episodic TV, the focus is more on the characters: how will they deal with X plot this week?
Sad times. I wouldn't mind this particular trend being reversed.
With the current iteration of Doctor Who, there's an 8 episode run due in 2025 and it's unlikely to be be back for 18 months+ (barring the odd Christmas special). As much as I love For All Mankind, it's the waiting that kills me, and let's not get started on Stranger Things.
I think we got lucky with Star Trek circa 2022, as it never seemed to be away for long.
With the current iteration of Doctor Who, there's an 8 episode run due in 2025 and it's unlikely to be be back for 18 months+ (barring the odd Christmas special). As much as I love For All Mankind, it's the waiting that kills me, and let's not get started on Stranger Things.
I think we got lucky with Star Trek circa 2022, as it never seemed to be away for long.
If you can't be civil, disengage; or it'll be warning time.
Life goes on and other things come into focus.
I had no idea that there's another season of WEDNESDAY coming till reading that article and I'm online everyday reading things.
New stuff comes out and with the long gaps on other shows, one has a tendency to move on.
While I'm much softer on the "AI just steals!" thing than others are, I will say don't ever rely on it for anything important. Case in point:I went and had a chat with Perplexity.ai to see what it had to say. Short version, it agreed with you on the 22-24-episode season for 90's shows, citing "Star Trek" (TNG, DS9, VOY) doing 26 episodes per season was more an exception the standard. The More You Know... (NBC star).Thank you for this, much appreciated. I love this kind of obscure trivia.
This is why I don't fully get these AI models. It could literally just scrape Memory Alpha and spit out the correct synopsis.
Instead you get this summary that's nearly right, but has a bunch of errors that you wouldn't immediately know were errors unless you already knew what you were looking for.
Which makes it unreliable, but also difficult to tell which bits are wrong, thus negating any utility. Why would I ever trust it on anything?
Instead you get this summary that's nearly right, but has a bunch of errors that you wouldn't immediately know were errors unless you already knew what you were looking for.
Which makes it unreliable, but also difficult to tell which bits are wrong, thus negating any utility. Why would I ever trust it on anything?
They clearly can't be trusted at all, I'm always catching inaccuracies, but I find them handy sometimes as a starting point for further research.
AI is wasted on asking for facts. I mostly use it when I have a cool idea for a story and just want to talk to someone about it. It's good at helping brainstorm.
It's good at derivatives. It tends to go in the most overdone way possible when given a broad prompt, so I like to give it a set of ideas I have and tell it to combine them together.
This discussion is relevant to Starfleet Academy because The Doctor will be in it and he's an AI.
This discussion is relevant to Starfleet Academy because The Doctor will be in it and he's an AI.
Have you all tried Perplexity.ai? It's more reliable and more accurate than ChatGPT. To be fair, I could ask someone who is a real person and not a fan about Nero, and they could just as easily botch it up. Neither man nor AI is going to get answers right perfectly 100% of the time.
For what it's worth I got curious a couple of hours ago and asked ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity about "the Romulan, Nero" and they all gave me a correct answer. Copilot even gave me citations.
I still don't trust them, but it usually doesn't take me long to verify any facts they give me with my own research (ie checking Wikipedia, IMDb, Mobygames etc.)
I still don't trust them, but it usually doesn't take me long to verify any facts they give me with my own research (ie checking Wikipedia, IMDb, Mobygames etc.)
AI chat bots are like Wikipedia. You can't quote them, but it's a good jumping off point.
Indeed. The summary is wrong and relies on inaccurate details. Researching on one's own is more helpful, in my opinion.
At least wikipedia has foot notes you can follow, AI doesn't.
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