How do you get over the summer?
Spoilers The Flash - Season 2
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How do you get over the summer?
I hate when shows go on hiatus because I will have forgotten what happened, won't even know it was back and in some cases don't care about continue watching the show. With Flash I would probably make an effort to check on it but others not so much.
I like the cable model. Give me 10-13 smartly written, tightly plotted episodes and I'll happily wait the rest of the year for the show to come around again. 23+ episodes strung out over 9 months with loads of episodic, formulaic filler, that I'm losing patience with.
Maybe something like the old "wheel" series they had in the '70s, where several different, thematically linked series rotate weekly in a single time slot. Maybe have an Arrow episode one week, a Flash episode the next, Legends the next, plus maybe the occasional Vixen episode. Have 13 episodes per season of the main three and a 6-episode season for Vixen, and that would give you 45 episodes in a year, with seven extra weeks to take off for Christmas or other needed breaks.
^They are sort of doing that with AoS and Agent Carter, which is pretty cool. I think I'm remembering it right. AoS breaks, AC fills the break & finishes, then AoS comes back uninterrupted?
Three weeks between episodes? Maybe they could just have a full 13-week run for each show before moving to the next.
Are we getting to that point where of you like a series it turns into a multiple series commitment. So if you like Flash you have to see Arrow and Legends? I would hate to wait for three weeks for an episode of my favorite series if I wasn't a fan of the other two.
Netflix makes it's money from subscriptions, and tricking you into renewing your subscriptions because you haven't yet-quite finished everything you want to finish. Although, would you really stop paying your bill, and pay for a truck monkey to retrieve your decoder, if you'd seen it all "at the moment" when the good new programming is showing up next week?
Regular tv makes it's money from putting the right ads in front of the right people at the right part of the day on a sliding scale that the car sellers want to talk to the car buyers, and the gum sellers want to talk to the gum buyers. Regular TV doesn't have a "good" on demand feature. I you miss an episode, it's a chore to find the rerun that could take weeks to years to do so, depending on the popularity of what you missed.
Half of America still relies on a coat hanger stuck in the back of a 20 year old TV, or don't have a television.... Or have I not noticed the great leap forward where the homeless stream new shows/movies illegally on their phones using the free wifi from the Library?
I don't think so - I started with arrow and got bored at about season three, legends I managed about three episodes and supergirl about five - The Flash is the only one that stuck. I dont watch TV to start with so I don't watch shows out of habit.
Like I was just saying in a thread about Star Trek books, cross-references between series don't mean you're required to follow them all. Ideally a multi-series franchise should be structured so that it's just as accessible for people who watch or read just one series as it is for people who follow them all. That is, each series has its own cohesive storyline and continuity, with the crossover references being just a bonus or a bit of background texture, so you can be satisfied with just the one; but if you follow them all, you get a bigger picture beyond that. So it can be enjoyed on either level.
Although I'll grant that lately the Arrowverse is perhaps tending a bit too much toward the interconnected side. For instance, the Flash/Arrow crossover setting up Legends of Tomorrow couldn't really have worked without watching both halves, and the pilot of LoT would've been hard to follow for anyone who wasn't already familiar with Arrow and The Flash.
We all have varying degrees of OCD.
If we could watch half a season of something sub par, and just walk away, we wouldn't need to be here.
If we could watch half a season of something sub par, and just walk away, we wouldn't need to be here.
I just avoid watching shows on networks. But, alas, superheroes are my weakness.
It really is a stupid system, ultimately, and (along with increasingly long and pushy commercials) it's the main reason I do almost all my tv viewing online now.
Yup.
This solution works best for me.... and they can spread out the breaks if needed.... just like the consistency that I can plan on a calender
Yeah, I liked it, except that they 2nd & 3rd last weeks, they doubled up on episodes, when my kids need to go to bed. Minor complaint, but thought it was great in between the season of Shield
I wish the shows would just run 22 weeks (or whatever their length is) right through. Taking a month off once or twice in the season is just irritating and kills the momentum. Agent of SHIELD's way of breaking up and extending the season would be a good idea, if the show that takes up its slot for two months wasn't terrible 
If, say, CW broke up a Flash season with Legends of Tomorrow and, I don't know, an Arrow season with Vixen (or something similar), that would probably be cool (actually, I'd support replacing Arrow with Vixen, and then breaking up a Vixen season with Arrow, and I've never even seen the CW's version of Vixen 
). But, since I doubt that could ever happen, running the episodes all in the row is what I wish they'd do, even though I know that's just as unlikely at this point.
If, say, CW broke up a Flash season with Legends of Tomorrow and, I don't know, an Arrow season with Vixen (or something similar), that would probably be cool (actually, I'd support replacing Arrow with Vixen, and then breaking up a Vixen season with Arrow, and I've never even seen the CW's version of Vixen ). But, since I doubt that could ever happen, running the episodes all in the row is what I wish they'd do, even though I know that's just as unlikely at this point.
So my mother's making her way through the first season, and it's gotten me wondering: Eobard Thawne only moved up the particle accelerator explosion by five years, right? Was that really worth 15 years of effort masquerading as Wells? With all his science know-how and powers, wouldn't he have had more fun becoming rich and sipping piña coladas with beautiful women in Aruba all that time? What was so great about his future that he wanted so badly to get back there, anyway? And was someone who looked suspiciously like Harrison Wells racking up huge escort service tabs in Coast City all those years when Barry was learning high-school physics?
