looking at supernatural, kripkes other creation. when the 2 new showrunners took over, it became nothing more than fan/slashfiction for fans who becames extremely obsessed with the characthers.
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I believe a show should only run as long as its story warrants it for. Some shows can go however long it wants because it creates its own stories on the go like Doctor Who or Star Trek so they're going to have many series and seasons. But shows like Dexter that start going off its hinges and falls apart because of it going for too long because it had no direction and its story could already be pin-pointed as to when it ends. Those kinds of shows shouldn't be going on at any rate.
If you don't have the creative prowess to keep a show going, tell its story and be done with it.
Like "Longmire," or "The Mentalist."
The bad guy was gone, what else was left? End the show on that.
Homelander kills the shows version of "Trump", then takes complete power. As his first act as president he puts tariffs on the world.
I thought that Homelander was the version of trump ?
I think you're right, but this would definitely seal the message. MAGA still doesn't get the satire.
Well to be honest the MAGAs possibly look up to Homelander as a hero.
He's probably been approached by one too many chuds that worship their idea of Homelander and that think he is his character.
He is apparently an asshole based on his bar fighting and how he treats his costars.
Perfectly casted.
I mean, the whole point of the show is a critique on fascism.
It's definitely already outstayed its welcome in the USA.
We tried and failed, you're on your own now
It’s already ran too long imho. Season 3 amounted to nothing.
Yep I totally lost interest a while ago it got so repetitive
I lost interest during season 2 because it was just too on the nose and obvious, which is odd given that the Ennis original (which I love dearly) is about as unsubtle as you can get.
The other issue was I felt like they largely threw the anti-corporation themes out of the window in favour of making it a superhero show.
I loved the first season, but the way it was evolving in the second just didn't sit well with me.
Yep it steadily declined endless "homelander bad but can't be stopped because reasons"
I think "because reasons" is a pretty absurd reduction lol
The third is alright, closer to superhero slop than anti corporate. Fourth season is really good, shifts away from corpo satire and towards political satire really well. You should give it another shot when the final season drops.
That sounds like it goes all-in on what I disliked about it.
I'll pass.
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As a huge fan of the show im glad it's ending too. Anymore multiple seasons of resetting the power balance would kill any interest.
Looking at you, Grays Anatomy
"I dont want to play the Facist supersoldier anymore."
... play?
Im quite sure he doesnt have eye lasers.
Agreed entirely. A show should last only as long as it takes to tell its story. 2-3 seasons is fine. Hell, even limited one season shows are great.
limited one season shows
That's called a "mini series". :)
And BTW, Shogun was the finest thing I've seen in years, maybe ever. My wife and I were drooling for the next episode, week in, week out.
I admit to prejudice. Watched the original mini series many times growing up, read the book three times. My wife's half Japanese, really seems to dislike Japanese anything (🤷🏻), still loved every second of it.
Idk if the new Shogun is a miniseries. I believe they confirmed a season 2 & 3 (unfortunately).
if I see one of the boys thrown backwards into a wall by a supe and be perfectly fine after ONE MORE TIME...
I wish severence would have ended at season 2, exactly the way it did. I'm bracing for dissapointment.
Or Ted Lasso at season 3. Ugh
I love the first two seasons of Severance, but even if the third will be bad, it won't affect my feelings towards the first two.
Unless it's GoT season 8 levels of bad, but that's probably not possible.
You say that, but sometimes a continuation is so bad that it like goes back in time and somehow taints your memories.
Yes, that's what I said, and I said it's unlikely.
Right like GoT, i see what you mean. I still like my time travel imagery
Why? I feel like people are looking for reasons to be disappointed with that show. It's bizarre.
Because every popular show gets milked to death and executives start interjecting stupid ideas and ruin it. They already had a filler episode in season 2.
It's not a filler episode just because it doesn't include the main characters. The episode where Cobel goes home provided a shit ton of context and back story. For example, ether mines? Everyone in the town huffing ether and in some bizarre capitalist cult that used child labor? The fuck? That just made me want to know more about all of that shit.
How/why is that filler? Unless I'm wrong about which episode you're referring to, which I doubt.
It was five minutes worth of content stretched into 45 minutes. It was boring af. We learned that she designed something, but other than that, we didn't really get anything out of it.
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