Gave up on LOST for the same reason as Game of Thrones...too much treachery, treason, secret alliances, and double crossing. I can take two hours of that but not 50 hours.

Yeah, that's when I called it quits as well. The leviathans were hyped up so much, then were completely depowered by the end of the season. The first red flag was when they pulled that same shit with Castiel already.

>Darin Morgan

Good point. The two I mentioned, "Humbug" (circus performers), and "War of the Coprophages," one of the funniest episodes of the whole series.

And, hell, he wrote the one revival episode that had Kumail Nanjiani and Rhys Darby, probably the only really good episode of that run.

I don't really see a strong nexus between the target demographic of the CW and Golf.

Truly didn't mean to come off like a marketing ploy. Actually hadn't even heard of it until I saw the Russos tweet out photos. I don't have anything to do with the show, just got excited when I went down the rabbit hole about it yesterday and saw what they were doing.

"Oh, oh, oh how GENEROUS of Chucky baby" (golf clap)

Shouldn't subpar be a good thing?

Showtime really knows how to beat a dead horse.

The problem with the show in the later seasons is definitely the over reliance on goofy characters. In previous seasons, demons and angels were considered a threat and could be imposing. Then in the later seasons, they become ineffectual comic relief. Every side character becomes a goofy caricature with an over the top accent. The people they meet are cartoons for the most part and the acting is terrible. Sam and Dean also become a bit goofy as well, especially Sam, who’s acting method seems to be simply a large variety of facial ticks and stuttering grunts. Jensen Ackles has too much charisma to be too bad, he’s always watchable but for the most part he becomes a goofy guy as well. The beginning seasons have comedic moments that are pretty good and used sparingly, but they really lean into it in the later seasons and lose all the horror that the early seasons had.

I think they’re saying “we know Showtime will run the show too long, 9-11 seasons, so why not give the actors a break in the middle of that?”

I enjoyed the first few seasons of Billions but it lost its mojo and I dropped Showtime

I dunno, I don't care. They're fascinating to listen to regardless of what the lack of format or format is.

It’s bizarre, it’s super slow in most parts, but then they skip past the creation of the rings in like 10 minutes.

What is it with this subreddit accusing any positivity of being a marketing ploy or a bot lmao. You’re all tapped

Yeah, a character literally explains that what they are saying is not the case in clear, plain English. Whatever. They can be wrong. I still think that it's a bummer that it probably drives away people who would love the show if not for having gleaned a mistaken impression of it, but I think I've hit my lifetime limit for arguing with text on a screen.

Maybe if you didn't write so many movies about AI's taking over the world, maybe you wouldn't have inspired programmers to create AI's that take over your jobs.

I would think at this point chatgpt is a bigger threat to writing assistants rather than actual writers.

Chatgpt can't write an actually compelling story for shit and who knows if it ever will.

> the best single episodes of television even decades later, like Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose or Jose Chung’s From Outer Space.

It's insane that Darin Morgan wrote only like 4 or 5 episodes out of 200, but they're the one that people remember the most. And they are indeed the best tv ever

The reboot had some pretty fun monster of the week episodes, The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat and the one with the lizard werewolf are a couple of my favorites.

Which means the execs should be more worried about losing their jobs to ChatGPT than writers

Thats numberwhang!

Her uncle rode into Angband alone and challenged Morgoth to single combat, this kind of thing happens a lot in this family.

It sucks that they wrote “the complete series” on the DVD case instead of “season 1”. Definitely wasn’t the complete series ;___;

Yup. But I personally wouldn't have wanted it cancelled at season 5, cause we had some really banger episodes in later seasons (weekend at Bobby's comes to mind)

So now whenever I do rewatches I go straight through 1-5, then start skipping around to the good stuff for the rest

It's not The Mandalorian or Game of Thrones but it was big enough to win her an Emmy AND get a spinoff.

Cutural impact was the reason we got the movie trilogy