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53 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

I don't really get your point. I mean there is a difference between two breaks of 10 minutes and five breaks of 5 minutes, but there is even bigger difference with having any breaks and having no breaks. It's not the matter of short attention, it's a matter of not wasting time and some kind of liberty.

In fact, the only technical difference between Netflix and DVD (and, for people at my age and older, VHS) is that Netflix doesn't take any space on your shelf/wardrobe/wherever you keep it.

 

Netflix can take away content in a flash and you won't see it again. :p Unlike your DVDs, where some rare external situation will only take away the content. 

 

I personally have used option C - the internet for 13 years and never regretted it. Whenever you want, whatever you want, how much of it you want. 

 

PS. Long form TV and movies are not going to disappear, it's absurd. There is actually way more stuff (more bad stuff) being put out there, making it physically impossible to keep watching everything. I'm actually glad in a side way that the pandemic stopped the industry, because now i can catch up on so many shows. :d

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13 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

You said you haven't watched "Game of Thrones" (neither have I). But I assume you also haven't seen "The Crown" or "The Last Kingdom". Well, these episodes are about an hour long. And they do have success. As well as some TV series in Poland like "Belfer" or "Mały Zgon".

 

You are correct, I didn't watch The Crown and Last Kingdom either. Apart from Yellowstone I focused mostly on UK/Irish/Australian crime/mystery shows in the last 5 years. US shows are focused too much on fantasy/sci-fi stuff I never enjoyed to begin with. It's like everyone wants to cash in with the Lord of the Rings craze from the 00s. I just don't like that genre at all. I don't know if you're old enough to remember how the Polish "Witcher" was ridiculed back in the 2001 when it was first made. Fast forward 20 years and it's making noise on Netflix, I'd never see that coming but guess the demand for fantasy shows remains high (it will eventually go away when people become tired of it).

 

I don't think Polish audience has so many issues with run time like the Americans do right now.

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2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Ugh, just shut up for once. You do realize that no matter when I choose to watch the episodes, they are the same length as your average television episode. It took me 10 hours to watch that season. It still would have taken me 10 hours had those episodes been spread out over 10 weeks.

What I meant was that there used to be months of hype and discusson about a show. People would discuss the latest episode for a week and wonder what's going to happen next, and most people were roughly watching at the same pace, meaning there was a ton of discussion possible. Nowadays some people watch the whole thing in a day or a week, and so if you watch it at a more calmer pace, there's no way to discuss anything anymore, because everything is full with spoilers (and it's not nice anyway to discuss and wonder about shows with people who've already watched everything).

 

It was not meant as an attack at people, just to be clear. Luckily there are indeed still some shows that air once a week or something similar, instead of the whole thing at once.

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1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

What I meant was that there used to be months of hype and discusson about a show. People would discuss the latest episode for a week and wonder what's going to happen next, and most people were roughly watching at the same pace, meaning there was a ton of discussion possible. Nowadays some people watch the whole thing in a day or a week, and so if you watch it at a more calmer pace, there's no way to discuss anything anymore, because everything is full with spoilers (and it's not nice anyway to discuss and wonder about shows with people who've already watched everything).

 

It was not meant as an attack at people, just to be clear. Luckily there are indeed still some shows that air once a week or something similar, instead of the whole thing at once.

No, I understood what you meant. This post was meant completely and explicitly for @Monzanator

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The more annoying thing is something like Black Mirror, where episodes can take anything from 40 to 90 minutes, roughly :p How can I plan watching an episode then? :d 

 

Not meant as a Black Mirror attack, because I love Black Mirror (after 4 episodes at least).

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10 hours ago, heywoodu said:

The more annoying thing is something like Black Mirror, where episodes can take anything from 40 to 90 minutes, roughly :p How can I plan watching an episode then? :d 

 

Not meant as a Black Mirror attack, because I love Black Mirror (after 4 episodes at least).

 

I agree. It can take weeks to recover from a long, mediocre BM episode...

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