I find shows and movies that show something happen clearly and then restate it in the dialogue immediately quite annoying. Very common in anime.
Wait, you’re telling me that restating dialog makes you annoyed, especially because it happens so frequently in anime?
In anime, you should expect repetitive exposition. Can it be that Netflix has gained this power, too?
Netflix has gained the power of repetitive exposition? Such a feat has only been attained by anime before! One should expect it there, but now it’s really bothering OP!
Metal Gear???
Nani?
Some YouTube channels do this and I started to hide them in the recommendations because it pisses me off so much.
I wonder if its due to how closely Anime attempts to animate Manga? I feel like you can kind of “explain” what happens in text alot more smoothly than on a TV show due to how much faster you ingest knowledge.
That’s a good point, I agree for anime it is probably stylistic like some comic book movies are comic-y.
Writer insight : if people start pulling their phone when they should be watching your movie, it means your movie is shit, not that it should be made even sloppier. Watered down shit is still a shit cocktail.
This is what kills any articles on the web. The first three paragraphs repeat the question you’re looking to get answered and the last paragraph vaguely answers it.
I feel like an old person now but I’ve started watching movies from the 90s/2000s and I can’t believe how much worse movies have become over the years.
There are some standout exceptions to that trend but it is a depressing trajectory for sure
Is that why the last season of Stranger Things spent half the season rehashing how all the characters had felt about anything ever throughout the previous four seasons?
I think re-explaining things that happened in previous seasons is a different issue. They’re worried that you don’t remember what happened because it has been so long.
And that’s fair. I know I watched Season 2 (and it definitely had my full attention, because I’m incapable of doing two things at once), but the only thing I can actually remember about it is the episode where El went to Chicago and met some shadowrunners. And something about tunnels. Everything else is a blur.
The last season being a big mess aside, it was 100% guilty of re-explaining the plot, not just the recaps. Together with those unnecessary “LET ME EXPLAIN” scenes, like Robin using vinyls to explain a very basic concept. They really treated us like idiots.
I was complaining to my family about how El getting a bloody nose was originally used to indicate how she severely over exerted herself while using her powers. In this last season they turned it into the “I used magic and am trying to look cool” sign. I found it belittling.
I agree with what you’re saying (aside from comparing that really awful episode to Shadowrun), but that’s not what went on in Stranger Things. It was just…
From the very first episode, I asked if they had changed writers because the dialogue was so different, so bad, and so predictable–all of which only grew worse with each passing episode. And when each character had their turn to explain who they are and how they feel, it fit the same exact pattern every time. It was just really bad writing.
All that said, I don’t think the last season was terrible. I expected it to be a lot worse than it was. The actual plot and ending of the story, I thought were perfectly mediocre and fine. It was ruined by the dialogue.
All that said, I don’t think the last season was terrible. I expected it to be a lot worse than it was. The actual plot and ending of the story, I thought were perfectly mediocre and fine. It was ruined by the dialogue.
I agree with you, it was better than I expected (although I had extremely low expectations to be fair). The most miserable parts of the final season were the long “emotional” character moments with the most juvenile/amateur/unrealistic writing. I don’t skip as a rule, but I really felt like fast forwarding through some of that stuff, it was so cringe.
That was definitely part of it, but I think they also wrote themselves into a corner in previous seasons by not properly laying the groundwork for any of the supernatural stuff. In Season 5, they had to constantly infodump the viewers in those “plan” scenes to keep up.
What, do you expect the audience to pay attention and infer how characters are feeling based on things like subtle body cues? What like acting?
Yup, and on the same boards with people whining about that are complaints from people that still missed shit.
Why? What the fuck do they care as long as people watch it?
Make good stuff, and people will come.
People will leave if they don’t like what they see. People won’t like what they don’t understand. People won’t understand what isn’t either simple or redundantly written because they don’t pay attention.
people like the idea of liking good stuff, they do not like good stuff. This is the #1 rule of making money
good stuff needs to go hardcore enough some people will cringe away and not making cringe is more important than making good, because getting the anthill of these people will not give me money to give you money is more important than keeping the mountain of people who will give you money happy.
Not really, no. There have been plenty of tv shows for example that have been cancelled due to low audience numbers, despite being excellent. For example, In The Flesh, Mindhunter and Pushing Daisies.
Pushing daisies was absolutely great, was gutted we never got to see how that played out
I still mourn Kaos
It’s the big tech social media disease.
Everyone, frigging everyone who steps away from fb/insta/twittler/yt/tiktok/… says the same “holy shit my mind is so peaceful all of a sudden.” And somehow it’s not substantially part of the daily discourse. Somehow between that and EVERYTHING else these mfrs are responsible for (protecting pedos, encouraging insurrections, …) just flies.
It’s a disease, an addiction, a plague and we gotta start naming it as such. Talk to your loved ones and carefully try to get them off that shit.
Can’t believe how prescient this movie was. We’re on our way!
Wassat?
Ow my balls would be a step up.
Good thing we canceled our Netflix subscription last year when Trump threatened to invade our country the first time.
Even greater that now that he is threatening to do it again, and seemingly is more serious about it, we are one year into being back on physical media and we fucking love it. Dvds and blurays are so much better than shitflix.
Talk about the wrong response!
If they want people to not look away or do something else while the movie is playing you gotta keep it interesting.
Ya know, like perhaps making movies that aren’t just rehashes of the same old stories.
Make movies and shows that keep people on their toes!
Making a crime drama? Throw in some traveler from the future or a demon or both! Give the judge two heads because of a “merging accident” or something!
Putting together a horror movie? Throw in some romance among the monsters! Have them feed each other eyeballs or something!
Making an anime? Try something totally radical! Like a male protagonist with non-dark hair that has a personality, or make a couple—in love—who get stuck somewhere together, alone have actual sex (like normal teens would) or something!
Making a K-drama? Add a black guy and make him one of the main characters… Haha, just kidding! That would be too radical! That’d be just as extreme as making an anime that covers the time period a few years after “the hero” formed his harem!
Interesting takes skill. Skill takes money. Capitalists don’t care about skill or art. They are only interested in money.
As long as they don’t mess with the tradition of saying the name of the show/movie in the show/movie in the most corny manner possible.
Seems helpful. I’m probably watching Netflix, driving a ride share right this very moment AND cooking my family a nutritious dinner all at this very moment
I think I read a different article about this months ago!
For some reason I’m kind of surprised to hear about it again because not a lot of people seem to talk about it.
I like when Matt Damon restates his name three or four times in the dialogue
netflix should just buy the entire back catalogue of The Archers and be done with it.
