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and then in even LESS time we got the entirety of House MD which was an 8-season show with an average release map of 20-25 episodes (40 min long each) per season per *year*

so yeah anyone who says that it makes total sense actually for Stranger Things to have gone on this long and for the child actors to now be old enough to have kids of their own are just flat out full of it and are probably under the age of 16 because they don't remember what TV used to be like (or literally weren't there to experience it before it turned into whatever the fuck Netflix has turned it into)

like gee idk maybe it has to do with the fact that The Bear is filmed across like 1-3 recurring locations and every location is just a room in a building

or the fact that The Bear features regular people in a regular kitchen environment with a focus put on the writing and editing to create the drama

or the fact that The Bear doesn't require as much post-production editing because it doesn't employ gratuitous amounts of CGI

or maybe just the simple fact that The Bear knows it's a fucking TV show and knows it isn't productive to keep audiences waiting 4+ years for a new season made up of 4-6 films

like what The Bear is doing isn't unique, it's not "new", it's literally just what television used to be. We're deadass just not used to it anymore because TV has become this binging marathon where we sit and watch 4 episodes for 12+ hours straight.

yes Stranger Things is a different genre from The Bear, it's obviously going to require a different workload and different accommodations and it has unique and different challenges to face in its production

but it's absolutely not the first show of its kind, we owe the success of shows like Stranger Things to the shows that came before - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Doctor Who, the list goes on - and all of those shows that ran so Stranger Things could crawl at a glacial pace were capable of being produced similarly to shows like The Bear - with effective writing and camera work that pushed the limits of their set designs, and practical effects that could make up for what they couldn't achieve with CGI (either because it just wasn't viable enough yet or because it wasn't worth the expense).

the real irony here is that Stranger Things is supposed to be an 80's-reminiscent show, and yet it couldn't be further from the philosophies of 80's television that gave us the formats of modern TV and its cultural environment that both Stranger Things and its predecessors owe their legacies to

TV used to be this sort of liminal space where you could kick off your shoes after work / school and watch 20-40 minutes of your show in between your other obligations like making dinner, doing homework, working on other hobbies, and self-care

movies, on the other hand, were a special occasion, you either went to the theaters to fully indulge in a feature length film that was usually at least 90 minutes (but not always, some would be as little as 70-80) or you rented a VHS/DVD to watch at home for some uninterrupted family time

and while TV definitely had its own host of problems as an attention-whoring device, streaming productions like Stranger Things have really managed to find the next exploitation in the attention economy - by turning TV into a whole ass movie marathon that takes longer to get through per season than watching the entire uncut Lord of the Rings trilogy or a single 25-episode season of House MD

and not because it necessarily has more to offer - but because every episode demands your attention for 2-4 times as long as the norm of what used to be expected out of TV, and every season has a production cycle that somehow manages to take longer than it would have taken them to just make a fucking movie

i'm sorry b/c this really turned into an "old man yells at cloud" rant but it's just absolutely insane to me how much we've lost the plot of what TV is and what it was specifically designed for - quick, manageable hits of entertainment that weren't as demanding of your time and attention as movies. that was it. that was the whole appeal. and Netflix has convinced people to pay $10-$20+/month just to wait for their TV content because they decided TV should be a bunch of back-to-back movies now

we let this happen

we all let this happen

we have just as much of ourselves to blame as we do the corporate entities that took the simple and elegant concept of TV away from us

because we (as a society) keep paying for it and waiting for it until it eventually decides to give us what we were paying and waiting for

and i can't help but feel with how successful and profitable these shows wind up being in spite of the criticisms people have to make of them, there's never going to be a way back to what we lost

we thought we were just cutting our monthly cable bill but what we were really cutting was an essential limb of entertainment culture that's now being threatened by Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix Reddit Netflix Netflix and their two favorite dimwits with beards and plain t-shirts who collectively call themselves "the Duffer Brothers"

A creator is at the mercy of a company when creating their project if it isn’t an indie funded show. If you don’t want a project you’re pouring your blood and tears into to get cancelled or lose funding, you have to kowtow to the company’s whims and not piss them off.

You know, over the years I've gained a lot of respect for Lauren Faust, because when studios start meddling in her creative process she's just like

What I don't like is creators who claim LGBT Rep is super important to them, and then compromise and compromise and compromise until we end up getting nothing.

If it's really important to you, quit over creative differences. And if it's more important that you get to make your show no matter how neutered or vandalized it is, then stop claiming otherwise.

My problem is when creators lie to our fucking faces and expect us to swallow it.

"This was really important to us" No it wasn't, or else you wouldn't have thrown it on the altar. You don't sacrifice the things that matter to you, you sacrifice the things that don't.

This is a parasite that usually causes about 3000 cases of illness per year in the USA, Michigan currently has reported about 2900 (the confusion about “Michigan outbreak” is because Michigan is the first that caught an uptick in cases and has been very proactive about trying to trace them). Last official update from Massachusetts was 18 cases here centered in Greater Boston. The CDC recommends NOT assuming there are no sources of the parasite in your state even if no cases have been reported.

It isn’t an unknown illness but it is an unusual quantity of cases, and the fact that they haven’t been able to pin down the source after weeks of tracking is what makes it particularly concerning this year (harder to contain).

Ya'll couldn't even handle HER.

God, this hits really hard for me since I was sexually abused by a teacher from like 1st to 5th grade.

Oh no... OH NO!

I didn't get a screenshot of the previous dialogue, but his mother is happy about the tutoring because his grades have improved so much, giving this poor kid an incentive not to talk about what's going on because of an irrational fear that he'll disappoint his mother.

Someone saw him through the window and called the police. The worst part is if he actually kills her, then he just becomes the guy who broke into a woman's home and murdered her. He just becomes part of rhetoric that only enables the kind of abuse he faced in the first place, making things progressively worse for future victims down the line.

A part of abuse recovery that people don't appreciate enough is Resolve. Recovery doesn't start until you decide you don't want to be miserable anymore. Until you decide things have to change, and you have to start fixing things.

"I don't want to be this person anymore" is always the hardest thing to say.

The thing about recovery people hate is that it's your responsibility. Your abuser is never going to come back repentant and fix everything for you. Hell, the goat in this game is completely and utterly unrepentant.

A lot of people don't recovery because they feel accepting that they have to do the work means accepting fault.

The game saves before you can choose who to call. It seems Yve's been fed up with his behavior for some time, especially with his unwillingness to talk about what's been happening to him.

Ugh... I feel emotionally drained in a weirdly satisfying way.

10/10, I'm never playing anything you make ever again /pos

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

yes, that is part of her Bridget cosplay.

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