Right-- when something drops all at once, the “cultural conversation” tends to also be one hot burst.  You either binge it all and talk about it ALL RIGHT NOW, or watch it later and then no one is talking about it.  Weekly episodes gives that conversation a chance to grow and breathe.

cultural conversations are part of word of mouth. the more ppl talk about sumthin the more likely new ppl will check it out, directly impacting whether it gets renewed or not. 

True, you don’t HAVE to binge it. But the point is that by dropping weekly (or at some rate), the show builds momentum and seems to get more notice. That is generally good for the health of the show. And as a viewer, even though I don’t have to binge it, all the spoilers are out there from the start.

That said, if you…

The Mandalorian was the first time I realized the binge model impacts a show being able to “catch on”. Baby Yoda doesn’t become a THING without the weekly space allowing the various viral moments to take hold on a ep-by-ep basis.

I just said this to my wife recently about 3 Body Problem. We liked it, but it’s never going to reach the cultural mass appeal of something like Game of Thrones because it comes and goes same quickly. Same for Fallout.

I think my oldness might be showing here - “Maybe” is really central to Fallout 1, playing over that incredible ending, and so it’s the song I most closely associate with the games. “World On Fire” is also a biggie, but “Maybe” will always be THE Fallout song for me. Zur’s soundtrack is a whole other, great thing -…

Or at least a renegotiation, but whatever the case, I’m sure that’s a major factor in the decision. Streaming doesn’t generate anywhere near the profits of more traditional medias, and that’s putting a strain on actor retention and squeezing the profit margins into dangerous territories. Which isn’t to say that…

They usually make these announcements right before there’s very public filming that’s difficult for them to hide, which would have shown up in the tabloids anyways. At least this way they get out ahead of the information and discourage the paps from disrupting filming to snap exclusive photos of the new companion.

Also…

Will be sad to say goodbye to the `Ritos gang, but I’m ultimately ok with it. And plus, given that the reception here has been almost entirely positive (and costs of animated series is a fraction of the live action ones), maybe this opens the door to more animated Trek. And yes, I know about Prodigy and its issues,…

For context: I’ve probably played through Fallout, Fallout 2, and New Vegas three or four times apiece; I’ll admit I’ve only played the Bethesda games once each, and didn’t do any of their DLC. My apologies for missing this enemy from the DLC of 4!

My terrible, horrible secret is that I don’t like Fallout 4 (which means I only played, what, 80 hours of it) and so I never played the DLC. I missed the Gulper, apologies!

yup Lower Decks pretty much came out of the door swinging so thats why im okay with it having a five season run.

I am sad but I’d rather the show go out on top than run itself into the ground. Five years is a good run. 

The “they” you speak of was a different company at a different time with a different economic model. And Enterprise already broke the mold on that with four seasons, ended in 2005. Which was 19 years ago. 

Very surprisingly, it’s turning out to be a pretty good show.

“The wasteland has its own golden rule. Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.”

The show clearly isn’t taking the position that they should all just be killed.

That’s interesting that book focused on that. I imagine it was cut from this show for more pragmatic reasons, i.e. having limited space to explain foreign cultural concepts in a limited series. But you’re right that the Japanese probably wouldn’t love it. And the series already touches very lightly on the invasion of…

Absolutely unacceptable lack of Fuji-sama in this episode.

I find it interesting that they seem to have decided to drop all mention of the “Eta” or Untouchable caste of the time, although it came up multiple times in the book and original show, most notably when Blackthorne attempts to reunite with his shipmates. In the book and original show, aside from them being filthy drun…