Is there a more humiliating way for a show to go out? Everyone deludes themselves into thinking there's a secret finale episode because the last season is so shit and disappointing
>they didn't believepoor mike
>>217194642do goycattle really?
It was the switch pro all over again
As secret finale episode sounds like a really fun concept for a better show.
>>217194642>in other news: shit that didn't happen but make good marketing for retarded mouthbreathers
Chances are this show is gonna get more memory holed than GoT
>>217194642God they could have at least put special features up and called it Episode 9 and then had Duffers laugh at the fans a bit and say here ya go. Netflix messed up badly.
I liked the finale. Sure, the final season was garbage, but it wasn’t going to end any other way than a big Avengers Endgame tier splash panel with all the stupid background characters getting their one liners in. Once that was baked in, I appreciated that they didn’t make a fully happy ending. Mike gets to act again in the final scene and we see him lay out the final twist like a Poirot scene, and then it ends without him knowing what happened to El, being sad and learning to make peace with it. It was honestly pretty kino and I’m glad they ended the show the right way.
>>217194642Pythonselka STILL hasn't owned up to his death stranding is metal gear 0 bullshit
>>217195761The memory-holeing of GOT is still shocking to me. The early seasons were fantastic, way better than anything Stranger Things has done. Are they really not worth honoring just because the ending was bad? Most of the characters didn't even last to the end
>>217194642The show didn't need more than 1 season
>>217195761in 10 years people will only talk about the first season.
>>217194642>it was so bad, they couldn't end it this way>there must be a real endingsad state of affairs at netflix
>>217195872Culture memoryholing seems to be gaining pace among younger generations. Even if many people experienced something it seems to get memoryholed faster. Millennials and older are a bit more resistant to memoryholing?
>>217196150But the main audience for GoT were millennials
NETFLIX IS CRASHING OUT
>>217196150it doesn't help that the media is disposal and treated as such. The show writers couldn't even be arsed to do basic continuity.
>>217196150People just don't care much anymore. Do you think this is the pre internet era when information was dessimated so slowly you had weeks discussing the ending of Twin Peaks? Especially in this timeline with Trump's antics and the TDS reaction being much more unbelievable than fiction?
>>217196150Longform storytelling, or anything really, is rapidly decreasing in cultural relevancy. It will still be there for the people who want it, but it's lost its primacy be it books, vidya, tv, whatever. It will be there for the people who want it, like contemporary theatre, but post-literate shortform scrolling is the mainstream now.
>>217196150Every show nowadays taking 2 years to produce 8 episodes a season probably doesn't help either
>>217197159The way longform media is going to survive, and in a way is already morphing to, is catering to people who are only half-watching while on their phones or otherwise using it as background noise. You can see this in Stranger Things where characters are constantly repeating names and motivations because otherwise the audience would be entirely out of the loop.
>>217196481Bait
>>217196150Zoomers have poor memory.
>>217196150Shows take 3 years to produce 8 one hour episodes and then they're all released at once and everyone watches them all within 2 days then it's back to another 3 year wait
>>217196150No one gives a fuck about streaming slop. It's worthless and disposable by its very nature.
>>217197612How did this ever happen? Well into the 2010s you had network TV shows making 26 episode seasons every year with a 4-6 month break between seasons. Is it just incompetence or money laundering or what?
>>217195872The problem with GoT was that it was so popular that the showrunners were offered their own Star Wars trilogy by Kathleen Kennedy and so they decided to abruptly end the show instead of simply handing the reigns over to somebody else. And of course they never got to make their Star Wars trilogy anyway since the backlash to the final season was so severe.
>>217196150It was better back when shows had 22 episode seasons that aired once per week. Look at a show like Buffy the Vampire Slayer that pumped out 22 episode seasons for several years in a row. That meant for nearly 6 months out of each year that the show was "relevant".
Can anyone explain how economically feasible it would be to hype up a series finale (to the point that it's in theaters) and then just stealth drop a secret final episode? As fun as that sounds, I just don't see any studio ever taking that risk.>>217196150Before GoT, Lost and Battlestar Galactica both got memoryholed pretty hard. That was more than 10 years earlier though. BSG got it so bad more people know it from The Office quote than from the actual show... Lost is somehow getting a more positive view in long run. I don't get it.>>217198141Further proof that Disney killed GoT shortly before Disney+ went live to damage HBO, a competitor
It would be a cool thing to do for your finale. Make the final episode. Obviously don't make it intentionally bad or anything, but leave a couple of major loose ends, just enough to leave people just a tiny bit unsatisfied. And then release one additional episode to tie it all up in a neat little bow.If I ever got to make something popular and episodic, I would probably try to bully the distributor into letting me do something like that.
>>217194642Mythbusters proved it is always better to go outwith a bang, bittersweet endings never satisfy.
>>217196150You meet anyone nostalgic for 2022?
>>217196481>brings up trump out of nowhere>cries about tdsI guess you can't undead the patriots from the crimean tranches
>>217194642HAHAHAHA the same exact thing happened with Sherlock>the ending was so bad, the fan base went batshit insane and convinced themselves there will be a secret episodes that will totally fixes everythingAHAHAHHA HOLY FUCK I CAN'T this shit is too funny, I can't believe it happened twice.The ending so bad it LITERALLY mind broke fans
>>217194642https://youtube.com/shorts/B34xPMkdbtQIt’s over
>>217199448>You meet anyone nostalgic for 2022?who would be nostalgic for a post covid time?
>>217195872>Are they really not worth honoring just because the ending was bad?I agree the first four (maybe 3.5) seasons are fantastic but it's very hard to stay enthused about a story when you know it's all for nought. Bad ending does terrible damage to how people look back on a story. I have the first four seasons on blu ray and haven't been even a little tempted to go back and watch them. In fact I haven't watched anything at all GoT since the finale, including House of the Dragon.
