Consensus seems to be disliking this change, but curious if there are other perspectives
Not like we have a choice. This is to save money. Writers strike is a good excuse. Nobody wants fewer and longer that’s just stupid unless they already aren’t interested.
I miss the long shows personally. I didn’t really feel it until I finally binge watched all of supernatural a while back and made me realize how much I miss those episodes just dedicated to funny or stupid things and the world building it does. I still laugh at the episode where Dean turns into a dog and tries to shoot a bird who poops on his car. The teddy bear in that episode was also halirious.
The idea of a “bottle episode” came about from producers running out of money and needing to do something cheap with what they had on hand. The long seasons gave creators a chance to try new things. You got backdoor pilots like Star Trek’s “Assignment : Earth.”
Yeah, but the ratio of something worth it to pointless filler was really bad.
So I don’t mind shows having less episodes than they used to (I mean the 24 EP per season ones) but 8 and worse 6 EP are way to short. 10 is good but I think the best is like 12-15 range like ‘sons of anarchy’. As for the time between seasons way to damn long It should not be more than a year to new season tbh. It is stupid to think we are going to wait till 2026 for season 3 of HOTD for example.
I don’t like the long wait but I prefer it compared to the lots of episodes every year. The quality is just so much better and there are no filler episodes.
I’ve always watched a lot British shows so I’m used to it.
It depends on the show. A lot of animation and special effects heavy shows are way better as shorter seasons with time to get things right. I also love the number of limited series that tell a complete story in 6-10 hour long episodes or even better episodes that are the length they need to be to tell that part of the story.
While some of the series with 20+ episodes churned out every year worked fine, those tended to get stretched pretty thin and while they resulted in some occasional fun one off episodes the vast majority were forgettable filler.
