Binge Watching
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
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@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
That's a great example. That movie was terrible and depended solely on you being surprised there. If you rewatch the movie without the surprise, it's pretty bad.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
Today is different than the 80's. You claim to be a special snowflake in this case. Fine, be one, I will not argue it. But be aware that it is what you are.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
That's a great example. That movie was terrible and depended solely on you being surprised there. If you rewatch the movie without the surprise, it's pretty bad.
That reveal happened at the beginning of the movie and has nothing to do with making the point of the movie. @Dashrender is wrong on this. If knowing that the movie was a computer world ruined the entire remaining movie then you simply never liked the movie to begin with.
As for @scottalanmiller opinion that the movie is bad, that is again his opinion, not an immutable fact. -
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
Today is different than the 80's. You claim to be a special snowflake in this case. Fine, be one, I will not argue it. But be aware that it is what you are.
I'm not arguing that I'm a special snowflake, I'm arguing that he is. It's not that I didn't have this effect, it's that other people didn't either. No one discussed shows, because people weren't watching the same things (or anything in some cases, of course.)
I'm asking... did other people really witness this effect? (Outside of special case things, like a big news event or a special episode of something - of regular shows.)
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
That's a great example. That movie was terrible and depended solely on you being surprised there. If you rewatch the movie without the surprise, it's pretty bad.
That reveal happened at the beginning of the movie and has nothing to do with making the point of the movie. @Dashrender is wrong on this. If knowing that the movie was a computer world ruined the entire remaining movie then you simply never liked the movie to begin with.
As for @scottalanmiller opinion that the movie is bad, that is again his opinion, not an immutable fact.Sure, but that makes your opinion that the spoiler wasn't significant just your opinion.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
Today is different than the 80's. You claim to be a special snowflake in this case. Fine, be one, I will not argue it. But be aware that it is what you are.
I'm not arguing that I'm a special snowflake, I'm arguing that he is. It's not that I didn't have this effect, it's that other people didn't either. No one discussed shows, because people weren't watching the same things (or anything in some cases, of course.)
I'm asking... did other people really witness this effect? (Outside of special case things, like a big news event or a special episode of something - of regular shows.)
Yes most people did, hence the point that you are the snowflake not the rest of us.
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
Today is different than the 80's.
Yes, it is. And my point was even in the 80s you didn't see this effect, back when it should have been at its peak.
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
Today is different than the 80's. You claim to be a special snowflake in this case. Fine, be one, I will not argue it. But be aware that it is what you are.
I'm not arguing that I'm a special snowflake, I'm arguing that he is. It's not that I didn't have this effect, it's that other people didn't either. No one discussed shows, because people weren't watching the same things (or anything in some cases, of course.)
I'm asking... did other people really witness this effect? (Outside of special case things, like a big news event or a special episode of something - of regular shows.)
Yes most people did, hence the point that you are the snowflake not the rest of us.
That's your opinion, where are these most people? What shows did this happen to all of you about? You should all be able to name the same shows or else, I don't believe it happened. I think you and @Dashrender are claiming to be the special snowflakes here. I've never seen this happen in school, at the office, etc.
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@coliver said in Binge Watching:
I like it. It allows me to watch the show on my schedule without having to worry, too much, about spoilers or people talking about it. I, however, am not one for water cooler talk and talking about new shows really never interested me even when I had to watch them once a week, which thankfully was only for a few years before we got a DVR.
I do believe that the DVR was the best add-on to TV since it was invented. Time shift a show from a few mins to practically any time in the future is awesome. But I don't feel that it fundamentally changed peoples viewing habits. Just from conversations around my office and peer groups, I'd say that on average the DVR shifted the watching of a show by 1-2 days.
But dumping an entire season has completely changed the dynamic. Now you might not watch a show for months after it was originally released, removing the social aspect of the show almost completely.
This is just an example of the evolution of human habits, etc. Not saying it's a good or bad thing.
Heck, if we wanna believe Star Trek, TV watching all but completely dies out at some point in the future
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@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
Heck, if we wanna believe Star Trek, TV watching all but completely dies out at some point in the future
Star Trek is a good example .... that would have been one of those shows that we would have talked about places... but it was not shown at the same time even in the 1980s because it wasn't on a network.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
That's a great example. That movie was terrible and depended solely on you being surprised there. If you rewatch the movie without the surprise, it's pretty bad.
That reveal happened at the beginning of the movie and has nothing to do with making the point of the movie. @Dashrender is wrong on this. If knowing that the movie was a computer world ruined the entire remaining movie then you simply never liked the movie to begin with.
As for @scottalanmiller opinion that the movie is bad, that is again his opinion, not an immutable fact.Sure, but that makes your opinion that the spoiler wasn't significant just your opinion.
The fact, in this case, is that the reveal he complains about ruining the entire movie happened in the first 15 minutes.
Something revealed in the beginning of a story is not a spoiler. It is a story building point.
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Thanks, I couldn't have worded this better myself!
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@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
But dumping an entire season has completely changed the dynamic. Now you might not watch a show for months after it was originally released, removing the social aspect of the show almost completely.
That's almost always been the case. VHS and DVD did this a few eras before Netflix did.
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@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Thanks, I couldn't have worded this better myself!
Except it does, you claimed that only the extreme fringe didn't exhibit this effect. Yet only two people are claiming to have witnessed it. I'm saying that it's only the extreme fringe that ever had it. It's a unique thing that I think just a few of you ever had. So it's only for the extreme fringe of overlapping viewers that traditionally had this network effect and, for them, it mostly still exists because people widely binge watch new shows at roughly the same time.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
Heck, if we wanna believe Star Trek, TV watching all but completely dies out at some point in the future
Star Trek is a good example .... that would have been one of those shows that we would have talked about places... but it was not shown at the same time even in the 1980s because it wasn't on a network.
Horrible example because that was something in syndication in the 80's.
Knight rider, Dallas(who shot JR), quantum leap, full house, cheers, etc. are things that would be examples.
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This topic is a special snowflake.
Binge watching or show addiction is based on the people who like the show type to begin with. So when you have the weekly releases (for example) everyone had something to talk about the following day at work.
There are very few cable series that offer this binge watch experience, because the television carries NBC etc, can't setup 8 hours worth of brand new episodes.
So people who Binge Watch, are the special snowflakes. Even services like Hulu and NetFlix only offer this service for a limited set of shows, because they know that if Walking Dead season 15 (or whatever) was released tomorrow, it would be over for a lot of people by Sunday night.
Ruining what many other people would consider a good show, because the special snowflakes (binge watchers) would have the need to talk about it.
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For example, I've had a closer interaction to what is described from binge watching Fuller House than I ever did normal watching Full House in the 1980s. Why? Because everyone I know, everywhere in the world that was a huge Full House fan binged Fuller House at almost exactly the same time and talked about it. I'm actually seeing the effect (just a little) more now than before, rather than less.
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Same with Stranger Things. One of the few times that I've had the "talk with people about a show" effect. ANd it is the binging that is making it happen. It's slightly different in that it's not "the next day around the water cooler" but it's bringing new groups of people into being able to discuss shows.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Thanks, I couldn't have worded this better myself!
Except it does, you claimed that only the extreme fringe didn't exhibit this effect. Yet only two people are claiming to have witnessed it. I'm saying that it's only the extreme fringe that ever had it. It's a unique thing that I think just a few of you ever had. So it's only for the extreme fringe of overlapping viewers that traditionally had this network effect and, for them, it mostly still exists because people widely binge watch new shows at roughly the same time.
No it doesn't. This is not SAMLand. This is reality. Viewership ratings prove this. Ratings are measured facts. Not speculation.
