1/ I know it’s over and i can evaluate the time it takes
2/ it has been recommended enough by people i trust, and i checked that the whole is worth watching, not just the few first episodes being great then taking you to an emotional blackmail into watching the mediocre rest that is just milking you…
that way i dont let myself be emotionally manipulated by endless series of cliff-hangers engineered to make people hooked. my time and emotions are not that cheap.
In practice that’s very few series i watch, but ones that were recommended enough that i know i won’t be disappointed; The Wire, Breaking Bad and very very few other exceptions…
This is hilarious. You and I think the exact same way when it comes to this. I’m so glad I’m not alone in taking this sort of thing so seriously. I like that you value your emotions and time so much. Some of my friends think I’m nuts for how obsessive I am with my vetting process for what is and isn’t allowed in my mega library but those very same people can’t deny that every single TV series I’ve suggested and shared with them resulted in them watching the whole series and raving about it. The Wire is one of those types of shows, as is Luther (also with Idris Elba).
That’s the bread and butter of industrial scenarists: make the viewer emotionally involved with the characters… then split the elements of each aspect of the story of each character accross episodes, so one episode never resolves everything at once, just one or two elements, and keeps you going with some new one…
That way you use people’s emotion to keep them implicated, and not drop… That’s not how i like to chose what i want to get involved with. I want to be in control, i don’t like to be manipulated in general…
(also if they need these cheap tricks to keep me hooked, it means their series is probably not that great in the first place…)
after, once:
1/ I know it’s over and i can evaluate the time it takes 2/ it has been recommended enough by people i trust, and i checked that the whole is worth watching, not just the few first episodes being great then taking you to an emotional blackmail into watching the mediocre rest that is just milking you…
that way i dont let myself be emotionally manipulated by endless series of cliff-hangers engineered to make people hooked. my time and emotions are not that cheap.
In practice that’s very few series i watch, but ones that were recommended enough that i know i won’t be disappointed; The Wire, Breaking Bad and very very few other exceptions…
This is hilarious. You and I think the exact same way when it comes to this. I’m so glad I’m not alone in taking this sort of thing so seriously. I like that you value your emotions and time so much. Some of my friends think I’m nuts for how obsessive I am with my vetting process for what is and isn’t allowed in my mega library but those very same people can’t deny that every single TV series I’ve suggested and shared with them resulted in them watching the whole series and raving about it. The Wire is one of those types of shows, as is Luther (also with Idris Elba).
Emotional blackmail is real with shows. Well put, you make me feel like a slut the way I throw myself at shows
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That’s the bread and butter of industrial scenarists: make the viewer emotionally involved with the characters… then split the elements of each aspect of the story of each character accross episodes, so one episode never resolves everything at once, just one or two elements, and keeps you going with some new one…
That way you use people’s emotion to keep them implicated, and not drop… That’s not how i like to chose what i want to get involved with. I want to be in control, i don’t like to be manipulated in general…
(also if they need these cheap tricks to keep me hooked, it means their series is probably not that great in the first place…)