i think it would be cool if they release them on DVD as well "uncensored" and stuff like that, if they do this...

Edited July 24, 201312 yr by cassadine1991

ahhhhh this thread title had me thinking they had fired off a press release in the middle of the night. ok deep breaths....

I can watch 'em any old way.

I feel the same- I'll watch whatever they produce because the shows are really good but my hope was really for a 3rd ep added to the current schedule. But does that mean 20 eps annually? Because that would be a huge cut & be kind of a bummer- that seems really drastic so I'm thinking multiple mini seasons. Especially at 24ish minutes. Or like a fall and spring ABC family/USA type thing? AMC & OLTL rotating seasons? Or longer eps? Its not worth freaking out over because there's just so many variables & its all speculative. Not at be all Pollyanna but seeing stuff like this at least makes me feel like they're truly committed to trying to figure out a sustainable model instead of just producing the year and then out.

But people are going to freak the eff out over this. Both now and if it actually happens. I saw tweets earlier today to the effect of if you cut the episodes, I'm done forever so that's making a lot more sense now. Starting smaller would have avoided a lot of that insanity but the shows have been so enjoyable that I'm glad they didn't. I can hear the "this is not a traditional soap opera" cry starting though. I also wonder how this will be blamed on Angie & Jesse & Ginger Smith.

(also, more selfishly, it makes discussion of the episodes on here more difficult--one thing critics of the "binge viewing" Netflix formula said was they did tend to get less immediate message board/twitter/etc discussion and buzz. That's not always a bad thing given some of the tweets and messages we've seen, but...)

Yeah that's true even the Monday drop has killed some of the momentum in the threads

Edited July 24, 201312 yr by greens_dupres

The releasing of 2 episodes my day killed my love for OLTL because I had the need to watch it all night, and I forget over the week.

I have missed you in the OLTL threads. Come back & visit!

I have missed you in the OLTL threads. Come back & visit!

I'm one to admit that both episodes on the same day did kill the momentum of each thread..

I'm one to admit that both episodes on the same day did kill the momentum of each thread..

Angie-gate keeps the AMC one semi-alive. If we still had our Brooke/Adam fan, it would be thriving. But yeah the OLTL one is a little sad.

Angie-gate keeps the AMC one semi-alive. If we still had our Brooke/Adam fan, it would be thriving. But yeah the OLTL one is a little sad.

I know... I'm like the only one who checks it, and I'm all alone when I'm there, good thing I remember to make them

Edited July 24, 201312 yr by cassadine1991

Is there only one season per year? If so, why even bother?

word around is that there is inside word that PP is thinking about several alternate options to making the shows financially sound long term with different scenarios being brainstormed, the one in the screengrab is just one of them.

id like to binge view amc like this.

Is there only one season per year? If so, why even bother?

I *assume* they just mean, if given this format, they'd do them in batches of 20 episodes, but I assume that doesn't mean only one season a year (in which case it seems--not to sound super doom--kinda hopeless when you have 13 episodes a year of other webseries that are much larger budget--and it ruins the point of a soap.)

I *assume* they just mean, if given this format, they'd do them in batches of 20 episodes, but I assume that doesn't mean only one season a year (in which case it seems--not to sound super doom--kinda hopeless when you have 13 episodes a year of other webseries that are much larger budget--and it ruins the point of a soap.)

That makes more sense, as the OP reads like it would be 20 episodes only.

I'm not sure I like this idea, but I guess it would depend on the gap between releasing batches of 20, otherwise I'd have a mountain of episodes to get through. But honestly, just when I get to grips with one change, they plan on changing it again. I'm already a week behind (which is why I haven't commented in any of the episode threads for weeks), so having 20 episodes to watch at one time will probably mean I'll fall behind even more, and be less motivated to catch-up - even though the episodes are good, and I'm loving the show.

PP really need to be less reactionary.

I think the most important thing about a serial is that it is serialized, and with that in mind batching episodes together sort of weakens the product. The idea theoretically is I should want to be ripping my hair out waiting to see what will happen next, and with all the episodes at my fingertips I foresee very little hair ripping. That's why season premieres of shows like Walking Dead and Game Of Thrones break ratings records for their networks: people have been anxiously waiting for them. I see no anxiousness here.

Arrested Development is a comedy, not terribly serialized, and therefore there is no extra payoff to making me wait for the next episode. I honestly think this will diminish interest in the shows. As it is, I watched AMC and OLTL every M-Th, then they went 2 days a week and suddenly I wasn't watching as impatiently. Then they went all the episodes at once, and I basically stopped OLTL and now catch up on AMC once a month or so when I remember I haven't in a while. Serial habits need regular hits, and if you break the pattern you break the habit.

I can live with it either way. I'd rather they be staggered out, though. Preferably back to three days a week.

I'll definitely watch either way, but I'd also prefer they be staggered out back to 3 days a week. As it is, I can't stop myself from watching both AMC episodes on Monday and usually the More episode by Tuesday, then there's nothing left for the rest of the week!

Agreed--I can definitely live with it. But to get twenty episodes and then, what, wait ten weeks (hopefully at that) and get more? It seems like a long time (also, more selfishly, it makes discussion of the episodes on here more difficult--one thing critics of the "binge viewing" Netflix formula said was they did tend to get less immediate message board/twitter/etc discussion and buzz. That's not always a bad thing given some of the tweets and messages we've seen, but...)

Anyway, I'm not too concerned at this time, it seems like they're just trying to gauge audience reaction--though I wonder what they even man by season==do they mean starting with the new block of episodes being filmed starting Aug/Sep? Or?. I wish it had an option not to get them in blocks like that though--and it does seem odd after they complained about people being able to keep up with the episodes.

I hope the audience reaction convinces them not to do this. I agree 10 weeks would be a long wait in between for those of us who don't pace ourselves.

I think the most important thing about a serial is that it is serialized, and with that in mind batching episodes together sort of weakens the product. The idea theoretically is I should want to be ripping my hair out waiting to see what will happen next, and with all the episodes at my fingertips I foresee very little hair ripping. That's why season premieres of shows like Walking Dead and Game Of Thrones break ratings records for their networks: people have been anxiously waiting for them. I see no anxiousness here.

Arrested Development is a comedy, not terribly serialized, and therefore there is no extra payoff to making me wait for the next episode. I honestly think this will diminish interest in the shows. As it is, I watched AMC and OLTL every M-Th, then they went 2 days a week and suddenly I wasn't watching as impatiently. Then they went all the episodes at once, and I basically stopped OLTL and now catch up on AMC once a month or so when I remember I haven't in a while. Serial habits need regular hits, and if you break the pattern you break the habit.

I completely agree. A huge appeal of serials to me, and particularly daytime style soap operas is that they come out every weekday, or week, and I sorta grow to depend on that.

Though I was thinking of other Netflix series like House of Cards (which I haven't watched--I liked the UK version though) and the serio-comedy Orange is the New Black. I DID download all of Hemlock Grove, the horror serial, but I still haven't come close to finishing it--that may be because I simply don't think it's very good, but I do wonder if I would have been more eager to keep up with it if it had come out weekly--that just appeals more to me. I have several TV box sets I haven't broken into yet simply because I always put it off--since there's no pressure to watch that week's episodes before the next (I know that's a weird justification but that seems to be how my mind works.)

I could be wrong, but I really don't think this is a good idea for these shows--a big part of the appeal of daytime soaps, as I said, is that they are watched differently than primetime shows, even serials. IMHO

Though I was thinking of other Netflix series like House of Cards (which I haven't watched--I liked the UK version though) and the serio-comedy Orange is the New Black. I DID download all of Hemlock Grove, the horror serial, but I still haven't come close to finishing it--that may be because I simply don't think it's very good, but I do wonder if I would have been more eager to keep up with it if it had come out weekly--that just appeals more to me. I have several TV box sets I haven't broken into yet simply because I always put it off--since there's no pressure to watch that week's episodes before the next (I know that's a weird justification but that seems to be how my mind works.)

See, i watched all of the netflix shows in basically a day. I just marathoned through it and ate it all up and was left needing more. I like binge viewing and marathoning a show. Ive gotten to the point that ill let shows stack up on my DVR just to marathon them, i get way more into them that way. I totally blame netflix/amazin for this due to lost and the west wing.