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An interesting thing happened to me recently \u2013 I caught up with a bunch of television and I had nothing to watch.<\/span><\/p>\n I was on the treadmill doing some incline walking, and I had reached the end of episode S0504 of Stranger Things<\/em>.\u00a0 But as the credits began rolling, there was no rapidly scrolling next episode button ready to shotgun me into the ensuing episode.\u00a0 I had reached the end of what was released, because Netflix has strayed from what made them who they are and like many of the bigger titles they\u2019ve dropped over the last few years, they\u2019re deliberately staggering the release of them, presumably to maximize how long they can milk content to their viewers, but more likely to ensure that those pleebs sharing passwords have a little more difficult as far as trying to bilk trials and get all the content for free in a concentrated amount of time.<\/span><\/p>\n Later on in the evening, mythical wife and I were watching S0203 of Culinary Class Wars<\/em>, and Korean television is notorious and deliberate in how they break episodes apart.\u00a0 So when the episode ended, at an obvious cliffhanger as far as delivering results of cooking challenges go, the same thing occurred; credits begin, no next episode button.\u00a0 Returning to the landing page of the show, is the becoming all-too familiar sight of \u201cNew episodes releasing on X date\u201d prompt on the following episode, and suddenly we no longer have anything to watch.<\/span><\/p>\n Combined with shows that already operate in weekly episodic releases like Pluribus<\/em>, and Disney+ and even HBO Max are known to stagger their content with shows like Daredevil: Born Again<\/em> and even silly crap like The Chair Company<\/em>, and it\u2019s apparent that the pendulum of television consumption has already passed the precipice where all shows were required to drop entire seasons at a time, lest they would be doomed to fail, to kind of swinging back in the direction of olden times, where such is no longer a requirement in order for a show to succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n The funny thing is, I don\u2019t really hate it.\u00a0 Anymore, at least.\u00a0 Sure, there are times where I get lost how into a show I start becoming, and it\u2019s a definite do not want<\/a> moment when you realize that there is no next episode available to watch, and you have to wait for it, but at the same time, for people like me, who always feel strapped for time, the forced break from spending more time watching television isn\u2019t necessarily always a bad thing.<\/span><\/p>\n I caught up with Pluribus and thought to myself, welp, with no more episodes to watch, I may as well go do something else, and although what I may or may not have done after watching television might not necessarily have been more productive or satisfying, but the point remains is that I did them 60-90 minutes earlier than I would have, had I watched, just one more.\u00a0 And being able to tackle those things 60-90 minutes earlier means I wound down my day that much sooner, and I ultimately get more sleep which is always a good thing considering I have to get up at ass o\u2019clock every single day without exception.<\/span><\/p>\n Also by not having shows drop entire seasons at a time also helps eliminate that FOMO or rather, fear of not getting spoiled, because inevitably there are people, websites, social channels and\/or other internet entities that speed run every new piece of media that comes out, and then spoils the ever-living fuck out of them on social media platforms for people to accidentally see while they\u2019re doomscrolling.\u00a0 I have to say it\u2019s liberating knowing that within a short amount of time, I\u2019m caught up and at the same stage of Stranger Things as the vast majority of enthusiasts of the show, and that there\u2019s pretty much no chance that I\u2019m going to get spoiled to the inevitable ending, because it hasn\u2019t officially dropped yet.<\/span><\/p>\n The point of all this is, that I\u2019ve made jokes about how the money-grubbing direction of the media market is going to inevitably push people back towards the development of what\u2019s basically old school cable television, but in some regards, by passively going back to methods of the past, all these television platforms are inadvertently re-training the olds, and training the kids of today about weekly episodic releases or programs complete with advertisements, and I feel like within 2-3 years, we\u2019ll be back to the resurrection of formal cable television, but people are actually going to like it instead of constantly threatening to cut the cord.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe it\u2019ll be delete the apps when this age arrives, and everyone will be so arrogantly gleeful about uninstalling Netflix and Disney+ to sign up for cable services.<\/span><\/p>\n Cable2<\/sup> is going to be so lit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting thing happened to me recently \u2013 I caught up with a bunch of television and I had nothing to watch. I was on the treadmill doing some incline walking, and I had reached the end of episode S0504 of Stranger Things.\u00a0 But as the credits began rolling, there was no rapidly scrolling next … Continue reading Score a point for staggered episodic television<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,129,83,52,25,69],"class_list":["post-50984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-technology","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50986,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984\/revisions\/50986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![do not want<\/a> moment when you realize that there is no next episode available to watch, and you have to wait for it, but at the same time, for people like me, who always feel strapped for time, the forced break from spending more time watching television isn\u2019t necessarily always a bad thing.<\/span><\/p>\nI caught up with Pluribus and thought to myself, welp, with no more episodes to watch, I may as well go do something else, and although what I may or may not have done after watching television might not necessarily have been more productive or satisfying, but the point remains is that I did them 60-90 minutes earlier than I would have, had I watched, just one more.\u00a0 And being able to tackle those things 60-90 minutes earlier means I wound down my day that much sooner, and I ultimately get more sleep which is always a good thing considering I have to get up at ass o\u2019clock every single day without exception.<\/span><\/p>\nAlso by not having shows drop entire seasons at a time also helps eliminate that FOMO or rather, fear of not getting spoiled, because inevitably there are people, websites, social channels and\/or other internet entities that speed run every new piece of media that comes out, and then spoils the ever-living fuck out of them on social media platforms for people to accidentally see while they\u2019re doomscrolling.\u00a0 I have to say it\u2019s liberating knowing that within a short amount of time, I\u2019m caught up and at the same stage of Stranger Things as the vast majority of enthusiasts of the show, and that there\u2019s pretty much no chance that I\u2019m going to get spoiled to the inevitable ending, because it hasn\u2019t officially dropped yet.<\/span><\/p>\nThe point of all this is, that I\u2019ve made jokes about how the money-grubbing direction of the media market is going to inevitably push people back towards the development of what\u2019s basically old school cable television, but in some regards, by passively going back to methods of the past, all these television platforms are inadvertently re-training the olds, and training the kids of today about weekly episodic releases or programs complete with advertisements, and I feel like within 2-3 years, we\u2019ll be back to the resurrection of formal cable television, but people are actually going to like it instead of constantly threatening to cut the cord.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMaybe it\u2019ll be delete the apps when this age arrives, and everyone will be so arrogantly gleeful about uninstalling Netflix and Disney+ to sign up for cable services.<\/span><\/p>\nCable2<\/sup> is going to be so lit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An interesting thing happened to me recently \u2013 I caught up with a bunch of television and I had nothing to watch. I was on the treadmill doing some incline walking, and I had reached the end of episode S0504 of Stranger Things.\u00a0 But as the credits began rolling, there was no rapidly scrolling next … Continue reading Score a point for staggered episodic television<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,129,83,52,25,69],"class_list":["post-50984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-technology","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50986,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984\/revisions\/50986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/swfans\/images\/a\/ad\/Donotwant.jpg\/revision\/latest?cb=20150116022648\"){kind=link}