I fucking love s1, I've got art from it in my house and everything. Pedro and Bella just worked as a pairing and I loved them. I chose not to watch s2 cos I hate the plot of the 2nd game, it's not credible to me and it's pure misery.

From what others have said, Craig has taken a lot of the misery out which I get. People are unlikely to tune into relentless misery. However the character choices don't make sense without it. Plus pedro is HUGE and a load of people were watching it for Joel and Ellie.

Not surprised viewing is suffering

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Pedro and Bella had good chemistry. Bella without Pedro? Not so much most of the time. Which is really frustrating because occasionally Bella shows a flash of brilliance and you’re like “OK, she can act.” But too many times Isabela has had to carry the scenes it feels like.

And Abby… I know they have said she doesn’t need to be physically jacked for the TV show, but I’m sorry, I am not really buying it. No offense to the actress they did choose, just not working in this particular role for me at all.

Having said all that, I am still basically enjoying Season 2? A lot of it is really well done, TBH. Just suffering from some unfortunate character dynamics that I think have disappointed a lot of viewers more than me apparently.

[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Abby actress should have been Ellie from the start. She is a dead ringer for her. I understand they tried to rectify that by making her Abby instead, but that almost makes it worse as it is so obvious to anyone who has played the game that the wrong person is playing Ellie.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

The gap was too long. Again and again.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I lost interest when they killed off Joel. And I know that happens in the game. TV is a different medium from games. Not surprised that viewership is way down.

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 days ago

Me neither. Pedro and Bella were incredible together. I knew he'd leave so didn't watch s2, the 2nd game plot ain't for me

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I got so bored and annoyed after the first few episodes of season two.

The brat seems to be fully stupid and a walking "teenager" cliche, and the guy is just... going through therapy? And we have to watch?

Yeah, no thanks. That's not good TV.

[–] TheHalifaxJones@lemm.ee 58 points 1 week ago (12 children)

It’s also insane we have gotten to a place with TV shows were 7 episodes a season is wild. We went from 22 a season. Down to 12-13 for game of thrones. And now we are at 7. There has to be more time flushing things out and getting an audience behind all these characters and becoming emotionally invested into the show. You can’t do that with 7 episodes that are roughly around 45 minutes

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 points 6 days ago

I mean sure, but game of thrones episodes were like an hour plus long, and older tv shows like 30 minutes with 2 commercial breaks.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Episodes used to last 20 minutes though.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago

Cartoons did, but most shows aired for adults lasted 40+ minutes

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

disney had 6, yea they are reducing amount per season, just to save money, cheapasses. INVINCIBLE basically had alot material to go through, they couldnt possibly go through the series with that little episode, it will take AOT-level time period to finish all those arcs.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 6 days ago

Blake's 7 I the late 70s/early 80s was thirteen 50 min episodes a season. It's not a new trend by any means, just perhaps more niche in the past.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)

7 episodes every two years.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The two year gap becoming standard is particularly rough, especially because it often ends up being three years

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 5 points 5 days ago

Yep I lose interest in so many shows that way

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

alot of shows started doing this, and then the actors got too old(ISAIP,spn) and everyone forgot about the series, and then quality went down as well too.

and not as bad as orville, 6 years for 3 seasons, and 4th season may not even materialize, because its always in a limbo. one of the leads of orville(the palacki in rosenbaums podcast) said it was insane and too unaffordable to wait that long per season.

and then the fabled AOT which was almost 10years for 4seasons.

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