[ SECRET POST #4840 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4840 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Caligula Effect]


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03.
[Binging with Babish (youtube)]


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04.
[Wang Yibo as Lan Wangji in The Untamed]


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05.
[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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06.
[Star Trek Voyager]


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07.
[Fights Break Sphere, aka Battle Through the Heavens]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How so?

[(Anonymous)]

First, I think the batch-release model that's associated with streaming is way worse than the weekly model. With a traditional model, you improve and find your footing and make necessary changes as you go along. and weekly releases are way better for building a fandom and a sustained conversation around a work.

Second, the business model of streaming services is generally fundamentally different, since they make their money primarily by keeping people subscribed to their services and not by getting people to actually watch content. Since producing and acquiring content is a major cost for streaming services, the optimal position for a streaming service is to make content to get people to subscribe and then to provide each user with the precise bare minimum of content to keep them from cancelling their subscription.

So this has a few obvious direct consequences - big, splashy concepts are really valuable (because they get people to talk about a show and sign up for a service), and long-running, multiple season shows are not very valuable at all, because the people who like those shows have already signed up and there's diminishing returns from those viewers - who cares if those people want to watch more of the show? that's irrelevant to your business model. the economic return on multiple seasons declines much more quickly when you don't care about viewership. So you see directly the emphasis on short seasons, short runs, and big flashy concepts.