Binge Watching
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My wife and I generally binge watch shows we like together. Nurse Jackie was the last major one that we watched together. A few episodes a night for the better part of a month until it was over. Excellent show just got really depressing toward the end. Then she watches some shows on her own and I watch others on my own. If we had to wait for a specific time chances are there would be a conflict in there somewhere.
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@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
No longer can you go to work the next day and just assume that everyone watched the show the previous night.
We still get this in the UK. Every Thursday morning nearly half the country will be discussing the previous night's "Great British Bake-Off" episode.
But yeah, it is annoying when you desperately want to discuss the finale of Stranger Things and everyone's like "don't tell me, I'm only on episode 7"
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I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
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@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
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I wonder what percentage of people have ever had the shared viewing phenomenon. I didn't have it ever, and I grew up in the era of just four networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS.) If you watched television, chances are you saw the same things as other people. And it still wasn't a high enough percentage to create the effect. I wonder if it is actually a very small group that ever managed to have that effect and, for all intents and purposes, I would guess that it died with cable before DVR and Netflix. People were watching differently, at different times, for a very long time.
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
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@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
That's a great example. That movie was terrible and depended solely on you being surprised there. If you rewatch the movie without the surprise, it's pretty bad.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
Today is different than the 80's. You claim to be a special snowflake in this case. Fine, be one, I will not argue it. But be aware that it is what you are.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
That's a great example. That movie was terrible and depended solely on you being surprised there. If you rewatch the movie without the surprise, it's pretty bad.
That reveal happened at the beginning of the movie and has nothing to do with making the point of the movie. @Dashrender is wrong on this. If knowing that the movie was a computer world ruined the entire remaining movie then you simply never liked the movie to begin with.
As for @scottalanmiller opinion that the movie is bad, that is again his opinion, not an immutable fact. -
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
Today is different than the 80's. You claim to be a special snowflake in this case. Fine, be one, I will not argue it. But be aware that it is what you are.
I'm not arguing that I'm a special snowflake, I'm arguing that he is. It's not that I didn't have this effect, it's that other people didn't either. No one discussed shows, because people weren't watching the same things (or anything in some cases, of course.)
I'm asking... did other people really witness this effect? (Outside of special case things, like a big news event or a special episode of something - of regular shows.)
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
That's a great example. That movie was terrible and depended solely on you being surprised there. If you rewatch the movie without the surprise, it's pretty bad.
That reveal happened at the beginning of the movie and has nothing to do with making the point of the movie. @Dashrender is wrong on this. If knowing that the movie was a computer world ruined the entire remaining movie then you simply never liked the movie to begin with.
As for @scottalanmiller opinion that the movie is bad, that is again his opinion, not an immutable fact.Sure, but that makes your opinion that the spoiler wasn't significant just your opinion.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
Today is different than the 80's. You claim to be a special snowflake in this case. Fine, be one, I will not argue it. But be aware that it is what you are.
I'm not arguing that I'm a special snowflake, I'm arguing that he is. It's not that I didn't have this effect, it's that other people didn't either. No one discussed shows, because people weren't watching the same things (or anything in some cases, of course.)
I'm asking... did other people really witness this effect? (Outside of special case things, like a big news event or a special episode of something - of regular shows.)
Yes most people did, hence the point that you are the snowflake not the rest of us.
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
Today is different than the 80's.
Yes, it is. And my point was even in the 80s you didn't see this effect, back when it should have been at its peak.
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@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
I've never had "shared viewing" with other people. That only works if you are into the two or three most mainstream pop culture shows. Luke Cage works for this, for example, because it's specifically the top show right now. But the moment you get to less obscure viewing, even slightly, there was never the "shared viewing" concept, not even thirty years ago.
People on the extremes will always have this issue. But these are more fringe and not the focus of my post.
Calling people who don't dedicate their schedules to watching the one or two most popular shows are not extreme. That's one of the saddest comments on American life ever. You don't have to be "extreme" to not watch the lowest common denominator mindless entertainment.
That is your opinion and not does nothing to dispute his point for anyone but you.
Does it? How many people here watch the same shows, even at different times?
Today is different than the 80's. You claim to be a special snowflake in this case. Fine, be one, I will not argue it. But be aware that it is what you are.
I'm not arguing that I'm a special snowflake, I'm arguing that he is. It's not that I didn't have this effect, it's that other people didn't either. No one discussed shows, because people weren't watching the same things (or anything in some cases, of course.)
I'm asking... did other people really witness this effect? (Outside of special case things, like a big news event or a special episode of something - of regular shows.)
Yes most people did, hence the point that you are the snowflake not the rest of us.
That's your opinion, where are these most people? What shows did this happen to all of you about? You should all be able to name the same shows or else, I don't believe it happened. I think you and @Dashrender are claiming to be the special snowflakes here. I've never seen this happen in school, at the office, etc.
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@coliver said in Binge Watching:
I like it. It allows me to watch the show on my schedule without having to worry, too much, about spoilers or people talking about it. I, however, am not one for water cooler talk and talking about new shows really never interested me even when I had to watch them once a week, which thankfully was only for a few years before we got a DVR.
I do believe that the DVR was the best add-on to TV since it was invented. Time shift a show from a few mins to practically any time in the future is awesome. But I don't feel that it fundamentally changed peoples viewing habits. Just from conversations around my office and peer groups, I'd say that on average the DVR shifted the watching of a show by 1-2 days.
But dumping an entire season has completely changed the dynamic. Now you might not watch a show for months after it was originally released, removing the social aspect of the show almost completely.
This is just an example of the evolution of human habits, etc. Not saying it's a good or bad thing.
Heck, if we wanna believe Star Trek, TV watching all but completely dies out at some point in the future
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@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
Heck, if we wanna believe Star Trek, TV watching all but completely dies out at some point in the future
Star Trek is a good example .... that would have been one of those shows that we would have talked about places... but it was not shown at the same time even in the 1980s because it wasn't on a network.
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@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:
@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:
@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:
people are stupid when it comes to spoilers. I mean fuck, just because someone tells you Han dies, does not ruin the entire movie.
Or that some walking dead person did something does not ruin the entire episode because you still have the entire show to see the detail and context.
I will disagree with you, mostly. Some spoilers are less important than others.
My friend ruined The Matrix for me by telling me it was a computer world - that was the whole big reveal of the movie! WTF! sure, the rest was fine, but not coming to that understanding as you're meant to by the director definitely takes something away from the viewing experience..
That's a great example. That movie was terrible and depended solely on you being surprised there. If you rewatch the movie without the surprise, it's pretty bad.
That reveal happened at the beginning of the movie and has nothing to do with making the point of the movie. @Dashrender is wrong on this. If knowing that the movie was a computer world ruined the entire remaining movie then you simply never liked the movie to begin with.
As for @scottalanmiller opinion that the movie is bad, that is again his opinion, not an immutable fact.Sure, but that makes your opinion that the spoiler wasn't significant just your opinion.
The fact, in this case, is that the reveal he complains about ruining the entire movie happened in the first 15 minutes.
Something revealed in the beginning of a story is not a spoiler. It is a story building point.
