This is good news for assuring that SNW’s 3rd season production will move ahead after the strike.
Greenlighting a couple of extra episodes and a 4th season would make strategic sense, but I’m just not willing to give Paramount the benefit of the doubt on that.
Give us full 20+ episode seasons, cowards! I want bottle episodes, slice of life stories, maybe a few two-parters here and there. Star Trek was born as an episodic network tv show meant to run from fall to summer. Let it breathe.
I’m not looking for 20, but 12-15 as Discovery was granted seems reasonable if only to catch up.
I wouldn’t whinge if they divided the season into 2 parts as they do on Netflix in order to allow for postproduction.
But no, Star Trek is failing! Or so says a bunch of Youtubers lol
Can anyone tell me if this series is more akin to "classic" Star Trek or still a "new" series, i.e. more focused on action and less on moral dilemma or politics?
SNW is a complete return to the original Star Trek style. The first season is good but the second is GREAT.
Yeah it's way closer to TOS than TNG, which is fine by me! They haven't gone to that well in a while
How about watching it and judging it for yourself? YMMV.
It’s not a 90s Trek show, in that it leans more to recapturing a TOS vibe. But it’s its own thing, and that’s where it’s strengths lie.
There are a great variety and range of styles of episodes, which it can do simply because it is episodic. Most of all though, it is driven by character arcs and character development.
Already have. Watched half the first season, then noped out of it.
Netflix shows get a lot of high audience ratings because they are dropped all at once or in half-season blocks. They are counting on binge watch behaviour. This can be misleading against weekly releases. Basically, it means Netflix shows will almost always dominate on a weekly count of minutes watched.
Nielsen isn’t giving total minutes watched per show per year stats, but those who buy the full data or have other metrics are looking at that instead.
A few Netflix shows, like Stranger Things, stay on top even after the equivalent time of a weekly release, but most don’t. This means Netflix has to be dropping new content constantly and has driven the content arms-race on streamers.
However, there’s accumulating evidence that weekly drops hold subscribers better. This is why HBO Max, Disney and Paramount stick with that. When their shows can break in a weekly count against the latest Netflix drops, they’re doing incredibly well.
I wish people wouldn't watch The Witcher. We need to vote with our feet on that one.
