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worse than killing bobby is that they killed the fucking VIBE. the high at the beginning of the season + confessions and holy mother of god buddie high + just a general fun silly time was literally happening and they shot it dead. you were supposed to be season ate......

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guys I'm telling you you've got to get into the horny boat doctor show, you don't want to miss Dog Show Week English

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i usually get spoiled for new episodes bc i watch the next day….NO ONE COULD WARN ME BUCK HOOKED UP WITH THAT FUGLY MAN AGAIN!!!

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Almost Famous 2000, dir. Cameron Crowe

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There's a lot of bullshit that came with a large-scale adoption of the television streamer model. Writers and actors are screwed over by pitiful residuals (and shows cut off after 3 seasons to avoid paying proper residuals) and tiny writers rooms and a general lack of regulation.

The general viewing audience is screwed over by 8 episode seasons that come out every 2 years and get cancelled after 3 seasons. We used to get 22 episode shows that came out like clock work every September. If they were popular they could last years and years. We used to have fun filler episodes and room for character and relationship development. Shows were given room to breath and grow and find their footing.

But another aspect that I dont see people talking about as much is: commercial breaks.

TV shows made for cable used to bake commercial breaks naturally into the episode. There would be a natural pause or a dramatic reveal, the camera lingering on a shocked face before we cut to commercial.

It was understood that there would be so many commercial breaks each episode, so episodes were written with this in mind.

And when the streamer model was adopted, one of the big selling points was "No Commercials!" Which was great at the time. Except years later, it turns out they needed those Commercials. The Commercials allowed networks to stay profitable, which in turn kept the shows going.

And without those, the streamers never figured out to how make a profit (which brings us back to shite residuals and cancelled shows and skeleton staff and a growth model that prioritizes constant new content to bring in new subscribers with costs that keep going up and up and up).

So now, more and more streamers are bringing commercials back (unless you want to pay EVEN MORE to stop them).

EXCEPT with shows that were made for streaming, those baked in commercial breaks are NO LONGER THERE. So instead of a natural pause or break in the action leading to a commercial, we now have them popping up randomly.

Characters are mid-sentence and BOOM theres an ad. Dramatic confessions, romantic get-togethers, gripping action, doesn't matter! Boom, theres an ad right in the middle!

And of all the things mentioned, it's not like this one is the BIGGEST deal, but it is kind of annoying. And it's kind of annoying on top of everything else. It's just one more way I am constantly reminded of how much we lost with the stupid disruptor streamer model.

Everyone was sick of cable, so we turned to streaming. It was better for a while, and cheaper, so of course we did! That's how disruptors get you.

And now that it's become the norm, we're fucked.

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I'm never stopping from being obsessed with how the writers for Buffy said to James Marsters "ok Spike doesn't know the difference between heartbreak, arousel, pain and love and you need to express that".

And James did, he picked up the challenge that they layed at his feet and fucking ran with it, he never stopped running until they forced him to stop.

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i’ve been rewatching buffy and i forgot how dark season 6 is. it’s like joss whedon said what if i took everything people loved about this show and fucked it up. other than spike and buffy (for the most part) like this season had so much go wrong - dawn acts out for being rightly ignored/forgotten, riley comes back and shows buffy what could’ve been, buffy depressed for multiple reasons, giles goes back to england and leaves buffy alone, S6 E19, xander leaves anya at the alter, tara dies, dark! willow, that one buffy hair cut/color, the whole bad guy trio that lowkey tortures buffy all season, all the torture that spike goes through both for his soul and emotionally with bufyy

really makes you forget they used to make jokes in this show

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i’m not liking the straight washing happening with nandor rn. between buddie and destiel i need one gay ship to sail

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i recently discovered star wars/buffy the vampire slayer fanfiction and it’s something i didn’t know i was missing in my life specifically obi wan/buffy is a pairing that works so well

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It’s my birthday!

Draw me a lil bd doodle on ins!

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“A few will never give up on you. When you go back out on that field, those are the people I want in your minds. Those are the people I want in your hearts.” - Friday Night Lights (2006-2011)

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this is the last thing i ever pinned to my dark academia board and i can't ever add anything else. what else is there to say

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Seinfeld

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"You make me better at this."

(prints avail)

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SCREAMING