Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete

• Nougat@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Monk doesn't go that far, and it's still obvious. "Here's a joke before commercial!" Pause. Fade back in to a new scene. Pause. "Here's a little cliffhanger before commercial!" Pause. Fade back in to a new scene. Pause.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At this point if I’m ever responsible for making a tv show it will have obvious places for commercials to go just because I don’t want them butchering it.

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    • ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Good luck, if you ever watch any of the free TV apps like freevee they will just hard cut in a commercial, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. Then they have the old places where a commercial was in the OG broadcast and it just fades to black and back. It’s really jarring to watch.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is why we can’t have nice things.

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• ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I always thought it would be a nice addition to piracy for a release group to edit a version of shows that cuts the recaps and makes a more unified episode. I would totally only ever download their releases.

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  • realbadat@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Mythbusters streamlined is like that. A bit rough on some cuts imo, but overall just cuts the fluff.

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    • Remorhaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mythbusters is 50% recap, that sounds so much more enjoyable to watch. Where would I find that?

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      • realbadat@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s on reddit going back quite a few years, with a recent tracker update:

        reddit.com/…/streamlined_mythbusters_complete_may…

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    • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was about to mention this example. It’s everything you love about mythbusters (doing crazy science experiments), without everything you hate about mythbusters and what made me stop watching. No more constant hopping over between the different myths per episode, or tons of recaps.

      Just myths, one at a time, no bullshit.

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  • xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Myth busters had to be the worst offender in that realm. “here a 2 minute recap of that things you just saw 5 minutes ago.”

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe the vid angel people can get on that.

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My thoughts exactly when i was watching old seasons of Canadas worst drivers

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My wife and I recently started watching that. Skipping the first 6 minutes of episodes because we don’t need to meet all the drivers again, skipping at every commercial break because I don’t need to see what’s coming up or what we just watched…

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      • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Great show, but binging seasons gets rough

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• stellargmite@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That was a trope of real tv shows especially , and also a way to fill time with less filmed content i.e cost cutting. Often you’d see many shots 5-7 times throughout the show. Opening montage , before ad tease, after ad recap, thr event itself, end of show montage summary etc. Also drives me nuts. Even back when ads were between. “Yes I know what happened two minutes ago!”. And then there were so many shows you could tell the edit project file was a template and they just replaced the footage. Same exact structure every episode.

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  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Anime was bad for this too, especially the dubbed kind and one piece.

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Reality tv shows took this the farthest its so bad

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    • webhead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      One of my favorite skits for that: youtu.be/7MFtl2XXnUc?si=i6He7wklxdSt8gpn

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      • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I was eagerly anticipating “I’m looking for a gift for my aunt”.

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      • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nail, head

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ahhh, I suffer from this with old animes!

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  • bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m gonna be king of the recaps! 👒

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• ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  God I’ve been watching through Bleach and it’s like this. Each 22 minute episode is really only about 12 minutes long with the rest being a 5 minute recap of the previous episode, the intro, credits, and post credit filler.

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