TNG, DS9, Voyager, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis and so on all had weak first seasons compared to what followed. Tv shows had time to mature before YouTube gave pricks a chance to ruin everything for us.
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I haven’t watch the first season of TNG in long time. lol for good reasons
aug 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes, the only season with a Bottle-Show in it....
aug 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, but those where different times. The TV Networks calculated with three seasons until a show was established. Today, its a "You have one shot" business.
aug 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree! Instant gratification culture is a blight, and it kills creativity, because you don’t have a chance to course correct, and learn from your mistakes. It’s either ‘you did it perfect,’ or ‘you failed, show cancelled.’
aug 20, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Sometimes you can have a prefect first season but still get cancelled for some reason. Example: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
aug 20, 2025, 9:47 pm • 2 0 • view
As much as I adored that show, the amount of time it took to produce the original movie (5 years) and how long it took to produce the first season (undisclosed, but ‘Awhile.’) it is honestly a wonder that they got the budget even to do the first season. Amazing TV though, felt just like the movie.
aug 20, 2025, 9:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Agree. But Netflix does like to throw money around. Also it was nominated for an Emmy.
aug 20, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I read that it all comes down to how many people watch it when it’s launched, if it doesn’t go in the top ten watched then the lose confidence in it.
aug 21, 2025, 6:00 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, because in this fast paced business, there is no second try or slow burn. Next week, the show will be forgotten already.
aug 21, 2025, 6:17 am • 0 0 • view
Even though everything the make stays available for ever unlike in the days of broadcast tv when something was on tv once a week for an hour for 6 weeks and that was your shot. It’s mad
aug 21, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, the content is there in the wastness of the Cloudspace. And nobody is watching it. Thats the nature of a Subscription driven system. The Content itself doesnt matter. What matters is, that there is Content so that the people keep the Subscriptions alife.
aug 21, 2025, 7:21 am • 0 0 • view
Or everyone liked season 1 so we will force out 2 more seasons even if their are absolute shit
aug 20, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol yeah. Love to see a show that wrapped itself up in one season, and then they bring on the second season like ‘Why??? Everything was done, nice and tidy.’
aug 20, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
They are plenty of shows that have meh or bad first seasons but the next season will course correct then become classics. Parks and Rec, Seinfeld, and The Simpson. On streaming they would be cancelled like 🫰
aug 20, 2025, 9:52 pm • 4 0 • view
No one watched the office when the BBC first broadcast it, then look at what became of it
aug 21, 2025, 5:56 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah it’s bullshit, we’ve been denied some good tv
aug 20, 2025, 8:53 pm • 3 0 • view