I’d support a rule that says any show that is canceled gets at least one episode to wrap things up instead of leaving on a cliffhanger
Nah, tv shows should be funded and approved for at least 1, maybe 2 seasons past the upcoming season being considered for filming.
Like Amazon Prime funding and approving 5 seasons of LOTR off the bat. If a show is greenlit, it should be for at least 2-3 seasons not a single season to test the waters.
No show would ever be longer than one season.
What about shows that were written without thought to how everything is supposed to knit back together? There was never going to be a satisfying conclusion to Lost.
I get where you’re coming from, but how about forcing authors to finish books before abandoning them (e.g. Game of Thrones) or dying before they finish them (Wheel of Time). See where I’m going with this? ;)
The problem is, some shows have planned outcomes. Babylon 5 was a sci-fi show in the 1990s (Star Trek Deep Space Nine was actually loosely based on it, though that may be anachronistic to members of the current generation — not saying you are) that had a planned four seasons. They wanted another one, so they had to shoehorn some stuff in to make it work.
Supernatural is a much better and more recent example. It was planned for five seasons, but it was pushed out to, what, seventeen seasons? Something ridiculous like that. The show was printing money and the cast and crew were willing to work on it, so they kept churning them out.
Game of Thrones, like Fullmetal Alchemist and Tokyo Ghoul in Japan, had their shows catch up to their source material, so the show was forced to write their own ending. With Game of Thrones, the author walked away from the series (but he is writing spinoffs). With Fullmetal Alchemist, the author finished the series, and a second anime series was commissioned that started with an anime original episode, summed up what the first series got right in 9 episodes (covering something like 25 episodes!), and then finishing out what the author wrote. Tokyo Ghoul’s second season was completely made up, and did things the books (which weren’t written at the time) didn’t do, like kill off a major character. So while they did wait for the series to finish before continuing, they didn’t explain when that character came back in season 3. Oops. Conversely, and I think much worse, The Promised Neverland ended before its second season came out, but instead of doing five or six seasons like they could have, they just crammed all that extra content into one season. There are episodes where crew members have demanded their name not be attached to it — some have no writing or directorial credit!
Yeah… Next one would be forbidding people to write shitty music.
Or force comedians to be funny!
That would be great
Some shower thoughts need a little more time in the oven.
Like, how does fundraising work for a show with a required ending? Or free speech for a decent ending requirement?
Are we to go back to soap operas where the only reason for the show is to sell you dawn dish soap?
I see what you’re trying to do, but the real problem is streaming services that prioritize the shareholder and new user signups over existing customers’ experience.
